I choose nursing as my career path because I want an honest career where I can help others. My desire to help others in need comes from watching my sickly grandmother health deteriorate before my eyes and not being able to help her. I was one of my grandmothers care takers‚ for a whole year I watched my grandmother suffer. I watched a scab go to a stage four decubiti’s ulcer‚ in less than two weeks all because she was not changed positions every two hours and proper cleaning techniques was not used
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Reflection on documentation Description There are occasion that patient documentation were not accurate as demanded by a professional nurse and it has been highlight is part of learning needs to improve upon. I have also noticed some errors in writing in terms of the grammatical errors. Feelings I unease if the information obtained is not document the way that is received and that make me feel the care given has meet its objective. At the end of a shift I need to assess my self whether the goal
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Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics. (n.d). Assuring patient safety: The employers’ role in promoting healthy nursing work hours for registered nurses in all roles and settings. ANA. Retrieved June 07‚ 2016‚ from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/Policy-Advocacy/Positions-and-Resolutions/ANAPositionStatements/Archives/AssuringPatientSafety.pdf. • Audience:employers of registered nurses • Context:the position of American Nurses Association in regards to nurses and patients’ safety
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Hilda Peplau was an instructor at Teachers College at Columbia University where she developed curriculum in psychiatric nursing. This was during the cold war at a time when people were accusing each other of being communists which lead to lives being torn apart. Hilda was a victim of such a witch hunt being accused of using not normal teaching methods (Peplau‚ 2000). Dr. Peplau overcame these accusations‚ and finished one of her many doctorates. Her studies on nurse-patient relationships are still
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Nurse Practitioners have crusaded through the years paving a way of professionalism for the future Nurse Practitioners. Early Nurse Practitioner?s fought adversity within our own profession making the transition to where we are today as a profession even more difficult. Kurt Lewin?s theory of change is uncannily supported when reflecting back on the evolution of Nurse Practitioner profession: Unfreezing: Challenging the status quo to gain support that a change is needed. Freezing: Making a change
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Nursing is a career that has evolved tremendously in the past century. Students enter programs based on personal and professional expectations for their careers. Nursing is not only a career but a distinct way of improving people’s life by managing their health problems and enhancing healthy state. There are many colleges and universities that offer a degree in nursing‚ an abundant amount of jobs a college graduate with a degree in nursing can hope to acquire and useful information about them as
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Ideas about Nursing Tattoo Designs Tattoos are trending among many people‚ and various tattoo designs emerge. Nursing tattoo designs also trend more especially in nurses and abundantly in women as the profession is strongly linked to them.These nurse tattoos are made to express the love‚ importance‚ and struggle for this profession in many ways. There are many nursing tattoo designs for nurses as highlighted in this article. Which nursing tattoo designs are the best? There is a wide range of nursing
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Child Nursing is such a diverse‚ stimulating and meaningful career that I really feel it is the precise course for me. It is a vocation for people who are applied‚ diligent‚ and reliable and who find it easy to quickly inaugurate respectable‚ trusting interactions with new people. I believe I have these skills and a genuine desire to comfort and help people when they need it most. The role of the child nurse is varied within the NHS‚ with more prospects for nurses to take greater accountability for
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Nursing‚ like any other profession‚ requires clear regulatory principles to guide nurses on their practice. The code of ethics and conduct for nurses and midwives is a major tool in the safeguarding of the public’s health and wellbeing. In regulating nursing practice‚ the code of ethics and conduct act as a framework for judging the fitness to practice of individual registered nurses whenever their practice is questionable (Goldsmith 2011‚ p. 12). They outline the minimum standards that nurses and
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“Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages‚ families‚ groups and communities‚ sick or well and in all settings. The role of a nurse includes the promotion of health‚ prevention of illness‚ policy and education.” (Lankshear‚ S.‚ Personal Communication. 2015.) But a nurses’ most important job is to provide compassionate‚ and ethically- sound care to every client that comes into their wake while keeping a calming demeanor. This demeanor is known as mindfulness
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