...Canyon University NRS-430V Professional Dynamics Kimberly Hammerton June 30, 2013 Degree of differences Nurses take pride in the practice of their profession. They are passionate about patient advocacy, support reform of the health delivery system and go the extra mile. Nursing education is theory driven. Theories are derived from the humanities, sciences, and biblical concepts. ("Grand Canyon University," 2011, para. 9). Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities and the populations. () As nurses we have many choices in life. Nursing is such a broad field to work in. There are so many aspects to choose from. You may choose to work in a hospital setting or choose to work in the home care field. When it comes to education, you also have choices. If you wish to pursue a four year degree, you will graduate with your bachelor’s degree in nursing or BSN. Or you may want to pursue a two year degree at a community or junior college, and graduate with an associate’s degree in nursing or ADN. Either way you are a registered nurse or RN, but obviously there are some distinct differences. From its beginning in the 1950’s, the education of registered nurses (RNs) at the associate degree (AD) level brought skepticism and criticism from some members of the nursing community...
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...By the year 2020, it is predicted that there will be a 20% shortage of nurses in hospitals in the United States (Punnakitikashem 1). Short staffing in nursing has been a recurring problem since 1998 (Buerhaus et al. 854). With a constantly growing population comes an increasing number of newborns and elders that demand care from nurses around the world (Punnakitikashem vi). This constant demand places a heightened stress upon nurses in hospitals. Because a shortage is present in the United States, nurses are faced with an excessive workload and the demand from patients cannot be met with complete satisfaction. Research shows this conflict leads to a decreased quality of care given to patients in hospitals. Also, it creates a higher chance of...
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...she will abuse power when it is given, as they does not see it as wrong. In Ken Keseys’ One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest both Nurse Ratched and McMurphy abuse their power over the other patients in the ward. They have different ways and motive but it all comes down to personal gain. Power is easily abused when the person possessing it is never challenged, actively seeks it and feels entitled to it. It could be said that the abusers are fully aware of what they are doing, but although aware of it, that does not mean they are doing it just because they can. The distinction between the use and abuse of power is a matter of perception. Abusers generally do not see themselves as abusing, merely using it to pursue their goals. People start abusing power when they are surrounded by sycophants or “yes people” and gradually start seeing the world through a distorted lense that filters out critical input. Unchecked power is blinding and corrupting because the person in power is normally disconnected from from the people they have power over. Throughout the begining of Keseys’ novel Nurse Ratched...
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...necessities to live a healthy and peaceful life. Education is just an example of a need. As we all experienced the student life, we tend to miss our lives by neglecting education for sometime in exchange for doing something we just want. Some regret their neglect their chance to educate themselves for their own future when they realize it that they almost lost their life by pursuing what they want and not able to see what they need. Time is very much important; make the most out of it. The time we wasted is not “wasted time” because most of the time, we learned the most out of it, the experiences in it. In life, as long as there is time, it is never too late. Time would not stop for us. It is our call to do something good or just let the clock tick and let time pass by. Life is bound by series choices in a time frame. But you will never ever know when will your own time is over. Choose the best in life, have the wisdom to choose between your wants and needs, and treasure every single time you have. Life, Choices, and Time are gifts from above. Make the most out of it. Philosophy in the Chosen Profession / Nursing Nursing Profession...
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...Leadership Interview NUR 492 June 30, 2014 Leadership Interview Could you speak a bit about your background and the role you have today? I first started school for engineering, and then after two years I found my passion was in nursing. So I started over at school, taking different types of classes as I pursued nursing, and three years later graduated with a nursing degree. Several different paths where traveled in nursing for me, meaning I tried many different departments and assignments. Then by accident I ended up as an RN case manager for mentally ill clients. Psych was never my intended path, but I loved it from the first day. I am now a Manager of a group of outpatient clinics for mentally ill clients and love it. I cannot see myself doing anything else now. How would you describe a leader? A good leader is only as good as the group you are leading is what I was always told. That does help, but there is a lot more that goes into it. I believe a quality leader should also be a good teacher. A leader needs to have the knowledge to pass on to those they lead. A good leader has to be able to listen as well. While those under me may look to me for answers, I have to realize that I may not always have that answer. I may have to take input from my staff, my superiors, and even clients in making proper decisions. Another attribute that is important is a critical thinker. A leader has to think on the go, and know that the answers are not always text book answers. Thinking...
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...medication errors, and the length of time ICU patients are held in the ED at Ohio Valley Medical Center (OVMC) is an actual issue that is effecting our patients. After doing a complete assessment and gathering the needed information, a plan will be put together to cut back on the issues that are causing the morbidity and mortality. Overcrowding in the Emergency Department seems to be an issue that is rising. To many patients are being held in the ED and this is affecting the care of our patients. Overcrowding in the ED and medication errors are occurring because patients are being held in the ED for prolonged periods of time. When these patients are held and the ED has more patients than it should, their is not enough staff and the patients are not getting the care they should. Most of these patient’s are critically ill and need one on one care which is not the option in an overcrowded ED. When a department is to crowded, it leads to delayed care and poorer health outcomes. Overcrowding in the emergency department not only affects the patient but also has a negative affect on family members, ED staff and the ambulances because they could be diverted quite frequently. It is important that we figure out the causes for this and ways to prevent this from happening. While spending time in the ED I am able to see for myself how holding these patient’s has an affect on the...
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...future of nursing education and the whole nursing profession as well. The RWJF purpose is to make a report and give recommendations that will help the nursing profession. One those recommendations says that nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training (Institute of Medicine, 2010). This is recommendations is very essential in order to improve the nursing profession and education, being a good nurse starts by having a good foundation in nursing school. If a nurse gets a good education, he or she will be competent enough to assess any situation that will come his or her way. He or she will be able to identify any problems and give the necessary needs of the patients because he or she can identify what is needed to be done in order to give the best and proper nursing care to every patient. Understanding every anatomy and physiology of the human body, memorizing every medication and action of each drug, and how to properly give the right care for every each patient suffering from different disease. These kind of traits are very essential in order for a person to be a great nurse that is competent enough to handle lives of hundreds of people, that is why a good education is needed for every nurse to have. Another recommendation of RWJF is for nurses to have achieved higher levels of education and training through and improved system that promote seamless academic progression (Institute of...
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...Heritage Assessment Latasha Rice, WCC- RN Grand Canyon University: NRS 429v Date: 8/31/2012 What is a heritage assessment? A heritage assessment is a subpart to the overall nursing assessment. Assessing a patient’s heritage allows the nurse to obtain more information about a patient’s culture, including beliefs about health and values, this is important to providing cultural health care. One’s heritage includes information about their cultural beliefs and practices of the family and ethno religious community (Jarvis, C., 2012). Through a heritage assessment the nurse can obtain a vast amount of information about the patient/ family, including but not limited to, where ancestors were born, how many siblings they have, if the family originated in another country, how often time is spent with family, religion, if the patient prefers the company of people with the same values and religion or ethnic background, what type of foods the patient prepares, and the patient’s native language. This paper will discuss what the author learned from completing a heritage assessment tool, the usefulness of a heritage assessment tool when assessing a patient/ family/ community as a whole. This paper will also compare the health traditions of three different families (and cultures) to include, health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration, while identifying common traditions based on the author’s heritage. What the families ascribe their traditions to will also be discussed...
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...outcome, including all of the decisions made by the Nurse. Juliet’s Nurse single handedly took down the whole story line by deceiving Juliet into indirectly marrying by lobbying her to marry Paris. The Nurse also plays a vital role in convincing Romeo that he will never be good enough, resulting in him pursuing Juliet like a bloodhound after a prisoner escape. Here in the real world our “great society” can be duped into anything as long as we are told a believable lie. Every crime consequentially has a culprit, in the case of this play the Nurse was interfering, and deceiving numerous characters, therefore completely obliterating or “transforming” Shakespeare’s story line. Near the beginning of the play the Nurse is trying to convince Juliet why she should marry Paris proclaiming no imperfections. “A man, young lady! Lady, such a man As all the world-Why, he’s a man of fine wax”(Shakespeare 388). Essentially the Nurse is inciting that Paris would be the perfect man for Juliet, since he has no lack of...
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...was a critical care paramedic and single parent. These stories ranged from graphic and unfortunate circumstances to those of positive and heartfelt ones. I overheard typical venting about workplace culture and deficiencies within the healthcare system; things that I didn’t have enough knowledge about at that age to even put into perspective. After I was out in the real world experiencing such obstacles myself, I was able to recognize that these frustrations stemmed from her irrefutable dedication as a patient advocate. My mother, now a flight nurse manager, shaped the nurse that I am today with her compassion and conviction, and left an impression in my spirit long before I ever made nursing my career choice. Now, years later, I am able to empathize with the feeling that comes along with caring about something so greatly and I can see the impact that leaders can make with such values in mind....
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...her plan was rather than giving her options and letting her choose for herself. His experimental treatment plan consisted of 8 extremely high doses of chemotherapy for 8 months. He informed her that she needed to be strong and dig deep down into her willpower. She signed her consent form even though I feel she was not accurately informed on what she was in for. Human as Research We look at the people who are involved in her care Jason Posner, a very young fresh out of school doctor. Whenever he would interact with Vivian he never spoke to her like a patient but rather as a subject. It seemed that all he cared about was the results, when he examined Vivian he had her put her legs up into stirrups, a positioning device that is extremely uncomfortable for the patient. Vivian felt very exposed especially when Jason walked out of the room and nearly left the door wide open. Every interaction Jason had with Vivian was unprofessional to say the least, he never used common words he only used medical terms that went right over Vivian’s head. You could tell Vivian would become more and more frustrated with how little empathy she was receiving from her doctors. This film shows us every day the humiliation that patients go through. I believe that many people in the medical field are not caring...
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...when nurses are providing care. Collaboration between providers and staff members goes a long way in patient care because taking care of a patient can become a team effort. I run ideas past other nurses or providers to make sure I am giving the best care possible for that patient. To trust and respect other providers to be included in the care of your patient is beneficial to that patient. When I have a laboring patient that does not have great heart tones on their baby I make sure that I have a NICU nurse and a respiratory therapist there for delivery incase the baby needs assistance after delivery. I cannot stress enough how important using your resources is because in turn it will increase patient...
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...that happened in the past that they think are severe enough to erase from history. My family proved to me that past generations directly affect your work ethic, not always in the best of ways. My grandfather worked hard to get away from his father, my grandmother tricked her dad to let her get a job to escape his alcoholism. This shows me that it is up to the individual to interpret their situation and decide on how to act. It is theses interpretations that lead many in my family to make these crazy impulsive decisions. My grandfather, John Toomey, was 13 when he got off a train purposefully at the wrong stop and decide to travel and work until he was old enough to join the Navy. He saw his family only 3 times after that and wanted very little to do with them. My grandfather thought he was the reason for his mother’s death, but she had died from pneumonia six months after he was born. In a typical fashion no one in the family wanted to speak about it so he went on with his life thinking he was what killed his mother until he was 42 years old. His family moved to Washington to work at a lumber mill and he didn’t want to join them and his new step-mother. He worked as a farm hand, grocer boy, gas pumper, and any other job he could come by. His life story taught me that if I want something, whether that is to be independent and free, or with my family, you must always work in any and every way. He joined the Navy and never saw any of the war, but got hurt showing off for friends...
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...Nursing practice is an act of providing care to the patients. In providing care to the patients, the nurses implement a nursing care plan which is based on initial condition of the patient. It is based on a specific nursing theory. Following nursing theory and nursing research side by side is a must for patient care and nursing practice. Nurse Practice Act ascertains the protection of the public from harm. The Nursing Practice Act (NPA) sets out the scope of practice and responsibilities for RNs and formulates the rules ands regulations which specify the implementation of the law. Certain Formal training is required for licensure which is checked by the Nursing practice act. Each state board of nursing in the U.S. develops different NPA for that state. The scope of nursing practice includes the sets of duty that a nurse needs to perform in her job which can vary from place to place and state to state. It is necessary for travel nurses to learn the nurses' scope to perform their work properly. Familiarization with NPA and nursing scope is necessary to perform the work properly. It is necessary for the nurses to familiarize with the new changes in NPA and scope within their state. Just acquiring degree or medical qualifications is not enough for the nurses to perform their job. Also, experience or observation in the course of your job is a must. In addition to your NPA you also need to be familiar with your present job description and the rules of your facility. There...
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...are helping cause the nursing shortages now, and have influenced past shortages as well. Since the 1800’s, many specialized practices have come into play (West,Griffith,Iphofen, 2007, p.124). For example, therapists, X-ray and lab technician, were all newly evolving, and were seen as skilled practitioners. Nursing was never seen as a highly proclaimed occupation, just another labored job. This was because it was viewed as a “women’s job”, and that most, if not all, of the nurses were female. During the nineteenth century, Florence Nightingale strongly proposed that education for nurses meant employing hospitals with a labor force that practiced under physicians. She believed this was the right thing, because it was based off of the preexisting relationships already in the institutional settings. But this created an environment that was too harsh to produce enough nurses to meet the climbing demands. Even despite its obvious disadvantage, this model stayed around until the twentieth century, when people started to fight for nursing independent rights and public recognition. (West,Griffith,Iphofen, 2007, p.125) This too helped cause a decline in the number of nurses needed in the healthcare system, due...
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