...When you think about nurses, and what they actually do, you don’t normally think about anything other than them just helping out the doctors. In reality, being a nurse is much more than that. Nursing care is not only about nursing skills, it’s about providing a superior bedside manner. You have to be available to the patient whenever they may need you. Nursing is a profession within the health care sector, focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. My mom is a nurse, so I had a little preconceived knowledge about what a nurse actually does. I thought that nurses were just there to be an aid to the doctors. After my observation, I realize that being a nurse is much more than that. Nurses provide care both interdependently, for example, with physicians, and independently as nursing professionals. Nurses work along with the doctors, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, occupational therapists, social workers, discharge planning nurses, the pharmacies, and the palliative care team. I job shadowed Mellissa Bergman, who is an LPN at the Golden Living Center in Tekamah. To start off the early morning, we started giving each resident their medications. Each resident has different medications and supplements they have to take. Some residents only have a few pills, while others have so many, they have to take them mixed with pudding. Each resident has a certain way they like to do...
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...What Influences me to Become Nurse. I find myself compassionate About providing care to sick people. I think that the field of nursing may serve as a way for me to help individuals especially during the most difficult times such as illness and accidents. I am aware that the training Record to become a nurse is challenging. I am still willing to undergo such challenging training in order to in order to enhance greatest capabilities as a nurse. I am excited about learning psychological concepts that will be later apply as I interact with different kind of patience during my nursing profession. I would like to be a nurse because this is the best image I can see myself performing in the near future. Nurses are an essential in every health...
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...The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expands access to coverage to millions of Americans, a goal health plans have long supported, but major provisions will raise costs and disrupt coverage for individuals, families, employers, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The broad market reforms outlined in the ACA take effect on January 1, 2014. Individuals and families purchasing insurance in the individual market will be guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions, and their premiums cannot vary based on their gender or medical history. There will also be subsidies to help consumers afford the cost of coverage, and new health insurance exchanges will help consumers find the policies that best meet their needs. At the same time, other provisions take effect that will significantly increase the cost of coverage, such as the health insurance tax, minimum essential benefits, and restrictions on age rating. $52 billion in new taxes will be imposed on businesses by mandating that employers provide health insurance. New taxes on drug companies ($27 billion) and medical device makers ($20 billion), as well as new reporting requirements and regulations imposed on physicians, will make access to health care and services more costly and difficult for seniors under Obamacare.The cumulative impact of all of these provisions increases the likelihood that some individuals will choose to purchase insurance only after they become sick or injured, further increasing the cost of coverage for everyone...
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...familiar with the role of nurses. How do the media positively or negatively influence the public’s image of nursing? What other avenues may better educate the general public on the role and scope of nursing as well as the changing health care system? The media is known to have immense influences on the public perception from body images to what kind of car people should buy. And the nursing image is not immune to these influences. What Hollywood transmits to the public about nurse’s works much like an advertising industry. Television has represented nurses in varying degrees and not all of them are flattering. We have been portrayed as handmaidens, angels to naughty nurses, crusty battle-axes, incompetent nurses, or drug addicted nurses. Television shows such as House, Nurse Jackie, Hawthorne, Gray’s Anatomy, and Scrubs frequently draw on nursing stereotypes that have the potential to damage the professional nursing image. Just as people are influenced by commercial or political ads, they will be influenced by these shows as well. These images of nursing on medical shows can affect roles in recruitment and retention for the profession. In a survey of student perceptions of nursing image on television, one student noted, “the public could be influenced by nursing on television and draw attention to the consequences of negative depictions of nursing because the public can develop a false view of the profession, where people may believe nurses are simply the doctor’s assistant”...
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...develop a sense of distrust in each other, in their faith, and in their future. The spiritual strength that held a community together previously to the disaster could become disrupted and can result in complete chaos and misunderstanding. For healthcare providers, the aspect of spirituality can be brought to light quickly when being involved in a disaster. The feelings of sadness, despair, and grief from viewing trauma to innocent individuals may cause healthcare providers to seek religious and spiritual healing to restore their faith and guidance. Understanding an individual’s view on spirituality and its possibility to help an individual heal is necessary, especially in a time of disaster, regardless of the cause. A community health nurse can assist in spiritual care of individuals, the community, and colleagues by recognizing and assessing for this trait and the individual and community view. This will promote understanding and compassionate individualized care, which can result in faster healing and recovery. “Patients may be asking questions such as the following: Why is this happening...
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...Caring Nurse Relationship Ryan McQuivey Dixie State College A Caring Nurse Relationship As nursing students prepare for the final days of schooling and the idea of entering into practice, there are many thoughts and feelings that enter the mind. They range from the very simple to the difficult and abstract. When entering into a nursing career, thoughts should be kept at the more simple levels first moving on to more difficult items as knowledge and experience increases. Caring is one of the most basic elements of nursing and a great place to start a foundation to build on. What is caring? Is caring really as simple as it is made out to be? How can nurses develop themselves into caring nurses that focus on holistic healing? What guidelines are there to help nurses learn what caring really is and how to treat patients? The reality is that there are numerous resources available and much research has been done in developing a caring attitude and spirit. What is caring? Is it simply looking after someone? Making sure they are safe? Keeping them informed and involved in their care? The truth is it is all of these and many more. A caring nurse relationship involves an emotional link between both nurse and patient that includes the ability to talk openly about hard situations and reason together (Sumner, 2010). Nurses need the ability to blend the physical demands of caring with the emotional support that patients will require. A true caring relationship will lead the nurse and...
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...ability to see the change in the object became decreased, this was as it became harder to see the duck that I originally saw when looking at picture 3. Question 15 What actions will you take to improve your and your team’s situation monitoring skills when you are on placement? While on placement I feel that ensuring the use of communication and the sharing of information will improve my team’s situation...
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...aspects. A nurse is caring, respectful, responsible, honest, nonjudgmental, and compassionate. A nurse is to provide the best possible care to their patients and their families no matter what the situation may be. It is important for a nurse to provide holistic and multidimensional care because every individual and their family and community is different from others. A nurse must have effective communication skills and needs to be able to form interpersonal relationships with her patients and their families. It is very important as a nurse to do what is right even when no one is watching. Also, a nurse promotes illness prevention and health maintenance for their patients, families and communities. I believe a nurse must be fully educated about every aspect of nursing and must continue their education throughout their career because things are always changing in the healthcare field. I believe that for a nurse to be able to provide optimal care, they must be fully educated about all the changes and newest technology in the healthcare field. A nurse needs to be able to work as a team with other nurses and with many other healthcare professionals such as physicians, physician’s assistants, nurse practitioners, ect. Overall my personal definition of a nurse is, someone who is caring, compassionate, and responsible that provides holistic and multidimensional care for individuals, families, and communities. Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to become a Registered Nurse. Both...
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...silence indicated to the patient that the nurse expects him to speak, to take the initiative, to communicate that which is most pressing. It gives the patient the opportunity to collect and organize his thoughts, to think through a point, or to consider introducing a topic of greater concern to him than the one being discussed. A positive and accepting silence can be a valuable therapeutic tool. (1) It encourages the patient to talk; (2) directs his thoughts to the task at hand--the consideration of his problem; (3) reduces the pace of the interview when either the nurse or the patient is pressing or pushing too hard; (4) gives the patient time to consider alternative courses of action, delve deeply into his feelings, or weigh a decision; (5) and allows the patient to discover that he can be accepted even though he is silent, that even though he is shy and quiet, he has worth and is respected by another person. Much nonverbal communication occurs during these interludes. The nurse needs to be alert to what she is communicating as well as perceiving. Even momentary loss of interest can be interpreted as indifference. Schwartz and Schockley state that the utilization of silence is often difficult for nursing personnel, since they think that nothing is happening and that they are wasting their time. In long periods of silence, they may become bored and their attention wanders from the patient. If the nurse could observe the patient and herself carefully...
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...writing is based on the article “What makes an excellent mental health nurse? A pragmatic enquiry initiated and conducted by people with lived experience of service use”, which was featured in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing (2014). The qualities of a good mental health nurse are discussed in this article, according to the service users and carers but also according to the mental health nurses themselves. In this essay, the writer will be evaluating the article and discussing what they key qualities of an admirable mental health nurse are. The purpose of this article was to uncover what makes a great mental health nurse according to service users, carers and mental health nurses. The survey was initiated at Metro North Mental Health-Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. A consumer who had...
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...Juliet and the Nurse are displayed through the power of persuasion and the methods used by the playwright, William Shakespeare in the play Romeo and Juliet. These two characters have a dynamic relationship because of the tension in their relationship. Juliet is educated which means she has the power and authority to convince the Nurse to believe her opinions meanwhile the Nurse can influence Juliet to agree with her beliefs because she is a parental figure. These tensions and attributes are displayed to the audience through tensions, conflict, and structure. While the Nurse talks with Juliet and Lady Capulet about Juliet’s future, she displays her uneducated qualities and attributes through her use of bawdy humour. By using bawdy humour, she is making herself look uneducated to her superiors like Juliet and Lady Capulet. She makes this known to the audience by saying...
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...Health Services Finance Recruiting and Retaining Nurses Health Services Finance HS543ON June 16, 2011 ISSUE/BACKGROUND With quickly changing demographics, new technologies, limits on resources and public expectations the health care arena is constantly changing at a quick pace (Nowicki, p. 338). The Bureau of Labor statistics reported in April 2011 that despite the recent economic downturn and high unemployment health care is continuing to grow. It was estimated that approximately thirty seven thousand jobs were added in March 2011 alone (AACN). The staffing of registered nurses has been a long time concern due to the fact the shortage greatly affects patient safety as well as quality of care (nysna.org). Studies have shown that adverse patient outcomes have been related to the ineffective nurse staffing as patients have had longer hospital stays, increased infections, and higher mortality rates (Needleman, et al, 2002). To relieve the pressures put on an organization with the shortage many have begun to substitute people who are not as prepared to care for patients. This has been done by hiring temporary nursing services or recruiting foreign nurses who are not familiar with the facility, policies and procedures or the patients ( nysna.org). The ineffective nurse staffing also leads to retaining issues as nurses experience decreased morale, increased stress and anxiety, increased physical ailments, and burnout. DEFINE THE PROBLEM The problem...
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...When a nurse graduates from college they take the Florence Nightingale Pledge, which implies they have a moral obligation to their patients (American Nurses Association, 2015). Nurses additionally take after a Code of Ethics that gives them a guide to what their obligations are in providing quality of care to patients and what their ethical commitments are (American Nurses Association, 2015). Despite the fact that there is a Code of Ethics, nurses still face numerous predicaments when caring for their patients. This paper will examine the author's moral compass, nursing philosophy, and ethical dilemmas. Author’s Moral Compass The author's moral compass has high confidence in God and follows the Nurses Code of Ethics. The author's energy to be a nurse began at just ten years old. The author has always wanted to take care of the elderly and trusts that nobody should have to die alone. The author believes that nursing was a calling from God, and this is what spurred the author to become a nurse. The author had difficulties becoming a nurse due to already having one child while being pregnant with another. However, the calling to be a nurse was sufficiently high enough to overcome the difficulties. For instance, the author had a four-year-old daughter and had only four weeks left of the pregnancy of her second child when she was accepted into the nursing program. During Christmas break of the first semester, the author gave birth to a little girl. The yearning to be a nurse and the...
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...world, you have two types of nurses: those who are responsible and on top of things, then those who lack much-needed ambition. The responsible nurse strives to continue to learn as much as possible while the less ambitious nurse only does what is needed. Comparing these two types of nurses will show how their character is revealed while tending to their patients. The responsible nurse will become very familiar with her patient. He will learn his patient’s history. He will need to know if the patient is a DNR, allergic to any type of medication, or if the patient has any food allergies. He will know exactly why his patient is in the facility, and what the plan of treatment is. The less ambitious nurse...
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...Volume 42, Number 10, pp 461-466 Copyright B 2012 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins THE JOURNAL OF NURSING ADMINISTRATION Nurturing Charge Nurses for Future Leadership Roles Patricia A. Patrician, PhD, RN, FAAN Douglas Oliver, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, NE-BC Rebecca S. Miltner, PhD, RNC-OB, NEA-BC Charge nurses are untapped leadership resources that can be groomed for future advanced leadership positions in healthcare organizations. The purpose of this study was to understand the development needs for the charge nurse role. This study demonstrates they receive little or no training for assuming positions of leadership and offers suggestions for enhancement of preparation. There is growing evidence of an impending crisis in chief nursing officer (CNO) retention.1 Seventy percent of CNOs report they will change jobs or retire in the future.2 The critical need for succession planning in nursing leadership has been demonstrated, yet two-thirds of CNOs reported that they do not have succession plans in place.3 Proactive planning is clearly needed to prepare the next generation of nursing leaders.4 The 1st step in succession planning is to identify nurses to mentor and develop. Commonly, nurses in management roles are likely candidates for development; however, many organizations do not consider charge nurses candidates for advancement based on the perception of the role as more of a task master than leader.5 Martha Dawson, DNP, RN, FACHE Kathleen A. Ladner, PhD, RN,...
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