future profession because I believe nursing to be a rewarding and challenging career choice. I believe the desire to help people through nursing is a true calling, and I feel drawn toward helping those in need. I was first drawn to the area of professional nursing when my late sister became ill and was in the hospital for many months prior to her untimely death. This experience is what ultimately led me in the direction of pursuing a nursing education. Another reason I chose nursing is because the
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Singapore Nursing Board Standards for Nursing Practice defines that Nurses/midwives have the professional responsibility and accountability to uphold Standard of care and to contribute to their dissemination, interpretation and development despite medical advances, social and demographic changes and an increasingly complex healthcare delivery system that challenge the ability of nurses to provide safe quality of care. Should nurses fail to uphold certain standards and by doing so cause harm or injury
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Rule 2. Registered Nursing 848 IAC 2-2-1 Authority: Affected: Responsibility to apply the nursing process IC 25-23-1-7 IC 25-23 Sec. 1. The registered nurse shall do the following: (1) Assess the patient/client in a systematic, organized manner. (2) Formulate a nursing diagnosis based on accessible, communicable, and recorded data which is collected in a systematic and continuous manner. (3) Plan care which includes goals and prioritized nursing approaches or measures derived from the nursing
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Running head: INDEPENDENT PRACTICE FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERS Analysis of independent practice for Nurse Practitioners in Pennsylvania Jamie Novitski Misericordia University Analysis of the policies of independent practice for Nurse practitioners in Pennsylvania This paper will analyze the policies throughout the United States of independent nurse practitioners. The paper will include the following topics: proposed solutions, background
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agencies, medical professionals, policy makers, researchers etc. There are also certain situations where a health care provider has to breach the confidentiality for the best interest to save a young person or to avoid a serious harm. This paper explores the situations which are ok to break the confidentially with the help of the article “Bioethics on NBC’s ER: Betraying Trust of Providing Good Care? Ethical Implications of a Breach of Confidentiality All medical professionals are required to maintain
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have transitioned to computer-based applications; Electronic Health Records (EHRs) – that store patient data to ensure accurate physician orders. Medication errors can result from the lack of patient/staff education and the overwhelming workload of nurses, and ultimately could lower hospital income due to an increase in the expenditures used to correct these errors. Health institutions and their respective EHR systems need to create more algorithms that flags possible errors in medication prescription/administration
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Dilemmas and D'Legals: Ethics and Law in Nursing Marsha Brice, Barbara Gong, Holly Lavely, Lindsey Talbot, Loveda Turnage NUR/391 August 6, 2012 Esther Van Baren Dilemmas and D'Legals: Ethics and Law in Nursing Every day nurses are confronted with situations that lead them to question their ethics and the legal duties of their profession. Both dilemmas are presented for examination and discussion in this class via two scenarios. In the first case scenario, the family of a victim of
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implementation of the plan of care. It’s the judgment of the effectiveness of nursing care to meet patient goals based on the patient’s behavioral responses. Evaluating is a planned, ongoing, purposeful activity in which patients and health care professionals determine the patient’s progress toward achievement of goals/outcomes and the effectiveness of the nursing care plan. (Anukrishnan 2012). * Evaluation is continuous. * Done immediately after implementation to make on the spot modifications
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education (ADN) and a Bachelor's degree education (BSN) has been a topic of discussion between nurses for years. Completion of either an ADN program or a BSN program will result in the same outcome, a Registered Nurse Licensure (RN). There are some nurses that would argue that there is no need to obtain a BSN degree unless the nurse is planning to work in a management position. Then, there are some nurses that would argue that in the very near future a BSN degree will be required in order to work
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relevant issues surrounding the subject of safe administration of medicines. The assignment will outline both legal and professional standards that have been set out by government and professional bodies for nurses and other health care professionals to follow whilst administering medicines. It will then go onto analyse actual and potential problems that may occur when a professional is trying to achieve these standards. This assignment will be supported by literature findings. The conclusion will reflect
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