strive for better opportunities that allow for individual growth. My idea of nursing is to be a patient advocate and use effective communication. Ethnicity, religion, and an individual’s background plays an important role but that is why nursing is so diverse and special. It allows each of us to set out short and long- term goals to improve ourselves. As stated by Cynthia O’Neal, (November 2004). Journal of Nursing Education, 43 (11), 524. “In today’s health care environment, baccalaureate
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Difference in Nursing Degrees Melissa Rintz Grand Canyon University NRS 430V September 1, 2013 Nursing today has many different levels of degrees. Nurses have choices in the types of nursing schools they can attend. Nurses can obtain their degree through diploma programs that are based out of hospitals, through local community colleges, or through universities. Now in healthcare evidence based research supports that patients receive higher level of quality care with fewer adverse outcomes
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the expert committee report on community health nursing of the World Health Organization “A community is a social group determined by the geographic boundaries and/ or common values and interests. Its members know and interact with one another. It functions within a particular social structure and exhibits and creates norms, values and social institutions” World Health Organization (WHO), 1974, p.7). However, the direct, hands-on clinical nursing care delivered to individuals or families in a community
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Baccalaureate-Degree level July 7, 2013 Nursing is a profession that has been found of great importance and value over many centuries, since Florence Nightingale first made her rounds to her injured soldiers. The act of caring for sick people has been within us from the earlier centuries. In this modern era, nursing is considered as a profession that is of high standards due to the technological advancements and improvements in technology. Students who wish to pursue a career in nursing have different options such
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The knowledge of the foundation and history of nursing provides a context to understand current practice is by, recognizing the nursing theories and framework set up prior nurses. We learn from Florence Nightingale, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mary Mahoney, and other great nursing professionals of nursing practices performed in the past and how it evolved overtime. For example Florence Nightingale’s ascertainment and research contributed to development of environmental theory. It states, “the incidence of
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Family Health Assessment Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V May 21, 2013 Gordon’s functional health patterns has been used since the late 1980s and serves as a guide for nurses in the nursing process. It was created by Marjory Gordon to help provide a framework to aide in the promotion of family health (“Gordon’s functional health, 2013”). Gordon’s functional health patterns consists of 11 categories that help nurses determine how each individual functions. An interview was conducted on a Caucasian
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evidence. That will be followed by a section that addresses the nursing implications of this subject. The paper concludes with a brief summary and conclusion about the importance of maintaining patient QOL in cancer patients. The first element, is thus to define what is meant by “quality of life.” The next section of this paper addresses that specific issue. Defining Patient Quality of Life Before patient QOL can be addressed in a nursing practice, it is essential to understand what is meant by QOL
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seven patients, including an end-of-life-care patient. The new nurse is anxious and mortified. Her task is to inject Roxanol and Ativan every hour into a person who is unconscious but breathing and with a palpable pulse. There was no training in nursing school on how to deal with emotional turmoil and fright such as this. There was no chapter explaining
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Introduction The nursing profession is unique in that in it exposes the nurse to daily inaction with patients that are in need of urgent and life-threating emergencies that challenge the nurse to use complex cognitive skills to care for that patient and their family. Daily the nurse is faced with pain, trauma and suffering of the patient. These stresses along with environmental stressors can lead to compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue is defined as a combination of physical, emotional
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matter to be capable of having a good life and stability in terms of financial needs which is the key to having a better way of living. Each year the Philippine government produces thousands of nurses and it’s difficult to their part to produce enough nursing jobs to all nurses that’s also one big reason why nurses desires to work abroad. Although, Filipino nurses are willing to serve our country, there’s no other choice but to work overseas due to lack of domestic opportunities for Filipino nurses in
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