Running head: Community Health Project 1 The Community Health Project and Proposed Intervention Yvette Sanford Hall Loyola University of New Orleans Fall 2011 Community Health Project 2 This paper discusses the summary of the community health project carried
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NU1505: HEALTH, SOCIETY AND CARE PROVISION INDIVIDUAL CASE STUDY (Word Count: 3,300) Introduction The author is intending to conduct a patient case study based on the care provision and elements of care that will focus on appraisal of the nursing model, socially or culturally as well as the presence of health awareness and promotion of the individual patient. The author will reflect on the identified frequent needs of an individual patient on a regular basis. The author will look at perceptions
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Compassion and Caring: My Philosophy of Nursing Practice In nursing, it is important to have a personal philosophy of the profession. It dictates how a person deals with the day-to-day tasks and obstacles that nurses will face. Patient populations are ever-changing, with some much sicker than others, and various lengths of stay expected. The nurse will encounter different cultures and beliefs in their practice, some contrary to their own. Their philosophy of nursing will be evident with how they handle
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Community Health Nursing Reflection NUR/405 Cynthia Januale Community Health Nursing Reflection This assignment was very interesting and unique compared to other assignments that I have had in the past. Visiting and studying the community that I chose gave me quite the insight on various issues that, had it not been for this assignment, I may not have picked up on before. “In any setting, the role of public health nurses focuses on the prevention of illness, injury or disability, the
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professional development in order to maintain clinical skills and knowledge. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES RESPONSIBILITY AREA 1: Continuum of Care The Grade 2 Year 1 Registered Nurse will ensure that the nursing care delivered is at the highest possible standard and in accordance with legislation affecting nursing practice. The Grade 2 Year 1 Registered Nurse is responsible for his/her own professional development. Performance Indicators: Ensures delivery of high quality care incorporating the values
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NRS430V PROFESSIONAL DYNAMICS FEBRUARY 10, 2012 Page 1 Knowledgeable Nurses: Differences of ADN versus BSN Higher level of Nursing Education results in better patient outcomes. Although working as an ADN graduate along side nurses who have BSN degrees, I can honestly say that as far as judgment, and skills, I cannot see much difference. Not to say that there are not some
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Health Promotion Health Promotion is the skill and knowledge of helping people find out how to enhance their enthusiasm to make every effort for optimal health, and supporting them in changing their way of life to move toward a state of optimal health. Optimal health is a forceful balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health. Lifestyle change can be made possible through an amalgamation of learning experiences that enhance understanding, increase inspiration, and
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REFLECTION PAPER ON ETHICS OF NURSING Nurses are in the forefront when it comes to caring for patients, therefore during nursing school they must be warned about a lot of ethical and legal issues that will affect how the job is carried out. In today’s healthcare, there is an ethical gap between what is ethical and what is desirable for profit, and too often ethics is sacrificed for profit. Healthcare organization has become a big time business today and therefore has result in the restructuring
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behavior motivated by the desire to increase well-being and actualize human health potential” (p. 5). The purpose of health promotion is nursing practice is to incorporate with people to make choices and decisions for engaging healthy behaviors to have health lifestyles in multidimensional areas, such as cultural and socioeconomic dimensions. As changes in nursing practice and education, nurse’s professional role and responsibilities have expended and nurses have more opportunities to play a central
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Baccalaureate-degree level nurses The future of nursing education changed forever in the 1950’s when Mildred Montag successfully created the two-year associate degree in nursing. Men and women who were unable to attend nursing school due to families, work situations, or for financial reason were able to attend these programs and aid in reducing the nursing shortage that was rapidly growing in our country. Montag proposed education for a new kind of nurse, a nursing technician (Schank & Stollenwerk 1988).
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