How Should I touch You? How Should I touch You? Grand Canyon University: NRS 433V September 18, 2011, 2011 ‘How Should I Touch You?’ Would you prefer a nurse of the same sex or one of opposite sex than you to be touching you? In this case, the research is being done on intimate touches. As nurses, we spend a lot of time doing one on one with our patients; we touch patients when performing assessments, when we want to provide comfort or showing care. The aim of this research was to
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Abstract Nursing career is one of the few fastest growing fields in the health care industry not only in the United States but also in the world. Nurse practice has drastically changed in the last decade and as a result the need for changes in nursing practice is becoming more and more important. The Institute of Medicine report discusses so many aspects in nursing but this paper requires detailing the impacts on Nursing Practice (Transforming Practice), Nursing Education (Transforming Education)
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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING PRACTICE Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V April Herrera April 14, 2012 Health Promotion in Nursing Practice To evaluate health promotion, people need to know what health promotion truly is. Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization as, “the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby
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role of the school nurse reveals an overwhelmingly high student-to-nurse ratio in public schools across the United States. In addition, there is a severe shortage of trained personnel for providing nursing services in most states. Currently, there is no federal legislation mandating school nursing and only five states have laws limiting the number of students under a single nurse’s care (Taliaferro, 2005). In fact, most states do not mandate that licensed nurses provide medical care to students
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authority to perform a selected nursing task in a selected nursing situation . The nurse retains accountability for delegation" • "The transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity from individual to another while retaining accountability for the outcome". (American Nurses Association) • Delegation is appointing a person to act on one's behalf 5 Rights to delegation (NCSBN) NCSBN in US presents 5 rights to delegation from the perspectives of both nursing service administrator and
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should be promoting health and preventing disease. Whenever there is a fail in health promotion and disease prevention the next priority becomes care in illness. The aim of health promotion in nursing practice is to assist the population to make healthy choices. In order to achieve health promotion in nursing practice, nurses should understand the meaning of health promotion, study the health and developmental needs of the country, nurses should magnify their role from care giver and health educator
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Preparation Now that I have completed my Registered Nursing (RN) degree, and am working as a new grad nurse, I am venturing into the future with my Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree. Some people ask me “why do you bother getting your BSN?” This is a question I have considered myself over the past year, and now I am back in school, I realize the benefits to further education are enormous. Nursing link website states “in today’s nursing world, more is expected from a nurse than following
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Personal Goals Kimberly Ryker HCS/301 Undergraduate Nursing Studies October 9, 2011 Hope Dunn Personal Goals Gustavus F. Swift once said “The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance”. His words constantly remind me of how I want to live my life. I continually set goals and work to accomplish them. My professional short-term and long-term goals are to become Critical Care Registered Nurse credentials and Advanced Nurse Practitioner specializing in critical care, whereas
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is important in the medical field. Doctors tend to give the specific terminology that many patients do not understand, whereas nurses are the ones who explain what the doctor has said in simpler terms. Another discourse that can be included in the nursing profession is the ability to communicate with patients directly and to comfort patients as well as their family and friends. Nurses must be alert and quick to respond because they are usually the first people in a patient’s room. By building responsive
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Nursing Shortage Abstract Healthcare industry in United States has always been passing with the issue of shortage of Healthcare professionals . Many of these positions are filled by professionals from different countries . Nursing shortage has been a huge concern since many years and expected to continue in coming years. In past years, country had been dependent on supply of nurses from
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