Heritage Assessment Nurses have been trained to respect the beliefs and cultural choices of others because patient’s cultural beliefs and rituals influence patient care and outcomes (Anderson, 2012). Nurses need to become aware of patients beliefs, values and rituals to ensure competent and safe patient care (Edelman & Greiner, 2010). The heritage assessment is useful because it is an important step in building cultural competency through interviewing the patient and determining the things the patient
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Task 4 Nightingale Community Hospital is preparing for a periodic performance review by The Joint Commission. Prior to The Joint Commission coming to complete its unannounced audit, the commission sends the hospital a handbook of standards guidelines each department of the hospital is expected to meet. The accreditation is a very important process to the daily operations of the hospital. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, (CMS) requires hospital to meet and operate to the accreditation
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Ethical Issues for Nurses Alexis Bushay HCA 322 Health Care Ethics & Medical Law Instructor: Jennine Kinsey August 18, 2012 Ethical Issues for Nurses Ethical issues have always affected the role of the professional nurse. Efforts to enact this standard may cause conflict in health care settings in which the traditional roles of the nurse are delineated within a bureaucratic structure. Nurses have more direct contact with patients than one can even imagine, which plays a huge role in protecting
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The aim of this assignment is to demonstrate that I can through critical reflection, evaluate my performance as a mentor to a student nurse I have been working with on the ward. According to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2006) the term mentor is used to denote the role of a registered nurse who facilitates learning and supervises and assesses students in the practice place. They furthermore identify the eight mandatory standards that must be achieved to become a mentor, and within the
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Applying Ethical Frameworks in Practice Soniya , RN Grand Canyon University: NRS 437V Professor: Teresa Ortner, RNC, MSNEd December 11, 2012 Applying Ethical Frameworks in Practice When patient seeks for assist and care, professional-patient relationship is established and the promise of confidentiality is incriminated automatically. Respecting confidentiality is the professional commitment. Yet occasionally unavoidable situations bring health care profession to face nothing but the alternative
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must be prepared to work with those whose beliefs and values may be different from their own. In order to be sensitive to others, it is first necessary to know and accept one's own values and beliefs.” This is one component of Fairfield school of Nursing Philosophy. I grew up with friends with different set of religious beliefs and ethics but we learned to appreciate each others beliefs and ethics. We had different beliefs but we saw ourselves as equals, created by one God. This has become part
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Telehealth Telehealth in Nursing Education One application that I have chosen for telehealth medicine is nursing education. The need for new approaches in how nurses become prepared are related by many factors, including those related to students, faculty, clinical placement sites, and the overall health care environment. Telehealth can be defined the removal of time and distance
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who choose healthier alternatives lower their chances of disease, which in turn can lower their health care costs. This is also beneficial in the work place, where employers can lower costs of health insurance. The purpose of health promotion in nursing practice is to not only providing patient teaching on their particular disease process, but to also be that frontline educator on preventive health practices to remain healthy. It is also important that health promotion be given at the bedside. As
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in education is without any question. The two levels of Nursing education currently are Associate Degree in Nursing (AND) and Bachelor of Science in Nursing which are offered in Community Colleges and Universities, respectively. Nurses who completed either of these programs take the same nursing qualifying examination to practice nursing in each respective state. Moore (2009) stated that the most basic difference between the two nursing programs is that the ADN has 72 credits units while the BSN
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characteristic help you to become a successful student in your program of study? I am looking forward to widening my education as a RN. I hope during this time I have at GCU that I will also have a better understanding of what I want to do later on in my nursing career. I either want to become a NP, but I am not sure what specialty I want to go into or I want to do nurse education. A fear that I have is writing papers, but after learning all the resources that GCU provides and the free 30 minute tutoring
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