Heritage Assessment February 17, 2013 Heritage Assessment Cultural heritage is the representation of artistic or symbolic signs that are delivered to the future generation in every culture to keep its distinctiveness to whole human beings. The corner stone for any cultural policy is the preservation and presentation of the cultural heritage. The heritage assessment tool helps us evaluate and study the cultural experiences of people from various cultures. This assessment tool allows us to
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Hospice, Haven Hospice, and Eldersource, The Council provides transportation, adult daycare, home delivered meals, surplus foods, and respite care services (Council on Aging of Clay County, 2012). All of these agencies are important, integral aspects of a community. Cultural Diversity and Vulnerable Populations The health department is a great source for health care in the community they do not discriminate against anyone for any reason and their fees work on a sliding scale according to income. All
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Running head: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NURSING PHILOSOPHY The Early Development of a Professional Nursing Philosophy: The Art of Caring University of Texas at Arlington In partial fulfillment of the requirements of N3645 Professional Nursing Mary Alice Wise, RN, MSN/Ed November 16, 2013 Online RN-BSN The Early Development of a Nursing Philosophy: The Art of Caring “A philosophy is a set of beliefs about the nature of how things work and how the world should be
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Nurses Achieving a Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing (BSN), or an Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN), makes an individual eligible to sit for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Once either candidate successfully passes he or she is granted a Registered Nurse (RN) license and can gain employment in the workforce. With licensure as a RN come the core values that each nurse accepts while practicing nursing (Creasia J. & Friberg E., 2011). Both degrees hold
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Nursing 243 Assignment: Cultural and Spiritual Assessment Cultural and Spiritual Assessment Transcultural nursing and culturally congruent care are important ideas of today’s nursing, especially in North America. In order to give a culturally congruent care, the nurse should do a cultural assessment; a good cultural assessment will reveal the invisible part of a culture. According to Potter and Perry (2009), “It is important to understand that the invisible value-belief
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The baccalaureate nursing program is considered to be the beginning level of professional nursing. The nursing profession is often confusing mainly because of the various entry levels into the nursing field (Creasia & Reid, 2011 p 25). The ways it can be received are from a hospital diploma program, community college or four-year university. Nursing is a wonderful and humbling profession and it is often a self-disciplined one. No longer is it mainly focused on direct patient care and clinical skills
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the role of the nurse in the care of the patient, the essential competency skills to develop an emotional intelligent nurse will be analyzed including intellectual skills, self-awareness, therapeutic and teaching skills, listening, and, probing skills (Xavier & Pereira, 2012). The process of these developments will be evaluated to assess for any improvement needed to achieve the desired emotional intellect outcome. Emotional Skills of the Nurse Competency in Nursing is a necessary element when
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structure and culture of Palmetto Health, an acute care hospital located in Columbia, South Carolina. The focus will be on the medical-surgical unit. The paper will review the type of organizational structure and how communication is affected by the social and cultural aspects of this hospital. Also discussed is how Palmetto Health provides client-centered care to accomplish their mission statement, “To be remembered by each patient as providing the care and compassion we want for our families and ourselves”
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A geopolitical community is a community, which is either man-made or surrounded by natural boundaries. It is considered a traditional point of view about communities. Man-made boundaries could be the towns where we live, work, or go to school. Natural boundaries could be the land formations that separate and isolate groups of people (Maurer & Smith 2008). The geopolitical community I live in is Vance County, is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The formation of Vance County was
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IOM Report and the Future of Nursing The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as well as the changing needs of patients over several decades, have began putting pressures on the healthcare system as more people will have insurance coverage and greater access to healthcare than ever before. The nursing profession is now in a unique position to change healthcare in providing affordable and quality care that is more accessible. At present, there is a shortage to meet these demands
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