that’s all I thought I cared about. I assumed that the care and knowledge that was being provided to me would be the same across the board, unless I just got a lazy nurse. Going through nursing school first as a LPN and then as a RN has given me a broad picture at the many variances in nurses out there. I can remember times as a patient when I was a LPN and seeing the care that was being provided to me and just shocked at the overall lack of care provided, the sloppiness of the skills being performed
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Family Health and Nursing Practice University of Phoenix NUR 542: Dynamics of Family Systems May 25, 2010 Traditional hospital based nursing care is most often care provided to individual patients. Individual patients, however, are members of a family. Family nursing practice has evolved over the past 20 years as a way to approach and work with families. Effective nursing care ensures that the entire family’s situation, not only the illness of the loved one, is considered (Maijala & Astedt-Kurki
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Diversity In The Workplace Katie Laundree Chamberlin College of Nursing Culture Diversity in the Profession SOCS 350 Tiffani Davis July 07, 2015 Diversity in the Workplace The term work place diversity refers to the variety of different cultures, backgrounds and personalities found within the work environment. Most Americans in the workplace experience people who are very different from themselves. Those differences can include temperament, personality, culture, gender and religion (Harvey
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Chapter 04: Social, Cultural, and Religious Influences on Child Health Promotion MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which term best describes a group of people who share a set of values, beliefs, practices, social relationships, law, politics, economics, and norms of behavior? a.|Race| b.|Culture| c.|Ethnicity| d.|Social group| ANS: B Culture is a pattern of assumptions, beliefs, and practices that unconsciously frames or guides the outlook and decisions of a group of people. A culture is composed
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displaying attitudes and emotions convey non-verbal communication. Therefore, the importance of effective communication in nursing cannot be overstated as miscommunication causes misunderstandings, misdiagnosis and even a lack of trust in the professional. In agreement with this, Walker et al state that interpersonal aspects of care are central to patient’s perceptions of quality of care. (2007:149). In this reflective essay, I will discuss the issues of prejudice and discrimination and how communication
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Rebecca Weiss Thomas Edison State College Community Health Nursing NUR-441 Dr. Phelps August 09, 2015 Abstract Asians are a quickly growing population in America today. They come to the United States with a dynamic culture rich in tradition, religion and health practices. Investigating the target population cultural demographics, health beliefs, illness needs, and management of illness it becomes possible to analyze how to care for them most effectively and reduce health disparities of Asians
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Quality and Values Initiatives in Health Care Introduction The relationship between the external quality and value initiatives in health care has been widely discussed in academic literature. Actually, this issue is of great importance as it reflects the role of patient satisfaction in healthcare. According to researchers, “in health care, the whole notion of quality has become a source of confusion and sometimes a distraction from genuine value improvement” (McClellan, 2008
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NCLEX-RN. The baccalaureate nursing program is a 4-year degree offered at senior colleges and universities. It includes a more in-depth study of the physical and social sciences, nursing research, public and community health, nursing management and the humanities. BSN educated nurses are believed to be the most well-prepared of the three programs to meet the demands of the nation’s changing and more challenging healthcare needs.(“Fact Sheet: The Impact of Education on Nursing Practice”,2012) A study
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hospital was built with money from the Jewish community and the board of directors consisted of the city’s Jewish leaders but they wanted the hospital to help everyone. The board promised that the hospital would “afford medical and surgical care and nursing to sick or disabled persons of any creed or nationality” (http://barnesjewish.org/about/history). Over 3 million Jews immigrated to the United States from Europe from 1881 to 1920. The immigration was caused by economic conditions and discrimination
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is so diverse especially in the United States of America where people emigrate from different parts of the world and live within a society. Understanding culture is an important exclusive essence and crucial in nursing so that a professional can give cultural competent client oriented care. It is through proper understanding of one’s own culture and that of our clients’ culture that a nurse can transcend culture barriers and approach every client with their unique needs. It is also important to
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