Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing Studies, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong. 2. Violeta Lopez, PhD, is a Professor and Head of School, School of Nursing (NSW and ACT), Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, NSW, Australia. SUBMITTED DATE : January 25, 2007 ACCEPTED DATE FOR PUBLICATION : July 21, 2007 PUBLISHED DATE : April, 2008 JOURNAL : Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing INTRODUCTION
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organization enables us to see how they can affect the patients care and eventual outcome. Choosing from the category of staff, the questions I would ask are as follows: does the institution allow for input and critical thinking from their nursing staff? As stated in Edgeware Tales, Unleashing People Potential, When Trouble Makers Become Superstars (1998), the nurse manager Janet has become “stagnated” in her “environment of command/control culture”. Janet’s personality is one of a “free thinker, she couldn’t
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Dominion University towards the Masters in Science in Nursing as a Family Practice Nurse Practitioner. My long-term professional goal for the future is to work as a design and management of the administration. I hold a B.S. from the University of the XXXX Philippines in the area of Business Administration with a special focus on accounting. Soon after graduating, however, I realized that I very much wanted to work in the area of health care because I find caring for people much more satisfying
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In health care not only do we take care of the patients, we take care of their families as well. Families defined in health care would be the support system of the individual whose health is compromised. In the health care setting family roles can defer based on the patient’s condition. In a step down unit the patients are more so stabilized, so the families play a major role in providing care, and making decisions for those patients who cannot care for themselves. As a health care provider, it
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follows: The code of ethics for nurses was developed as a guide for carrying out nursing responsibilities in a manner consistent with quality on nursing care and the ethical obligations of the profession. With the advances in technology and changes in the health care system has resulted in many ethical situations. New technologies are more expensive and little benefit to organizations who struggle with allocations of health care
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Healing Hospital Introduction Health care delivery has always centered on holistic approach to patient care and all nursing education revolves around this concept of comprehensive nursing care and delivering a holistic nursing care to the patient. Addressing the patient as a whole not only means curing his disease but also respecting his social, physical, cultural and spiritual values. Healing hospitals are built keeping this in mind. Every human being is religious in one way or the other and
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interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is identified as an approach in which health care systems are transformed and addressing issues related to a shortage of health-care workers. As a result, Regan, Laschinger & Wong (2015) found that through the provision of effective organizational support, it is possible for IPC to be effectively promoted. The purpose of conducting this study was for the evaluation of the impact of professional nursing practice environments, authentic leadership, and structural empowerment
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Nurses encounter ethical and legal issues each day caring for patients. Technology has advanced tremendously over the last few decades leading to more complex patient situations. The legal and ethical issues of two case studies will be examined to explain the dilemmas faced in health care today. The first case study concerns a nurse’s observance of negligence and a malpractice suit. The second is regarding the difficult decision of a family regarding medical decisions
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the concept of family nursing that has developed into a fundamental aspect of nursing. Research of nursing has shown that individual poor health affects the entire family and not only an individual, plus, the effectiveness of health care is improved when emphasis is placed on family (Harmon & Hansen, 2001). There was no conceptual theoretical framework that was found in family nursing. Friedman, Bowden and Jones (2003), discussed the lack of a complete family nursing theory with their proposal
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The Future of Nursing: “Leading Change, Advancing Health” Introduction In brief report of Institute of Medicine (IOM) of october 2101 “ the Future of Nursing” states that the nursing profession is the leading agent of work force in health care today. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which will entitle additional 32 million Americans to have access to health care, the nurses will need to be well educated and be prepared to meet the current and future demands of
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