performance dimensions and include specific measures that Religious Health Care could use to improve overall institutional performance. Then, I will determine the performance measures Religious Health Care could use to evaluate nursing staff performance in its Emergency Room. This would lead me to suggest the steps that should be taken next by Religious Health Care to get better at managing specific patient groups. Next, I will decide what strategies Religious Health Care could implement to enhance
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by nurses, happen to patients during their hospitalization globally. I will be talking about one memorable incident, which happened to me during a busy afternoon shift in the Emergency Medicine Department (EMD). Using the Gibbs Reflection Cycle (Jasper, 2003) to guide me in this essay, I will be discussing about how my nursing managers practice transformational leadership in this reflection essay to motivate me to improve me as a better critical thinking registered nurse in EMD. Description This
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abilities of staff and those needed by the organization to function at a desired level ((Wynne, n.d.). The following information will be discussed in this paper: type of institution, type of nursing care or services provided, volume of activity of the G.V. Sonny Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center, levels of nursing care involved, a summary of the results of the educational needs, assessment, and analysis, identification of the highest priority educational need, identification of institutional forces
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for concept analysis will be used. The first step is to select a concept, which is comfort. The next step is determining the purpose of the analysis. The purpose is to define what comfort means and what comfort measures are and how they are used in nursing. The third step is to identify the uses of the concept of comfort. This includes definitions of term comfort and a literature search. The fourth step is to determine the defining attributes of comfort. This allows for insight into the concept and
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side of my leg. I was crying very loudly because it hurt so bad, my mom heard me so she ran out there to see what had happened. I had to go to the emergency room to get the splinter removed so it wouldn’t get infected. I knew right then at that very moment that I wanted to be a nurse. Here are a couple things that I found to be interesting about nursing. Did you know that Jan 27th is school nurse day? Or did you know that in 1783 a black slave named James Derham worked as a nurse in New Orleans
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The Role of Transcultural Nursing Nur 502-Theoretical Basis for Nursing Brigette Lander February 20, 2014 Abstract The core of nursing at its simplest application is to cause no harm and restore a person to health when possible. For years now, nurses have been working to close the health disparity gap and become culturally competent for our “melting pot” of minority cultures. Forbes magazine (2010) said only 18% of Americans speak a foreign language, compared to 53% of Europeans and growing
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on Saturday morning she got pulled off of the medical-surgical unit, where she worked, to help assist on the maternity unit for about an hour to two, because they were short-staffed and had a pending admission who was being transferred from the emergency department (Fry, Veatch, & Taylor, 2011). Nurse Gonzales was told that it would only be for an hour or two since the regular evening nurse who works on that unit encountered car troubles and would be in as soon as they were resolved (Fry, Veatch
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The Benefits of Technology in Nursing and Healthcare Abstract This paper explores nursing informatics and technology in the emergency department of a local level 1 trauma center. The references cited provide discussion and statistics on several types of nursing informatics utilized today by this facility, including benefits and shortcomings. Personal experience from the author are also incorporated as he witnessed first hand the nursing informatics and technology “explosion” and how this
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The 2010 IOM Impact on Nursing Practice, Education and Leadership Grand Canyon University May 26, 2010 In 2010 after spending two years researching and discovering that many roadblocks in our current health care system restrict nurses from responding to the rapidly aging and changing health care setting, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released their report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” (Institute of Medicine
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physician’s office, home healthcare services, and nursing facilities which gives the option to the nurse to work in whatever environment she feels comfortable in. Whether it may be in a large well known hospital who is always busy or a slow quiet nursing home where there is not much commotion going on. 3. A minimum of an Associate’s degree is required to become a registered nurse. The preferred degree which is the most common is the Bachelors of Science nursing, BSN, RN. The highest degree a nurse can
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