Nursing Professionalism: Improving Education of Nurses on the topic of Breastfeeding NUR 3100 Professor Garcia Abstract Without breastfeeding, an infant looses valuable health and nutritional benefits. The mother also has the potential to develop serious complication derived from labor. Through adequate education nurses, become more competent in encouraging and educating new mothers to breastfeed. The purpose of this paper is to explore and define the themes, roles and philosophy of Aurora
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The essay will define confidentiality its importance to nurses as a profession and the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Professional Conduct. It will further look at possible dilemmas that could arise in course of practice between the nurse colleagues and the clients. Examples will be based on my clinical placement 1 at Blackfriars Work Centre. Confidentiality is keeping secret, the shared information depending on the situation arising. Dimond (2002) define confidentiality as one of the values of
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explain in this negligence paper the differences that separate negligence, gross negligence, and malpractice. I will look into the reasoning why nursing shortages and union problems may have caused the disaster. Finally, I will state why it is important to document because of the chances of negligence should I be Mr. Benson’s nurse. Briefly I will describe my ethical principles concept, this will guide my hospital practice and I documented the case that will satisfy legal and moral requirements. Negligence
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HSA 515 (Health care, Policy, Law, and Ethics) Instructor: Dr. Harold Griffin Due date: 03/11/2012 In this paper, I am taking on the role of manager of a cancer center in a small, suburban hospital. I am dealing with a lot. The nursing staff has expressed burn out because of an increase of terminal cancer patients. In one extreme case, Nurse Nancy feeling empathy for a rapid decline in one of the patient’s health (a 30 year old single mother), want to give an extra dose of narcotic
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The greatest issues shaping the health care industry in the US at present is the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Act is changing reimbursement through Medicaid and Medicare. The ACA has also moved the focus of health care from institutions to the responsibility of the individual. Many of those changes will be in hospital staff as more jobs move toward prevention and primary care in community settings. Technology will be an important driver in both adding to efficiencies and aiding in the decentralization
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incoming college students would like to pursue is the Nursing Courses or as we have known BSN or Bachelor of Science Major in Nursing. It is a very in demand profession local or international. There are certain advantages in taking up such profession by looking forward in the future once they have finished their studies, however, if we have advantages we also have disadvantages in taking this course. One of the most ethical dilemmas in nursing profession is how to handle difficult patients and families
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Task 1 Western Governors University Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 1 Upon review of the scenario involving Mr. J, a 72 year old retired Rabbi, I can conclude that there were a number of quality nursing indicators that could be addressed to identify issues that would interfere with Mr. J’s care. Mr. J is identified as a fall risk as evidenced by his hospitalization for a fall with injury. Because of this recent fall and his dementia he is quickly labeled as a fall risk while
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Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 1 It is critical to have an understanding of nursing-sensitive indicators in order to provide safe, quality, compassionate and satisfactory patient care. In this scenario, applying restraints to Mr. J, a demented patient with hip fracture seems appropriate. However, it is standard practice that restraints are to be removed as soon as possible, and the patient in restraints may need assistance to change position every two hours. In Mr. J’s scenario
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moral principles they honor and value. These principles reflect an individual’s trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship (Josephson Institute, 2009). Based on these principles, the framework of an individual’s ethical system is derived to guide decisions between right or wrong, in other words; a persons moral compass. It also serves as the driving force behind an individual’s responses when interacting with others. It is suggested that personal ethics are not
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was revealed that “all of the publications are anecdotal in nature” and “there was no original research using scientific methods that systematically explore volunteers’ experiences. In addition, none of the publications specifically addressed the issues faced by nurses caring for children. This is where this study being discussed saw a gap in knowledge. “Research that focuses on the pediatric population in disasters is generally lacking” (p. 242). Worldwide, children comprise a huge population
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