The mission of the Iowa Board of Nursing is to protect the public by regulating the licensing of nurses and making sure they receive continued education (Iowa Board of Nursing, IBON). It outlines the laws and practices of a particular state and regulates that all nurses in that state must perform duties to those standards. The IBON also implements the state laws related to nursing programs and schools and administers the nurse practice act. (Jacob, 2011). Basically, the board is responsible for
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decreases the access to support for inpatients (Mattila, 2010). Background of study Patients need support from the nursing personnel's throughout their hospital stay. Better awareness of patient's background and organizational factors can improve inpatient support. The purpose of this study is to explore the hospital patients’ access to emotional and informational support from nursing personnel. The study help nurses to
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Concept Analysis: Caring Nursing 18200 Purdue University Calumet Leslie Rittenmeyer, PsyD, CS, RN, CNE Professor 1 & 2. I chose to present a concept analysis on caring because according to Watson (2005), caring is the core of nursing. When consulting with my 20-year old son on which concept to analyze, he responded, “Caring, because that is what nursing is about”. 3. But defining caring proved to be tricky because, according to Sargent (2011), caring is subjective and contextual
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According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), factors that influence the nurse staffing needs include: patient complexity, acuity, or stability; number of admissions, discharges, and transfers; professional nursing and other staff skill level and expertise; physical space and layout of the nursing unit; availability of or proximity to technological support or other resources ("Optimal Nurse Staffing," 2015). Currently, New York is one of only fourteen states that addresses the nurse staffing issue
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means to allow our deaths should contain queries about what to do with the life-support systems in place, sustaining life (Lin, 2003). Withdraw/Withhold Life Support: Pros and Cons Ending Life-Supports: A Well-Established Medical Procedure Ethics in medicine in the twenty first century contains ceasing life-supports. Certain end-of-life choices consist of never commencing life-supports once it is well-defined that starting the patient on a ventilator will only lengthen the method of dying
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Confidence: An Overview of Nursing Aspects Glenn E. Reihing RN CEN Grand Canyon University NRS – 437V Ethical Decision Making in Healthcare Professor Terri Bond November 10, 2013 Maintaining Patient Confidence: An Overview of Nursing Aspects Maintaining a confidence with another person has always been a sacred trust and duty within the medical community. It was important enough that it is in both the Hippocratic Oath and the Nightingale Pledge. The nursing oath not only looked at the
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person-centered approach during medication related activities has the potential to improve patient experiences and outcomes. This research summary and ethical considerations analysis is based on the article published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies by Bolster & Manias in 2010 “Person-centered interactions between nurses and patients during medication activities in an acute hospital setting: Qualitative observation and interview study.” Background of Study Despite the known
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Personal Philosophy of Nursing Student’ Name Institutional affiliation Personal Philosophy of Nursing Introduction Nursing is defined by the American Nurses Association as an act of safeguarding and upholding health and capabilities, preventing disease and harm, easing distress by offering diagnosis and treatment of any diseases that threaten the existence of the human race, and advocate for better care for individuals and communities in general (American Nurses Association, 2004, p. 7). Having
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Jael Lopez Grand Canyon University: HLT- 364 10/11/13 As one studies medical research, they discovers that there are many problems surrounding it. However, one of them can make a tremendous impact, which are, budget cuts. When researching this problem, several questions came arise. How is budget cuts affecting health care administration? Why are there budget cuts? How are budget cuts effecting society? Lastly how was the budget used in the past and if the budget cuts were affected by the actions
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Ethical Frameworks in Practice Grand Canyon University NRS 437v Date: July 12, 2014 According to American Nursing Association code of ethics, provision 3,”confidentiality is associated with the right to privacy; the nurse has a duty to maintain confidentiality of all patient information. The patient's well being could be jeopardized and the fundamental trust between patient and nurse destroyed by unnecessary access to data or by the inappropriate disclosure of identifiable patient information
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