My Personal Philosophy of Nursing Applying the four Metaparadigms Danice Thorne Transition to BSN Kristine Hilton & Beth Pecora October 24, 2015 Introduction It is the nurse’s responsibility to provide optimal care for the patient. This doesn’t begin and end with only the patient who is ill, nor does it end when a patient goes home. To provide a patient quality care holistically the nurse may apply one or more theories. The nurse will decide whichever theory is applicable to the
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Roles and Values in Nursing Name: Institution: Course code: Instructor’s name: Date: Explain the functional differences between a regulatory agency, such as a Board of Nursing (BRN), and a professional nursing organization (PNO) as it pertains to your professional nursing practice. A regulatory agency such as a Board of Nursing (BRN) is a federal agency that is found in every state. The main function of a BRN is to safeguard the health of the community by overseeing nursing practice and ensuring
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question about which program is better; Is it the associate’s degree in nursing program provided by community colleges or the baccalaureate of science in nursing program provided by colleges and universities? One similarity is for sure that nurses from both programs can take the NCLEX-RN exam. Before I started college I was debating whether I should go to school for an Associate Degree in Nursing or a Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing, but because I just had a baby and the university is one hour away
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Policy Issue Analysis: The Affordable Care Act and Nursing April 7, 2013 Policy Issue Analysis: The Affordable Care Act and Nursing Problem Identification Healthcare costs are soaring in the United States today. More people than ever before are uninsured or underinsured. In 2006-07, there were 46 million people uninsured (Gulley, Rasch, & Chan, 2011), and 9 million children also did not have health insurance (Coddington & Sands, 2008). A change in how healthcare is managed
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Topic: The Art and Science of Nursing Name: Course: Instructor’s Name: Date: This paper seeks to explore Nursing practice in an attempt to demonstrate the change in perspective of the practice over the years from a traditional view to a more contemporary and realistic view. It will seek to achieve this by performing a literature review of two articles that not only talk but also define and distinguish nursing as both an art and a science and explore a nurses’ experience of being in
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Running head: HEALTH AND HERITAGE Health and heritage Health Promotion In Nursing Care Health and heritage Ever individual has a cultural heritage. Each culture views the world differently. Culture is an inherited characteristic and includes knowledge, beliefs, custom, skills, likes and dislikes. The fundamental role of cultural heritage is imitating, respecting the diversities and brings people together to face the future by informing perceiving and give importance to the understanding
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Describe the definition of nursing as put forward by the American Nurses Association. The American Nurses Association defines nursing as, "the protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment of health response and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities and populations." While developing a trusting and caring relationship with your patient is important, it does not come
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ANA, Nursing is "the protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families and population. Metaparadigm is defined as the broadest perspective of a discipline. Metaparadigms of nursing describes the person, health and illness, nursing and the environment. A person is defined by the ANA as the patient, their families, the population
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING PROFESSIONALS THE EFFECT OF IOM REPORT 2010 ON THE FUTURE OF NURSING PRACTICE Nursing is a profession which plays vital role in improving the health care system by promoting, protecting and optimizing health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviating suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response and an advocate in care of individuals, families, communities and populations(ANA).
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learned about many nursing theories, one that I particularly agree and with is the Betty Neuman System Model Theory. She believed that “Health is a condition in which all parts and subparts are in harmony with the whole of the client”. Betty Neuman divided the systems into four different parts, nursing, person, health and environment. In the first part, Neuman believed that nursing requires a holistic approach, an approach that considers all factors of the client’s health. For example, the
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