Danielle Rudolph Position Paper #1 A nurse is someone who has the knowledge and capability to take care of those in need. Nurses manage, maintain, or recover health and quality of life. This means providing care in not only a vital/physical manner, but in ways such as comfort, confidentiality, teaching, and advocacy. Nurses strive to achieve the best quality of life for their patients regardless of their ailments, culture, religion, ethnicity, age and so on. Nurses are capable of assessing, planning
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Running Head: Competency in Information and Technology Literacy Abstract The dynamic changes in information technology has advocated for nurses highly qualified in nursing informatics. This paper discusses some barricades allied to the employment of essential Nursing Informatics competencies into undergraduate nursing websites. Introduction Information Literacy is the set of skills needed to discover, repossess, evaluate, and use information. The Changes in information technology have led to
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Description In a placement during my second year when I was working on a surgical ward, I was working under the supervision of my mentor, caring for a seventy-two year old gentleman, Mr Khan (pseudonym), who had undergone abdominal surgery. I had been asked to remove his wound dressing so that the doctor could assess it on the ward round. I removed the dressing under my mentor's supervision, using a non-touch procedure, and cleaned the wound, as requested by the doctor. My mentor was called
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Ethics in the Nursing Field Nursing is a highly stressful and challenging position. Not every individual can be a nurse. To select this career as your personal choice requires a deep connection with humanity as well as the ability to disconnect in order to choose wisely and make ethical decisions in any given situation. As a nurse you are expected to act duty and entitlement based with all patients regardless of one’s personal opinion. A nurse has undeviating contact on a daily basis with
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Risk Management Nursing Documentation Oscar Chavez NUR 492 May 4, 2012 Susan Dean, RN, MSN, FNP Risk Management Nursing Documentation The issue of documentation of patient care has received considerable attention in the last few years for an array of reasons. Trends in society such as increased consumer education, informed consent, expectation for healthy baby, and an increasingly litigious society all contribute to increased risk management awareness on behalf of healthcare facilities
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the murder of another inmate and began suffering from post-traumatic stress. In 2001, after a brief escape attempt, he was transferred to Administrative Maximum (ADX) Florence, the federal government's only supermax facility, where inmates are housed in conditions of such extreme isolation. The prison is known as ADX Florence, Florence ADMAX, Supermax, and, not so fondly, as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies" (Marcus). Before entering ADX, Powers had no history or symptoms of mental illness, but since
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• Select two articles on the role transition from RN to BSN. • For each article, complete the information below. Article 1 reference: List entry in correct APA format. Delaney, C., & Piscopo, B. (2007, November 19). There really is a difference: Nurses’ experiences with transitioning from RNs to BSNs. Journal of Professional Nursing, 23 (3), 167-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2007.01.011 Brief summary paragraph (in your own words) of approximately 3-4 sentences: A phenomenological
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Nursing research is used to study a dilemma or a problem in nursing. Examine a problem you have seen in nursing. Why should it be studied? Justify your rationale. Please include references. Thanks. Providing quality health care in rural settings is a continuing problem that will only grow as America ages. The people living between the Mississippi and the California / Nevada border are experiencing a trend often referred to as the "Diaspora of the Plains." The children graduate, move away and
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Educational Preparation There are three paths a nursing student can take in obtaining a nursing degree; a diploma program, associate degree and baccalaureate degree. A diploma program can be obtained generally through hospitals and was modeled after Florence Nightingale. Diploma programs are on average two to three years in length. Many diploma schools have closed as a result of increased costs along with the great number of collegiate options such as technical schools and universities. The associate
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Running head: ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE OF Analysis and Implications for Practice of Qualitative Research Report Analysis and Implications for Practice of Qualitative Research Report Palliative care education is an educational factor that could give education to undergraduate nursing and medical students on how they can be a part of broad management of the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual, needs of patients. Palliative care education is needed especially for
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