A nurse is a very important person to most people and the world. I am interested in this career because some of my Family members are a nurse, it pays a good livable amount and it is important to help people who need medical help. I will need to have the skill of listening and understanding to be a good fit for this job. I will need I will need a high school degree, master’s degree and training From school and from potential workplaces to enter this career. A nurse does so much for so many people
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Based on the video, characteristics of being a nurse is to care, nurture, be noble, and be a woman. Many people assume that nurses only work in hospitals, according to Christina Easey, who works in administration. Society is ignorant to the fact that nurses work in many different places including nursing homes, assisted living centers, and schools. Numerous people in the video said that the role of nurses is to take care of the sick, give medications, and assist the doctor. In the video, Gayle Bradley
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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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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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• 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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‘What do you think therapeutic helping means in a nursing context? What do you think your strengths are as a helper and what do you think you need to develop?’ The therapeutic relationship between nurse and patient can be described as being useful to the patient. In the nursing context helping means that the nurse gets to know their patient in order to provide direct aid and knowledge to them, as well as interpersonal support. Therapeutic can be defined as healing and growth and can be seen as
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university of Colorado at Boulder earning her bachelor degree in 1964, her masters in psychiatric and mental nursing in 1966 and finally her Ph.D. in educational psychology and counseling in 1973. Influence from other pass theories (Carl Rogers, Nightingale, Maslow, Giorgi, Johnson and Koch) to name a few, her travels around the world and private practice were the major contributors to her theory. Well known for her research on human caring and loss, she published her theory “nursing: human care”
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