I am a nurse in an intensive care unit at a hospital. The functional differences between a regulatory agency, such as a board of nursing, and a professional nursing organization do not differ much, from any other hospital, but are nevertheless important to me and is a strong influence in the way I practice nursing. The differences between a regulatory agency such as the Board of Nursing and a Professional Nursing Organization is that the BON regulates, writes laws, approves licensure and governs
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My personal definition of nursing is taking care of a patient and helping them either recover or feel more comfortable in a professional medical setting. This can include taking care of patients while they are in the hospital for long or short periods of time, before or after surgery, taking care of children or adults, or caring for people at their homes who are in hospice care. This also includes informing the family of needed information and treating them and the patient with care and consideration
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The nursing profession is one that is based on ethics and morality. The portrayal of the profession in the media elicits an atmosphere of unethical and immoral behaviors being demonstrated by actors. The depiction of nursing in a negative manner began in early literature. Sairy Gamp, a midwife created by Charles Dickens in "Martin Chuzzlewit," was depicted as unclean, uneducated, untrained and unreliable. Beginning in the 1960’s, nurses began to be portrayed as sexual, romantic, and cast
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I believe that many nurses are truly abstract thinkers, rather than concrete. Most of the nurses that I know are always questioning care reasoning, especially if they are witnessing poor outcomes. This is a personal observation. If given a nursing task, it is just that, a task to be completed. A checkmark on the proverbial paper, or in the chart. But, if given a task and the evidence based reason on how it helps your patient, it becomes more accepted as best practice, or it can be studied for
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The purpose and problem of the study were to determine the attitudes of non-professionals in affectionate touch provided by nurses, especially male nurses. The literature review was to research how the patient was touched by nurses and its effect. Several terms were used such as protective, expressive, and instrumental touch. “Protective touch, as when a nurse moves a patient’s hand away from the ventilator tubing, prevents a potentially dangerous, even and isn’t often discussed in the literature”
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I can assure you by now, you are completely aware of just how much I want to pursue nursing as a career; although I did not attend this presentation, I can easily talk about the topic of nursing for hours. From what I could collect from the slides and talking to my other classmates, this presentation seemed to include a lot of factual information on this career path. Prior to the speaker’s presentation, I am completely aware of just about every requirement needed to become a nurse; I am aware of
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Good insight on your strategies for improvements. I did not pick up that the interviewer was not wearing a name badge. In the 2008 research summary “An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating a New Nursing Dress Code”, cited eighty percent of patients would “like to identify their RN by a large print” of their title “RN” on name badges (Windel, 2008). The research was conducted in a hospital unit in which patients were surveyed in regards to their professional appearance. We don’t often think of name
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Nursing is a very tedious major and I know that it is going to be a very long and bumpy road ahead, and I am up for that challenge. It is also a very exciting and fast paced profession, so I know I will do well because I work well in this type of environment. This is the only profession I can see my myself in because of my personality. I am the type of person who will go out of their way just to help someone in need and do not look for being rewarded because I know that it will pay off later on
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Quantitative Research Article Critical Appraisal Overview The article by Eyikara and Baykara (2018) titled Effect of Simulation on the Ability of First Year Nursing Students to Learn Vital Signs focuses on the influence simulation has on first-year nursing students' ability to learn vital signs (Eyikara & Baykara, 2018, pg. 101). I chose this article because I recently shadowed a former co-worker of mine who is now a college professor. I was able to observe students during simulation exercises,
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During World War One the women nursing on the battle fields played a major role in assisting with the care and recovery of Australian soldiers at war. The nurses were faced with many problems such as a lack of supplies, clean water, limited space and the constant flow of wounded, sick or dead soldiers. While people flooded in, nurses were forced to work fast and for long periods of time. The nurses were suffering from exhaustion but would continue to clean, bandage, comfort and warm soldiers to the
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