Hello Professor and Classmates, I have been a nurse for four years and I believe that you need different characteristics to develop your professional image. In my chosen medical field, specifically the nursing profession, the three important characteristics are the following: knowledge, communication, and teamwork. You need to have the knowledge of the different diseases or illnesses of your patients to properly care for them. You also need the necessary skills needed to care for your patients. Aside
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Hello Professor and Class The four spheres of political actions in nursing are the workplace, community, government and organization. The workplace sphere addresses issues affecting jobs and patient care. “This addresses the policy work that is done is a variety of places to influence the size, educational preparation, and competence of the nursing workforce” (Chaffee, Mason, Leavitt, 2014). The community sphere addresses issues affecting community health. “Helping to shape the health and welfare
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Reading through these chapters have definitely help me understand a lot about Nursing. Nursing to me is far more than a job or even a profession. It is like a second nature. It is a journey we embark on with passion and dedication. We bravely dedicate our live to continuously taking care of people. As Porter 2014 stated “once a nurse, always a nurse! Nursing is a calling”. We touch and change people’s life every day. whether the help we provide is appreciated or remains unnoticed, we still feel happy
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Gloria AmadorProfessor Kevin StoratzINT-211A12 January 2018On the Road to Becoming A NurseEver since I was young I had a passion for helping others and knew becoming a nurse was what I was set out to do. I've had many bumps in the road that have slowed me down from becoming a nurse but I'm not going to let anything stop me this time. I am determined and know that my passion for nursing is because it is God's plan for me. I began core classes at a community college exactly a year
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Study Three: Implementation of a 12-month Pediatric RN Internship mentorship program study comparing job satisfaction and retention of new graduate nurses before and after implementation. Halfer, Graf & Sullivan (2008) implemented a formal 12-month Pediatric RN Internship study that compared job satisfaction and retention of new graduate nurses before and after implementation (p. 15). This project took place at a 270-bed urban Magnet-designated hospital, and the sample included 296 new graduate
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Nursing practice is the expectation of nurses, established by nursing staff and patients, which is the general standard accepted. Reflection allows a nurse to improve and advance their experiences.This essay aims to discuss patient abuse within aged care facilities and a nurses duty of care are two issues that allow a nurse to reflect and develop their practice skills and person-centered practice. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines elder abuse as a separate or continuous action, or where
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At the beginning of the shift, the new nurse walks onto her unit optimistic and light hearted. She places her belongings in her locker, activates her Vocera, and gets her clipboard ready for a brief morning meeting and shift report. She walks into each of her patients’ rooms in the early morning with the night shift nurse, introducing herself and discussing today’s plan of care for each patient. When she arrives to her last patient’s door, the night shift nurse explains that this particular person
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Nursing is a long process job to go through; one of the hardest process to go through is through your education. The first thing you must do is get your high school diploma, then you must choose a nursing school to apply for, find nursing jobs, volunteer at a hospital. The most important thing you must focus on is ongoing to college first, some options that there is are; University of Pennsylvania, Columbia U; and many other universities. The classes you must take are associates degree in nursing
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Burnout can and should be prevented in all career fields today, but especially healthcare. Author Atul Gawande wrote “people believe doctors are tougher people so this burnout is usually a common thing” (94). I agree with his point, he makes it seem like this burnout is normal and doctors can handle it because of their personality, but in reality countless patients are being harmed before it is acknowledged. One thing supervisors can do to prevent this burnout from occurring is stop offering incentives
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Hello everyone!! American Senior Communities is once again excited to announce another opportunity for your property to invest in the future of ASC and the nursing industry. The program is called O2NE, or Opportunities to Nursing Excellence. The mission of the program is twofold: 1. To assist selected ASC employees in obtaining their LPN license by fully funding their education and by providing on-going coaching and coordination of services designed to support them in successfully completing
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