Throughout life one will encounter many experiences and there is a lesson within each of those experiences. Right now as an activity aide in a nursing home my passion is to make sure each and every resident gets some sort of enjoyment out of their day whether it’s from reading the newspaper, having coffee outside or its getting their nails painted. I just want to make sure their day has some activity that they enjoy. My dream job after graduation is to work in a hospital in the palliative care/hospice
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consciousness, administering ‘human care essentials’, which potentiate alignment of mind body spirit, wholeness, and unity of being in all aspects of care, tending to both embodied spirit and evolving spiritual emergence” (Falk-Rafael, 2005, p. 42). My nursing career has naturally progressed from working as a RN in a large obstetrics and gynecology practice to becoming a Nurse Practitioner and working in the same office. I feel fortunate to have the knowledge and support of the physicians
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Compassion Fatigue (Gilmore, 2012) states that compassion fatigue is not just being overwhelmed by the demands of the job but that it is a behavioral response that usually occurs to people who are constantly helping people who are sick and suffering .Nursing is a caring profession and people are drawn to the profession because they love to care and to be compassionate .There comes a time during the care giving process that the care we give to the patients become personal and start taking a toll on our
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My Learning Experience April Adams University of Louisville My Learning Experience When I first decided to expand my education, it had been so long since I had been to school, and I was very hesitant. I talked at length about my decision with my husband and with his encouragement, decided to enroll but still was not quite sure which degree program to enroll in. I knew that this was something that I had always wanted to do since I obtained my Associates Degree in Nursing, but I did not have
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Professional Presence and Influence - C351 Richard A Kurtz Western Governors University A1. Models of Health and Healing The Era I health model is a “beginner” health model if you will, that uses a mechanical approach to health care, with a vision of you fix this, you cure that type of image. There appears to be no ties to mind/spiritual type healing that is noted in Era II, where self-awareness seems to show its’ face in regards to health and healing. The image that comes to mind is one
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young child we attended church until my parents became angry with God for my mom’s illness. So my desire to enter into the medical field was one that was my plan. A plan that I never prayed for nor did I ask His will in my life but little did I know it was where he wanted me. While in college pursing my nursing degree my grandfather, who was my role model, my best friend and my biggest supporter entered the hospital in what would be his last week of life. He was losing a two year battle with
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Professional Presence and Influence Western Governors University Professional Presence and Influence A1. Models of Health and Healing- The candidate provides a logical discussion, with substantial detail, of the differences between 2 models of health and healing as they relate to what it means to be human. Since the mid-19th century, there have been three distinct models of health and healing. The first era began in the mid-1960s and dealt primarily with the physical body. It is known as the
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Future of Medicine”: Larry Dossey’s 3 Era’s in Healthcare) 2) In the past 8 years of my nursing career I have witnessed multiple forms of nursing. The bio-psycho-social model is the one that I most relate to. I believe in the power of prayer and healing, and also that ones beliefs can affect their health, physical, mental, and emotional. 3) I feel that I take a very mindful approach to my nursing practice. Mindfulness is defined as “a state of mind or mode of practice that permits the
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their limited choices, from tightly controlled reimbursement to ‘non-physicians’ control of their workloads, respectively. As a result, there has been a movement away from insurance arrangements back to coverage that more resembles fee-for-service plans, especially PPOs (Williams & Torrens, 2009, p. 270). This movement away from “more efficient” forms of organized medical practice equates to more doctors being accessible to deliver the same intensity of care. People prefer choice over efficiency,
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this class; the more excited I get about the plans God has for me now that I have a good knowledge of who I am in him. The joy of having a good understanding of who I am in Christ, guides and influences the way I think, what I know, and the way in which I perceive things that are around me. I work in a Nursing home facility I’m sent to do my job without any limitations God choose for me to work there for a purpose, So that I can help the sick patients in my own little way. I strongly believe that
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