HEALTH SCIENCE JOURNAL ® VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4 (2011) The Value and Significance of Knowing the Patient for Professional Practice, according to the Carper’s Patterns of Knowing Marianna Mantzorou 1, Dimos Mastrogiannis 2 1. RN, MSc, Lecturer, Department of Nursing Β΄, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens, Greece 2. RN, MSc, Lecturer, Department of Nursing, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Lamia, Greece Abstract Background: Τhe scientific value of man relies upon an extension
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generally believed that nurses served and cared for their patients by assisting physicians. However, now days role of nursing a more expending, not only bring title as register nurses but also as nurses practitioner, advanced nurses practitioner and clinical specialty. Those nurses require undergoing specialized post basic training and most of them are quiet senior staffs. Furthermore , some of the specialty of nursing such as wound care nurse, stoma nurse, diabetic nurse and so on and some of them
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scrutinize the essential key concepts of the theory and its relationship with the other elements, emphasize its effects in a clinical situation, and how it views the nursing policies with definite personal examples. Nursing theories and having knowledge of the theories are important to any nurse. They serve as guides as to how a nurse should treat patients mentally and psychologically, aside from the structured education system a nurse goes through typically. Nursing theories predict and try to
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legalities of this scenario, negligence, vicarious liability, and physician- patient relationship are a few components that affect the outcome of a lawsuit. The amount of legal torts that were violated in this case was enough to cause disputes between patients and healthcare staff. Negligence is a familiar tort that occurs much more than it needs too. Unfortunately in this case, vicarious liability and patient-physician relationship are two considerations that influence this case as well.
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Program for Nursing To become a registered nurse, one must graduate from an accredited nursing program and pass the NCLEX exam. There are different routes one may take to become a registered nurse. These routes include a diploma, associate degree, or baccalaureate degree program. The diploma program was the core of nurse educating until the 1960’s. The typical diploma program lasts three years. This program focuses on clinical experience and direct patient care. Over the years, the diploma programs
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So many changes has been made in our healthcare delivery system intensifying nurses’ responsibilities and workloads. Registered nurses are asked to now deal on an ongoing basis with patients’ increased acuity and complexities especially regarding their healthcare situations. Despite such demands, nurses are told to search for ways to preserve their holistic ways of practicing and Rosemarie Parses’ Human Becoming theory can be seen to be indeed indispensable to this goal. Through this paper, I will
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Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring Caring Moment - “The moment (focal point in space and time) when the nurse and another person come together in such a way that an occasion for human caring is created” In Jean Watson's theory of caring she has tried to make “explicit nursing's values, knowledge, and practices of human caring that are geared toward subjective inner healing processes and the life world of the experiencing person, requiring unique caring-healing arts and a framework called
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Running head: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIABETES AND PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE 1 Relationship between Diabetes and Peripheral Arterial Disease Angela Polk Troy University RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIABETES AND PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE 2 Purpose The purpose of this proposal is to determine the relationship between uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (DM) and the development of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in patients who are >60 years old in Macon
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nursing into a more complicated science. Nurses are expected to do more with fewer resources and the patient-centered care vanishes in the mix, but patient advocacy is imperative to nursing. As stated by Selanders and Crane (2012) “modern nursing is complex, ever changing, and multi-focused. Since the time of Florence Nightingale, however, the goal of nursing has remained unchanged, namely to provide a safe and caring environment that promotes patient health and well-being. Effective use of an
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The American Nurses Association Code for Nurses discusses the ethical behavior for nurses and the best course of action in a certain situation. Nurses can be evaluated by a set of standards which determines how well the nurse understands how the law applies specifically to them. Four of the most important ethical principles are beneficence, nonmaleficence, respect for autonomy, and justice (Murray & McKinney, 2006). Other important ethical rules, such as accountability and confidentiality, are derived
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