It can be very difficult to observe patients living out their health in less than healthy ways. Nurses are in the business to promote better health for their patients through patient education, community education, and modeling sound healthy behaviors. It can challenge a nurse's internal values when poor health practices are observed. Examples of this challenge occurred many times in my own career. Watching a dying patient gasp for each breath while begging me to allow him to smoke with his family
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| |2012 | | |Kiesha Wilson | | |HS 541 | | | | | | | |[strategies and solutions for Middlefield hospital] | |
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April 7, 2013 Nurses with a Baccalaureate in nursing education versus Associate Degree in nursing education are prepared to deliver a higher standard of patient care. The differences in the core curriculum of the baccalaureate program set it above the associate degree program giving the nurse who holds a BSN better critical thinking skills The BSN educated nurse has a broader base of education in such areas as the fine arts, as well as
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Esther C. Moore Admissions Essay April 15, 2013. Why I Want to Attend LSN My philosophy of nursing comes directly from my desire to help people. I want to be a nurse because I enjoy being around people in their times of need and I get internal satisfaction by serving those that need help. I remember when I did some volunteer work for a nursing home and that was when I realized my passion for nursing. I believe that the cure for many of the people's ailments is not just in medicine, it is
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advanced nursing educational program. After the war there was a shortage of nurses and the associate-degree level of nursing (ADN) programs were developed to help with this shortage in a quicker time frame. Both of these nursing programs were important at that time in history and still have their roles in society today (Creasia & Friberg, 2011). There are differences in the educational competencies for ADN nurses compared to those educated at the BSN level. One such difference is the leadership
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care facility provided this student with many new views of healthcare management and the challenges she’s presented with daily. The leader this student interviewed is a director of nurses at a longterm care facility with 100 beds, 28 of which are Medicare certified. She has a staff of 18 nurses and 32 certified nursing assistants. Her name is Patti and she has been in her position at various facilities for over 20 years and at the current facility for eight years .She is very knowledgeable
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Introduction Leadership shows the characters and behaviors of people whom we admire because of their ability to interact with a group to influence, motivate and facilitate members to achieve a shared objective. Leadership plays an important role while nurses provide health care to patients. Nursing Leadership Leadership can be categorized into different styles. While all nursing groups or organizations have leaders, not all leaders are effective. In an article titled “Leadership styles and outcome
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The Level of Education Directly Affects the Knowledge and Competency of the Clinical Nurse Abstract The level of education and the resulting competency levels have been an area of debate throughout the history of formalized nursing education. This is evident in the increased patient acuity and call for shorter hospitalizations. Many hospitals have taken this need a step further and are presently encouraging staff to further their education to the baccalaureate level. Clinical situations
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Nursing Many nurses have asked themselves the question “Why?” Why should I go back to school to get my baccalaureate degree when I’ve been doing fine with an associate’s degree? Does that extra piece of paper really matter? What additional skills would I learn? These are some of the questions that many of todays’ working nurses ask themselves before returning to school to increase their knowledge base. Looking at the associate degree nurse (ADN) and the baccalaureate degree nurse (BSN), what
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issues. If none were stated, what should have been done? Identify any proposed solutions. When a nurse becomes overwhelmed, they may turn to narcotics like in this case. The nurse was putting the patient’s health at risk to help her get her drugs. She would chart the patient was given the drug but in turn she was giving them saline and was taking the drugs herself. It was a flexible nurse so she didn’t have certain rooms with specific patients. The pharmacist was the one who actually figured
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