Nurse Manager Philosophy October 11, 2013 Nurse Manager Philosophy Being a nurse manager is a hard job that requires a dedicated individual. I have been a RN for three years, which I have been employed on the same unit for that time. During the past three years I have grown as a nurse. I have taken more responsibility and learned a lot about nursing and patient care. Also, I have been trained as relief charge, which is a good opportunity for me to grow and gain more experience. Because
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My beliefs about nursing cover a wide range of different aspects. A nurse is caring, respectful, responsible, honest, nonjudgmental, and compassionate. A nurse is to provide the best possible care to their patients and their families no matter what the situation may be. It is important for a nurse to provide holistic and multidimensional care because every individual and their family and community is different from others. A nurse must have effective communication skills and needs to be able to form
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Philosophy in Life and Philosophy in Nursing Submitted by: Ralph Daniel C. Nolasco, RN Submitted to: Ms. Pinky Miriam D. Canlas, RN, MAN Philosophy in Life In this life on earth, we are the choices we make. Choices we make and the path we chose to take is superior to the so called “destiny” or “fate”. But still, destiny is destiny, because we make our own from the choices we make. Life is a series of choices; we could always choose the best. Mistaken choices were normally made by people
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the healthcare personnel and subordinates who you supervise * you must know facility policies and procedures * you must know your nurse practice act * you must delegate tasks to those who you know are capable of performing what you are assigning them to do * you base tasks that you delegate to others on your knowledge of the state nurse practice act, facility policies and facility job descriptions. * give directions for the task that are clear in order to avoid misunderstandings
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several weeks I have observed several co-workers performing their many job functions as research nurses, one thing that I have learned is that the BSN handle patient care issues differently, they are better organized and they used a systematic approach when coordinating patient care issues. Since starting this program, I must say I have gained a drive to want to do my job better, to become a better nurse, to use my critical thinking skills to problem solve different obstacles along the way. My understanding
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but now I am more open to the idea. However, I still believe that therapeutic touch is not a true form of medical healing. To begin with, the Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary states that this alternative medicine is a practice where the nurse or practitioner treats a patient by passing his or her hands over a person’s body to promote relaxation, pain reduction and or healing. I must say that the thought of someone’s hands hovering over my body kind of makes me giggle. I keep replaying
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publications that leadership in nurses should be fostered throughout their education. Key words: Nursing leadership n Management n Factors that enhance leadership n Undergraduate programmes he importance of effective leadership in health care has been emphasized by a number of authors (Dunham and Fisher, 1990; Hewison and Griffiths, 2004; Carney, 2006; Greenfield, 2007; Sutherland and Dodd, 2008), and nursing leadership is pivotal to this as nurses represent the largest discipline
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Nurses are urged to integrate and use evident based practice in everyday nursing. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the best evidence from studies and patient care data with clinician expertise and patient preferences and values (Melnyk et al, 2009). I have been working at Virginia Beach psychiatric center and during a replacement on psychiatric rapid stabilization unit this nurse noticed that medication nurses face many disruptions
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Organizational Change Plan- Part II Betty Martinez HCS/587 Creating Change Within Organizations Donna Ferguson To achieve anticipated outcomes, monitoring the change process throughout the implementation is vital. Problems not anticipated or other potential solutions that affect the outcomes could become visible during this phase. Feedback from the individuals affected by the change during this step helping the change agents to stay the loop on how the implementation is
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largely centered on the care of war victims and in improving sanitary conditions of military hospitals (Grand Canyon University, n.d.). The presence of women in the field of nursing grew with these frontier figures. With the influence of female nurses during the Civil War, nursing evolved to become a female dominated profession. Women such as Linda Richards, Henrietta Edwards and Lavinia Lloyd Dock worked tirelessly not only to define the role of nursing, but also
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