providing individualized care, dignity and being committed to caring and providing care that heals. Whether with a personal touch, sitting with someone, or just being in their presence, or visiting someone when you say you will visit them. The philosophy, theory and science that inform their creation and utilization cover a broad scope of things. Caring and healing should be based on health and wellness. There are things that need to be followed in the creation and utilization. People need to
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Running head: Education and Nursing Education and Nursing Grand Canyon University December 26, 2011 Education and 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
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Running head: MY NURSING ETHICS PAPER My Nursing Ethics Paper Grand Canyon University Course Instructor Date My Nursing Ethics Paper Professional Moral Compass A moral compass is the one that serves to direct a person to make a choice based on morals and virtues, or at times, character. There are four essential aspects of professional moral compass, they are; integrity, responsibility, compassion, and forgiveness (Kiel & lennick, 2006). Integrity means speaking the truth, standing
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Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University 7/5/2014 Introduction Many times the United States is referred to as a melting pot of people, but this description of the diverse cultures and heritages that make up our nation fails to recognize the extreme individuality of the people here. Perhaps a better description would be a salad bowl, with each part and piece amazingly unique from the rest. Culture is a learned way of thinking and acting. “The behavioral, intellectual, and emotional
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Nursing Interventions for Patient Safety Nursing Interventions for Patient Safety The evolution of nursing is one that is rich in history and clinical practices and has existed for hundreds of years for health care issues. This author has work experiences from 1978 to 1996 as a nurse and nursing consultant in long term care and has a personal interest in how the use of restraints has evolved to a patient focused and caring approach that has reduced the rates of restraint use and patient injuries
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Director of Nursing, and has an extensive background in management. G.O. is someone I consider a strong Leader and mentor and is very positive and genuinely enjoys her job. G.O. has 13 years of nursing experience in Medical- Surgical Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, Detoxification Nursing, Research Nursing, Project Management, as well as Public Health and Community Health Nursing. For the past four years G.O has served as Clinical Director, Director of Operations and Director of Nursing on both a local
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History of Community Nursing Matrix Historical Time Period Nursing Role in Community Major Health Issues Partnerships Used Watson’s Theory Past Period 1 1800-1900 (America’s Colonial Period) In 1800-1900, during America’s colonial period and the new republic, public health committee was concerned about the health and care of individuals in the community; in the early years of 1800, the care for sick people and the ideas of public well-being were influenced by the traditions of British immigrants
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pioneer of modern nursing.” She drastically changed sanitary conditions which ultimately led to sterile technique, decreased communicable disease rates, along with lower hospital acquired infections. With long struggles, hard work, and extensive travels Dorothea Dix wrote a “memorial” and lobbied for institutions supported by the states for care of the patient with mental illness’ and in 1856 it was with great success that the first States Hospital opened. And in 1873, the very first nursing school was
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outcomes to the environment is part of the foundation of modern nursing (Nightingale, 1969). A windshield survey is an informal method used by community health nurses to obtain basic knowledge about a given community. It provides a subjective view of the various physical characteristics of a communal area as observed while driving or walking through a neighborhood. Community assessment is an essential function of community nursing. Understanding the various types of community will help clarify
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The relationship between nursing and society The profession of nursing has had a unique and enduring relationship with society over time. In 830 CE, the first account of nursing in the Muslim world was noted at the Qayrawan Hospital in Tunisia (Syed, 1993). For most people, Florence Nightingale is known as the first person truly recognized worldwide as a nurse. She based her belief in nursing as the act of placing the human body in the best condition possible to heal and be nurtured. She saw caring
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