much more to nursing than taking a blood pressure and handing out a couple pills each night. I love that I can make a difference being a nurse whether it is helping a patient find comfort in a difficult time or even if it is assisting someone to the bathroom. No one likes feeling ill or being in pain in a strange place. Having a nurse that can make you feel safe can make all the difference in the world. Everyday can be different in nursing, that’s what makes it so exciting. Nursing grounds me as
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Associate- degree level versus Baccalaureate-degree level Nursing is a profession which requires a lots of knowledge to treat patients in an efficient and creative method. Studies and personal skills have shown that nurses with baccalaureate level has smaller amount of errors, enhanced organization, critical thinking, increase in clinical skill and lower death rates than with nurses who have an associate degree level. Nursing practice mainly concentrates on the health promotion, disease
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about my own personal philosophy I think back over my life experiences. Both positive and negative have influenced the person I am today. I also think about my purpose. Why am I here? What is the point of life? Personal Philosophy I consider my personal philosophy my guide to living. Philosophy is defined as a pursuit of wisdom or a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means (“Philosophy,”n.d.). My
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The Nursing Metaparadigm Concepts Presented to Dr. Peck GNRS 5373 By Fatema Bandookwala, Irene Cotten, Amanda Garcia, Elizabeth Mbutu-Lomeli, Hawa Samson-Metzger, Alexandria Thomas On September 25, 2013 The University of Texas Medical Branch School Of Nursing THE NURSING METAPARADIGM CONCEPTS The nursing metaparadigm concepts described by Fawcett (as cited in McEwen & Willis, 2011), are a primary phenomena of interest to a discipline, which identifies
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Grand Canyon University AMP-450V: Leadership and Vocation December 13, 2015 This paper will paraphrase an interview conducted with Ally Hobert hereafter to be known as A. Hobert, and provide insight her responses to questions related to her personal perceptions regarding, professional identity and stewardship. I had the pleasure of interviewing A. Hobert, a floor nurse on a medical surgical unit specializing on neurological patients within a hospital. The interview was conducted via phone and
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graduated from the Lewis Gale School of Nursing in Roanoke, Virginia. She then moved to Colorado, where she now lives, to further her education. She attended the University of Colorado and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1964, then further pursued her Master’s degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing in 1966 and then on to obtain her Ph.D. in educational psychology and counseling in 1973. Today she serves as a legendary Professor of Nursing and holds an endowed Chair in Caring Science
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Nursing Theorists A nurse is known for their compassion, ability to assist with healing, and their knowledge. Historically, compassion and ability to follow limited guidelines and doctor orders seems to have been what was required of anyone wanting to be a nurse. Times have been changing over the last 50 years and that change is accelerating. Anyone wanting to become a nurse will need to be medically knowledgeable and more of a clinician than ever before. Yet it is not as though nursing theory
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The Florence Nightingale Theory In Nursing Today Anna Blestel Garnder Webb University Abstract The Nightingale theory states that the environment plays a major role in the health of the patient. Nightingale isolated four essential components: environment, person, health, and nursing. The components of the Nightingale theory still apply today in the field of nursing. Nursess use nursing interventions that incorporate each
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The Nurse Practice Act (NPA) in Maryland guides and governs the nursing practice within the state of Maryland. The NPA establishes the board of nursing, it sets standards for nursing education, requirements for licensing, sets standards and scope of nursing practice, the code of ethics, and grounds for disciplinary action. 1. Per the Maryland Nurse Practice Act nurses scope of practice consists of Assessment, Analysis and Nursing Diagnosis, Outcome Identification, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation
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Health Promotion in Nursing The World Health Organization (WHO) describes health promotion as allowing society to control elements of personal health, through intelligent, healthy decisions. Health promotion improves the resourcefulness of people to be accountable, and the capacity of organizations and communities to guide the determinants of health. Due to the multitude of determinants of health, health promotion needs cooperation of community and healthcare professionals (Jadelhack, 2012). Health
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