Eziaku Oliver Grand Canyon University Baccalaureate Degree Nursing/Associate Degree Nursing: Difference in Competencies November 25 2012 Nurses prepared at the baccalaureate degree level are more competent than those prepared at the associate degree level. As the saying goes knowledge is power, Nurses prepared at baccalaureate degree level have more knowledge, they spend more time in school studying, conducting research, they think deeper, they apply critical thinking skills in patient care
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the nurses and their day to day work atmosphere of interacting with Doctors, patients, co-workers, and visitors of the hospital. Besides social work environment, other reasons why I am interested in the nursing field are (1) there are a lot of specialties to choose from (2) so many settings to work in (3) and healthy work environment. It’s all about choices and options and serving patients with all types of illnesses. Nursing is a career I can take pride in. It’s an opportunity to provide excellent
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Exploring Registered Nursing September 26, 2010 Exploring Registered Nursing I am the oldest of my mother’s six children: five girls and a boy. There is a 2 ½ years gap between me and my first sibling, 10 years between me and the third child and 14, (almost 15), years between me and the last child. I can remember how excited I was when I first felt my second sister kick in my mother’s tummy. I couldn’t believe there was a whole human inside of her stomach! I remember looking at my mother,
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Reflection of “The American Nurse” In the documentary of “The American Nurse” it showed different nurses in the field and what a day in the nurses lives would look like. Viewers were able to see a labor and delivery nurse, a director of nursing for a nursing home, a home care nurse, a prison nurse and an Army nurse. In this paper I am going to discuss the roles and actions of the home care nurse and the prison nurse. Both the home care nurse and the prison nurse had a heart for what they were
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Critically evaluate how the use of advanced communication skills may facilitate reflective practice and enhance the delivery of care in district nursing practice. Barbara Brush Student number: B00628470 Word count: 2084 Due Date: 3rd February 2015. Introduction. Due to the increasing demands on the Health Service the “Transforming your care “ report (Department of Health Social Service and Public Safety, (DHSSPS) 2011a) made recommendations to increase care in the community, making home
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order for one to understand the foundation of my personal practice framework, it is first necessary to provide a review of the definition of the four paradigms of nursing: person, environment, health and nursing. Considering first the paradigm of nursing, Orem's theory of self-care has been selected as a foundation for understanding the importance and role of the person. Libster (2008) reviews Orem's theory noting that this theorist believed in the ability of all persons to engage in self-care or
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The aim of this essay is to explore an aspect of care that a client group receives whilst in the community setting. The chosen aspect of care will be palliative care delivered to those patients who have been told they have a non-curative illness but are not yet at the end of life. The stage of the illness of the client group chosen is one where the patient is managed at home because there as there is nothing anyone can do to make things better (Calman-Hine Report 1998). The essay will also briefly
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Karena Whelan Dunphy Moonveen Carrigeen, Via Waterford Mobile: 0872861673 karenawhelan@gmail.com Summary 20 years experience as a registered general nurse. Gained invaluable experience in a dressing clinic for 5 years and for the past 7 years worked as clinical nurse specialist in wound care and tissue viability Skills general wound care practises including assessment,management and documentation providing education to staff nurses /multidisciplinary team in all areas of wound care clinical
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Introduction With the inception of the Affordable Health Care Act, an estimated 32 million Americans are expected to join the ranks of those already insured, and the existing shortage of primary care physicians available to provide care will continue to increase (Fairman, Rowe, Hassmiller, & Shalala, 2011). Nurse practitioners are currently helping fill this gap by providing care to a large portion of this population. However, many nurse practitioners providing care are now limited in their
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Where do you see yourself in five years? “Not looking at the price tag when I shop.” Everyone has goals for themselves, for some it’s getting out of bed in the morning, for others it’s finishing school, no matter what the goals are they are all important as long as they are reachable. For me, my goals include becoming more organized with my school work, improving my studying skills, becoming a travel nurse after finishing school, and living the life style I was raised in. These are all pretty
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