Combating Compassion Fatigue April 05, 2012 Introduction Helping others is what health care is all about. When you have a calling or a passion to care for others and to help them, you should truly be a care giver. But the very thing that draws us to be a care taker and helping others in their time of need can be what cause us to be exhausted, disappointed, and unable to cope at times and burned out. I am talking about compassion fatigue. We will talk about what CF is, what causes it and
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International of Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory and Standardized Nursing Languages in a Case Study of a Woman With Diabetes IJNT Malden, USAJournal Inc Blackwell Publishing of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications Application of Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory and Standardized Nursing Languages in a Case Study of a Woman with Diabetes This paper aims to illustrate the process Coleen P. Kumar, RN, MSN, CNS, is Assistant Professor of Nursing, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York. Introduction
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shows how anyone's life's condition may be improved through an understanding of the ethics of Swami Vivekananda and the application of his principles to lead a better existence. This paper is primarily addressed to all interested in the working of spirituality and religion from Swami Vivekananda's perspective, which will play a very important role in the growth and development of the oneself. An understanding of ethics, as one of the basic factors that influence behavior will help us shift towards the
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Running head: MODULE 4 ASSIGNMENT Compassion Fatigue Miranda R. Bowers Grand Canyon University HLT 310 February 17, 2012 Introduction Dictionary.com describes compassion as a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering (2012). Bush describes compassion fatigue as a complex emotion that allows caregivers to hold and sustain themselves in emotional balance while holding patients’ despair in
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independently own franchises which employ more than 75,000 health care workers that services approximately 50,000 people daily. Interim HealthCare offers both home care and home health care services to a variety of settings including hospitals, nursing homes, physician offices, prisons, schools, and clinics. In addition, Interim HealthCare also offers hospice services for terminally ill patients in their last months of life to provide the highest degree of comfort and dignity possible using state-of-the-art
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Running head: NURSING CARE PLAN II Nursing Care Plan II Maria Milazzo Cochise College Nursing 123 April 16, 2010 Maxine Parmley RN, MSN Nursing Care Plan II Setting and Demographics My scheduled clinical rotation at Life Care Center began on April 8th. Mrs. X, a long-term resident, was the patient I had chosen. I had conducted several patient interviews and she appeared to be an interesting patient. After passing out the morning medicines to the resident’s, I made my way down the hall
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Crisis Paper Casie Yu MCPHS University Patient Background Sammy is 27 year old, female patient who came into the hospital for opiates withdrawal/dependence. Sammy is white American and has been baptized but doesn’t attend to church regularly. She is admitted to the hospital for a detox for opiate dependence. Patient states that she currently uses “two bundles of heroin per day through shooting up for the past month. I also shoot up $20 of cocaine for the past month and I smoke marijuana
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medical detoxification and rehabilitation. This facility has an intensive inpatient program delivered in a hospital-based setting. The program also incorporates a dual diagnostic component if needed. The staff includes licensed medical, psychiatric, nursing and counseling personnel. Treatment is supervised 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The average length of stay is typically 21 days unless otherwise determined. New Mexico Rehabilitation Center Chemical Dependency Unit 72 Gail Harris Avenue Roswell
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Issues in Healthy Aging: The role of the Nurse Falls have become very common with older adults living in the community and long-term care facilities. The purpose of this paper is to research an issue, in this case falls, that impacts the healthy aging of older adults living in the community. This paper will discuss why this topic is important to healthy aging, what the nurse’s role is and what some interventions are to try and lower the rate and risk of falls that the older adult experiences
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