Registered Nurse with extensive experience in the healthcare field. Goals direct. Exceptional leadership ability and good professional judgment. Strong patient advocacy.…
Should an individual be arrested for standing up for someone else who is unconscious? Nurse Alex Wubbel believed that a patient that was unconscious should have a say in if the patient's blood should be scanned for drug or alcohol abuse in a car crash investigation. However, that's not what one of the cops wanted so instead the cop arrested the nurse and stated that she is arrested for denying a wish from the cop. The video for this arresting went viral and people started saying that it was wrong for that cop to arrest the nurse. But the real question is who was in the wrong and what can we learn from this experience?…
In the passionate essay, “On Compassion,” by the respected Barbara Lazear Ascher, the author convincingly depicts her view towards how she feels about why people show compassion. Ascher’s purpose is to demonstrate to the reader the different classes of society and allow the reader to think about how people may appear compassionate but naturally have a fear that causes them to carry out compassionate acts. The author effectively and steadfastly builds the essay by utilizing an observant and speculative tone, a series of figurative language and an emotional appeal in order to convey her outlook towards the homeless and compassion.…
The main objective of this experiment is to differentiate between a physical change and a chemical change.…
Compassion is defined as a sympathetic consciousness of others distress together with a desire to alleviate it (Merriam. Webster.com). It has a fundamental role among the healthcare workers. Especially among nurses, when they are indulging in bedside care for their patients. It helps the patients to relieve their stress and tension. Nurses have to go through different job description during their twelve hours shift. It start from the assessment of the patient, check vital signs, carryout various safety and comfort measures, administering medication and even to participate the resuscitative measures to save the life of a person. During this period due to emotional stress and physical fatigue make a person exhausted and drained. Nurses have to undergo the sane process many days a week for many years. So there is no surprise if any health care worker is emotionally and physically tired and upset. This is called as compassion fatigue. It can be due to the over strain and stress from the work load and demand from the patient and family. Most often it happens due to the continuous work over load, stress, inadequate relaxation time, over demanding. It can leads to the health care workers to be burn out and also leads to secondary traumatization. This assignment explores about the nature and causes of five major concepts of compassion fatigue. It also address the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of the care giver and giving examples of coping strategies and resources to be used by the care giver.…
t is true that the demand for Nurse Practitioners are now rising. Aside from being cost effective, Nurse Practitioners helps with the shortage for Primary Care to see the increasing surge of patients. It is also believed that this trend could go higher in the following years, the growth is expected to be between 31 percent from 2014 to 2024. (Nurse Anesthetists, Nurse Midwives, and Nurse Practitioner, 2015.)…
Compassion is an essential attribute that nurses must posses in order to provide appropriate care to the patients and families they come in contact with. Nurses work many long shifts taking care of sick patients and grieving families, and may not take the time to care for their physical, emotional and spiritual needs properly. After a while, the long hours and stress may catch up with them and cause compassion fatigue or even burnout. Nurses must learn to care for themselves first and foremost in order to be healthy, happy and spiritually sound, and this in turns allows them to provide great care to their…
Helping people is a very necessary and extremely hard occupation. Not every person has a passion to help others, thus very few people can be care givers. This job is very stressful and difficult. Caring victims or seriously ill men nurses face negative emotions, suffering, and anxiety. Thus, sometimes caregivers become disappointed, exhausted and unable to do their work. Their constant stress and pervasive negative attitude are the consequences of the features of the job and called compassion fatigue. This phenomenon, its peculiarities and the steps to prevent it will be carefully analyzed in this paper.…
Compassion is learned through experience and seeing those less fortunate; it brings out sympathy because one cannot ignore it when unfortunate people are everywhere.…
A new nurse faces a formidable set of challenges when walking onto their first job. Sadly, nursing schools do not truly prepare the new nurse for the shock of caring for patients and the responsibility that goes with it.…
There are several advanced practice nurses in the United States. Advanced practice nurses consist of registered nurses who have a master’s degree or doctorate degree in nursing and specialize in a certain area. According to the textbook definition, “Advanced Practice Nursing is the patient-focused application of an expanded range of competencies to improve health outcomes for patients and populations is a specialized clinical area of the larger discipline of nursing” (Hamric, Hanson, Tracy, & O’Grady, 2014). Advance practice nurse roles include direct care roles such as nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialist, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and certified nurse midwives and indirect care roles such as nurse educators, nurse informaticists, nurse administrators, and nurse executives. These APN roles play a vital part in the future of healthcare. Understanding the role and scope of practice of an APN helps to show the similarity and help differentiate between each role and its specialty. This class has explained what it means and takes to practice as an advanced practice nurse. This paper will compare and contrast roles of APN’s and explore regulatory rules and requirements for NPs in Mississippi. Core…
I am working for one of the best hospitals in downtown Chicago, Illinois as a Registered Nurse. My duties include providing hands-on care to patients by administering medications, observing and monitoring patients' conditions, managing intravenous lines, communicating with doctors and maintaining records. In addition, I am responsible for educating patients and their families on disease prevention and post-hospital treatment. Also, provide emotional support to the patient and family members.…
A. Unlike all the other careers, becoming a Registered Nurse can be fairly easy to get the job because there are always job openings and they pay good…
When I was thinking about writing this journal post a particular experiences came into my head. I pushed it aside for the fact that it didn't fit the criteria for this journal. However, after struggling trying with writer's block, I gave in to my original thought. The experience I am going to be talking about doesn't fit the criteria of being a patient/nurse interaction because I wasn't with a “patient” or in a clinical setting.…
Compassion in healthcare is essential to patient interaction. Often, patients come to us with preconceived notions of from past or recent experiences influencing them in their attitudes towards healthcare professionals and their own health. ”Burned-out” nurses become stressed and develop the ability to disconnect from their…