Nursing is a second career for me. It is one I have approached gradually‚ over a long period of time. I might have chosen it as a first career if I had been a better student when I entered college‚ or had people in my life who were involved in healthcare careers when I was growing up. As it was‚ I had a longstanding interest in health and the human body‚ but nursing seemed very foreign‚ and the idea of touching strangers made me uncomfortable. So when I came to UNC as a freshman in 1982‚ I declared
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and necessary skills in the nursing profession. Preceptorship is when theories are actually put into practice and competencies acquired. Indeed‚ during this preceptorship‚ I felt like I gained a whole lot of understanding about the nursing process‚ the legal and ethical matters surrounding the practice‚ and the nurse’s leadership role. I have tried my best to learn as much as I can about the nurse’s role in the provision of care; medication administration‚ nursing intervention‚ patient interaction
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My nursing career is very important to me and I have thought a lot about it. My greatest concern about transitioning from schooling to work is that I will not be as confident in my knowledge as I should be. I eventually plan on being a Nurse Practitioner (NP). I hopefully will be obtaining my NP within the next 4-8 years. I plan on taking the NCLEX test as soon as I can‚ and I have thought a lot about what I am going to do for my test prep. I have a concern about transitioning from schooling to working
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Washington and my mom works as a housekeeper at Campbell’s Resort. I have attended school in Chelan since kindergarten and I am now a senior in high school. My goal is to become a registered nurse then go on and get into obstetric nursing. I became interested in nursing when my sister was diagnosed with a rare disease and ended up at Seattle Children’s for two months. As my family learned to navigate the medial maze‚ I learned to love it and became fascinated everyday. I realized one day I wanted
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A Reflection of Five Weeks of the Co-operative Nursing Experience Rebecca Tutt‚ RN University of Texas at Arlington In partial fulfillment of the requirements of N3300 Specialized Topics in Nursing (Co-Op) Beth Mancini‚ RN‚ Ph.D. March 7‚ 2013 Online RN to BSN Introduction The co-operative nursing assignment has given me the opportunity to use my critical thinking‚ decision-making‚ leadership‚ and clinical nursing expertise learned throughout the RN-BSN program. “The fostering of critical
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Nursing is one of the most respected and rewarding occupations in the healthcare industry. An exemplary nurse exhibits qualities such as empathy‚ selflessness‚ and the ability to work well under pressure as a team and also independently. Although the nurses job description focuses on patient care‚ nurses are also the patient’s number one advocate; the doctor may diagnose and order treatments for the patient‚ but the nurse is the one whom the patient sees and establishes a connection most. Nurses
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Nurses have to write documentation after each procedure they’re doing. It should be written in clear‚ accurate‚ concise‚ understandable language and it has to be up to date. Since health care is changing everywhere and this has a great effect on documenting we should be very careful. Documentation is how the health care team communicate and it is also important for the safety of the patient‚ and it is both what you observe (objective data) and what the patients say (subjective data) to analyse your
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Odukoya 1 Oluwatobi Odukoya Professor Isiah Ayafor English 102-014 3/12/2013 Essay 3 Toulmin Model Essay In this advertisement‚ the reader must “read between the lines” to find the claim because it is not initially stated. The claim is that if anyone joins the military‚ they will acquire qualities that they cannot acquire outside of the military. The support would be given by Dr. Jay Grossman‚ a man who served in the military for a year‚ and serving there created a passion within him to
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Running head: MY NURSING ETHIC My Nursing Ethic Susan Kreienbrink Grand Canyon University In my nursing career I have worked at two hospitals‚ both run by the Sisters of Mercy. This is a conscious decision on my part because my belief system regarding the way we should care for others‚ mirrors their mission very closely. I believe it is my moral obligation to help anyone who needs help‚ regardless of their own personal belief system‚ whether or not they are a citizen of the
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The 1970s saw the birth of two new guerrilla organizations‚ The Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP) and the Organization of the People in Arms (ORPA)‚ who began and intensified by the end of the seventies‚ guerrilla attacks that included urban and rural guerrilla warfare‚ mainly against the military and some of the civilian supporters of the army. In 1979‚ the U.S. president‚ Jimmy Carter‚ ordered a ban on all military aid to the Guatemalan Army because of the widespread and systematic abuse of human
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