familiar phrase of overworked and under appreciated has rang through the nursing field. As health care reform and insurances make critical changes‚ nurses are forced to keep up. Nursing managers are in a bind to meet the new budget cuts and criteria set forth by these changes‚ which includes higher patient to nurse ratios. Low staffing can lead to nurse burnout‚ job dissatisfaction and poor staff retention (International Journal of Nursing Practice‚ 2014). This article will outline some issues at hand
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“Communication Strategies for Nurses Interacting with Deaf Patients” by Christine Chong-hee Lieu et.al‚ explains how communicating with deaf patients can be challenging for nurses. The language barrier often makes explaining a deaf patients medical situation difficult for the nurse‚ which leads to little or no understanding by the patient of what is happening. Providers need to understand‚ while paper and pen may be ok for some hearing impaired patients‚ it is not always an option for others. “Despite
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perspective of nurse To nurse‚ Chinese people generally argree that the role of the nurses is to report their conditions rapidly to doctors. A Confucian principle of hierarchical relationship between doctor and nurses shows that nurses should know their place‚ defer to their superiors anf know when to call doctors. Solution to chinese implication Some Chinese cultures like belief‚ value‚ attitudes and taboos may act as barriers of clients and nurses. It can be tackled by reminding the nurse to be cultural
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An essential concept for nurses to thoroughly understand is establishing a positive therapeutic nurse-client relationship (TNCR). To establish a TNCR‚ nurses must abide by the College of Nurses of Ontario Practice Standard Therapeutic Nurse-Client Relationships (2006). To further explore how TNCR affect patient outcomes‚ there were 10 primary peer-reviewed scholarly research articles that were found using the OneSearch Finder search engine from the Sault College database. These articles were all
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The authors conducted focus groups to identify nurse-patient behaviours likely to be categorized as physically violent‚ explore thoughts and feelings in response to patient violence‚ and describe team responses to the incidents. The study found that nurses shared information about episodes of violence to colleagues through different communication methods‚ protected themselves and others‚ adopted non-therapeutic strategies when dealing with patients and felt emotional after a violent incident. One
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Planning a conference or class? * Benefit for Members Members have access to current topic * More... Letter to the Editor * Recently‚ I read the article‚ "Why Emotions Matter: Age‚ Agitation‚ and Burnout Among Registered Nurses"... Continue Reading... View all Letters... HomeANA PeriodicalsOJINColumnsEthicsInterstate Nursing Practice and Regulation Ethics: Interstate Nursing Practice and Regulation: Ethical Issues for the 21st Century Mary Cipriano
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Ethics: Therapeutic Patient Relationship Training Session By: Michael R Rigda Ohio University 2014 Table of Contents Ethics: Therapeutic Patient Relationships Overview Since the 1970s‚ ethics has been incorporated into virtually every aspect of the health care system. Because of such a small time window‚ the study of ethics in a medical perspective continues to change and improve for the benefit of the patient. Studies of doctor-patient relationships indicate the need
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themselves‚ such as washing‚ dressing‚ feeding and so on (Castledine‚ 2009). There are also professions linked to it; social work and members of the healthcare profession‚ such as doctors‚ nurses‚ care assistants and psychologists all fall under the term‚ caring profession. This essay will outline the relationship between nurses and caring. Caring can be separated into two areas; caring for someone and caring about someone. Caring for someone refers to caring for their physical needs‚ medical treatment and
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every nurse client relationship is a therapeutic relation and based on my knowledge from CNO guideline‚ it is a nurse client relationship based on trust‚ professional intimacy and empathy to provide best possible care to the patient. This piece of scenario is based on my experience in general ward‚ where i did an admission procedure. Today with the use of computer system it is highly convenient for a nurse to plan an admission through the patient details‚ which are received before the patient arrives
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BSN Nurses Create a Safer Patient Environment In recent years a movement has been emerging in more and more hospitals and health care facilities to hire nurses with BSN degrees. In addition‚ many health care employers are requiring‚ or at least urging‚ their current staff to earn higher degrees. This movement gained momentum following a study released by the Institute of Medicine in October 2010 recommending “increasing the number of baccalaureate-prepared nurses in the workforce to 80% and doubling
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