Nursing is a career that offers the opportunity to help others and make a difference in their lives. I want to be a nurse because I enjoy helping people‚ and I get internal satisfaction by serving those that need help. Nurses provide an invaluable service to society‚ and being part of that group has long been an ambition of mine. I am a person that possesses all personality traits needed for nursing. I am helpful‚ trustworthy‚ understanding‚ kind‚ and compassionate. I want to be competent‚
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highly of the nurses that made an impact in her short life. I wish to provide this kind of meaningful compassion to a patient one day. I currently volunteer at the UA Campus Health Walk-in Clinic and it has opened my heart and mind to the world of nursing. My duties involve patient interaction‚ shadowing health care
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Health (NIH)‚ burnout is a psychological term that refers to long-term exhaustion and diminished interest in work. Nursing burnout is a condition that some Registered Nurses (RN) experience that shows itself as being fatigued‚ irritable‚ suffers from insomnia and poor performance. Nursing burnout can happen to nurses with years of experience‚ newly graduated RNs and even students in nursing school. As a result of these stressors‚ the level of patient care can decrease related to poor work performance
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Nursing homes are where families send their elderly‚ trusting that they will be taken care of. The elderly are not always capable of taking care of themselves. Weather it is remembering to take pills‚ to forgetting how to do basic things. The nurses in the nursing homes are supposed to help them and take very good care of them. In most nursing homes the nurses are mistreating the elderly by not being gentle with them‚ not paying attention to them and giving them what they need‚ and not keeping them
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Throughout the history of nursing‚ training of those entering the field has varied from rudimentary to extensive. In the 19th century‚ training for nurses was minimal and there was no set curriculum (Nursing Timeline of Historical Events‚ 2014). With the nursing focus shifted from caring for the sick and dying‚ to caring for ill people and providing preventative care for well people‚ the training for nurses has also changed. This discussion will focus on the differences in competencies of nurses
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organization. Numerous definitions of whistleblowing appear in health care and business literature‚ but all point to the importance of advocacy‚ that is‚ protecting someone who will likely be harmed. To define the terms further within the scope of nursing‚ whistleblowing is the action taken by a nurse who goes outside the organization for the public’s best interest when it is unresponsive to reporting the danger through the organization’s proper channels. Reporting is the action taken by the nurse
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. Working to my full potential and making positive interactions a priority in my daily nursing life are a must. Nursing shortages are making these simple tasks a challenge almost daily‚ rushing in order to meet time restrictions and physician’s demands is an hourly occurrence. My assumptions and characteristics are very closely related to these occurrences‚ I assume that we all strive to become better and evolve daily in order to do so. Our characteristics as professionals will prove that these
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Partnership between nurses and patients has evolved over many years becoming more important to current nursing care. Many attributes arise when dealing with partnership‚ focusing on communication‚ empathy and how a trusting therapeutic relationship are all essential to current nursing care when working with patients with dementia. Focusing on how nurses will work using partnership with these patients maintaining their rights and why these rights are important‚ these rights being their dignity‚ communication
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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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