ask me “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Without giving it much thought I would always say a teacher or a chef. As I got older I realized what I really wanted to be when I grew up. I became interested in becoming a nurse when I was around 12. My aunt‚ who is a nurse would always tell me stories about her patients and what was going on at the hospital she worked at. During my sophomore year I was privileged enough to job shadow my aunt’s friend Jana. It was a great‚ rewarding experience.
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A nurse basically checks on the patient until the doctor comes to finds out what the problem and why. Nurses play significant roles in hospitals‚ clinics and private practices. They make up the biggest health care occupation in the United States. Nursing job duties include communicating between patients and doctors‚ caring for patients‚ administering medicine and supervising nurses’ aides. This is basically what a nurse does everyday‚ but the advanced practice nurses can work independently and have
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As a staff nurse in the emergency room I had to develop leadership skills in order to effectively deliver quality care and maintain safety in a fast paced environment. By identifying safety risks associated with the assignment of inexperienced nurses to triage and discussing the breakdown in communication between physicians and staff‚ caused by inaccurate triage acuity levels‚ I effectively facilitated the change in the process of assignments to triage. Once the need of education‚ mentoring and
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“An Advanced practice nurse is a registered nurse who has acquired the expert knowledge base‚ complex decision-making skills and clinical competencies for expanded practice‚ the characteristics of which are shaped by the context and/or country in which she/he is credentialed to practice” (Heale & Rieck Buckley‚ 2015‚ p.422). An advanced practice nurse has an important role in the health care system. They are the registered nurses educated at Masters or post Masters level in a specific role and patient
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Thesis: Nurses and paramedics have very similar jobs but the requirements‚ performance‚ situations‚ and conditions have more differences than similarities. Audience: Future and/or current college students who are caught between the two fields of healthcare Purpose: to inform students of the similarities and differences between nurses and paramedics Have you ever wanted to become a paramedic but you didn’t want to wear the uncomfortable uniforms or drive around the big ambulances? Registered
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maturity” (p. 6). To answer the questions if the woman looks like a nurse‚ in the painting The Faithful Nurse by Thomas Wood‚ I definitely believe this woman could be a nurse. The appearance of what a nurse looks like in our society today with scrubs or even years ago in dress uniform and nursing hat‚ might not be what a nurse wore in 1893 according to the artist. This is a good example in how the “connotation of the word nurse have changed over the course of human history” (Donahue‚ 2011‚ p. 4)
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Malpractice By Nurses And The Ethical Dilemmas They Face Lisa Hayes ITT Technical Institute Composition I GE 117 Ju1y 1‚ 2014 Outline 1. Thesis Statement 2. Introduction 3. Data on the malpractice lawsuits against nurses 4. Reasons for increase in lawsuits against nurses 5. Factors proving breach of law by the nurses 6. Healthcare Ethics 7. Ethical dilemmas faced by the nurses 8. The other side of the argument: Nurses make far less errors than other medical practitioners 9. Conclusion
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As long as we humans continue to reproduce‚ there will be a need for registered nurses all over the world. A registered nurse works under the instruction of the physician‚ and does whatever the physician instructs him/her to do. A registered nurse can specialize in one particular area of the body‚ but they are trained for every system. A registered nurse can do any range of things from delivering babies to putting an ill person out of their misery. The career of nursing basically began in the
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In the Television series that I chose‚ Nurse Jackie quietly established itself as one of the outstanding programs on television. Edie Falco’s portrayal of a nurse Jackie with a moral code. It was clear from the first episode that the center could not hold in Jackie’s life. Nobody can effectively juggle a two-income marriage‚ children‚ a workplace romance and a drug addiction without the whole house of cards coming down‚ and we first met Jackie Peyton right at the point where the base began to wobble
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part of a nurse’s role. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) are the regulatory body of registered nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom‚ and clause 5 of the NMC code of professional conduct states that registrants have a duty to protect confidential information (NMC‚ 2006). Failure to adhere to this clause could result in removal from the register‚ as confidentiality is something all nurses must respect and be aware of. So what is patient confidentiality and why is it so important? The Department
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