Renee Matos‚ MD. is a pediatric well care physician employed at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Her title is the assistant dean in graduate medical education and quality improvement and patient safety. She works in education and research and has focused on cardiovascular arrest research in the past. Matos is also a member of the American Board of Pediatrics. As someone who is work oriented‚ she invests 60-80 hours into her job in an average week‚ both at home and the workplace. In order
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Media is an important channel for health care system to create awareness of health issue and about nursing professions to the society. In older days peoples listened to radio and read newspaper for the meaningful purposes like weather forecast and news around the world. In present generation media generates public awareness through telecommunication Satellites TV‚ Internet and movies etc. I agreed that the media depicted positives and negatives influence regarding nurses’ images to the public and
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GENDER BIAS AMONG NURSES Gender bias is common in nursing. It is my own experience of facing gender bias in my own institution. When I was working as an Instructor in my institution‚ there was opportunity to for me to get promotion but was denied and it was given to a female colleague. As I was working there for last three years with an out standing performance for all those years in my opinion and that of many others‚ it was my right to promoted to that post. But the head of my institute had promoted
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Is Nursing a Profession? What is a profession? According to one definition a profession is an occupation that is based on a complex set of skills and knowledge that is used in the service of others. This definition also says that the members of this occupation abide by a code of ethics and commit themselves to competence‚ integrity‚ morality and many other qualities that promote public good (Cruess‚ Johnston‚ & Cruess‚ 2004‚ p. 74). According to this very definition‚ nursing is a professional
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Horizontal Violence The clinical issue of interest to me and one that I would like to focus on his Horizontal violence. This topic is of interest to me because in my profession as a nurse supervisor‚ I have encountered and had to resolve many instances of horizontal violence in the work environment. In this paper‚ I will provide a rational as to why Horizontal Violence (HV) is a relevant workplace issue and provide the research to support this rational. Horizontal violence has been defined as “hostile
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Career in Nursing Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care
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Nursing: My Dream Profession Nursing as I know is an important component of the health care delivery system that requires a whole lot of energy and time to put in patient welfare. Although‚ nursing is a profession that is rewarding and challenging‚ I have always admired becoming a nurse someday in the future. As a child‚ I had my father as a role model. My father was a nurse in Cameroon‚ central Africa. When he retired‚ he settled back in the rural area where I and the rest of my family lived with
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health care. Every aspect of health care‚ including health care professions‚ have begun to evolve as a result of the laws passed in 2010. The nursing profession is one of the largest divisions in the healthcare workforce and requires large transformations in order to meet the goals that the United States has set forth. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) conducted a report in 2010 which laid out recommendations for health care professions in order to make the goals attainable. Transforming education
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Background of the study Our study’s scope is within the local‚ specifically the post-partum mother. “DO WE NEED RESPONDENTS?” “YES WE DEFINITELY NEED ONE“ hypothesis:based on questions asked :D of course we need a questionnaire for this matter :D Significance of the study 1. For mothers - Cleanliness in the perineal area is important‚ so as to decrease the risk of infection and to promote blood flow. 2. Individuals who would extend their knowledge about said intervention.
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must maintain moral integrity‚ living up to their ethical beliefs by being honest‚ trustworthy and consistently standing up for what is right (2012). Pozgar (2016) the contents of ethics vary depending on the risks associated with a particular profession (p. 300). The National Commission on Correctional Health care (2011) talks about nurses in a traditional medical setting. How ethical decisions happens periodically and sometimes nurses are pulled into ethical situations. Nurses must comply to
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