A recent nursing error issue that is tragic and unfortunately avoidable is regarding a case where a 7-month-old boy‚ August Elliot‚ was a patient at Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center on October 2‚ 2015. During his stay at the hospital a nurse mistakenly administered a medication that was not meant for 7-month-old August‚ but actually meant for a full grown adult. August Elliot was given a dose of saline solution infused with potassium and unfortunately went into cardiac arrest only 10 minutes after
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Compassion As‚ a nurse‚ compassion is critical in my view to be effective in the field of nursing. Compassion encompasses empathy‚ kindness‚ consideration and understanding which will be felt by an individual as one provides care. It requires the delivery of quality care with utmost respect and patience for all individuals irrespective of who they are. The compassion is shown through a nurse- patient relationship which respects the autonomy of patients as individuals who have dignity and worth
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The Importance of Nursing Roles Nurses have always been the backbone of healthcare and first response teams. Nurses are the first interaction a patient will have. The observations that a nurse makes through symptom analysis will aid the doctor in diagnosing the patient. This paper will first give a brief history of nursing and nursing roles and will focus on nursing theories and theorists. This paper will answer the question of how nursing theories helped to structure the nursing profession of
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consider bullying a form of terrorism that caused “damaging effect on the victim’s well-being and facility” (Yildirim‚ 2009‚ p. 504). I am alarmed with the growing incidents of bullying among nurses‚ who are supposed to live up to the care ethics of the nursing profession. In one study‚ bullying was described as a workplace terror – a psychological terror that undermines an individual or group of employees (Yildirim‚ 2009). I also find bullying‚ as a form of terrorism to be much
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Nursing Theory Wendy Benson Chamberlain College of Nursing Theoretical Basis of Advanced Nursing NR501 July 20‚ 2013 Nursing Theory Nursing theories are the basic concepts that define nursing practice and provide the explanation to why nurses do what they do. Nurses are exposed to theories everyday in their practice. Did I give much thought to nursing theories prior to becoming a student? No‚ I did not. Of course I utilized them in my everyday nursing practice‚ but never put much thought
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Introduction: One of the policy issues that IOM recommends in nursing is the need for strong leadership that would be a driving force in transforming the healthcare system (Mason et al.‚ 2013). There is a need for the nursing profession to produce some strong leaders at every level in the system that would direct junior staffs in handling things dealing with policy‚ organizations‚ politics and nursing practice. As required by the transformation and implementation provisions‚ the reforms in the health
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“Ethical behavior and practice are essential to providing safe patient care and are key components of nursing education” (Morgan & Hart‚ p. 241‚ 2013). Often‚ policies are created and standards are set without giving students the information and tools to utilize and implement integrity into their training (Morgan & Hart‚ 2013; McGee‚ 2013; Craig‚ Federici‚ & Buehler‚ 2010). Across all nursing tracks‚ students have a genuine lack of knowledge regarding what is inappropriate behavior related to academic
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Discussed in this paper will be nursing theory and review its importance to nursing as a profession. It will also focus on aspects of the nursing theorist Virginia Henderson and her theory on the complementary-supplementary model of nursing. Nursing leadership‚ as it relates to Henderson’s theory‚ will also be discussed. Nursing theory itself is defined as an organized framework of concepts and purposes designed to guide the practice of nursing (Dossey‚ 2008). There will be multiple sections in this
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has been in the nursing home for almost a year and did not have a single order for pain medication other than the standard order of Tylenol for every patient admitted to the nursing home. I watched in agony every day for months feeling frustrated and powerless. I was in fear of losing my job and did not want to create conflict. Since I was new on the job‚ I felt I did not have the authority to do anything. I do not want to be religious‚ but God answered my prayer and the nursing home was cited by
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pharmacy304: Transcultural nursing: its importance in nursing practice Transcultural nursing: its importance in nursing practice Maier-Lorentz MM. Reference: Maier-Lorentz MM. Transcultural nursing: its importance in nursing practice. 2008 [updated Spring; cited 2010 May 01]; 2009/01/29:[37-43]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19172978. Transcultural nursing is a vital part of healthcare in the present day. The forever increasing multicultural populace in the United States
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