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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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 today
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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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Challenges Facing the Nursing Profession in the 21st Century By: Kerry Z Today there is a national nursing shortage as the healthcare industry rapidly changes. Aging baby boomers mean demands on the healthcare system will only increase in the coming years. Fast forward a few years and we see many challenges ahead for nurses. Our textbook covers issues such as generational differences in an aging workforce with poor prospects for replacements
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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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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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SCHOLARLY PAPER THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE FOR NURSING: DOES IT CONVEY COMMONALITY OF MEANING AND IS IT IMPORTANT TO DO SO Sonia Allen‚ RN‚ RM‚ Grad Dip Hlth Sc (Community)‚ BHSM‚ MACS‚ PhD Candidate‚ School of Nursing and Midwifery‚ Faculty of Medicine‚ Nursing and Health Sciences‚ Gippsland Campus‚ Monash University‚ Victoria‚ Australia. sonia.allen@med.monash.edu.au Associate Professor Ysanne Chapman ‚ RN‚ PhD‚ MSc(Hons)‚ B Ed (Nsg)‚ GDE‚ DRM‚ MRCNA‚ School of Nursing and Midwifery‚ Faculty
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