The role of nurses today have expanded dramatically over the years. They don’t just provide basic cares but has become not only a bigger part of patient advocacy but an instrument in changing policies or creating new ones to continually improve the delivery of care. Among other things‚ nurses have become consultants in creating policies to maintain a clean and safe healthcare environment. Their responsibilities continually changes according to the field of their choice. The growth of the nursing
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Abstract Nurse staffing has always been an issue in the hospital setting. Different units with different patient acuities are staffed accordingly usually based on the patient census. While nurses who are in direct contact care with patients feel that a decreased patient load will lead to greater benefit for the patient‚ others who are usually in managerial positions are not persuaded that such a correlation exists. As of this time‚ no such research has been done with an intentional change in staffing
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supported them. Yet many practitioners keep performing them‚ despite recent research that suggests they should be changed. This article examines these three practices critically. Instilling NSS before ET suctioning: Helpful or harmful? For years‚ nurses and respiratory therapists have been taught to instill 5 ml of sterile NSS into a patient’s endotracheal (ET) tube before suctioning. According to the traditional theory‚ this practice decreases mucosal viscosity‚ eases secretion removal‚ and improves
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Crystal L. Finney ENG-111-103A June 28‚ 2012 Bad Nurses He was lying in his bed struggling to take every breath. The Hospice doctor said he wouldn’t live more than twenty-four hours now. Uncle Ralph’s chest sounded like a motor running because his lungs were so congested. We thought that suctioning out his lungs would help him to breathe a little easier so I volunteered to ask the nurse for help. Doctor Kinsley called for an available nurse. The one around the corner yelled back that she
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Comparative Claim Nursing education Nursing has always seemed to be a profession in which the nurse is the follower of the doctor such as their personal minion only doing the nominal things that the doctor does not want to do. However in Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing and the article “Quality and Nursing” by Hall‚ Moore‚ and Barnsteiner you can see that nurses can have a much larger impact on the healthcare system. In Nightingale’s book the author takes an in-depth look at nursing and
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Culturally Competent Nursing Care To be a successful nurse one must have knowledge of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. It is important to provide culturally competent nursing care. A nurse must know what the patient beliefs are and how their certain beliefs relate to health care. This will effect the patient ’s decisions on the way he or she chooses to be taken care of. A nurse should be very open minded and knowledgeable of different cultures and there beliefs
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Registered Nurse Job Description: Registered nurses (RNs) educate patients and the public about many health issues‚ and offer information and support to patients and loved ones. According to the Registered Nurses Occupational Outlook Handbook‚ RNs treat patients‚ educate patients and the public about various medical conditions‚ and provide advice and emotional support to patients’ family members (2008). Registered Nurses also educate patients and family members on how to deal with their illness
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The room is small and claustrophobic. It smells like disinfectant and latex. The lights are too bright‚ too clinical. A woman sits behind desk‚ when I walk up to her she smiles a little too big. The way nurses sometimes do‚ like they are trying to make you feel better‚ which they probably are. It always comes across as so fake‚ so insincere. It always makes me want to scream‚ and today is no different‚ in fact I think today is worse. Everything in me wants to yell at her “you know what I’m doing
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your name?” ”Samy.” She says. Then she is called away. “Does she know my name?” I say to the empty room. I fell asleep and was startled awake when Samy came to give me my food and she asks my name. “Joe.” I say. Samy was hired to be a personal nurse that takes care of one person at a time. She is taking care of Alexie for me and even brings her in for me. We were in mid-conversation when her some older man came in with a fiery anger. “How dare you.” He said. “Farther‚ I hate you and I don’t
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Neonatal Nurses The medical field provides many opportunities for people because it has several different careers to choose from‚ not to mention the hundreds of different careers in or related to the nursing field. People in today’s society always have a favorite in everything‚ whether it is a color or a sport. Some people would say that their favorite type of nurse is a Neonatal Nurse. After all‚ Neonatal Nurses are the first ones to care for the future generation as soon as they exit the womb
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