The transition of an RN to the role of an APN can be exciting and at the same timed apprehensive. It is essential that RNs who chose to transition roles into becoming an APN is aware of the basic elements of the crucial role of the APN in the healthcare industry. The APN functions in the capacity as a healthcare provider and is viewed by the society as an individual who can treat‚ educate‚ advocate‚ and provide healthcare services. Therefore the APN ought to have the ability to identify possibly
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professionals in formulating a plan of care to relieve suffering in all areas of a patient’s life. This multidisciplinary approach allows the palliative care team to address physical‚ emotional‚ spiritual and social concerns that arise with advanced illness. Medications and treatments are said to have a palliative effect if they relieve symptoms without having a curative effect on the underlying disease or cause. This can include treating nausea related to chemotherapy or something as simple as morphine
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As a nurse promoting educational information is very important if not vital in the career of nursing. Prevention is better than cure and by promoting such fruitful information there will be an increase in practice of illness prevention. For example: flu shot‚ mammogram‚ etc. To be more direct and specific‚ Nursing promotes and educate individuals of all ages‚ families‚ groups and communities‚ sick or even the well. Promoting health through educational information is a fundamental aspect of health
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P2: Use the case study to write an essay that explains the sociological approaches to health and ill health The functionalism approach thinks that when people are sick they should take on roles of their own that comes with many responsibilities when they are taking on the ‘sick role’. So with the family being ill they will be out of work yet they will not be cared for by the welfare state. Tamselas parent live with her meaning she has to care for a find a way to provide for everyone in her household
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As an Emergency Room Nurse‚ You become a part of the Emergency Response Team that works together to not only provide individual care‚ but also to provide fast and accurate stabilizing care to individuals in a crisis situation. Being a professional nurse means caring for the overall general health and comfort‚ as well as‚ caring for and nurturing other individuals. Meeting both their physical needs for safety and good health‚ as well as providing comfort and ease for their emotional needs. Being
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going through the grieving process of terminal illness are not being met. The role of the psychiatrist in terminal care is limited in the availability of these services within the health care system (Clark‚ 2003). Nurses need to be aware of the psychiatric issues involved with terminally ill conditions and be educated on these. Chochinov (cited in Clark 2003)‚ stated that the conditions frequently occurring in patients who are dying with a terminal illness are anxiety‚
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often time mental illness is perceived to be exclusive to white people. II. Though religion is one effective tool for those who are spiritually enlighten‚ people seek right now answers for right now problems. A. Within African American community‚ many individuals suffer in silence when it comes to mental health because it is instilled in them that family or personal matters are kept private. 1. African Americans often associate therapy and seeking services for mental illness as a sign of weakness
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Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion The Heritage Assessment device is considered to “give nurses an understanding of the patient’s traditional health and illness beliefs and practices so that culturally appropriate interventions can be initiated. The tool is a series of twenty nine questions. These twenty nine questions are designed to determine a patient’s ethnic‚ cultural‚ and religious background‚ “For
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will receive and think this new proposal may be of comparable interest to your Department. We think this project is very much aligned with the ACHF goals in targeting college kids suffering from mental diseases‚ to implement the prevention of mental Illness and the reduction of mortality and morbidity associated with the disease in the communities addressed by the Office of Health Promotion. Our organization‚ established in 1997‚ is serving the entire state of Illinois and has two local offices in
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A Food Borne Illness Danielle Mitchell SCI/163 2/12/2012 Sanam Kazemi There are many food borne illnesses but the norovirus is very interesting. A norovirus is a small virus that contains RNA and is surrounded by a protein coating. Based on genetic typing‚ it is now known that there are at least twenty-five different strains if norovirus that affect humans. Norovirus infection is the most common cause of what some people call the “stomach flu‚” although norovirus is not
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