There are six world views in nursing: organicism‚ mechanism‚ change‚ persistence‚ totality‚ and simultaneity. I identify most closely with totality. I believe in not only caring for the physical‚ but also the emotional and spiritual. I believe ones environment can positively or negatively influence one’s health and adapting to it as it changes is important for soundness of body‚ mind‚ and spirit. It is important to have knowledge of health norms to guide nursing goals and have desirable outcomes
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Nursing as a Discipline: It’s Interrelationship with Philosophy‚ Science and Ethics Raymund Christopher R. dela Pena Saint Louis University The discipline of nursing is concerned with how nurses interact with people in relation to their health and within their total environment. Nursing at its core is caring for people within their health experience. The effective nurse is able to think critically‚ feel deeply‚ communicate clearly‚ interact meaningfully‚ assume responsibility‚ exhibit
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Impact and Penetration of Nursing Research It is common nursing knowledge that patient quality of care is directly related to improved outcomes and is based on the safety of the patient. Nurses play a direct role in a patient’s quality of care‚ because nurses have the most direct contact with the patient. The issues that I noticed in each of the website’s evidence based practices (EBP’s) include nursing education level‚ staffing levels‚ working environments‚ and organizational policy/procedure
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Nursing has changed in a variety of ways over the years‚ but one of the most important transitions has been related to the increasing cultural diversity of the American population. In the article‚ Leininger ’s Transcultural Theory and Prayer; author D.E. Allyn expresses how prayer has benefit according to the cultural care theory. The first nurse to emphasize cultural care was Madeleine Leininger. According to Leininger‚ the goal of cultural care is culturally congruent care. Thus‚ when a client
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DISCOVERY FILE: Food Chains and Food Webs All animals need energy to run‚ breathe‚ and hunt‚ and they get this energy by consuming food. Think about what you ate today: that is helping you walk‚ think‚ and read! Food chains and food webs are similar to each other‚ but they are not the same. We will explore the differences here. A food chain shows a single‚ connected path of energy flow through an ecosystem. Some animals only eat plants while some animals eat other animals. A food chain shows
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Persuasive Essay Nursing‚ as a profession‚ involves the advanced development of many different skills. Nurses not only need to be experts when it comes to the concrete scientific side of nursing (medicines and treatments)‚ but also in the abstract side of nursing; the X-factor of nursing (caring and reflection). Relational practice is central to nursing and the development of these “X-factor skills” because it promotes an increase in the capacity to care‚ teaches nurses to be properly engaged in
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The elements of the nursing knowledge sums up what nursing is all about. Right from its inception through Florence Nightgale’s work‚ nursing has approached patient care with a holistic ideology. It was not surprising to come across the metaparadigm of the nursing knowledge including‚ the person‚ health‚ environment‚ and nursing practice. The metaparadigm share light of the ideology of nursing. With that said‚ it is essential we produce more research work and come-up with knowledge unique to the profession
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My inspiration. Nursing is a profession which I always look upon with respect and also wish one day I can join the group of thousand of healthcare workers over the country to lend hands caring for patients. I always have such a deep passion in helping and caring for others ever since I was as little as seven years old. This passion resulted from me witnessing my grandmother’s traumatic injury. With just one wrong step‚ my grandmother has fallen from the top of a stairway and broke
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Nursing Assessment Joann Campbell Palm Beach State College August 26‚ 2012 Nursing assessment is one of the main stages of the nursing process. According to Webster’s dictionary‚ “nursing assessment is the gathering of information about a patient’s physical‚ psychological‚ sociological‚ and spiritual status”. As professional nurse’s‚ we are responsible to use skills to complete assessments on every patient that we care for. Collecting this information allows
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Nursing Today Nurses these days have positive and negative images from the general public. Negative stereotypes portray nurses as being overbearing‚ sexual‚ and incompetent. For example: Naughty Nurses‚ Airheaded‚ and Doctor’s Handmaiden. These stereotypes are portrayed in the media constantly even though nursing is a challenging respectable profession. Some of the positive images that are portrayed by the public are strong‚ patient advocates‚ dedicated‚ trustworthy‚ profession highly in demand
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