Foundations of Nursing Practice module and my first placement experience have assisted in my development as a nurse. The unit where I spent my four weeks is a day surgery centre. Using experiences from the placement I will discuss the concept of individualised care and its relevance to nursing assessments and care delivery. I will also look at the professional and ethical issues that impact on nursing today‚ primarily focusing on the aspect of dignity and obtaining patient consent from the Nursing and Midwifery
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Professional Action Plan Lauretta Montgomery HCS/449 September 20‚ 2013 Kelli Haynes Self-Awareness I am a firm believer that in order to best choose what to do with your life‚ you must first know who you are in life. Self-awareness can help create a happy‚ balanced‚ and fulfilled existence on a personal and professional level. This can equate to success on both sides of the spectrum. HCS/449‚ Health Care Capstone has helped me understand this statistic more clearly and it will be
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QUALITY ACTION PLAN (DRAFT) Vision To deliver quality professional tourism products and services in line with changing consumer needs and expectations‚ contributing to 5% growth‚ year on year‚ in the England tourism market by 2020. Objectives 1. To increase the ability of consumers to make purchasing decisions that meet their expectations. To increase the awareness of tourism businesses and service providers of the changing needs and expectations of consumers in order to continually improve the
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“Advanced nursing practice is the deliberative diagnosis and treatment of a full range of human responses to actual or potential health problems.” (Calkin‚ 1984). Advanced nurse practitioners attempt to maximize the use of knowledge and skills and improve the delivery of nursing and health care services. The field of advanced nursing practice differs from basic practice as the former requires clinical specialization at the master’s level. At this level‚ nurses become expert practitioners whose work
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of providing optimum help for a service user (Hornby and Atkins‚ 2000). Goodman and Clemow (2010) explain that collaborative practice is actually based around two ideas. The first is that nurses need to be able to work with other professionals‚ and the second is that they need to be able to work with ‘people’. They go on to explain that the concept of collaborative practice is based on the idea that excellent patient care relies on the expertise of a number of care providers. Day (2006) points out
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on Advanced Practice Nursing ABSTRACT: The need for continuing education in nursing has been accentuated in response to rapidly changing health care environment. Expanding knowledge by pursuing higher education allows nurses to enlarge one’s practice. Furthermore‚ higher education in nursing has been shown that a nurse’s level of education can become a critical factor to the patient-centered quality of care. This essay describes increased demand for higher education in nursing and emphasizes
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different moral theories where its importance in nursing practicing is illustrated in the knowledge and competency that prepares nurses in examining ethical and legal issues in relation to their responsibilities‚ rights and moral role as a nurse. Through the study of bioethics‚ the nurse is able to develop a better understanding of the decision-making process that are made and assists with the application of moral theories within nursing practice (Burkhardt & Nathaniel‚ 2013). With ethics also comes
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Goal Action Plan Template Select a goal‚ and use this template to create an action plan for that goal. Then‚ post the action plan to the Week 2 Assignment 1 link on your student website at https://ecampus.phoenix.edu. Goal Action Plan Your goal action plan must include the following nine sections: 1. Goal: State the goal you hope to achieve. The goal I would like to accomplish in the next six months that will contribute to my success at the University of Phoenix is to secure a promotion
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Introduction Depression and stress are extremely serious problems that are facing many teenagers as revealed by the study in Minnesota high school. Signs that one has stress are‚ a feeling of sadness‚ tension‚ worry‚ frustrations as well as withdrawal that lasts for hours or even days. The main distinction between stress and depression is that depression last for a longer time than stress. Depression results from various causes‚ which can be‚ social‚ emotional as well as physical factors. Regarding
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Nurse practice act 100 Years Ago‚ The Nurses Of Rochester Changed The World Of Nursing The Nurse Practice Act (NPA’s) is a set of laws and rules individualized state-to-state that defines the scope of nursing practice specific to registered nurse‚ a licensed practical nurse‚ an advanced nurse practitioner and a nurse anesthetist and gives nurses the legal authority to practice within their scope. The NPA represents legislation that governs a nurse ’s scope of practice in the state or states
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