Introduction: In this essay‚ I will discuss several issues that seem to bind nursing practice with questions of ethics‚ sociology and management. Reflective practice is an important aspect of nursing management and in this essay we discuss implications of discrimination in nursing care and examine the importance of anti-discriminatory perspectives in nursing. In this paper‚ the case study I will elaborate is of an elderly woman who was of a non-British ethnic origin and spoke little English. A junior
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Simulation Reflection (10/04/17-10/05/17) Simulations have always been a stressful event for me. I never feel prepared enough and being observed behind double sided glass is unnerving. With that being said‚ the first day felt very choppy to me. I was assigned the charge nurse position and spent the better part of the time looking up patient information and planning ahead for what might be needed in future orders. I was a good mental exercise for preparing patient care plans and I did enjoy it. When
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Purpose The purpose of this Disaster and Public Health Policy is to describe our County’s approach to response and recovery activities related to emergencies and major disasters. It establishes the policies and procedures by which the our county will coordinate with local‚ state‚ and federal agencies to response to disasters that affect this county. Additionally‚ it will describe the county’s response in six major areas of disaster response as well as describe how the county will implement new and
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respond differently. Simply‚ reflection is the ability to turn a negative into a positive. This is vital in nursing practice as when a nurse creates a mistake‚ learn a different technique or a situation happens that they feel they could have handled better‚ reflection allows them to contemplate where they went wrong and how they could correct themselves in the future. Reflection can create a nurse that is confident and knowledgeable in patient care as well as with everyday nursing situations. Nevertheless
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not been a reported case of the smallpox disease. How was it controlled? The World Health Organization made a concentrated effort to support an intense vaccination campaign that eliminated the smallpox disease (Merino 13). Yet recently‚ a government employed scientist cleaning out a refrigerated storage room stumbled upon a box containing multiple vials filled with the smallpox virus. The National Institute of Health (NIH) in Maryland‚ where the discovery was made‚ had no record of the box or its contents
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SPOON RIVER COLLEGE NUR 215 ISSUES OF NURSING Unit I Development of Nursing Objectives Learning Content Learning Activities 1. Summarize health practices through the course of history. 2. Describe the image of nursing in art‚ media‚ and literature over time. 3. Analyze ways that have shaped the image of nursing throughout the years. 4. Argue how nursing fits criteria of a professional. 5. Compare social forces that have affected roles of American nurses. 6. Integrate knowledge of current
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Evolution of Public Health: Sir Alexander Fleming University of Phoenix CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY: I certify that the attached paper is my original work and has not previously been submitted by me or anyone else for any class. I further declare I have cited all sources from which I used language‚ ideas‚ and information‚ whether quoted verbatim or paraphrased‚ and that any assistance of any kind‚ which I received while producing this paper‚ has been acknowledged in the References section. I have
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Community Health Article On January 9‚ 2007 an article was published in the LaCrosse Tribune which touched base on living donors. A lady named Cindy Stambach needed a kidney once her own kidney failed after chemotherapy to treat ovarian cancer. A total stranger named Rick Gardner‚ who is a nurse at Franciscan Skemp in Stoddard Wisconsin‚ decided to give up one of his kidneys to her. Rick stated that he had seen so many people waiting for a transplant and that he wanted once less person to have
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illness‚ have negative perceptions on mental health nurses‚ viewing it as less desirable‚ requiring little knowledge and giving no opportunity for professional progression. (Ng‚ et al. 2010) This is because mental health problems are harder to portray and understand than physical health problems‚ along with the fact it is easier to sympathise with someone who has a visible illness. (Angermeyer & Schulze. 2003) Students looking to move into a mental health nursing career are frequently recommended to study
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studying to be a dentist. So in the rather drab subject of Community Dentistry which most of students hated well I found some interest on Public Dental Health services‚ recordings for case studies‚ Indices and Epidemiology. There I learnt that the delivery of health services and primary care was very difficult in a vast and diverse country as India. Epidemiology and diagnosis of diseases like AIDS‚ tobacco cessation program‚ Dental health education were interesting. I even made a project in my third
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