Personal Definition of Nursing Maryville University Personal Definition of Nursing My definition of nursing is the protection‚ promotion‚ optimize the health‚ prevention of illness and injury‚ alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment‚ and advocacy in the care of individuals‚ families‚ communities‚ and populations (American Nurses Association‚ 2013). Once you are involved in the nursing profession there is much more to it than caring and taking care of people. We help
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choosing to study child nursing. In places like the hospital there can be very demanding and challenging jobs which I love because I feel as if I get to see another side to me. Not to mention a rewarding objective such as seeing the children get better. Although child nursing can be a very tough career to start off with it would be extremely gratifying underlined by the child nurses
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requiring their employees to have a baccalaureate degree. Is there really a difference in the level of care a patient will receive from nurse with an associate’s degree of Nursing versus a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing? According to many studies and research they say there is a difference between the two. “In the baccalaureate nursing practice incorporates the roles of assessing‚ critical thinking‚ communicating‚ providing care‚ teaching‚ and leading. The caring professional approach includes the
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nurse‚ I know that nursing is all about the compassion you show to patients. In order to be a good nurse‚ one has to understand both the physical and emotional needs of their patients. A good nurse allows their ethics to guide their nursing. My vision of nursing will not only encompass the care I give to patients‚ but also the care I provide for the community in which I live. Nursing is rooted in public service and the desire to help others. I hope that my philosophy of nursing will incorporate my
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Perspective on the movie Wit When I watched the film “Wit” at first‚ I became curious to the reason why it was entitled “Wit”. The overall plot of the story seems so simple but there are a lot of twists which become clear as the story unfolds. In the latter part of the film‚ I realized that it has been given the title wit because in the end‚ Vivian recognized that what is more important than intellectual learning is the human compassion that she gets just when she needs it the most.
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long-term care (LTC) facility‚ also referred to as nursing home‚ increases with age. About a third of all Americans require nursing home care at some time in their lives‚ more women will reside in nursing homes than men and one half of the people entering nursing homes will remain there for the balance of their lives (Illinois Council on Long Term Care‚ n.d.). When an individual enters a nursing home‚ it typically means their health is deteriorating and nursing care is needed. Very few people‚ if
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The Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements is a guide for nurses that was developed to assist nurses in performing their responsibilities and ethical duties that come along with the nursing profession. Ethical guidelines are important to have in the healthcare profession because they help health care dilemmas be recognized‚ differentiate between right and wrong conduct‚ and tell the healthcare worker what their responsibilities or duties to their patients are. Nurses are held accountable
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NURSING When I grow up I want to be a nurse. I want to work on the pediatric floor at the hospital. It will take longer to be a pediatric nurse‚ than a regular nurse. I want to start by becoming a registered nurse‚ then move on to get my bachelor in scientific nursing. Once completed with that then I want to proceed on to pursuing pediatric nursing. I personally don’t care about the amount of money that I would
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career focus to be that of Nursing. Deciding on a major was one of my biggest fears. However one day I sat at my school’s library computer and began logical about my decision. I considered my abilities and interests‚ thought about my long-term goals and gathered information about every profession I was interested. When I came over the nursing career I was able to see myself being a part of it. I mainly decided this as a career because of the availability. Being in the nursing profession has a future
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issues/challenges faced during nursing practice are diverse; ranging from a potential of over-abusing power in position to getting burned out due to over-work to experiencing moral distress over patient suffering resulting from essential clinical practices. For the DNP prepared nurse‚ a number of issues can arise in the clinical scenario. The foremost of these is the moral burden of watching patients suffer‚ either before or after nursing intervention. Since the primary objective of nursing is to ensure understanding
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