As a staff nurse in the emergency room I had to develop leadership skills in order to effectively deliver quality care and maintain safety in a fast paced environment. By identifying safety risks associated with the assignment of inexperienced nurses to triage and discussing the breakdown in communication between physicians and staff‚ caused by inaccurate triage acuity levels‚ I effectively facilitated the change in the process of assignments to triage. Once the need of education‚ mentoring and
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“An Advanced practice nurse is a registered nurse who has acquired the expert knowledge base‚ complex decision-making skills and clinical competencies for expanded practice‚ the characteristics of which are shaped by the context and/or country in which she/he is credentialed to practice” (Heale & Rieck Buckley‚ 2015‚ p.422). An advanced practice nurse has an important role in the health care system. They are the registered nurses educated at Masters or post Masters level in a specific role and patient
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Thesis: Nurses and paramedics have very similar jobs but the requirements‚ performance‚ situations‚ and conditions have more differences than similarities. Audience: Future and/or current college students who are caught between the two fields of healthcare Purpose: to inform students of the similarities and differences between nurses and paramedics Have you ever wanted to become a paramedic but you didn’t want to wear the uncomfortable uniforms or drive around the big ambulances? Registered
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maturity” (p. 6). To answer the questions if the woman looks like a nurse‚ in the painting The Faithful Nurse by Thomas Wood‚ I definitely believe this woman could be a nurse. The appearance of what a nurse looks like in our society today with scrubs or even years ago in dress uniform and nursing hat‚ might not be what a nurse wore in 1893 according to the artist. This is a good example in how the “connotation of the word nurse have changed over the course of human history” (Donahue‚ 2011‚ p. 4)
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Hepatitis B Vaccine It takes only 3 shots to protect yourself and your loved ones against hepatitis B for a lifetime. In 1981‚ the Food and Drug Administration approved the first vaccine for hepatitis B‚ which was plasma-derived (i.e. made from blood products). This vaccine was discontinued in 1990 and is no longer available in the U.S. The currently used hepatitis B vaccines are made synthetically (i.e. they do not contain blood products) and have been available in the U.S. since 1986. You
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Malpractice By Nurses And The Ethical Dilemmas They Face Lisa Hayes ITT Technical Institute Composition I GE 117 Ju1y 1‚ 2014 Outline 1. Thesis Statement 2. Introduction 3. Data on the malpractice lawsuits against nurses 4. Reasons for increase in lawsuits against nurses 5. Factors proving breach of law by the nurses 6. Healthcare Ethics 7. Ethical dilemmas faced by the nurses 8. The other side of the argument: Nurses make far less errors than other medical practitioners 9. Conclusion
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As long as we humans continue to reproduce‚ there will be a need for registered nurses all over the world. A registered nurse works under the instruction of the physician‚ and does whatever the physician instructs him/her to do. A registered nurse can specialize in one particular area of the body‚ but they are trained for every system. A registered nurse can do any range of things from delivering babies to putting an ill person out of their misery. The career of nursing basically began in the
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In the Television series that I chose‚ Nurse Jackie quietly established itself as one of the outstanding programs on television. Edie Falco’s portrayal of a nurse Jackie with a moral code. It was clear from the first episode that the center could not hold in Jackie’s life. Nobody can effectively juggle a two-income marriage‚ children‚ a workplace romance and a drug addiction without the whole house of cards coming down‚ and we first met Jackie Peyton right at the point where the base began to wobble
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on critical care nurses Moral distress has been a topic of interest to many nursing researchers due to the consequences that it poses‚ however few studies have examined the impacts of moral distress on nurses. By utilizing existing research on the topic‚ Corley (2002) proposed a theory of moral distress that encompassed its negative effects. Corley (2002) theorized that moral distress negatively affects nurses‚ patients and organizations. When subjected to moral distress‚ nurses can suffer‚ feel
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Role of the Nurse Historically the role of the nurse has been as a patient advocate. Nurses’ have advanced from being seen as low cost labor to an autonomous practioner. Prior to Florence Nightingale the nurse was a member of a religious order or under the direction of the military. Florence Nightingale established the first nursing schools and was responsible for their own practice. In the early 1900’s nursing education was taken over by hospitals and the licensing of nurses began. In the
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