Natalie Williams March 19‚ 2013 Life as a Nurse When I arrived to Brunswick Novant Medical Center‚ it was a nice day‚ the sun was out and the flowers were in bloom down the pathway leading up to the main entrance. When I walked into the hospital‚ wearing my scrubs there was a cool chill to the air much different from the outside. It was pretty chilly in there and the building smelled like hand sanitizer. The main lobby was very welcoming with chairs and magazines on the little end tables.
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Registered Nurse Introduction I have always been the “caretaker” in my family. If someone were hurting‚ he or she came to me and told me his or her symptoms‚ and I did my research and told them what I thought about it. Before that‚ when I was about three years old‚ I took care of my newborn baby sister. My mama was sick‚ and my step dad was at work‚ so I took care of my sister. People ask kids what they want to be when they grow up‚ and they always get some crazy answer like a movie star.
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Helping others is one of the best things one can do. As a registered nurse one can help many people. However‚ to become a registered nurse‚ you do have to go to college‚ you have several responsibilities‚ but there are several benefits‚ there will always be a job and finally you can travel. This is why a lot of people want to go into the nursing field. In order to become a nurse college is necessary‚ and there are two routes that can be taken. The first one is getting an associate’s degree in nursing
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The role of a nurse An bord altranais (2000) believes that‚ The code of professional conduct aims to equipped the nursing profession the highest standard of care possible to service users and to be their advocate .Nurses are more accountable for their actions and decision making due to modern medicine and society. It is important for the nurses to promote the image of people with intellectual disabilities that they are not second class citizens and they deserve to have equal rights to treatment
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The nurses would also come in everyday at 2:00 and 4:00 in the morning to test my blood sugar. I did not get too much sleep while I was in the hospital for those three nights. The fourth day I was in the hospital was not as bad as the third. I was moved to a different room the third night. I was there‚ and my mom was not comfortable with me having a male nurse and me being all by myself in the room that I was in. The last day that I was there‚ it took a long time for the nurses to get
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[pic] JOB DESCRIPTION FOR REGISTERED NURSE Title: Staff Nurse Qualifications: RN Accountable to: Manager Overall Accountability: Director of Nursing Aims and Responsibilities 1. To assess‚ plan‚ implement and evaluate the client’s needs. 2. To create and maintain with the home’s staff an environment in which all members of staff can contribute to the maximum of their ability in providing a high standard of skilled nursing care to the residents and encourage
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Long hours of direct patient care take its toll emotionally and physically. While the profession is rewarding for most‚ the constant stress can become a catalyst for all kinds of self damaging behaviors. The American Nurses’ Association estimates between ten and twenty percent of nurses will abuse drugs within the workplace at some point during his/her career (ANA‚ 2002). This percentage is similar to that of substance abusers within the general population. Due to the ease of access to narcotics
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most people passed away. At age six I became very ill to point where I couldn’t eat‚ drink‚ or even the energy to sit up. For a minute my family thought that they were gonna lose me. To my surprise there was this one particular nurse she went by the name Anita she was a nurse who took care of me‚ she was always there making sure that I was well taken care of.
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My Registered Nurse Career Path [anecdote]Before I entered High School‚ever since I was small I already new what my future path was going to be‚ but without knowing I would need to take two classes I knew myself was not good such as psychology and calculus.My High school experience was entertaining and preparatory. I looked beyond my homework assignment and got great advice from teachers‚ although did not seek advice from counselors regarding how life was outside of high school. On the other hand
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Patients whose care needs changed from curative to palliative were intended to be transferred out of critical care to patient care environments more suited to end-of-life care. However‚ as more patients become “chronically critically ill”‚ critical care nurses are being asked more often to provide care to patients on their deathbeds (Puntillo et al.‚ 2001). Deciding which ICU patients are actually dying remains an extremely inexact science‚ and the transition to palliative care is not one easily
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