Dear Representative Frankel‚ My name is Kimberlee Deutsch. I am a Registered Nurse in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Writing you to request your support for Bill 476‚ Nurse Safe Staffing Legislation. Nurse staffing is a crucial health policy issue on which there is a great deal of consensus on an abstract level (that nurses are an important component of the health care delivery system and that nurse staffing has impacts on safety)‚ much less agreement on exactly what research data have and have not established
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Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) are registered nurses who work with a physician as either a specialty care providers or a primary care provider. They work side by side with other healthcare providers and their main focus is to provide an atmosphere of family oriented care. The family nurse practitioner’s (FNP) can assess‚ diagnose‚ perform different exams‚ and also prescribe medications to patient of all ages from infant to the elderly. The FNPs also play an important role in educating
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Nurse Practitioners have crusaded through the years paving a way of professionalism for the future Nurse Practitioners. Early Nurse Practitioner’s fought adversity within our own profession despite the benefits and potential benefits of Nurse Practitioners. Kurt Lewin’s theory of change is uncannily supported when reflecting back on the evolution of Nurse Practitioner profession: 1. Unfreezing: Challenging the status quo to gain support that a change is needed. 2. Freezing: Making a change 3. Refreezing:
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In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ Rebecca Nurse also known as Goody Nurse throughout most of the play has a very significant response to injustice after being tried for “taking part” in witchly activity. Ann Putnam accuses Rebecca Nurse of witchcraft due to the multiple stillborn babies that she conceived under Nurse’s care‚ she often criticizes the trials and helps to show us the truth behind the lies. Through the character of Rebecca Nurse the human-feeling side of injustice and how these accusations
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QUESTION: How to address poor performance in your area of responsibility? What sort of innovation would you like to propose and implement? How do you address grievance? Poor staff performance and ’problem workers ’ are some of the trickiest things to be dealt with in the office. It ’s difficult to balance morale and productivity in the optimum way for office success‚ and as a result I often hear of managers turning a blind eye to poor staff performance‚ fearing that drawing attention to it
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2. Professional nurse value Values are the core of the diverse world of human behavior and are express in evry human decision and action. The represent basic convictions of what is right‚ good or desirable‚ and motivate both social and professional behavior (Rassin‚ 2008). Value is particularly helpful in provide ways to under stand individuals’ reaction to difference situation (Altun‚ 2002; Darlen‚ 2002; Hendel‚ 2002; Itzhaky‚ 2004). the sam as Rokeach (1973) mention that value is an ongoing belief
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committed to fighting for equality for women. Lavinia Lloyd Dock was a nurse‚ feminist‚ pioneer in nursing education‚ and an author. She was born into a rich family on February 26‚ 1858 in Harrisburg‚ PA. Her parents wanted their children to study‚ which was unusual for women at that time. Lavinia was inspired to pursue nursing after reading a magazine article. Lavinia graduated from Bellevue Training School for Nurses in 1886. After graduation‚ Lavinia worked as a night supervisor in Bellevue
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America was in a war‚ in order to bring light to the most important task of bringing the nation back together. The speech influenced the audience and announced their endeavors in hopes to bring change to America in the future. In his speech he spoke on issues such as inequality among the races of the population‚ which was a struggle for the nation. Understanding the
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more common among health care workers than those in education or working with children and family issues. In two studies‚ nurses who cared for people affected by the 2004 hurricane season in Florida either in the emergency room or other deployments were found as groups to have low risk of compassion fatigue (Alexander‚ 2006; Frank & Adkinson‚ 2007). In a more recent study‚ 78% of hospice nurses were found to be at a moderate to high risk of compassion fatigue (Aberndroth & Flannery‚ 2006)
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others as a nurse. Some of her career achievements include serving as a nurse during the Crimean War in the mid 19th century‚ sanitary reform in Britain and laying the foundation for the first nursing school at a hospital in London where she worked until her death at the age of ninety. The Florence Nightingale Pledge for Nurses Nightingale has left behind her an enduring legacy of passion and commitment to nursing. As a token of recognition for her service‚ a pledge taken by all new nurses has been
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