A) B) C) D) A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the evolution of mental health care and are discussing the recommendations of the final report of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health. The students demonstrate understanding of this information when they identify that the report recommended an increase in which of the following? Numbers of mental health hospitals State funding for mental health care Clinics supplemented by general hospital units Use of psychotherapy
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Abstract Nursing is one of the oldest careers in history. It has grown tremendously since the beginning of the profession and strives forward in hopes to attain more advancement in the medical field. Along the years‚ there have been several controversies regarding nursing as a profession. In this paper we will discuss what nursing professionalism is and why we as nurses need to remain a professional icon in the occupation. This paper will also summarize two nursing articles regarding nursing professionalism
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GPT Task 2 Community Health WGU Abstract A terminal illness can have a devastating effect‚ not only on the patient‚ but the family as well. Caring for the patient does not just involve physically caring for the patient‚ but rather involves the holistic care‚ which is “all nursing practice that has healing the whole person as its goal” (American Holistic Nurses’ Association‚ 1998). The nurse becomes the therapeutic partner‚ which involves the care of the mind‚ body‚ and
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2014 Public Health is the life line of a community. It is more important to believe in prevention by means of education and programs rather than treatment when a health issue has surfaced or gotten out of control. By a partnership being built amongst a Public Health Nurse‚ neighborhood clinics‚ Local health departments‚ larger hospitals and schools a neighborhood can have the opportunity to make the best and healthiest choices possible. Public Health Nursing is the field of nursing that is concerned
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Dorothy Orem Orem’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory description of category of theory is a set of broad concepts‚ definitions‚ relationships developed and assumptions or propositions created from nursing models or from other disciplines and projects of purposes that are required for care of by individual patient‚ family and community (Current Nursing‚2013). Orem ’s approach to the nursing process provides a method to determine the self-care deficits and then
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glance of reading the ANA code of ethics it seemed way beyond my “scope” of practice. I took a lot of time to read since it was kind of repetitive in a sense. I’m a new graduate to nursing field and without experience I don’t have ample nursing philosophy yet. I have worked as a hospice nurse now for 3 weeks‚ and have a nursing perspective of 3 weeks. It’s hard to imagine the code of ethics being realistic‚ 100% of the time. As nurses we are humans and not robots. The ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses
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NURSING Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the
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The provision for education on health care to our nation has been the focus of the National Academies‚ Institute of Medicine (IOM). It turns out to be that clear from their research that nursing plays an important role in the conveying health care. Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (RWJF) was appointed by IOM the Committee through the interdisciplinary practiced that depend upon the initiative on the Upcoming of Nursing. The aim was to create an achievement in favor of plan for anything that would
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The Retention and Shortage of Nurses in Health Care The current nursing shortage and high turnover rate among nurses is a great concern‚ not only for health care organizations but also for the general population. The increase in an older population‚ as the “Baby Boomers” approach retirement age will add to this shortage‚ leaving many to wonder who will take care of them in their golden years. Subsequently‚ many of these “Baby Boomers” are nurses themselves and will be retiring‚ adding to the
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drugs‚ such as marijuana‚ were being reported more regularly in the newspaper. There seemed to be more reports of burglaries‚ too. There had even been a robbery and two assaults reported within the last month. The population of young adults in the community seemed to be increasing‚ and many of these seemed to be driving impressive cars‚ using the hottest new digital devices‚ and wearing the latest clothes. All of these signs were obvious to a group of concerned citizens in Kenzington and suggested the
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