Doris Adu Maximizing Opportunities and Maintaining Excitement in Nursing Professional Development Kent State University Abstract Staff nurses have great responsibilities in caring for patients. Often‚ these nurses experience heavy workload. Heavy patient load and stress contributes to burnout. Why is burnout important to discuss in relation to nurses? Burnout affects the performance of the nurse and the quality of care he or she provides to the patient. Therefore‚ it is imperative that staff nurses
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Nursing home A nursing home‚ convalescent home‚ skilled nursing facility (SNF)‚ care home‚ rest home or intermediate care provides a type of residential care. They are a place of residence for people who require continual nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living.[citation needed] Nursing aides and skilled nurses are usually available 24 hours a day. Residents include the elderly and younger adults with physical or mental disabilities. Residents in a skilled
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Socialization in Nursing October 1‚ 2013 Socialization in Nursing It is defined on businessdictionary.com that socialization occurs through a combination of both self-imposed and externally imposed rules and expectations of others which is how individuals learn rules and expectations of knowledge‚ language and social skills. In layman terms‚ this means that nurses learn from one another as well as what they see and hear other nurses do and say. Through socialization
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Rosa Lee Reflection 1 4 March 2014 The topic I have chose for my senior project is registered nursing. One of the minor problems I have is selecting my mentor. I want to choose a nurse who has been in this career for a rather long time. I feel this would benefit me more than someone who has only been a nurse for a short period of time. Another problem is deciding if I want to be a specific type of registered nurse. When I started my project‚ the only set
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experience. The aim of this piece is to reflect on my role as a mentor and demonstrate my awareness of the responsibilities involved‚ whilst paying particular attention to the required learning outcomes 2-5 of the module. In keeping with the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council‚ 2008) Code of Conduct anonymity will be adhered to and therefore no names of people or places will be mention. The assignment will allow me to reflect on my own experiences in my new role as a mentor and will follow the journey
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functional health patterns‚ nurses can form nursing diagnoses and plan the treatment options as needed for each person and family. Gordon’s health model incorporates all the physical‚ mental and social aspects in collecting data.Collection of data on all health function pattern is an important tool to formulate nursing diagnoses. Using Gordon’s functional health patterns‚ this paper will summarize the findings of each health pattern as well as the family based nursing diagnosis of each assessment along with
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Axia College Material Appendix D The President’s Challenge: Adult Fitness Test How Fit Are You? The President’s Challenge: Adult Fitness Test is located at www.adultfitnesstest.org. Click on the Take the Adult Fitness Test: Are You Ready? Start Here button to complete the fitness test. Next‚ click on Enter Your Data Online Here on the left-hand side of the screen. After completing the Adult Fitness Test‚ keep the window open‚ scroll to the bottom of the page‚ and review the information under
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Older adults often work with their spouses who need to be cared for due to long term illnesses up until their death‚ as well as grandchildren and foster children. Many older people take care of their grandchildren because their own children have to go to work or because they have been granted custody due to abuse or incarceration of their children. Many older people who have been given the responsibility of raising another child so late in their life are faced with additional health issues‚ psychological
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have just months to live. Bury is a fairly middle class society with significantly less deprivation compared to the rest of England it has a good standard of education with pupils achieving GCSE marks well above the national average however 24.4% of adults smoke in Bury and this is significantly worse than the national average of 21.2%.(Source: Department of Health. © Crown Copyright 2011’. Health profiles 2011) More working class people smoke More men smoke More people smoke in north west than south
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diabetes and other illnesses. There is‚ however‚ an argument that with proper exercise one can reduce the risk of all these illnesses. Too much sugar and hydrogenated fats will affect your body. Refer to health magazines or consult a doctor about the ill effects of poor nutrition. We all need to eat less sugar‚ less hydrogenated fats and more fruit and vegetables. Junk food‚ whilst cleverly packaged with loud advertisements‚ has limited nutritional value. Most of these food items are high in salt
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