Nursing Management Feb 6‚ 2013 Article Review of “A Handoff Report Card for General Nursing Orientation This article examines the strengths and weakness of the orientation process of new grads or new nurses to a unit or hospital. By the use of a 100 point score report card containing a summary of the nurses skills‚ knowledge‚ and also use of the Benner which measure clinical performance and critical thinking. The article addresses the use of a report card to better communicate the strengths
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Nursing Philosophy Paper Nursing Philosophy Paper The principals I will build my nursing practice on follow my faith and life experiences. I am a Christian and it has played an enormous role in becoming a nurse and I have found it has strengthened my faith to be in school. When I started taking my anatomy classes I was afraid I might question my faith as I learned to think scientifically‚ but that never happened. The more I learned to admire the awesome human body‚ the more my faith
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Informed consent is a legal doctrine in the United States and primarily has focused on disclosure because of a physician’s general obligation to exercise reasonable care in providing information (Beauchamp &ump; Childress‚ 2009). Informed consent plays a critical role in health care. Without adequate way for healthcare providers to deliver information‚ many patients will have no basis for any kind of decision making (Beauchamp &ump; Childress‚ 2009). Informed consent is a legal as well as an ethical
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Paradigms in Nursing Christian Bernard T. Uy Athabasca University Abstract All nurses strive to provide the highest quality standard of care to all patients. Each one bases their practice to what theory they think and believe is right and most appropriate. This paper explained the definition of the three major paradigms and how they had contributed in everyday nursing practice by providing clinical experiences. Keywords: empirical methods‚ interpretive methods‚ critical methods‚ nursing science
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What is Nursing Professionalism? Cathy Soto Nursing 408 Transitions in Professional Nursing Linda Jacobson 9/21/2011 Abstract According to Maister (1997) "true professionalism means the pursuit of excellence‚ not just competence". Nurses must be competent in their pursuit of excellence. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Position Statement‚ rapidly expanding clinical knowledge and mounting complexities in health care mandate that professional nurses possess
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pharmacy304: Transcultural nursing: its importance in nursing practice Transcultural nursing: its importance in nursing practice Maier-Lorentz MM. Reference: Maier-Lorentz MM. Transcultural nursing: its importance in nursing practice. 2008 [updated Spring; cited 2010 May 01]; 2009/01/29:[37-43]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19172978. Transcultural nursing is a vital part of healthcare in the present day. The forever increasing multicultural populace in the United States
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Introduction Nursing education is a professional education which is systematically planned through disciplines and aims the harmonious development of physical‚ social and intellectual abilities of student in order to render holistic nursing care to people of all ages‚ health and illness (Sankaranarayanan and Sindhu‚ 2012). Singapore Nursing Board standards of practice (2011) stated that a registered nurse has the responsibility to educate or mentor nursing students to maintain and develop the
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Critical Thinking Questions 1. What other information would be necessary for evaluating the cause of CVA? Vital signs‚ gag or cough reflexes‚ heart sounds‚ breath sounds and any respiratory changes‚ any recent trauma‚ cholesterol levels‚ family hx‚ weight and height‚ any alcohol consumption‚ is she a smoker. 2. If her deficits are temporary‚ how long might it take before they are completely reversed? No longer than 24 hrs if temporary. However‚ if s/s are more pronounced than a TIA and
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The Policy Process: Part I LaSantae Drew HCS/455 May 20‚ 2013 The policy process is an ongoing event according to Kronenfeld (1997). When a policy is formulated there are two major parts; agenda setting and development of legislation. After these stages then the implementation stage begins. The way issues emerge can bring public awareness to a situation‚ such as the need for healthcare reform in the United States and eliminating the uninsured population. There are various stages of the policy
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NURSING INFORMATICS and the Foundation of Knowledge Introduction Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science‚ computer science‚ and information science to manage and communicate data‚ information‚ knowledge‚ and wisdom in nursing practice (McGonigle‚ 2009). Most hospitals now utilize computer systems to track patient health information. The purpose of this paper is to show how a computerized system can help the health care
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