Lakshmanan Ramaiah –Mac Sporran On becoming a critically reflexive practitioner. The article tries to make the reader to think about the impact of our values‚ assumptions and actions that we do to interact with others. It also tries to make clear that the actions we do are based on our understanding of the world with the help of theory and also our experience in past. When the theory is applied and gives different results‚ it makes us to think critically by asking questions like why and eventually
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“Providing Culture-Sensitive Healthcare to Hispanic/Latino Patients” A Hispanic patient with a high fever may resist cold compress because their theory of “hot” and “cold” imbalance. They use hot things to cure cold and cold thing to cure the body being “hot”. For instance within the American medical field we use heat foe hot. If you’re running a fever things that makes you sweat it out are better. So the difficulties that the Hispanic patient will bring is simply not following the physician’s orders
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in nursing are to graduate with Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and work in hospital. The Holy Family University accelerated program will help me finish the BSN program‚ which will prepare me as I graduate to be a nurse generalist to provide professional nursing in a variety of areas. After graduation‚ I would like to work as a staff nurse on a surgical floor for couple years and move to intensive critical care unit( ICU) because I like the challenge of taking care of critically ill patients
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Introduction The profession of nursing main factor is to improve the health and quality of life. That is geared towards individuals‚ families‚ and communities/ population depending on area of interest. Which allows certain skills and qualities that is required by nurses to be carried out by their roles and responsibilities. The foundation that represents the nursing profession is the conceptual framework pillars of nursing. For example‚ public health nursing to use the philosophical skills and practices
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when providing care. Because cultures and customs that are followed vary so much from patient to patient‚ the nurse should be educated on how to provide culturally competent care. Being culturally competent means showing respect for‚ and knowledge of‚ the patient and their culture‚ and will help the nurse build rapport and a trusting‚ therapeutic relationship. By building this trusting relationship‚ the patient is more likely to be compliant with the health care regimen and therefore‚ will be more
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Nurses use theory to help guide them in their nursing practice. Paradigms are the way we look at knowledge in a discipline such as nursing (McEwen & Wills‚ 2014). They take into account different values. Grand nursing theories utilize three paradigms: human needs‚ interactive and unitary process. These paradigms take into account the nature of human beings and how they do‚ or do not‚ interact with their environment and health care providers. The human needs paradigm evaluates basic human needs
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Moules and Ramsay (1998) identify many areas for child health promotion. This includes smoking‚ exercise‚ diet and nutrition‚ sexual health‚ dental health‚ skin care and the sun‚ accidents‚ alcohol and drug abuse. As with the other branches of nursing‚ health promotion can take forms of primary‚ secondary or tertiary intervention. Interventions may depend on the age of the child. Younger children‚ for example pre school aged children will benefit form health promotion aimed at the parents. Health
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Public health nursing evolved to teach us that wellbeing needs to move outside the individual‚ to include the family and community‚ to make all of the population healthy (Truglio-Londrigan‚ & Lewenson‚ 2013‚ p. 5). Public nursing started out as district nursing‚ in England‚ where nurses transitioned from the hospital‚ to work with the sick poor in their homes. They took care of patients‚ families‚ and communities by protecting the poor from unsanitary conditions and teaching them hygienic routines
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Nursing is my vocation. I have been in the pursuit of graduate education in anesthesia for some time now. Obtaining such an academic achievement would allow me to continue my vocation in its greatest capacity and fulfill my goals of service and education for others. I consider myself fortunate to be serving in Guam’s only public Intensive Care Unit and happy to give back to the island that raised me. Providing care to an underserved population in such a demanding setting helps to reinforce the goals
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independent and good hearted‚ Mark Twain presents social situations that conclude otherwise. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn clearly criticizes society by using the young boy Huck Finn as an honest reference source to reveal the social ills‚ such as the hypocrisy and blind acceptance‚ Huck is exposed to‚ resulting in a sense of guilt inflicted on the reader due to the gilded social behaviors this young boy resents. Mark Twain places Huck in situations where the people ignorantly accept
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