and necessary skills in the nursing profession. Preceptorship is when theories are actually put into practice and competencies acquired. Indeed‚ during this preceptorship‚ I felt like I gained a whole lot of understanding about the nursing process‚ the legal and ethical matters surrounding the practice‚ and the nurse’s leadership role. I have tried my best to learn as much as I can about the nurse’s role in the provision of care; medication administration‚ nursing intervention‚ patient interaction
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factors and alcohol abuse and depression is complex‚ there are very specific elements that contribute to both depression and alcohol abuse that are unique to the nursing profession. Examples of this are the issues of workplace violence directed at women‚ and unfair discipline directed mainly towards men. These two factors are specific within nursing and interact and compound other nurse-related issues which only makes the stress that arise from these two issues even more
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The purpose of this assignment is to explain what influences informatics has in nursing‚ the impacts it will have on future healthcare‚ what role nursing will play within those impacts‚ what role I intend to play in my career regarding informatics and what I need to do to reach that goal. Influences informatics has in nursing Informatics is significant to nursing and healthcare because in order to provide accurate‚ efficient and professional care to a patient‚ as a future nurse‚ I am going to need
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“Neonatal nurses know the best things come in the smallest packages.” Neonatal nursing‚ a subspecialty of nursing‚ works with newborn infants who have differing levels of needs. The specialized field of neonatal nursing developed around the 1960s. (Ferguson‚ 69) Neonatal nurses make up the backbone of the neonatal intensive care unit‚ or NICU‚ for the smallest patients. Neonatal nurses will give babies the most tender love and care they will ever receive in a healthcare environment. Neonatal nurses
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Nursing is a second career for me. It is one I have approached gradually‚ over a long period of time. I might have chosen it as a first career if I had been a better student when I entered college‚ or had people in my life who were involved in healthcare careers when I was growing up. As it was‚ I had a longstanding interest in health and the human body‚ but nursing seemed very foreign‚ and the idea of touching strangers made me uncomfortable. So when I came to UNC as a freshman in 1982‚ I declared
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Part of managing your nursing career is choosing goals for yourself; maybe you want to continue your education further. How far do you want your education to go? Also‚ think of a timeframe in which you want to your get your specialty degrees in nursing completed‚ write them down‚ and keep focused to get it done. Think about if this goal is realistic. A nurse who wants to further their education needs to have time for their family‚ job‚ and other activities. Keep focused on what you may want to do
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As a reluctant and nervous nineteen-year-old‚ I walked in to my first day as a nurse aid to a brightly lit‚ and mostly bubble gum pink Women’s Service’s unit. I worked there through nursing school; and happily accepted a job as a nurse after graduating. Nine years‚ and a lot of joy‚ tears‚ and learning in between‚ I continue to call this place my home. There is much satisfaction in being part of the continuum of care of women and families during the antepartum‚ labor and delivery‚ and the postpartum
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Nurses have to write documentation after each procedure they’re doing. It should be written in clear‚ accurate‚ concise‚ understandable language and it has to be up to date. Since health care is changing everywhere and this has a great effect on documenting we should be very careful. Documentation is how the health care team communicate and it is also important for the safety of the patient‚ and it is both what you observe (objective data) and what the patients say (subjective data) to analyse your
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Partnership between nurses and patients has evolved over many years becoming more important to current nursing care. Many attributes arise when dealing with partnership‚ focusing on communication‚ empathy and how a trusting therapeutic relationship are all essential to current nursing care when working with patients with dementia. Focusing on how nurses will work using partnership with these patients maintaining their rights and why these rights are important‚ these rights being their dignity‚ communication
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My nursing career is very important to me and I have thought a lot about it. My greatest concern about transitioning from schooling to work is that I will not be as confident in my knowledge as I should be. I eventually plan on being a Nurse Practitioner (NP). I hopefully will be obtaining my NP within the next 4-8 years. I plan on taking the NCLEX test as soon as I can‚ and I have thought a lot about what I am going to do for my test prep. I have a concern about transitioning from schooling to working
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