The advantages of a nursing assessment is that problems become clearly defined and this can be easily communicated to others where the patient is the focus. A nursing assessment highlights nursing priorities and plans to aid patients overcome any obstacles with clear evaluation of what has happened. Disadvantages would be the patient’s potential limited awareness of the nursing assessment process and understanding of phrases and plans put in place to help. Once the patient has been assessed then
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Introduction Tele-nursing is the use of telecommunications technology such as videos‚ computers and tele-monitoring technologies to provide nursing care and advice at a distance. This growing technology offers many advantages in the delivery of healthcare information‚ disease monitoring‚ health promotion and disease prevention services‚ as well as nursing diagnosis‚ treatment and education to patient at home from a centralized location. Tele-nursing can be instrumental in helping patients
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I hope by telling my nursing experience story that it will make you think about a special patient that you had the opportunity to take care of. The night before my first day of clinical I was excited and nervous. I did not know what type of patient I would have and I did not know if nursing was truly for me. I remember lying in bed praying to God to please not let my first patient be a man because I did not know how to take care of a male patient (at least that is what I thought). I kept thinking
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development during my first year on the nursing diploma programme. I will do this by discussing my experience with the five essential skills clusters which include care‚ compassion and communication‚ medicine management and nutrition and fluid management. I will relate the five skills by showing an understanding of a recognised model of reflection. Reflection‚ is a way of analysing past incidents to promote learning and improve safety‚ in the delivery of health care in practice. For the purposes of this essay
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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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My experience as a volunteer at the Holland Christian Homes Long Term Facility was very enlightening as a person and more so‚ as a nursing student. Initially‚ as a student I believed health was merely an absence of disease and that one could only enjoy good health if there was a complete absence of medical‚ diagnosable problems. With more education in the health field‚ experience in the health industry‚ there was a shift in my ideas to a socio-environmental model of health Watching elderly residents
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“Investigate transfer of information at nursing handover” (Boyd‚ Cumin‚ Devcich‚ & Lee‚ 2015‚ p. 161) is clear and concise. The dependent variable of this study is the nurse’s confidence in the truth of information and independent variables is the way the information is presented. The sample population is clearly defined‚ and the result “ adds to the literature because it is one of very few studies done using an experimental design to investigate nursing handover” (Boyd et al.‚ 2015‚ p. 165). Research
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2011 Intro to Nursing History of the Nursing Nursing has played a big role in our past‚ present and will be in the future. Do we even know what nursing really is? Many people have interpreted it as “white uniforms‚ nursing cap‚ needles and bedpans” (Pg. 32). A nurse is defined as someone that tends to the patient needs but also shows commitment‚ caring‚ and dedication. “During the early Christian era men and woman spread the philosophy of Christianity while providing nursing care to the ill”
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The Nursing Process 1. A client comes to the walk-in clinic with reports of abdominal pain and diarrhea. While taking the client’s vital signs‚ the nurse is implementing which phase of the nursing process? 1. Assessment 2. Diagnosis 3. Planning 4. Implementation 2. The nurse is measuring the client’s urine output and straining the urine to assess for stones. Which of the following should the nurse record as objective data? 1. The client reports abdominal pain 2. The client’s urine output
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entirely wrong because registered nurses are capable of accomplishing different tasks in a short period of time. We are trained to be flexible and reliable at all times. Nursing documentation provides a means of communication between members of the health team involved in the continuity and documentation of care. As we all know nursing documentations helps to evaluate whether patients are meeting their outcomes or how they are responding to treatments. The more skilled the writing of the nurse‚ the more
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