Socialization into Nursing Winston – Salem State University January 21‚ 2013 Nursing 2312 Abstract This paper explores the process of how nurses are socialized into their profession and how my own personal socialization process has shaped my nursing career. Using Benner’s Model of socialization‚ I plan to explore my own personal journey from Novice to Expert reflecting the changes in my career that were supported by his five stages or levels of proficiency. Each level produced its own challenges
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My inspiration. Nursing is a profession which I always look upon with respect and also wish one day I can join the group of thousand of healthcare workers over the country to lend hands caring for patients. I always have such a deep passion in helping and caring for others ever since I was as little as seven years old. This passion resulted from me witnessing my grandmother’s traumatic injury. With just one wrong step‚ my grandmother has fallen from the top of a stairway and broke
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Memory management in multiple operating systems An operating system is responsible for assigning memory to processes so that processes can be executed. Broadly‚ this responsibility is defined as memory management‚ and operating systems handle memory management differently. Any operating system must do two things in order to handle memory effectively. First‚ an operating system must be able to allocate and free physical memory. Second‚ an operating system must have techniques in place to keep
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Mentoring has been established in a variety of fields for many years. Within nursing‚ the term ‘mentor’ denotes “A nurse‚ midwife or specialist community public health nurse who facilitates learning and supervises and assesses students in a practice setting”‚ (Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 2005). The essay will explore the role of the mentor in the field of nursing‚ with personal reflection on the authors experience as a mentor in my current role as a community mental health nurse (CMHN). The
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England and Italy may look close on a map‚ but they couldn’t be more divided in terms of excitement‚ attitude‚ and atmosphere. Lucy experiences this contrast head-on in E.M. Forster’s novel‚ A Room With A View. The carefree energy of Florence collides with the quiet‚ uptight lifestyle of the English countryside‚ and this contrast‚ especially in the early 20th century‚ is the most important aspect of this book as a whole. Florence‚ described by the narrator as having “the power‚ perhaps‚ to evoke
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dominate the personal computeroperating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s‚ followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. The company’s 1986 initial public offering‚ and subsequent rise in its share price‚ created an estimated three billionaires and 12‚000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s‚ it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011‚ Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8
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Introduction This first clinical experience has shown me the importance of developing the nursing-patient relationship. Working with school-age children is a very different experience and requires a new set of communication skills that we have not focused on in class. It was an important step to being able to think on my feet and adapt to the situation at hand. These aspects have really helped me understand the unspoken traits of nursing and what will be expected of me. Identify the Developmental
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Assessment for Quality Improvement Quality improvement should be a major focus in any organization and requires four basic steps: “…specify the requirements‚ design the product‚ create the product‚ and examine the product.” (Burrill and Ledolter‚ 1999‚ p. 142). Each process must be completed in order as each is important. Once requirements and specifications have been determined‚ resources and standards can be evaluated to create and test the product. The means of creation will be different in
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easier‚ usually select computers that will run under Microsoft operating systems. A big part of businesses today use Microsoft as their primary operating system for their computers due to its reliability‚ customizability‚ and its broad use from other businesses. As a Chief Information Officer of a medium-sized information services company‚ my job is to consider our customers and companies perspective and their feelings in using a new operating system into our company. If our company is not up to date
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Dialysis Experience 3/23/2012 Medical Surgical Hemodialysis (HD) is one of several renal replacement therapies used for the treatment of end stage kidney disease (ESKD) and kidney failure. Dialysis removes excess fluids and waste products and restores chemical and electrolyte balance. HD involves passing the patient’s blood through an artificial semipermeable membrane to perform
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