creates an atmosphere of family blending and technology usage. As a neonatal registered nurse I can follow the infants from birth to discharge; and also see the parents grow and take care of their infants when the time comes. The NICU can be a rewarding place because focus is put more on the nurses in the NICU. There is more of an inter-professional relationship with doctors and neonatal nurses due to nurses being the first source of critical information for an infant. Working Conditions NICUs are
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Long hours of direct patient care take its toll emotionally and physically. While the profession is rewarding for most‚ the constant stress can become a catalyst for all kinds of self damaging behaviors. The American Nurses’ Association estimates between ten and twenty percent of nurses will abuse drugs within the workplace at some point during his/her career (ANA‚ 2002). This percentage is similar to that of substance abusers within the general population. Due to the ease of access to narcotics
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eing a Nurse Is More Than a Job‚ It’s a Treasure To me‚ being a nurse is far more than a job or even a career. It’s an adventure‚ a continuous learning process that I embark on bravely each day‚ in search of life changing events and miracles. Touching the lives of others is a treasure chest overflowing with metaphorical gold‚ whether the help I provide is of great measure or remains unnoticed. The pride I hold in saying‚ "I’m going to be a nurse‚" is immeasurable. Nursing is more than a profession
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Administrative nurses have the gift of being able to use leadership skills to educate nurses. Daily task include managing the nursing staff and communicating with doctors to better serve patients. They have the unique role of blending business skills and health care expertise. Nurse executives are responsible for creating strategic planning that will help the health care facility run efficiently . Besides patient care‚ administrative nurses also have the task of overseeing and approving budgets
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need to improve and not properly set for long term uses. An example of workaround situation is : some unsafe practice a nurse administering medicines to a patient without out documenting it. The nurse’s plan being documenting whenever she get a chance to do so. May be the nurse busy with another pt or has emergency so another nurse assigned to help this nurse. The other nurse check the electronic medication administration record (eMAR) and it shows patient due meds. This kind of risky performance
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on how nurse patient ratio can affect the patient’s outcome but not much has changed over the years. Thirty years ago‚ when I was a new graduate nurse‚ I remember the exhausting 12-15 hour days I experienced working in a medical center‚ three days in a row and being responsible for fifteen patients while working with a Licensed Practical Nurse or a Certified Nurses Assistant. During that time I worked on a medical-surgical/telemetry floor where we also had patients on ventilators. Nurses were not
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4-01-05) 1 WZT Task 2: A: Topic Chosen: Hourly Rounding’s Per our hospital policy‚ Rounds is a standardized interaction with the patient that includes the 8 components listed in the Hourly Rounding Procedure. Primary Registered Nurse (RN) or licensed vocational nurse (LVN) assigned to each patient is responsible for ensuring hourly rounds are made according to policy. Nursing personnel will round every hour from 0600-2200 and every two hours from 0000-0600 and more frequently if the patient’s condition
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from the start. I was able to get quick peeks of the tasks that the nurses had to accomplish throughout the day as I ran blood and specimens back and forth to the lab and various floors. The nurses were always up on their feet‚ running around taking care of the many patients that flooded the floors. As I discharged patients from their stay in the hospital‚ they always made a comment regarding the outstanding care that every nurse provided them during their stay. Whenever I heard those comments‚ I
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Danielle Rudolph Position Paper #1 A nurse is someone who has the knowledge and capability to take care of those in need. Nurses manage‚ maintain‚ or recover health and quality of life. This means providing care in not only a vital/physical manner‚ but in ways such as comfort‚ confidentiality‚ teaching‚ and advocacy. Nurses strive to achieve the best quality of life for their patients regardless of their ailments‚ culture‚ religion‚ ethnicity‚ age and so on. Nurses are capable of assessing‚ planning
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While reading Watchful Care: A History of America’s Nurse Anesthetists by Marianne Bankert‚ it seems evident that the progression of the Nurse Anesthesia profession is borne by individuals who deemed Evidence-Based Practice a necessity. A search of a formal definition of Evidence-Based Practice turned out to be a futile endeavor‚ as the concept has evolved with time. Nevertheless‚ three basic tenets are considered paramount from it; “best available research evidence‚ patient values (or preferences)
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