this is why I have chosen Nursing as my career choice. I feel like becoming a registered nurse is where I will belong and be most happy at. I am most fulfilled when I know I am helping‚ and doing for others. I am a very passionate individual and show a lot of compassion in everything I do‚ which are key qualities most nurses have. Although registered nurses have many responsibilities I have found under the “Occupational Outlook Handbook” allot of questions I had about my duties ‚ salary‚ advancement
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Japan Journal of Nursing Science (2008) 5‚ 71 doi:10.1111/j.1742-7924.2008.00111.x EDITORIAL Nursing theory – remembering our future Modern nursing theory began with Virginia Henderson in the 1960s. In her grand theory of nursing‚ she defined nursing as “assisting individuals to gain independence in the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery (Henderson‚ 1966‚ p. 15). Since the 1970s‚ the literature on nursing theory has focused upon two levels of nursing theories: the
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Description It is my first day of work after graduating from nursing school. I am currently in a remote island of Maldives. It is a small hospital consisting of 50 beds and almost 20 staffs working in 3 shifts. I came for morning duty and the nursing in-charge shown me maternal and surgical ward as my first work place. After taking handing over from the night shift staff I made everything ready for the ward round as the doctors will be here in no time. Just before the doctors arrival we got a patient
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Patients with diabetes need to understand what diabetes is. Patients who understand what diabetes is and the complicated process associated with the disease are more likely to comply with the prescribed regimen. Diabetes Mellitus is a syndrome with disordered metabolism and inappropriate hyperglycemia due to either a deficiency of insulin secretion or to a combination of insulin resistance and inadequate insulin secretion to compensate (Davis‚ 2001). Diabetes is a chronic progressive disease that
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Nurse Educator The AACN Preferred Vision of the Professoriate in Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Programs (2008) states that “courses in the nursing program will be taught by faculty with graduate-level academic preparation and advanced expertise in the areas of content they teach.” There is national recognition‚ however‚ of the growing shortage of nursing educators to fill faculty and other educator roles within the healthcare delivery system. Master’s programs that prepare graduates for nurse
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Stress is something that every American faces. We face it secondly and minutely and hourly‚ daily and monthly. Sometimes the stress usually comes from thinking negative about something‚ over-thinking. It is something that is eating us up inside‚ taking away bits and pieces of who we are. Anxiety is something that is hard to get rid of. It keeps us on the edge of our seats because we are always wondering what would happen. When there is too much stress in our body‚ it starts to get in the way of lots
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I would have to say the most interesting aspects of the course were not the material‚ which I loved learning about everything we had learned about‚ but‚ the fact that I had to think like a nurse. I have not started my nursing career yet‚ just my public health one‚ but I loved the fact that this course made me think like a nurse. For the past 5 plus years I have had to think‚ prevention‚ intervention‚ community assessments and not think treatment or individual. It was good to be able to be able to
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People always joke with me about my hair. Jokes about how I could tie blades at the end of my hair and whip it around like some kind of ninja warrior. It’s completely understandable to view two long braids as secret weapons of a trained assassin. I could probably use it as a weapon‚ if I wanted to. It was definitely long enough. Braided‚ my hair was a bit past my waist. “Why do you keep your hair so long?” people always ask me. How many times has my mom asked me this? How many times has she told
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nation has been the focus of the National Academies‚ Institute of Medicine (IOM). It turns out to be that clear from their research that nursing plays an important role in the conveying health care. Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (RWJF) was appointed by IOM the Committee through the interdisciplinary practiced that depend upon the initiative on the Upcoming of Nursing. The aim was to create an achievement in favor of plan for anything that would let nurses to principal alteration in the direction to
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My Values‚ and Beliefs BSHS 322 September 20‚ 2010 My Values‚ and Beliefs Each of us is motivated to move our lives in certain directions. That motivation is determined by the values we live by. Without values or beliefs‚ we would be mechanical like beings. Beliefs are the assumptions we make about ourselves‚ about others in the world and about how we expect things to be. Beliefs are about how we think things really are‚ what we think is really true and what we therefore expect
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