As a nursing assistant I am required to work together with fellow nursing assistants‚ nurses‚ therapists and doctors to provide care to patients and ensure safety. For instance‚ recently at the nursing home where I work‚ a patient was declared unresponsive. However with the help of my co-workers we effectively worked as a team to stabilize the patient until further medical help arrived. During this incident I was responsible for calling for help‚ obtaining the crash cart that possess and performing
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My mom taught me to live by the Golden Rule; do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I have lived by this rule all my life. I have never had a problem getting along with others and treating them with respect until I started my nursing career as an LPN. I started working at the local hospital‚ working night shift. I really enjoyed going into work‚ helping the patients with their needs. I enjoyed visiting with them and finding out what would make their stay better. Then one day the supervising
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A spiritual is a type of religious folksong that is most closely associated with the enslavement of African people in the American South.On the other hand‚ psalms means “praise.” Although many of the psalms are cries for help‚ laments over Israel‚ or questions about God’s plan‚ the major theme in all of them is worship. Even when the psalmist was crying out his questions or frustrations to the Lord‚ he usually ended with a call to praise God in spite of everything. Hymns have yet another meaning
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that has become a significant part of music and society is spirituals. Spirituals are religious folksongs created by Africans who were brought forcefully to South America as slaves to work on plantations‚ between the 1600s to the 1870s. Slaves were restricted from their freedom of expression and they faced hardships. To survive these times‚ slaves inclined towards music and the African culture gave birth to a new musical genre‚ spirituals. Since slaves were allowed
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Personal Philosophy of Nursing Nursing is a profession that I aspired to be a part of because nurses represent the very core of love‚ compassion‚ and caring. When I began working as a Supervisor in a Skilled Nursing Facility‚ I then developed my personal philosophy and set of values regarding nursing care. “Philosophy is defined as the study of the principles underlying conduct‚ thought‚ and the nature of the universe. A simple explanation of philosophy is that it entails a search for meaning in
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concerning matters such as existence‚ knowledge‚ values‚ reason‚ mind‚ and language. Recently Simmons has referred to philosophy as “knowledge of first causes or of the highest principles of things in so far as these causes or things belong to the natural‚ as opposed to the supernatural order.” (Simmons 1992 p.112) My nursing philosophy is one of holistic care‚ delivering compassionate and culturally sensitive care to patients and families. I believe that nursing is an occupation that includes professional
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Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper Almost every individual in the US believes that he or she is part of the majority. Almost every citizen believes that his or her choices are the right one. If we all believe that we are correct and the majority‚ why is their so much conflict in this country? The answer is simple but the solution is not. We all base our beliefs on different racial‚ religious‚ and cultural backgrounds and each one of us has been raised differently from the next. Personal Values
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CULTURAL VALUES AND PERSONAL ETHICS PAPER Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper MBA/500 Foundations of Problem-Based Learning R. Garth Ferrell April 23‚ 2006 University of Phoenix Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper Every day people make decisions that may have profound effect on their personal and/or professional lives as well as the lives of others. The decision people make have a foundation on their personal‚ cultural‚ and perhaps organizational values. When these values are
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What is a spiritual gift? It is the desire and power to fulfill God’s purpose (The Life application bible 1988). It is a joy and or a desire and a power. The word gift means: christmaton‚ comes from the root word char meaning joy. Every Christian has a spiritual gift. The gift helps perfect the body. “Just as each of us have one body‚ each member belongs to the all the others. We have different gifts‚ according to the grace given us‚ “Romans 12 verse 5. (The Life application bible 1988)
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and Diversity in Spiritual Care We are told that the very essence of good nursing is to help a person attain or maintain wholeness in every dimension of their being. ’Holism’ has become the buzz word of the nineties‚ and nurses are frequently exhorted to care for the whole person. A new wave of terminology has evolved around this concept‚ and now in nursing theory you’ll sometimes find a person described as a biopsychosocial unit! Is this a new direction or focus for nursing‚ or are we simply
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