History of Nursing The topic of this paper is to identify historical events in nursing. This topic grasps my attention because I am on the track to become a nurse‚ and feel I need to know about the history of nursing. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader about historical highlights in nursing. In The Beginning American Nurses Association defines nursing as “the protection‚ promotion‚ and optimization of health and abilities‚ prevention of illness and injury‚ alleviation of suffering
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Introduction The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice provides the educational framework for the preparation of professional nurses. This document describes the outcomes expected of graduates of baccalaureate nursing programs. The Essentials apply to all prelicensure and RN complet ion programs‚ whether the degree is baccalaureate or graduate entry. Program curricula are designed to prepare students to meet the endofprogram outcomes delineated under each
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Personal Philosophy of Nursing Since I was little girl‚ I already knew I was going to be a nurse. I really had no choice; I had no options. My parents instilled nursing with in me. I was born in the Philippines and migrated here in the USA when I was eleven years old. My mother was a nurse and got petitioned to live in America by my aunt to work as nurse. Most of my family on my mother side is in the medical field. So growing up was all about the medical field and nursing. My siblings and I
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR NURSING PRACTICE MODULE ONE INTRODUCTION TO THEORY Specific Objective: At the completion of Module 1‚ you will be able to: 1. Explain the development of the discipline of nursing 2. Discuss the metaparadigm of nursing 3. Discuss the nursing process 4. Describe the levels of theory development and their relationships. LESSON 1- THE DISCIPLINE OF NURSING Nursing has a mandate to provide
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to identify a nursing skill observed by myself whilst I was on my practice placement. The skill which I will be focussing on is the first phase of the nursing process in the form of the initial assessment interview. The client had been referred to the mental health services by his consultant and social worker‚ in order to continue his care in the community‚ after his discharge from a psychiatric ward. I was introduced to the client‚ and his permission was given for me to use my nursing skill of observation
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and quicker diagnosis. If continuity of care is increased‚ quality of care will also be increased. Nursing involvement in the development of CMS is extremely important. The ratio of nurses to any other hospital staff using the system is much greater‚ thus nursing should have the biggest influence on planning and use. Nursing staff is well aware of any faults with paper records as many hours are spent on clinical documentation and not on patient care (Rein‚ 2011‚ para. 3). Nursing staff is also
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(David‚ 2004). In this essay I am reflecting on an incident that happened in my earlier years of working as a professional nurse. The incident I am sharing and the subsequent learning I have gained by reflecting it helped me in the later years of my nursing career. During my career as a professional nurse I have worked in several hospitals also attended several cases and those provided me with lot of insights and leanings. As per NMC 2002 guidelines‚ for protecting identify of the patient‚ names have
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My Values and Beliefs as a Nurse Mukesh Sharma The University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing In partial fulfillment of the requirements of N3645 Transition to Professional Nursing Part A Jeanean Boyd‚ MSN‚ RN April 21‚ 2013 Online RN-BSN My Values and Beliefs as a Nurse We all have our own philosophies about what we do in our lives or toward life itself. The same way‚ we have our own philosophies behind the work we do or the profession we carry. ‘Philosophy’ basically
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Multicultural Nursing in Malaysia. Introduction. Malaysian is multi religious and multicultural country. In Malaysia‚ there are many cultural belief according to the race of people in Malaysia liked Malays ‚Chinese ‚Indian ‚Bengali ‚Pakistani ‚Sarawak and there are divided into different sub- group of ethnic and states and they also speak different languages and have different cultures and trust . It is important to us‚ as health care providers to became culturally
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aspect of Patient’s autonomy involves giving or withholding his consent about treatment. This paper takes into account ‘consent’ as the aspect of law regarding nursing. Consent is defined by NHS Choices (2010) as: "the principle that a person must give their permission before they receive any type of medical treatment.”1 Under the Nursing and Midwifery Council (hereafter NMC) code of conduct (enforced in May‚ 2008) the patient can either extend or withdraw his consent regarding treatment after which
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