cultural self-assessment and an explanation of why it is important in our nursing practice. It will also describe the five steps in the process for delivering culturally congruent nursing care and how it is applied in my own practice. I will also discuss definitions and categories of cultural competence. As nurses‚ we are exposed to many different types of culture when providing care for our patients and families. To provide such care‚ one must complete a cultural self-assessment. A cultural self-assessment
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For every teenager a drastic change to their form of life like moving schools can be catastrophic. For me it became a challenge‚ new school‚ friends‚ teachers‚ and a new environment. Life as I knew it was about to change and I could not assimilate it. Change seemed like the end of a perfect world. When I moved into the new house the smell was unrecognizable‚ the environment was somber and insipid. School felt strange and I felt everyone staring at me as a strange specimen from a lab. The first weeks
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Due to my interest in growing as an individual‚ I had decided to learn about personal growth.Personal growth pertains to many different factors‚ which includes‚ person’s maturity‚ initiative‚ and self-efficacy. Maturity can be described as being relatively advanced either physically‚ mentally‚ emotionally‚ or socially. A simple way to describe maturity pertains to reaching your maximum level in the previous terms stated. Most of the time‚ the older you get results in more maturity being obtained
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Personal Development and Growth Zoheb Osmani Psychology 101 TuThu 3:30-4:45 The concept of personal development has been an important factor that shapes the characters we develop‚ and the overall person we become. Research suggests that many of the values and traits we possess stem from both genetics and the environment. In terms of genetics‚ hereditary traits are passed down from the mother and father‚ which play a huge role in personal development‚ but research and personal experience also
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I cared for my patient on 11/06 on P5 room 10. I was given report from the leaving nurse about my patient shortly after I got on the floor. The nurse that I was assigned to was from the ICU and she was a floating nurse for that day. My patient was an 8 week old baby boy who came into the hospital on 11/03 for failure to thrive. During the report‚ the nurse showed us where the position of NG tube on the patient. After the report‚ the nurse and I did a whole physical assessment‚ and vital on the patient
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Info Speech Self Evaluation I really enjoyed the informative Speech because I feel like I’ve improve a little bit. I know for a fact that I was more confident to give my informative speech than my Tribute speech because I was a little more experienced and the technique of learning to calm myself definitely worked. But I do believe that my speech was still a B quality speech because I meet the following standards to have a satisfying B speech. But I still have a lot of work to do in order to have
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Georgia College Baptist of Nursing Program Personal Statement I was exposed to the field of medicine at a very young age. Both of my parents are nurses‚ so I was fortunate enough to be able to come to work with them some days and experience firsthand how chaotic‚ yet cooperative the hospital floor truly is. One of the things I was the most fascinated about was the relationships my parents
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Personal Growth Paper Pt. 2 At the beginning of the semester I would have never thought that I would learn as much has I have about the different diversity groups we have in this country. There are many things we talked about this semester that I have never even heard of before. Coming to the end of this semester I can say that I have learned so much and have a completely new understanding of prejudice on the different diversity groups we have in the US. When we first started the semester we
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Influencing Self-Growth among the Youth In any given generation‚ adults would probably agree that the youth of the present is a far cry from how they were during their time. This is even more apparent in the rapidly changing trends in technology and society. The focus of kids today are divided among various aspects‚ whether it is for social interaction‚ school‚ and even their perception of themselves. And with the booming industry of the internet and social networking‚ the outside world greatly
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The findings were presented objectively. Their findings presented that there were lower fall risks during the structured nursing rounds implementation period compared to the baseline that was taken (Tucker et al.‚ 2011). However‚ the differences were not by a large amount. Also it was hypothesized that the structured nursing rounds would be continued after the study was completed‚ but this did not happen after the study was finished. Also it was founded that another hypothesis was not supported
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