Horizontal Violence The clinical issue of interest to me and one that I would like to focus on his Horizontal violence. This topic is of interest to me because in my profession as a nurse supervisor‚ I have encountered and had to resolve many instances of horizontal violence in the work environment. In this paper‚ I will provide a rational as to why Horizontal Violence (HV) is a relevant workplace issue and provide the research to support this rational. Horizontal violence has been defined as “hostile
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Nursing: My Dream Profession Nursing as I know is an important component of the health care delivery system that requires a whole lot of energy and time to put in patient welfare. Although‚ nursing is a profession that is rewarding and challenging‚ I have always admired becoming a nurse someday in the future. As a child‚ I had my father as a role model. My father was a nurse in Cameroon‚ central Africa. When he retired‚ he settled back in the rural area where I and the rest of my family lived with
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Renee Matos‚ MD. is a pediatric well care physician employed at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Her title is the assistant dean in graduate medical education and quality improvement and patient safety. She works in education and research and has focused on cardiovascular arrest research in the past. Matos is also a member of the American Board of Pediatrics. As someone who is work oriented‚ she invests 60-80 hours into her job in an average week‚ both at home and the workplace. In order
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Judgement is a vital trait to have in a nursing profession. It involves both intellectual and professional maturity from the nurse. Judgement alone requires the ability from the nurse to pay attention to the clients surroundings‚ taking into account all the events that have occurred and making an appropriate judgement based on these reasons. It can be defined as “having an idea‚ a clear opinion following a period of reflexion whereas the term clinical indicates that it is related to the patient”
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Media is an important channel for health care system to create awareness of health issue and about nursing professions to the society. In older days peoples listened to radio and read newspaper for the meaningful purposes like weather forecast and news around the world. In present generation media generates public awareness through telecommunication Satellites TV‚ Internet and movies etc. I agreed that the media depicted positives and negatives influence regarding nurses’ images to the public and
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Is Nursing a Profession? What is a profession? According to one definition a profession is an occupation that is based on a complex set of skills and knowledge that is used in the service of others. This definition also says that the members of this occupation abide by a code of ethics and commit themselves to competence‚ integrity‚ morality and many other qualities that promote public good (Cruess‚ Johnston‚ & Cruess‚ 2004‚ p. 74). According to this very definition‚ nursing is a professional
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as the nations most trusted and respected profession (Gallup Organization 2014 annual poll; Porter-O’Grady & Malloch‚ 2011).They know as well as anyone when our system is broken‚ and they are in a key position to improve it. The combination of these things put nurses in a good position to use their strength collectively‚ their good reputation‚ and unique skillset to organize and push for change. Even with all these positive views of the nursing profession I think the real problem lies in the fact
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health care. Every aspect of health care‚ including health care professions‚ have begun to evolve as a result of the laws passed in 2010. The nursing profession is one of the largest divisions in the healthcare workforce and requires large transformations in order to meet the goals that the United States has set forth. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) conducted a report in 2010 which laid out recommendations for health care professions in order to make the goals attainable. Transforming education
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Career in Nursing Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care
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Every person has his or her own values‚ assumptions and perceptions. For the best provision of client care‚ the nurse must understand the elements and that of the nursing profession. Since they affect the way people think‚ and respond to world and other people in it. Nursing program has assisted me as a nurse in identifying the values and biases that underscore my approach and interventions and their effect on the client. But some cultural biases can be difficult to identify when the nurse and client
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