rather than genetically inherited. Culture affects people’s perception of health and illness. In this post‚ I will define cultural diversity. As well as identify some benefits of a diverse workforce and barriers to diversity in the nursing profession. Furthermore‚ I will describe how my own diverse cultural background affects the nursing care I provide. Cultural diversity is when differences in race‚ ethnicity‚ language‚ nationality‚ and religion are represented within a community (Andrews & Boyle‚
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The Importance of Nursing Roles Nurses have always been the backbone of healthcare and first response teams. Nurses are the first interaction a patient will have. The observations that a nurse makes through symptom analysis will aid the doctor in diagnosing the patient. This paper will first give a brief history of nursing and nursing roles and will focus on nursing theories and theorists. This paper will answer the question of how nursing theories helped to structure the nursing profession of
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CULTURAL DIVERSITY In the nursing field there are many cultural diversity issues. The issues with culture in nursing is that there will be patients that have different cultural beliefs and practices from one another. For this reason the nurse must keep this in mind and is taught how to behave‚ react‚ and respond to different cultures before entering and during his or her nursing career. The nurse must honor and respect all cultural differences as well as maintain equal and professional care for
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Introduction: One of the policy issues that IOM recommends in nursing is the need for strong leadership that would be a driving force in transforming the healthcare system (Mason et al.‚ 2013). There is a need for the nursing profession to produce some strong leaders at every level in the system that would direct junior staffs in handling things dealing with policy‚ organizations‚ politics and nursing practice. As required by the transformation and implementation provisions‚ the reforms in the health
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Discussed in this paper will be nursing theory and review its importance to nursing as a profession. It will also focus on aspects of the nursing theorist Virginia Henderson and her theory on the complementary-supplementary model of nursing. Nursing leadership‚ as it relates to Henderson’s theory‚ will also be discussed. Nursing theory itself is defined as an organized framework of concepts and purposes designed to guide the practice of nursing (Dossey‚ 2008). There will be multiple sections in this
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Importance of Nursing Theory By: Ma. Mercedes G. Loo‚ RN‚ MSN Purpose / Significance of Nursing Theories Provide direction and guidance for structuring professional nursing practice‚ education and research and differentiating the focus of nursing in other professions ACTIVITY 1 1. Give the Purpose / Significance of Nursing Theories as: a. Discipline b. Research c. In Practice / Profession d. Education 2. Based on your experience as a
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SCHOLARLY PAPER THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE FOR NURSING: DOES IT CONVEY COMMONALITY OF MEANING AND IS IT IMPORTANT TO DO SO Sonia Allen‚ RN‚ RM‚ Grad Dip Hlth Sc (Community)‚ BHSM‚ MACS‚ PhD Candidate‚ School of Nursing and Midwifery‚ Faculty of Medicine‚ Nursing and Health Sciences‚ Gippsland Campus‚ Monash University‚ Victoria‚ Australia. sonia.allen@med.monash.edu.au Associate Professor Ysanne Chapman ‚ RN‚ PhD‚ MSc(Hons)‚ B Ed (Nsg)‚ GDE‚ DRM‚ MRCNA‚ School of Nursing and Midwifery‚ Faculty
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pharmacy304: Transcultural nursing: its importance in nursing practice Transcultural nursing: its importance in nursing practice Maier-Lorentz MM. Reference: Maier-Lorentz MM. Transcultural nursing: its importance in nursing practice. 2008 [updated Spring; cited 2010 May 01]; 2009/01/29:[37-43]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19172978. Transcultural nursing is a vital part of healthcare in the present day. The forever increasing multicultural populace in the United States
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Unlike many professions in the world‚ nursing is a career that requires vast amounts of interpersonal communication with patients‚ families‚ and fellow care providers. This large amount of communication is not an easy load to handle especially when a nurse has to communicate and also maintain professionalism. To preserve professionalism while working‚ a nurse must maintain professional communication‚ have positive first impressions upon patients and coworkers‚ follow values that allow for relationship
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Politically speaking‚ mentoring truly matters in nursing because the relationship that is created between the new graduates with their mentors provides positive feedback and is indeed a great investment in the health care. On the long run‚ confident nurses improve the overall health outcome of the system as a whole as well as patients’ health‚ which naturally leads to reduction of fiscal spending on patient’s readmission into hospitals and less occurrence of medical errors. A mentor possesses many
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