Planning Education; Lighting the Path to Health University of Phoenix NUR/405 Beth Meadows‚ RN‚ MSN‚ NCSN October 16.2011 Planning Education; Lighting the Path to Health A nursing care plan is the basis for providing the best possible care for patients. It outlines a specific set of actions that a nurse follows to help the patient resolve a nursing problem‚ which was identified during an assessment. The plan of care’s elements focus on a set of actions‚ with outcomes that are measureable
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assumptions and beliefs that inform nursing practice There are a variety of values‚ assumptions‚ and beliefs that influence my perspective and performance as a labor and delivery nurse. Values guide the very principles of care and the nurse’s vision of its overall purpose‚ while certain assumptions and beliefs are involved in directing care on a more day-to-day level in a highly profound and meaningful way. Ethical‚ moral‚ and even spiritual values inform nursing practice in a labor and delivery setting
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Using Cultural Competency in Practice Cultural competencies is a term that has long saturated the healthcare world‚ especially nursing. The United States has become a melting pot of culture and ethnicity and to practice in the hospital setting it is essential to know the backgrounds of your patients and their families. Different cultures have different perceptions on health and illness. Providing culturally competent care includes knowledge about subcultures‚ attitudes‚ and skills that’s supports
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Nursing consists of a wide variety of roles. Nurses practice in mostly all community and healthcare settings. Clinical reasoning and critical thinking are used in every nursing actions and decisions such as diagnosing‚ evaluating and intervening. As a caregiver‚ nurses are at the forefront of healthcare. Faced with all different scenarios‚ nurses are required to use critical thinking to make the best decisions that lead to the best patient outcome. As caregivers‚ to promote improved patient outcomes
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Concept in Nursing Practice Communication is a process that occurs within physical and social contexts regularly. Whitehead et al (2008. pg. 63) .The aim of this essay is to discuss Communication as a concept of Professional Nursing Practice. Presently‚ communication is an area of benchmark the government is focusing on to improve the quality of nursing care. The Department of Health [DH] [2001] explained that communication comprises of a number of skills used to promote professional practice. These
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Introduction: In this essay‚ I will discuss several issues that seem to bind nursing practice with questions of ethics‚ sociology and management. Reflective practice is an important aspect of nursing management and in this essay we discuss implications of discrimination in nursing care and examine the importance of anti-discriminatory perspectives in nursing. In this paper‚ the case study I will elaborate is of an elderly woman who was of a non-British ethnic origin and spoke little English. A junior
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy My personal theoretical orientation to counseling is Cognitive-Behavioral therapy. Cognitive-Behavioral therapy helps the client to uncover and alter distortions of thought or perceptions which may be causing or prolonging psychological distress. The theoretical foundations of CBT are essentially those of the behavioral and cognitive approaches. CBT leads to a clear‚ persuasive‚ and evidence-based description of how normal and abnormal behavior develops and changes (Kramer
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Nurses’ Practice Environments‚ Error Interception Practices‚ And Inpatient Medication Errors. Teresa Tan Nursing 323 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Flynn‚ L. ‚ Liang‚ Y. ‚ Dickson‚ G. ‚ Xie‚ M. ‚ & Suh‚ D. (2012). Nurses’ practice environments‚ error interception practices‚ and inpatient medication errors. Journal of Nursing Scholarship‚ 44(2)‚ 180-186. Purpose: Medication errors remain a threat to patient safety. Therefore‚ the purpose of this study was to determine the relationships
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personal and professional lives. In nursing‚ nurses will be faced with all sorts of issues and situations however the way every nurse deals with a problem that arises will be different based on the values they have and moral standpoint that they decide to take. In this essay however‚ I will be looking at the value of life‚ individual freedom or autonomy and justice or fairness and how these values are important to me as well as how they are relevant to nursing practice. My first value is the value of
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clinical rotation‚ the professional nursing role that I have chosen to analyze is the Director of Nursing. I had the privilege of being precepted by the Director of Emergency Services at Coral Gables Hospital and during the preceptorship I gained tremendous insight into the duties and responsibilities of the role as my preceptor was very inclusive and willing to share her knowledge. Having experienced and partaken in the daily operational responsibilities of the role‚ I now have an affinity and a new
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