Foundations of Nursing Practice module and my first placement experience have assisted in my development as a nurse. The unit where I spent my four weeks is a day surgery centre. Using experiences from the placement I will discuss the concept of individualised care and its relevance to nursing assessments and care delivery. I will also look at the professional and ethical issues that impact on nursing today‚ primarily focusing on the aspect of dignity and obtaining patient consent from the Nursing and Midwifery
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Nurse To Patient Ratio Medtech College Ethics August 16‚ 2010 The past decade has been a turbulent time for US hospitals and practicing nurses. News media have trumpeted urgent concerns about hospital understaffing and growing hospital nurse shortage. Nurses nationwide consistently report that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care. Physicians agree‚ citing inadequate nurse staffing as a major impediment to the provision on high quality of care
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issues in the working environment and they have to make the decision based on the ethical responsibilities. The clinical case demonstrates an ethical dilemma involves an end-stage aggressive lung cancer patient who expressed the thought of committing suicide to one of the nurses and asked that nurse to keep it confidential for her. The incompatibility between the patient’s beneficence that the nurse should tell other healthcare professionals about patient’s suicide attempt
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eradicate small pox and protect our children from other horrible diseases which used to kill hundreds of children every year. There are people who believe that vaccines are in reality harmful and refuse to vaccinate their children. Others refuse to vaccinate due to a religious belief. This is a dangerous trend that is driven by conspiracy theories and false data‚ has lead to out breaks of easily preventable diseases‚ and endangers the people who cannot be vaccinated for other health reasons. Every child
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Bullying Child Family & Society SOC312 Kawonda Starling Submitted to: Laura Schulz August 30‚ 2013 Think about bullying and young children. Do you think that bullying is more apt to happen in a public school setting or a private school setting? Do you think the setting has any effect on bullying‚ or is it primarily the child ’s age? Reflect on a bullying incident that you are aware of. The incident can include you as the victim‚ the bully‚ or a bystander. This may even be an incident
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Some people think that spending a lot on holding wedding parties‚ birthday parties and other celebrations is just a waste of money. Others‚ however‚ think that these are necessary for individuals and the society. Discuss both views and give your opinion. Throwing parties can be expensive. While some people do not find these fancy parties worth what they cost‚ others believe parties are important to both individuals and the society. People choose to throw parties for a number of reasons. For starters
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Issues of wider professional practice and professionalism In this assignment I will be examining some of the main issues I believe impact on teachers’ professional practice and I will look at the way they impact on my employer Inclusive Access (IA). IA is a social enterprise independent specialist training organisation in the Post compulsory education and training (PCET) or Lifelong Learning Sector (LLS). I will attempt to show how some of these issues impact on individual teachers in the
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Analysis The nurse-patient relationship boundaries are mainly achieved through a bond which is special and is build through trust‚ mutual understanding‚ respect‚ and compassion. There is a code of Ethics for nurse according to the National Council of state boards of Nursing (NCSBN) that states that’ Nurses maintains and recognizes boundaries that establish limits to relationships appropriately when acting within one’s role as a professional. There should be space between the power of nurses and the vulnerability
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I chose nursing as my profession because of my mother and other factors. My mother was an influence because early this year she was in the hospital for two weeks and during that period I only saw the doctor thrice. The nurses where the ones doing everything‚ so I felt they were the ones who nursed her back to health. The other deciding factors were: variety of places for jobs whether in the public‚ private‚ or community setting; the opportunity to learn new things since no day is ever the same; the
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Davao University School of Nursing _____________________________________________________________________________________ LETTER OF APPROVAL February 16‚ 2013 Patria V. Manalaysay RN‚ MAN‚ PhD Dean‚ School of Nursing Dear Ma’am‚ In line with our thesis research‚ we the group 5 of BSN 3A will be conducting one of the following studies: * “Awareness on health practices and the prevalence of smoking among the 5th year engineering students and 4th year student nurses of Ateneo de Davao University”
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