The nursing practice encompasses a broad spectrum of professions within the healthcare setting. From direct patient care through educators and positions within the political arena‚ nurses have greatest opportunity to mold and evolve healthcare for tomorrow. This presentation will introduce you to the future of the professional nursing practice. Topics presented: Evidence-based practice and the trends that influence healthcare and the future of nursing. How the application of nursing theory will
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A vision on a nursing profession Laura A.C. Miller MSN University of St. Joseph A vision on a nursing profession For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to be a nurse‚ caring for those in need. This feeling ultimately led me to the career choice of nursing and continues the path of higher education in the profession. . Nursing is more than treating an illness‚ rather it is focused on delivering quality patient care that is individualized to the needs of each patient. As nurses
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Moules and Ramsay (1998) identify many areas for child health promotion. This includes smoking‚ exercise‚ diet and nutrition‚ sexual health‚ dental health‚ skin care and the sun‚ accidents‚ alcohol and drug abuse. As with the other branches of nursing‚ health promotion can take forms of primary‚ secondary or tertiary intervention. Interventions may depend on the age of the child. Younger children‚ for example pre school aged children will benefit form health promotion aimed at the parents. Health
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC‚ 2008) highlight that the care of patients must be a priority and to treat them as individuals. In order to achieve this nurses must use a systematic technique known as the nursing process when planning and delivering care. It originated in the USA and was introduced the UK in the 1970’s in an attempt to move nursing away from traditional and task oriented care‚ to more evidence based and holistic approach to care (Castledine‚ 2011). It was clearly defined in
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The word philosophy can be defined in many ways depending on how other view it. To better understand my philosophy in nursing‚ I would like to address my belief in four concepts. By using the four concept it will define what philosophy in nursing means to me. The four concept consist of an individual‚ health‚ environment‚ nursing and how they connect with one another. Environment is defined as “the conditions that surround someone or something: the conditions and influences that affect the
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The focus of this assignment is to outline the assessment process within nursing and show its practical use and importance. The assignment is broken down into different elements‚ including defining what assessment means and its importance within the nursing process leading on to the various sources of information which are used to inform nurses upon their assessments. The STAMP assessment tool will be explored to show how it supports the assessment process in practice. Finally‚ suggestions will be
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experience. The aim of this piece is to reflect on my role as a mentor and demonstrate my awareness of the responsibilities involved‚ whilst paying particular attention to the required learning outcomes 2-5 of the module. In keeping with the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council‚ 2008) Code of Conduct anonymity will be adhered to and therefore no names of people or places will be mention. The assignment will allow me to reflect on my own experiences in my new role as a mentor and will follow the journey
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Orlando developed her theory inductively through an empirical study of nursing practice. * For 3 years‚ she recorded 2000 observations between a nurse and patient interactions. She was only able to categorize the records as "good" or "bad" nursing. * According to records: Good Nursing nurses focus was on the patients immediate verbal and non verbal behavior from the beginning through the end of the contact * Bad Nursing nurses focus was on a prescribed activity or something that had nothing
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In every nurse ’s career‚ the nurse is faced with many legal or ethical dilemmas. Nurses are accountable and responsible for their own morals‚ decisions and behaviors. Nurses are accountable for judgments made and actions taken in the course of nursing practice‚ irrespective of healthcare organizations policies or providers ’ directives‚ which may not always be in the best interest of the patient. It is a nurses’ obligation to decide what is in the best interest of the patient. Using the Josephson
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Bullying in the profession of nursing has been increasing over the past years (Matt‚ 2012). Bullying has been identified in different professions‚ but it has been a focus in the profession of nursing over the past decades. It occurs because of what is known as a “power differential” and is evident in nursing in the commonly heard phrase‚ “nurses eat their young”. Bullying in the workplace is characterized as the on-going health career-endangering mistreatment of an employee‚ by one or more of their
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