… Key differences between superior and average job performance is not the measurable skills but the soft skills or competencies.’ Competence is a persons underlying knowledge and attributes to complete a task to meet job requirements. Nursing competencies are regarded as knowledge‚ skills‚ traits‚ motives and attributes such as boundaries of care and knowing your own limitations so you do not cause harm to a patient. Another is the logical order of care given‚ for example the 5 rights
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Nursing Diagnosis: Excess fluid volume related to inactivity‚ secondary to congestive heart failure‚ as manifested by rapid weight gain‚ pitting edema in extremities‚ elevated blood pressure‚ bilateral crackle lung sounds‚ bradypnea‚ and dyspnea. Goal: Absence of fluid retention by discharge Desired Outcomes: 1. Blood pressure within regular limits by discharge 2. Absence of edema by discharge 3. Slow progression of weight gain by day 2 of admission 4. Ease of respirations
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some negative factors or issues. Reflection and reflective practice is not a new idea and not only nursing professionals use reflection. It wasn’t brought about to confuse or make a practitioners life difficult. It has been around for a long time and Dewey (1933) was the one person who is known to have brought reflective practice into his work (Ghaye and Lillyman 1997). It is also noted in the Nursing Standard that Dewey is acknowledged as the first educationalist to right about reflection and learning
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Nursing Careers Health Care Careers are the mostly growing industry in the USA because there is a high demand on health care professionals like Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) and Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). These two jobs are the main health careers that are mostly used more frequently because they do majority of the responsibilities in the health care work place. That’s why they say go into the health care career because you’ll never be without a job. This careers will never fall off the
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Personal Philosophy of Nursing Since I was little girl‚ I already knew I was going to be a nurse. I really had no choice; I had no options. My parents instilled nursing with in me. I was born in the Philippines and migrated here in the USA when I was eleven years old. My mother was a nurse and got petitioned to live in America by my aunt to work as nurse. Most of my family on my mother side is in the medical field. So growing up was all about the medical field and nursing. My siblings and I
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Nursing – a profession demonstrating nobility‚ unconditional love and holistic care. It is just more than a job; it is a profession that is enriched with opportunities for those who wants to make a difference and return something constructive back to the society. This profession has a variety of roles to offer and to work with a wider range of people. The profession breeds an innate desire to help people with the need. Not only transforming health care facilities round the globe‚ a nurse makes a
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Communication in nursing To listen to another person is the most caring act of all. Listening and attending are by far the most important aspect of being a nurse (Burnard 1992). One of the basics of good nursing is good communication skills with patients. Being unable to communicate well with a patient immediately can destroy the nurse/patient relationship and therefore the patient may not trust the nurse (Anon 2007). The purpose of this essay is the realise the importance of communication in nursing. Without
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A middle-range nursing theory constituting the nursing process and focusing on the care of the human being is the Theory of Goal Attainment developed by Imogene King. This theory consists of three interacting concepts: personal systems‚ interpersonal systems‚ and social systems. Even with these three systems being interacting‚ the nursing goal is the health of individuals. King maintains that the patient and nurse are equal partners in the nursing process. Conceptual systems The first concept
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profession‚ and are especially sensitive to any perceived bias or stereotyping.” (Ignatavicius & Workman‚ 2016‚ p. 115). Moreover‚ common practices such as hygiene could have a cultural implication in relation to this particular population and the nursing relationship with the client. It is suggested that “some homeless people believe that a layer of dirt helps protect them from becoming sick‚” in this scenario it is essential for the nurse to be culturally sensitive and should not “express disapproval
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physiologic change would place the patient with a history of cardiac disease at the greatest risk of developing severe cardiac problems? Decrease heart rate Decreased cardiac output Increased plasma volume Increased blood pressure The priority nursing diagnosis for the patient with cardiomyopathy is: Anxiety related to risk of declining health status. Ineffective individual coping related to fear of debilitating illness Fluid volume excess related to altered compensatory mechanisms. Decreased
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