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    Abstract Home healthcare nursing was a huge milestone in the development of nursing as a profession. It allowed family members to feel a sense of ease knowing that their loved ones were in good hands. The amount of home healthcare nurses started out small around 455 nurses and rapidly grew to 1‚413 in just four years. The American Red Cross had a lot to do with this development by establishing visiting nurse service programs nationwide. Also‚ the Home Healthcare Nurses Association founded in 1993

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    Volunteering at St. Francis Medical Center has been such a great educational experience for me. I have been there for about three years and I am still planning to continue. When I first began there‚ I had no intention of staying. I never desired to have a career in the medical field or have anything to do with it. I always felt that it was something that my parents expected me to accomplish and being pressured into it caused me to rebel against the idea. At the time‚ I wanted to pursue a career

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    Brooke Schultz English 101 Hoogheem Class 10:00 – 10:50 A Home Away From Home As we adventure out into the world we find new places that we would like to call “home” because we currently revisit that place time and time again. I found that place in Florida. I may not visit there every month‚ but when I do‚ I feel relaxed and at peace. The smells‚ sounds‚ people‚ atmosphere‚ and activities keep me coming back. There’s nothing better to me then the environment of everyday sunshine and the

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    Pediatric Nursing

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    Nursing: Pediatric Nursing Denean Kitchings Everest University Strategies for Success Pediatric Nursing “Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.” (Author‚ 2012) This quote said by an unknown author is true in so many ways. Nursing is a very hard but rewarding career. Nurses have a number of responsibilities on the job that include obtaining vital signs‚ taking blood‚ and preparing patients for different procedures. In the world of pediatric nursing‚ it is an even better job. In pediatric

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    When I had first volunteered at a preparatory school as a teacher’s assistant‚ I was thrilled and excited. I enjoyed working with children and I admit‚ was slightly disillusioned with expectations that the children would be dutiful and effortless to watch over. Unfortunately‚ all my prior imaginations crashed the second I entered the classroom. Everywhere I saw‚ it was pure chaos. I dodged a flying crayon as I saw children running around throwing paper airplanes‚ balls‚ while others just stared at

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    There are two distinct models of disability that seek to empower those with disabilities- the medical model and the social model. The medical model refers to a disability as a “physical or mental impairment of the individual and its person with social consequences. It regards the limitations faced by people with disabilities as resulting primarily‚ or solely‚ from their impairments” Wasserman et al (2011). Under the medical model people are defined by their illness or medical condition. The medical

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    Nursing Shortage and Nursing Turnover Nursing shortage is a phenomenon that is affecting nurses and the provision of adequate patient care in today’s health care industry. Nursing shortage is said to occur when the demand for employment of nurses is far greater than the number of nurses willing to be employed at that time (Huber‚ 2010). According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (A.A.C.N.)‚ “the nursing shortage is expected to increase as baby boomers age‚ and the need for health

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    Introduction Over time in health care there have been times in which‚ the directors of the hospital have been trying to get rid of Licensed Practical Nurse or LPNs and want their nursing staff to only be Registered Nurses or RNs. If LPNs are eliminated there will be a huge nursing shortage in the hospital setting. If a LPNs is currently working in a hospital setting are told to get their RN by a date or they will be fired. This is a problem because older LPN that is close to retirement they are not

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    BED POSITIONS AND USES PRONE The prone position is a position of the body lying face down. It is opposed to the supine position which is face up. Using terms defined in the anatomical position‚ the ventral side is down (which is towards the abdomen)‚ and the dorsal side is up (which is towards the back or posterior of the body). Prone refers to that pattern for the forearm‚ where the palm of the hand is directly behind the head‚ or at the sides and the radius and ulna are crossed. The main physiological

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    History of Pediatric Nursing Pediatric Nurses are defined as nurses who devote their knowledge and skills to caring for children and their families from infancy through late teen years (Pediatric Nurse). Pediatric Nursing did not develop as a specialty in the U.S. until the second half of the 19th century. During this period‚ hospitals did not admit children with communicable diseases because of high mortality rates. Most children were delivered with the help of midwives and cared for by their

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