Neonatal nursing

NICU. The NICU or neonatal intensive care unit, where the premature and high risk babies go to receive 24/7 care. I am lucky enough to be given an opportunity to interact with four…

Nursing today is in high demand within our country and our communities deserve quality care. The current nursing shortage is on the verge of becoming a crisis, which may decrease quality of care for patients. I have a passion for helping others and desire to work in the healthcare field. I helped those in need while working for Anthem BC, but my true desire is to become a registered nurse. An unlikely event occurred in 2016 that gave me my inspiration back of becoming a nurse. My son…

Critical thinking in nursing is a critical element of professional responsibility and excellence nursing care; it is a self-focused, self-controlled, self-supervised, and self-educative thinking. The ability of a nurse to analyze and process arrays of information related to a critically ill patient requires critical thinking which comes with experience as a seasoned nurse. It is imperative for a nurse to understand a root cause and consequence of any action related to a patient care treatment.…

longer help themselves. Pre-natal to birth and the dying developmental concepts would be primary concepts from lifespan development that would contribute to my development in a nursing career. These are two topics that really stuck out to me the most while taking this psychology class. Lifespan development psychology and nursing is far more intertwined than I could ever imagine. These concepts edified me on “things” that I did not understand. Moreover, they allowed me to grasp a better…

students to graduate from a hospital-based nursing program. This will authorize them to become an RN at a lower level than an RN with a full bachelor’s degree. An Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN), prepares students for their certification in the shortest amount of school time and is the quickest way to start working and gaining experience. Earning an ADN will mean the student must complete an 18-24-month program at an accredited career college. This and the nursing diploma program are good…

me as compared to a school, private practice, nursing home, or other institution.…

get my certified nursing assistant degree at the end of May 2018. I then want to acquire an associate's of science in nursing at Des Moines Area Community College and then get my bachelors of science in nursing in an online course through University of Iowa at Des Moines Area Community College. I plan to work as a nurse for about 5-7 years and then go back to school to become a nurse practitioner. I plan to work at a hospital hopefully on the pediatrics floor or in the neonatal intensive care…

In the nursing field there are over 100 areas to specialize in. This large quantity of options makes it difficult for a young adult to know what he or she would like to specialize in and work with. There are two major ways to explore and find out where one’s calling may be, clinical experience and shadowing. The shadow opportunity was very enlightening. I was able to learn about a new floor of medicine I was not very familiar with; while shadowing a nationally recognized award winning nurse.…

“Nursing-sensitive outcomes are defined as changes in health status upon which nursing care has had a direct influence, “according to Yang, Ke-Ping A., Simms, Lillian M., Yin, Jeo-Chen T. This is when a patient’s health status changes due to the current treatment or healthcare delivery and fulfillment. Some of the factors that may contribute to Nursing-sensitive patient outcomes include the following bio-psychosocial functioning and patient satisfaction. Two examples of nursing-sensitive patient…

and tranquillity where only chaos and suffering had reigned (Bostridge 2008) all while being extremely focused with a brain full of knowledge. This ability is something I would like to achieve and perfect as a nurse. I have heard of other ideas of nursing perceptions through the public such as the “battle-axe”, “naughty nurse”, and my least favourite of all the “doctors’ handmaiden”, (Daly, Speedy and Jackson, 2014) but I view them as inaccurate depictions of nurses, therefore dismissing them in…