learning environment that enables the nursing graduate to deliver safe, quality, evidence-based health care in today’s diverse society at an individual, community and global level. The nursing program here at Aleutian Island College of Nursing, in conjunction with the University of Anchorage Alaska, is to provide the student with core values, ethics and research information. This will be under the guidelines of the American Association of College of Nursing (AACN). We strive to deliver a…
Nursing is a profession and practice that is based on a foundation of knowledge core to provision of health care to the patient. In the recent past, practicing nurses have been trained to ensure that they listen, involve and inform the patient about their progress in the care they get in what is now known as patient-centered care. The patient-centered care according to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) relates to provision of health care to a patient in a respectful way in a manner that shows that…
definition of the nursing concept of healing, one must take a look at all the aspects that make the word what it is. In this paper, a detailed analysis of the nursing concept of healing will be given. This paper will also explore how healing interrelates with some of the social determinants of health, how knowledge of healing informs nursing practice, and how it facilitates health promotion. Defining the Nursing Concept of Healing With thorough research, many definitions of the nursing concept…
Nursing process and critical thinking course has affected me in so many ways. I have learned so much in this course and found it very interesting. I have a very good learning experience from my instructor and classmates. The three main things that have great impact in my learning experience are the cases presented of each group in the class, applying critical thinking in nursing process, and journal. The different case presented by each group refreshed my memory and updated my knowledge about…
Introduction Born in 1939 in Los Angeles California, Sister Callista Roy has risen to become one of the most well-known nursing theorists of the modern world. With her vast knowledge of nursing, Sister Callista Roy developed the adaptation model of nursing, which has continuously evolved to become an important part of the nursing profession. The Roy adaptation model of nursing views the person as a group of systems that work together and relate constantly with internal and external environments…
Outlining the process of nursing standards of practice is very important for both the nurses and the public people. Nurses holds accountable and the key person to the wellness of ill individual. Therefore, nursing organizations are on top of making sure that all nurses are adhering to the sets rules and regulations. According to ANA, the Scope and Standards of Practice describes what nursing is, what nurses do, responsibilities for which nurses are accountable, and the outcomes of that practice…
Nursing research is associated with the founder of nursing; Florence Nightingale. The beginnings of Evidence-based Practice. Evidence based nursing can date back to the 1800s if one considers Nightingale’s first steps forward. Her “Notes on Nursing” was first published in 1859 inEngland and in 1860 inAmerica (Evidence-Based Nursing, 2012). Practice based evidence nursing evidence-based practice has had an increase around the world today. In the 1970s in the United States was where you began the…
Introduction The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a unique group of stages involved in the creation or development of a system. The process involved in the SDLC is comprised of four phases with a series of steps involved in each phase. The phases involved in the SDLC process include: Planning phase, which represents the vital stage of the process as it defines the problems and scope of the system, seeks viable solutions by carrying out feasibility tests, the schedule of the project is…
Nursing perspective is a vital structure to nursing practice because it provides the ethic of caring and help nurses reflects on how their backgrounds influence their practice. For most nurses, their approach to nursing care is adopted and relates to humanistic values of kindness, care, empathy, love and desire to help others. It is rooted in personal beliefs and principles, which is influenced by family, cultural background, religious teaching, education, environment, and other life…
The use of nursing theories in practice, aid in providing validity to the concepts and data that the practicing professional has set to implement. Many of the nursing theories that we use daily are based on ideas that were presented previously in other areas or professions. These borrowed theories help to solidify the scientific rationale for making a needed change or to research a particular concept for the improvement of: patient safety, care, organization workflow and design, advances in…