I enjoyed watching Dr. Donald Beckwick talk regarding how we can give total quality care for our patient. He mentioned five quality patients deserve to receive: (1) No needless deaths; (2) No needless pain; (3) No helplessness; (4) No unwanted waiting; (5) No waste. (Dr. Donald Beckwick, 2013) I’m a healthcare provider for 20 years now and I’ve seen the changes in the healthcare industry.…
Weekly Self S.O.A.P - A. S- Discuss your SUBJECTIVE feelings for this week. This week I was assigned to be in the ICU. To say that I expected to be busy is an understatement. I knew to expect critically ill patients and to see them at their worse with different types of lines and tubes coming out of their bodies. The fragile state in which these patients find themselves was hard for me to see, it was actually a bit overwhelming the first day.…
Brandy’s Personal Nursing Philosophy A personal philosophy of nursing is what guides your practice. As stated in the textbook Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice, knowing your personal philosophy enables the nurse to care for patients with purpose (Masters, 2017). Knowing your personal philosophy also give the nurse the information needed to continually evaluate the care being provided and continue to become a better and more proficient nurse. Why I Chose Nursing…
[Title Here, up to 12 Words, on One to Two Lines] Anna Popp University of San Diego Nursing Philosophical Statement Nursing A nurse is someone who cares for others so that they can be restored to physical, emotional, and/or mental wholeness. It is an art form of humanitarian caring which is based upon medical science. It is assumed that nursing aims to deliver adjustment services to clients so that they may better function in the world and feel good about themselves in so doing.…
Nurses may not like their patients, feel like being at work, or have a million other things going on in life, but they do their jobs. Nurses are bound to their patient’s needs. They follow the rules of…
Nursing is about making others feel comfortable, safe, and satisfied. Like I mentioned before, patient centered care is all about the relationship between the patient and the health care provider with the goal of enhancing the wellbeing of the patient (Boykins, 2014). The main priority of nurses is to improve the health of the patient. To achieve this, the nurse must first build a good relationship with the patient, establish trust, and build confidence. In other words, nursing practice is all about centering their care on the patient and improving the patient’s emotional and physical state.…
I will ensure my patients’ safety by always performing good hand hygiene, using two identifiers for the patient, and utilizing my skill of therapeutic communication to establish a nurse-patient relationship. I believe that getting to know the patient’s background and history, and showing the patient that you want to learn about them and their preferences proves that you are compassionate in your care. It will make the patient feel safer and will allow them to open up and tell you things that might be crucial to their care that they may have otherwise kept to themselves because they weren’t comfortable.…
Throughout the clinical days, I have demonstrate professional values of caring and holism in nursing practice many times. I strongly feel that every single patient deserves the best possibly care. As a nurse, it’s essential to connect with the patient, resulting in trust between each other. An example of demonstrating altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice was when changing my resident ’s depend; I noticed a penny sized lesion on his right buttocks.…
Personal Philosophy of Nursing In order to serve patients most effectively, one must look introspectively and determine what one believes about nursing. This author chose nursing as a profession because nursing is her calling and she has made it her life’s work. For this author, nursing is a culmination of compassion, service, knowledge, teamwork, integrity, and perseverance. While it is true that one may receive the title “Registered Nurse” by going to school and passing an exam, this author believes nursing is something that lives inside a person; it is an inherent desire to heal, protect, advocate, and serve.…
I believe that nursing has developed from being a low wage, low respected and unskilled job to a legitimate, scientific profession. History has shown us that nurses have had to fight to get the respect they deserved from other medical professions and dispel the stereotype. Unfortunately, this fight continues to this day. History has also told us that the job of the nurse was to basically keep the patient clean, feed, bathe, and take the patient outside for some fresh air, no questions asked. To a degree, the actual cares for our patients has not changed, however now we DO ask questions.…
Patient care is an important part of the experience one has in a hospital or medical setting. Sometimes, the care the patient receives is the first and last thing that they remember. Overall, providing quality care is such a crucial part to the hospital/ medical care experience and is often what the patients leave with. My patient was at the hospital for a routine brain work up. The patient suffers with early onset dementia.…
Nursing goes beyond caring for a patient during their illness and managing their disease process. Nursing includes adapting to a patient’s and their family’s physical, social, spiritual, environmental and psychological needs. I believe in treating the whole patient and being supportive of the family’s needs as well. Shelly & Miller (2006) asserts “while critical thinking, decision making, and leadership skills are extremely important, the characteristics nurses need most are compassion, competence, faith, integrity and responsibility” (p. 291).…
Nurses are the closest to the patient and we should always advocate for the patient even when it goes against our opinion and beliefs. The amount of support is beneficial to the patient because they feel like someone is listening to their feelings and problems. Also as a nurse, we should report when we see a doctor or any other healthcare professionals is doing something to the patient that is not right such as giving an injection that the patient doesn’t want or making a diagnose that isn’t correct. We could lose our license if we don’t say anything about it. Therefore, good communication and being honest are important when being a nurse and taking care of a patient like this or any other types of…
I will do my best to understand their history, illness, and treatment to keep them informed and updated on their health status. I will always put my patient first and encourage them to communicate fears, stories, needs, hopes, and comforts to have a better understanding of the most efficient way to help them recover. As I gain more knowledge on how to efficiently care for patients, I will progress daily on becoming a better nurse. Caring is an ongoing process that never ends, so nursing is a challenge will conquer every day with a smile on my face. There are no words that can express how excited I am to become the best nurse I can be.…
REFLECTIVE JOURNAL 2 Running head: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL 1 Reflective Journal Tsering Lama Tamang George Brown College February 22th, 2018 Nursing Ethics Description When I was working as an RN in Nepal, I had a patient who was 16yrs old, and it was her third time to have an abortion. She came alone to the clinic looking scared, worried and requested me not to disclose her name.…