Issues in Nursing and Health Care 408 Professor Theresa Lundy May 18th , 2015 This paper explains the relationship between the helping role in nursing and the concept of trust essential to healing. It describes aiding as the moral center of the nurse-patient relationship and reflects how patient’s expectations of help and caring create obligations of trustworthiness on the part of the nurse. Trust is an essential and universal concept found in most aspect of our lives. In clinical nursing, it is…
The United States is a culturally diverse country that brings forth many differences in health care beliefs and practices. All cultures have each individual system of health beliefs explaining the cause of illness, how it can be treated or cured, as well as where to acquire treatment. The word culture is associated with norms, values, and traditions passed down through generations (Potter, Perry, Hall, & Stockert, 2017, p. 102). In other words, culture reveals how people think, do, and respond to…
Nursing is at the center of health care in these great nations. The healthcare systems are evolving rapidly and so is nursing. There is a high demand for safe, high quality and effective health care, which cannot be compromised. For all this to happen there has to be changes put in place, considering the series of chronic disease plaguing this nation. Discussing the impact of the Institutes of medicine (IOM) report on nursing, the nurses role as a leader, nursing education, nursing practice, particularly…
Kaakinen’s definition of “family health care nursing?” What is your own vision of family nursing? What from your readings “resonates” with your own personal thoughts on family nursing? Kaakinen, et al (2015) identified family health care nursing as providing healthcare needs to families that are within the nurses scope of practice and is intended to address all four approaches of viewing a family to treat the family as a whole (p.8). My personal view of what family nursing is, and what the expected…
Disaster planning for a health care organization is priority and a responsibility for the community that resides in the geographical area. Providing quality care during a disaster will create a positive and caring atmosphere and also save many lives of the community. The people in the community are friends, family, and neighbors who serve the community and who are patients that come in for regular checkups. Therefore, the health care organization needs to take disaster planning serious because the…
to Canadian institute of health information “Advance care planning or advance directives are associated with better patient experience and lower costs for the health system (2016, p.11). Health care providers hold the accountability to educate and inform the patient to scrutinize treatment options and to help them to make preferences by “engaging patient and families to reflect on their values, understand their disease process and progression, and develop a palliative care plan” (Dahlin, Coyne and…
Nursing has not always been viewed as the skilled and polished profession that it is today. In nursing’s primitive beginning there were no set rules, regulations, or protocols follow nor were there any professional training offered to those in charge of caring for the ill and injured. Nursing was not even considered to be a true profession. Instead most nurses were mother’s caring for ill family members or women who volunteered to care for injured solders during times of war. During this time “neither…
NMIH101 Self-awareness This essay will explore some of the aspects of self-awareness, with description and definition for use to the health care worker in the health care setting from various educators in all fields of health care from various aspects of evidence-based practice that involves, includes and is open to developmental learning for continuous improvement with Client-Health Care Worker outcomes. Self-awareness is the mental, psychological and physical attributes that are ingrained…
“The nursing profession is the largest segment in the nation`s health care workforce”. (IOM, 2010).So as stated, nursing has a lot of impact in the advancement of the health care system. According to IOM report, they are many areas in nursing that needs to be tackled but the most crucial ones are nursing education, nursing practice and nurse leadership. The IOM report put an emphasis on nursing education. Education is an important segment in the nursing profession. The more…
always in the forefront of changing the status quo relating to the everyday operations of nursing practice. It seems that the more advances are made in nursing, the more responsibilities are placed on nurses. This trend is going to continue for nursing as health care reform is being placed to provide care and allow easier access to people who normally wouldn’t receive medical attention. The need for nursing will also continue to grow due to people living longer in their golden years than before…