While reading on journals on nurses, I chose these two main ones: pediatric nurses and critical care nurses. The article on pediatric nurses that deal with babies born with mitochondrial disease really caught my attention. Because mitochondrial disease is a genetic disorder, many parents believe to feel guilty that their child is suffering and they tend to feel lost or angry. Mitochondria is found in every cell of your body other than erythrocytes and the mitochondrial disease is when a group of disorders are in effect in the mitochondria. In the article, it mentioned they had done a questionnaire and gave it to several parents that had children born with the disease or knew anyone who had it. There were two different questionnaires given out
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At the beginning of the article it mentions how hard is can be for new critical care nurses without previous experience. Nurses in the intensive care unit a hospital are well trained resources and always there when needed extra support for a patient. Before the program, each critical care nurse is brought into a meeting about their daily expectations. They fill out a daily evaluation tool used by the RNs and they are given a post orientation assessment (Brindise). A survey was done on critical care nurses and it stated thirty percent of nurses just starting out quit within the first two years. These types of nurse’s deal with it all like carcinoma for instance. Any person that is diagnosed with any type of cancerous tumors or anything like that are usually in the Intensive care unit if they are extremely sick and treated with chemo and radiation which is very serious dealing with. Another example would be if someone has had a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or a Myocardial Infarction or a heart attack and are put in the intensive care unit because why would the doctors put you in a regular hospital room when you need to be taken care of nonstop and watched in case of any changes with your condition. You’d automatically be in the ICU because it is a life or death situation and very serious, it’s not like having a small fracture in the
At the beginning of the article it mentions how hard is can be for new critical care nurses without previous experience. Nurses in the intensive care unit a hospital are well trained resources and always there when needed extra support for a patient. Before the program, each critical care nurse is brought into a meeting about their daily expectations. They fill out a daily evaluation tool used by the RNs and they are given a post orientation assessment (Brindise). A survey was done on critical care nurses and it stated thirty percent of nurses just starting out quit within the first two years. These types of nurse’s deal with it all like carcinoma for instance. Any person that is diagnosed with any type of cancerous tumors or anything like that are usually in the Intensive care unit if they are extremely sick and treated with chemo and radiation which is very serious dealing with. Another example would be if someone has had a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or a Myocardial Infarction or a heart attack and are put in the intensive care unit because why would the doctors put you in a regular hospital room when you need to be taken care of nonstop and watched in case of any changes with your condition. You’d automatically be in the ICU because it is a life or death situation and very serious, it’s not like having a small fracture in the