Nursing Essay

OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING 1 My View of the Philosophy of Nursing Submitted by Colleen Hendy, RN In partial fulfillment of the requirements of Transition to Professional Nursing Fall 2016 Course # N3345 Jeanean Boyd, MSN, RN October 7, 2016 MY VIEW OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING 2 MY VIEW OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING…

Making decisions is an important part of maturing into an adult. Deciding on what I wanted to do with my life was just as difficult as it was important. Combining my aspiration to serve with my fascination with medical science, I recognized nursing to integrate my aspiration and fascination simultaneously. Aspiring to serve, I originally joined the Army as an Infantryman. One would not naturally think that an infantryman would have any fascination with medical science. This is not necessarily…

Patient Satisfaction and Nursing Visibility In order to review performance and improvement, data are compressed into an easily interpreted dashboard. A compiled dashboard highlights the variances, compares them to both historic institutional data, and benchmarks the facility against similar facilities. Organizations are able to focus on areas of needed change by interpreting the raw data and analyzing trends (Brown, Aydin, & Donaldson, 2008). The purpose of this assignment is to review a…

Susan, a nursing supervisor on the oncology floor has just been informed her unit is closing and merging with a medical surgical unit due to low census. She has been two weeks to prepare an argument discussing rationale for unit closing, a plan of action and the nursing philosophy of management in making this decision. The Chief of Nursing’s rationale for closing the unit is based on budget cuts and continuous low census. The oncology unit census has been below fifty percent capacity. This unit…

Nursing Personal Goals and Values There are many professions in this world. As a child we always say we want to be doctors, firefighters, or even ballerinas. As a child I wanted to be a rock singer and then a writer and even at one point an art major. Like everyone else in this world we change what we want to do with our lives all the time. Many people still do not know what they want to do until their sophomore year in college or even later than that. All throughout high school almost everyone…

them and comfort them. I would daydream about nursing; I loved it that much. I have been in the healthcare field for approximately 15 years. I graduated as Nurse in Cuba, in August 2000, after completing the nursing career program at the “Higher institute of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos”, from 1995 to 2000. After graduating I worked in the General Hospital Medical-Surgical. On my nursing practice was as Emergency Care Nurse, working as a staff nursing there of the Emergency…

will exhibit competence all through their vocations. The nursing profession must direct educators and employers for guaranteeing nurse competence. Nursing standards must be put in place and enforced to protect the patients. The employer must be held accountable for providing continued education to support competent nursing practice. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has made significant and ongoing contributions to ensure that nursing professionals are provided the knowledge and tools…

The Health and Medicine Division (HMD) is a private non-profit organization that advises the private and public sector on issues related to public health. On October 5, 2010, The HMD released a research paper entitled “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” At the time this report was published HMD was known as the Institute of Medicience. This report recommended that nurses take on a more important role in the American health care system. More specifically the report…

on patients outcomes as the number of falls have decreased drastically in the past several months. There is a team which implements evidence-based fall-prevention protocols, and sustains and develops such preventive interventions into measures of nursing care…

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. I informed both the charge and wound nurse as well as the nursing assistant. I feel it’s…