Clinical nurse leader

on their beliefs and values, the end of life process is peaceful and has minimal suffering involved. The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model is a great tool for nurses to use when it comes to caring for patients of a different culture. This paper takes that model and applies it to Buddhism and how a nurse can care for a Buddhist patient at the end of life stage. Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model In 1988, Dr. Joyce Newman Giger and Dr. Ruth Davidhizar…

Imagine the irony. A brain scientist that had a stroke. My Stroke of Insight is a biography through the eyes of Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. She was a Harvard medical student who had her own experience of what she studies. One day she woke up and realized she something wasn’t right. This book shows you what she was thinking, and how she got on her road to recovery. If it wasn’t for the help of friends, family, and doctors, she wouldn’t be where she is today. Throughout My Stroke of Insight, Taylor…

Scenario #v1: Mary and the Bell’s Freight Lines While it seems that she case a case, it must be very difficult to prove discrimination for her disability. The information in this scenario it is indicating that the hiring personnel told her that her disability is one the reasons, they did not hire her. Under the ADA’s laws, Bell’s Fright Lines is clearly discriminating her. As a consequence, she has a case. She is most likely to prevail, because the hiring personnel expressed this reason.…

WIC Impact Reflection I. Date, time, place, setting. Purpose, focus of care This clinical took place on November 21st at the WIC clinic in Rock Valley, Iowa. The purpose of this clinic is to create partnerships with women, infants, and children in the community with the goal of meeting their individual nutritional needs. There were a variety of services offered at this clinic including a general check-up, dental screening, iron level screening, nutritional education and checkup, and other…

Annotated Bibliography Ahmed, Sarah. “A Phenomenology of Whiteness.” Feminist Theory. 8.2 (2007): 149-68. PDF. Ahmed argues that Whiteness can be understood more completely by approaching it through phenomenology. She posits that Whiteness, as a dominant ideological construct, situates bodies and objects in particular relationships. By studying the ways that those bodies and objects interact, and which bodies and objects draw attention to their interaction (a non-white body in a white space…

Introduction Occupational health nurses face a plethora of ethical issues throughout their everyday practice. An obstacle persists when the occupational health nurse faces an ethical issue, in which they are unable to act on their ethical obligations due to a variety of constraints (Canadian Nurses Association, 2003). This phenomenon is also known as ethical distress. Ethical distress is of utmost importance as this can be an expression of a nurses’ sensitivity to the moral aspects of practice,…

ESSAY“FAMILY MEDICINE”- A SPECIALTY.. A WAY OF LIFE INTRODUCTION Family medicine has been recognised as a specialty for decades in many countries. Like recognised specialties, family medicine has a defined body of knowledge, skills and attitudes, a research base and a post graduate training program. Despite its central and generalised importance to our discipline it is a “speciality”, unlike other specialties which deals only with a specific system…

Plunket Nurses are considered to be the backbone of child welfare in the New Zealand health system. This essay will describe the function and responsibilities of a Plunket Nurse. Key drivers for the development of a Plunket Nurse will be described along with an evaluation of the impact of the nurse in primary health care (PHC). The scope of development of the Plunket Nurse’s role in future will also be identified and explored. The main function of Plunket Nurses is to assess &intervene for…

Theory and Rationale For my concept analysis, I am interested in researching is patient advocacy and how nurses use the concept in critical situations, such as placing a patient in comfort measures only. For my research, I discover that Katharine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory will work best with my patient advocacy concept. The rationale behind the Comfort Theory is that it presents how the nurse cares for the needs of the patient; whether they are critically ill or not. In comparison to patient…

the patient. However, nursing foundation is based on providing a knowledge based care for the patient. If the nurse has tremendous amount of information but is not able to pass it on to the patient who gets the benefit? The patients need the care and this care is the main responsibility of the care provider. This…