Diploma in Nursing

This essay will bring an understanding of the need for cultural awareness and competency in nursing practice in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait people, known as Indigenous people of Australia. Different factors responsible for chronic illnesses in Indigenous population will be explained and how nurses can help in conquering the gap between Indigenous and non Indigenous population in relation to health. Emphasis will be on how ethnocentric human nature can affect health adversely. It…

another field of nursing and how the skills of the health professionals in that field of nursing are used for caring for patients. Paediatric nursing involves working with sick and vulnerable patients from birth through to adolescent they are specialised in caring for children. Paediatric nursing entails skills that are similar to that of other branches of nursing such as communication skills and listening skills however some of the skills that paediatric nursing entails are…

A Nursing Philosophy of Advocacy Robert M Petro RN USA College of Nursing - NU 410 – Fall 2014 A Nursing Philosophy of Advocacy The profession of nursing has matured from the time of Florence Nightingale to the present. Nursing has gone from just treating dying soldiers on the battle field to helping guide people through their entire lives from birth to death. Nurses have become instrumental in the health and well being of the population helping with preventing illness and helping those…

automatically go to “Doctors”. However the majority of the medical field consists of the underdogs, like nurses and nursing assistants. Nurses particularly take on the great load of important work that doctors do not have the time to do. As well as nursing assistants take on lots of work that the nurse does not have time for. The evaluation will focus primarily on Registered Nursing and the entire process that comes along with the profession. Registered Nurses, commonly referred to as RN’s, are…

The Institute of Medicine report (IOM), The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Heath, is a thorough examination of how nurse’s roles, responsibilities, and education should change to meet the needs of an aging, increasingly diverse population and to respond to a complex evolving health care system (Foundation, 2015).It emphasizes on the registered nurse using the full extent of their education, training, competencies, and collaboration with other medical staff to provide higher quality…

transforming healthcare is to ever be realized. The report suggests that the nursing profession must produce leader at every level of the system and accept key leadership position in policy, politics, organizations and practice”(Nursing center, 2016). This paper discusses author’s the strength and weakness related to the personal and professional accountability, career planning, personal…

Every state board of nursing has a predetermined list of competencies that are established in order to serve as a guide to ensure safe nursing care. . A competency is defined as “an expected level of performance that integrates knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgment” (American Nurses Association, 2008, p.3). There are three major areas of differences in the competencies in the Associate-Degreed (AND) nurse versus the Baccalaureate-degreed (BSN) nurse The areas are…

of employees on orientation, managers, staff using vacation hours, employee taking education classes, and ancillary staff members not being applied to surgical minutes during the operation. Ancillary staff members include, central sterile supply, nursing assistants, charge nurses, and sterile processing department. Management of productivity is adjusted on a regular basis by offering low census days to employees when the surgical schedule is light or sending staff home when cases are completed.…

Introduction When we talk about “Never Events” in medicine, we are referring to a list of errors or adverse events that should never happen to a patient while in the care of a hospital or physician. Some examples are wrong site surgery, mismatched blood transfusion, or hospital acquired pressure ulcers. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) defines Never Events as “serious, preventable and costly medical errors”. Never Events and “Serious Reportable Events” share the same meaning…

According to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (2006), there are four domains. Each standard addresses a major practice (functional) area for registered nurses and health care workers. Each standard has a major component and describes the key elements of the standard in ways that are possible to measure. They refer to practice which works well together in relation to heath professional - client with mutual respect for each other contributions, and effective communication that can make…