Diploma in Nursing

Foreign Nurses: Global Migration, Competencies and Socialization For many countries, global migration of foreign nurses has become essential for their nursing workforce. For the U.S, migration of foreign nurses has been helping with the high demand for nurses and has been providing adequate patient-center care for the many different cultures around the country. Many foreign nurses have difficult transitioning from their origin norms to the U.S norms which sometimes makes difficult for foreign…

A final initiative that may be successful in addressing the impending nursing shortage is to recruit RN’s and LPN’s. There are currently three individuals from the area in the RN program and have expressed a desire to return to the community. If the health region could be successful in recruiting these three nursing students it would do a great deal to reduce the shortage. The health service manager knows the individuals and should be in contact with them to recruit them to the area before they…

Communication (how was health information relayed to this client base? Communication was based upon the patient’s developmental level. For the younger children, the nurse would describe what she was doing before assessing and treating the patient. This helped relieve fear and anxiety related to course of treatment. For extra young children, especially a three year old, the nurse was able to communicate based upon demonstrating on the child’s mom. This was done so the child could see what the…

Nursing: In Safe Hands One thing that is continuously spoken about in school and in clinical rotations is patient safety. The Massachusetts Department of Higher Education has created ten Core Competencies for the nurse of the future. “In the model, nursing knowledge has been placed at the core to represent how nursing knowledge in its totality reflects the overarching art and science of the nursing profession and discipline” (Massachusettes Department of Higher Education, 2010). Knowledge…

Decision Making in Nursing Nurses make decisions that have life and death implications (Payne, 2015). Nurses must be accountable for their decisions as well as the consequences of those actions (College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, 2012). Clinical decision making is a complex process that requires the nurse to draw from personal knowledge, client history, previous clinical experience, as well as intuition (Banning, 2008; Benner, 1984; Blum, 2010; Payne, 2015; Tanner, 2006). These…

to influence government policy especially in the area of health. For example, in 2014, there were 377,191 qualified Nurses working on the NHS alone (HSCIC, 2015b). That is almost the size of bristle city. Since the days of Florence Nightingale, nursing has witnessed examples of outstanding individuals who through their profession demonstrated their capability of shaping health around the world (Mason et al., 2012). From the House of Parliament to Downing Street, nurses have a unique…

are the internal and external factors that define each person. Nursing is taking into consideration that each client has specific interactions within themselves and the world that makes them who they are. If a nurse is to provide whole body care, a systematic approach should be used. The Neuman Systems Model developed by Betty Neuman is an example of how a new nurse can be an effective part of the interdisciplinary team/approach to nursing. According to Neuman (1989, p. 11) “The Neuman Systems…

In a patient-centered care environment, clinical decisions are guided by the patient’s preferences, needs and values (Wolfe, 2001). In our hospital, some patients and family members have asked about the possibility of bringing family pets in to visit. Nurses will sometimes secretly allow these visits during less crowded visitation times such as evenings and weekends. However, as our hospital becomes more patient centered, and the requests quite possibly become more frequent, the need for an…

As part of the nursing school curriculum, the student nurse are required to interview a member of the community, to find an article that matches their case study, and to compare the findings with the interviewee’s conditions. On October 15th, 2015, I interviewed a member of my Mosque. Her name is PC, and she is 73 years old. She was born and raised in Senegal, West Africa. PC is from Casamance, a region in the southern part of Senegal. She did not start first grade until the age of eight years…

will focus on dealing with substance abuse in the nursing profession. Statistics show that 1 in 7 Registered Nurses (RNs) are at risk for addiction and that RNs have a 50% higher rate of substance abuse than the general public (Epstein, et al., 2010). This paper will show the relevance of substance abuse in nursing while also providing ineffective and effective ways of dealing…