Florence Nightingale

Throughout the clinical days, I have demonstrate professional values 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…

My First Clinical Day Five days ago on February 3rd of 2016 was my first clinical day in the Rehabilitation Center in Key West. Today, before starting to write my weekly journal I started to ask myself how I felt on my first day at the clinic?. Four words came to my mind, pride, joy, fear and anxiety. Pride and joy because I am proud of where I’ve come so far as being an immigrant who came to this country as many others looking for their dream without knowing the language or even the culture.…

In a discussion of nursing, care is always a word that seems to pop up. When asked why I want to be a nurse “because I care” is always in the response. “Caring is a phenomenon influencing the ways in which people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another” (Potter, & Perry, et al. 2013 p.80). When looking at this definition I for one can see that caring is nursing and vice versa, you cannot have one without the other. One of the aspects of being a good nurse is having a good…

In the start of nursing school we are taught to take care of ourselves before taking care of others. So why is it that nurses forget to or perhaps ignore their health and wellbeing and become so fatigued? Nurses start their careers full of energy. They are excited to solidify their skills and discover the wonderful challenges and mysteries of healthcare. It does not take long before nurses start to feel the burden of increased workload due to increased number of high acuity patients and reduced…

In any healthcare situation, there is a risk of harm to the public, therefore standards have been created to protect the public. Each state has been given the task of providing their own regulations to the nursing profession (Russell, 2012). Every state may have their own unique regulations for nursing professionals to follow. “The laws of the nursing profession can only function properly if nurses know the current laws governing practice in their state” (Russell, 2012, p.37). How do you know if…

The people in general have a privilege to anticipate that nurses 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…

As a child is born the first interaction they encounter (bad word) is to form an important attachment. The bond that forms between mother and child when the child is only moments old is to solidify their bond. Although placing the child on mother’s chest is a form of comfort to relieve the stress of birth on baby and a way to keep baby warm; it is also the first time the baby becomes attached to another being outside of the womb. (back this up). Cookman (2005) et al. states that attachment is a…

Martha Dancy is the leader I have observed in my career that inspire myself and others to make a change. Martha became the Director of Nursing (DON) at the skilled nursing facility I was working at the time. Before she took over as a DON she was a nurse on the unit, I have always seen her as a leader, she possesses the qualities to lead, people listened and follow her. She leads by examples and she always offer herself as a resource to others. I learned a great deal from her as a new nurse and I…

The statistical test to find out the correlation between work fatigue with the nurse performance in giving nursing care, showed very strong inverted relationship (p =-0807). Thus, it can be concluded that increased work fatigue can lead to decreased performance of nurses. According to the authors, work fatigue occurs due to excessive workload. It caused the increasing number of patients exceeds to total bed capacity, whereas the number of nurses is inadequate. On the other hand, the nurses are…

This is an excellent research article on the Workplace Incivility (WPI). The research has proved that the Nurse leader’s role is very important in ensuring a healthy work environment. The author Patricia (2011), has quoted the definition of WPI as “low intensity deviant behavior with ambiguous intent to harm the target, in violation of workplace norms for mutual respect. Uncivil behaviors are characteristically rude and discourteous, displaying a lack of regard for others (Pearson, 1999).…