Good Laboratory Practice

As we are at the end of this class, I reflect on what I have learned and what I will take with me and use in my nursing practice, I came to a conclusion that this course has helped me to better myself. It has taught me very valuable skills that I will take not only to my professional life but also to my personal as well. Along with expanding my knowledge of nursing research, there were also topics throughout this course that I found not only to be exciting to learn about but also instrumentally…

It is estimated that approximately 750,000 children with special health care needs (CSHCN) transition from pediatric to adult care in the United States every year. To ease the change, transitional care is utilized to provide support needed through the use of provider, parent and patient education. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the American College of Physicians (ACP), as well as a Healthy People 2020 recommend the use of…

Lawyer, a profession that practices or studies law, is a career I wish to pursue because I could help innocent people, have an intellectual challenge, and have flexibility. I have been interested in this career for along time, but I just thought I could actually become a lawyer. The reason why I like this career is the challenge of becoming a lawyer. For instant every state has their own set of laws a lawyer has to follow, or the lawyer could get into a lot of trouble. The only challenge I think…

Medical drama has always been a fairly popular genre on television, but it has grown so much within the past few years. What exactly is medical drama? A medical drama is a televised show that has a setting of a hospital, or surgery room, and typically has characters acting as doctors or nurses. During these medical shows more events happen beyond the medical part, and goes further than the events that pertain to the characters’ job. A typical medical drama portrays some aspects of characters’…

include adultery. Polly is help to certain standards as a paralegal and should not engage in unauthorized practice of law. Therefore, Polly should not answer Mr. Smith’s question. Paralegals have certain ethical standards and rules they must follow. The National Association of Legal Assistants states that paralegals should not engage in any act that can be classified as unauthorized practice of law. Legal Assistants should not give legal advice or give their legal opinions to clients or…

present an analysis and explanation on why I did not transform my meaning perspectives after learning her theory, and kept my original definition of each concept of nursing metaparadigm. Lastly, I will provide a learning experience in my clinical practice and relate it to my own definition of paradigm. Watson’s theory is well known worldwide as the heart of present-day…

identify which paradigm my thinking represents. Also I will summarize Neuman’s key ideas associated with the nursing concepts, compare them to my own definition of the nursing paradigm and explore how I can apply Neuman Systems Model in my nursing practice. Meaning Perspective of the Nursing Concepts As mentioned in the first part of the analysis, the transformation in my knowledge occurred after transitioning to Canadian nursing, and resulted in my deeper understanding…

guidelines for nursing professionals. Nursing theories maybe generalized, offering wholesome guideline on the whole nursing professional or specialized to fit specific practice aspects in the nursing profession. The study of nursing theories is important since they provide useful thinking strategies that make everyday nursing practices easier and…

as the concepts and assumptions used to explain, predict and control the practice of nursing. These theories provide a systematic view of the profession by organizing the relationships between all of the phenomena (i.e. events, people, and actions) that are associated with practice (Current Nursing, 2012). Nursing theories serve multiple purposes within the profession such as indicating the direction in which the practice will advance over time by predicting future relationships and occurrences…

As early as 1854, Florence Nightingale demonstrated the importance of research in the delivery of nursing care. Two major approaches originate from different philosophical perspectives and use different methods for collection and analysis of data. There are several important steps in the conduct of research, and each of these requires decision making by the researcher. Nurses use various sources of knowledge to make clinical decisions. Intuition, trial and error, tradition, authority, and…