Medical specialties

4.1.1 Empowering service users and equality Based on the theories of neo-classical economics, Greener (2008) proposes two main types of benefits of the promotion of markets in welfare service delivery: empowering purchasing power of service users, and improving competition and efficiency of providers. These benefits of marketisation represent in the field of care for older people. The market provision empowers service users to ‘exercise consumer sovereignty’ (Greener, 2008) through greater…

Nursing Educator Interview I recently had the opportunity to sit with the Nursing Educator at my local hospital to ask her a series of questions regarding her profession. During her 30 years as a nurse she has gained a plethora of knowledge, experience and critical thinking skills. As a nurse holding a masters degree in the science of nursing, she actively uses her clinical abilities within the acute and critical care unit while also successfully functioning as a nursing educator. After 5…

Introduction Trying to find a theory that can be used and have been used to help with such great problem such as nurse shortage was a challenge. After studying and reading many of the theorist models, Jean Watson nursing model stood out the most. The nurse literature reveals when supporting nurse staffing, it can warrant a quality of care from the nurses for their patients (Douglas, K. 2011). This task for the hospital administrator all the way down to the nurse manager, has come a great…

2.2 Marketisation of home care for older people The older care at home in this study would include the care services of personal routines, including nursing, body-related support, home help and befriending taken place at older people’s home by paid care worker rather than family members, following the embracement of domiciliary elderly care of Bode et al (2013) and Bolton and Wibberley (2014). The home care has been increasingly operated according to market mechanism and portrayed as the ideal…

Goal #1: Relate your goal to the competencies indicated under each standard. I want to build on my pre-existing knowledge from past classes to develop my own principles of hospice palliative care that correlate with me to incorporate it in my practice. Measurable Outcome (s): (How will you and others know when you have reached your goal?) This is measurable by creating my own principles of hospice palliative care by completing the strategies I have listed. I will seek for feedback from my peers…

College of Nursing, 12401 Willowbrook Rd, Cumberland, MD 21502 Professional Employment: Operating room nurse, January 2016-current, Western Maryland Regional Medical Center. The circulating nurse that takes care of patients while the surgeon is operating on them. Operating room technician, September 2003-January 2016, Western Maryland Regional Medical Center. Assisting the surgeon with surgeries by passing and holding instruments. Presentations: I currently do in-services for co-workers like…

Family Nurse Practitioner vs. Nurse Administrator There are many various roles within healthcare that one can choose as a career path. Many choose a route that directly impacts patient care via treatment care plans while others choose to collaborate with other disciplines through an indirect patient care profession that impacts and improves the patient’s overall care experience. Regardless of the route, the goals in healthcare are the same, to provide safety and the highest level of…

Health Care Report on Neonatal Nurses Neonatal nursing is a specialized area of nursing that works with newborn infants who are born with different health problems like; prematurity, birth defects, infection, cardiac malformations, and surgical problems. The first month of life is known as the neonatal period for newborns, which is where the practice got its name. These newborns are often sick for months. Neonatal nurse jobs involve care for those infants who experience problems after birth,…

My mother has been receiving treatment for diabetes for many years now. A few years ago, my mother called me while I was away at school. She told me she was excited because she had been referred to a new endocrinologist who had taken the time to help her understand what was going on with her body in her language. He outlined a plan of care with her that would take her through the next few years. Step by step, he would work with her to manage the effects that diabetes had already caused and…

I have decided to pursue an advanced degree in nursing because of my love for science, healthcare and helping others. It has always been a passion for me to help families in any way that I can. I have had the honor of working closely with some amazing nurses when I worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant and I saw some of the responsibilities that nurses have. The nurses I worked with performed many tasks like, physical exams, coordinating doctor’s appointments, administering and prescribing…