Neonatal nursing

dreamed of becoming a neonatal nurse. Working in the healthcare field would be extremely rewarding because there are endless opportunities to give back to others. When researching neonatal nursing, I discovered the educational requirements, universities offering the degree, the average salary, as well as job openings close to where I currently live. The career outlook and a typical day on the job summary encouraged me even more to become a neonatal nurse. In order to become a neonatal nurse, a…

family studies with a nursing track. My previous major was Human biology. I decided to change my major for many reasons. The main reason I decided to change my major because it seem very relatable to the nursing field. I took a HDFS course my freshman year and it definitely peaked my interest. I took HDFS 212 which is about children, youth, and family. I changed my career goal in the middle of my college career. My focus was to get into medical school, but now I am pursing nursing school. I…

field and many important things to fulfill the tasks needed to work in that field. Finding out about the wide variety of nursing fields can better prepare you for a successful…

the Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approachan academic resource, the American Association of colleges of Nursing (AACN) DNP Essentials and the advance practice registered nurse (APRN) consensus model. According to the conceptual idea of Hamaric (2014) “Advanced practice nursing is the patient-focused application of an expanded range of competencies to improve health outcomes for patients and populations in a specialized clinical area of the larger discipline of nursing” (p. 71). The…

1. What motivated you to pursue nursing school, and to pursue it at this time in your life? I’ve had an interest in the medical field since I was about eight years old. The mind and body is absolutely astonishing. Therefore, I choose nursing as an entrance into the medical field. My mother and the joy of helping people are my main motivations. As for why at this time in my life, there is no better time than the presence. 2. Describe two or more fears that you have about this semester at UTA.…

As I take a look back to the start of this course, I knew little to nothing about the background of this course. I had friends who previously took the course, and with their input, I was still lost. They told me, “you will roll around campus using a wheelchair for the first class session.” However, what they fell to mentioned that this course will change my outlook on life and inspire me to reevaluate my vocabulary. My perspective of people with a disability has changed drastically. As a child…

(Brazelton Nugent 1989) The Neonatal Behavioral Assessment used visual, auditory, and the tactile stimuli. The NBAS was used to judge physical and neurological responses from newborns, it also assessed their emotional well-being and individual differences. (Harvard library) Brazelton goal of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale to evaluate the baby’s contributions to the failures that resulted when parents had…

With predictions that this nursing shortage will be more severe and have a longer duration than previously experienced, traditional strategies implemented by employers will have limited success. The aging nursing workforce, low unemployment, and the global nature of this shortage compound the usual factors that contribute to nursing shortages. For sustained change and assurance of an adequate supply of nurses, solutions must be developed in several areas: education, healthcare delivery systems,…

anger at workload, and frustrated, and a nurse may have verbal abuse. I believe that work demands and lack of time to finish are the major cause of stress for nurses, and the stress can lead to emotional exhaustion. Moreover, the stresses within the nursing environment also include the following factors: uncertainty of duties under…

what caring means as a nurse. To develop this theory, Swanson studied women in three separate perinatal contexts: women who had miscarried, parents with infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, and socially at risk-mothers. When studying these groups, Swanson interviewed each research participant after they had received their nursing care to ask them what constituted caring in their situation. From these interviews, data was gathered and analyzed, and five caring processes were identified.…