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Nurse’s should be required to have background checks. Nurses are entrusted with a tremendous amount of responsibility. This responsibility is not something that should be taken lightly. It is imperative that schools, employers, and coworkers understand that nursing is life and death. Background checks on all students trying to become nurses would help prevent bad individuals from even being able to get the education in order to become a nurse. Routine background checks would help guarantee…

In today’s society, it’s hard to imagine nursing as a wanted job by males. Look around a hospital or a doctor’s office: women will be looked at as nurses while men will be looked at as doctors. The blame should be placed on society itself. Parent’s tell their son to look down at nursing due to its feminine features it receives. Instead, parents push for their son to become a doctor or physician while they tell their daughter to pursue nursing because females don’t get respected as doctors as men…

‘The Making of a Nurse’ by Tilda Shalof is an interesting, informative and thought-provoking book. From Tilda’s perspective, one is able to navigate through the life of a nurse in the ICU section. While reading the book, there were a lot of interesting parts that struck me but three most important ones to me include the general treatment of nurses, the issue of nurses working harder and faster and futility treatments. To start with, I was sadly touched by the way nurses were being treated in…

AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION ON STRESS AMONG HR EXECUTIVES OF HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY IN CHENNAI C. Natarajan, Dr. R. Ramesh Kumar Research Scholar, University of Madras & Associate Professor, Tamilnadu Institute of Labour Studies, Chennai Abstract The Health care industry is today very turbulent and dynamic As a result employees face a lot of work related stress which makes it difficult at time even for them to have a proper balance between work life and personal life This is true in spite…

The Human Body is a complex system with many sub systems intertwining to create a whole. When looking at the nursing profession, this same concept is applied. No patient will be exactly like another, an individual is “a bio-psycho-social-spiritual being in a constant interaction with their environment” (Potter and Perry, 2006, p.62). Nurses must be able to break down an individual into their sub systems to get an accurate understanding of who they are as a person. Our Coat of Arm’s is a…

''Women Within'' by Daniela C. dos Santos 1. Introduction In the current paper ''Woman Within'', the author has divided her work into four sections. The introduction gives a general overview of the topic and the reasons behind choosing the topic. The author, also, discusses the various challenges women are facing within the mining industry, as the most male-dominated space, with particular focus on womens' position in corporation legal counselling. She states that in such a male-dominated…

McCrae Article Reaction Paper The struggle for nurses to gain recognition for a well-developed theoretical framework in their practice has until this day been a difficult challenge. The article by McCrae (2012) stated many different factors that explain why or how the models of nursing fail to bridge the gap between theory and practice. This essay will describe some of those challenges. Discussion: Summary & Opinions The arguments about nursing models were the following. Nursing eludes…

Leadership and Managements Role in Substance Abuse Among Nurses Karen is a nurse in her sixties that has worked at the long-term care facility on the dementia unit for the past 30 years. She is quiet, reserved and well respected by her coworkers. Amber recently started working at the care facility on the day shift with Karen on the dementia unit. Shortly after Amber began working at the facility, management noticed counts were incorrect for narcotics and Ativan. Shirley, the manager, quickly…

Non-maleficence: When word is spread by mouth, more people have access to that information, and sometimes instead of doing harm, it might help her in finding methods of treatment for condition and gaining extra care and concern from her colleagues when working. However, through this process of gaining information, it breaches her confidentiality and damages her pride, bringing her emotional and self-esteem harm. Fidelity: One of the oath in the nurse’s pledge states that nurses should always…

Nursing perspective is a vital structure to nursing practice because it provides the ethic of caring and help nurses reflects on how their backgrounds influence their practice. For most nurses, their approach to nursing care is adopted and relates to humanistic values of kindness, care, empathy, love and desire to help others. It is rooted in personal beliefs and principles, which is influenced by family, cultural background, religious teaching, education, environment, and other life…