Nightingale

The first book review of Chicken Soup for the Nurse’s soul by Jack Canfield et al was written by Brenda Cook in the scholarly journal AORN Journal. This review’s argument is that the book contains stories that strengthen and refreshes nurse experts’ spirits. Every story is a very easy and short read. It reminds nurses the human side of their job preventing them from getting lost with the technology side. The second book review of Chicken Soup for the Nurse’s soul that I chose was written by…

Organizational Assessment This assignment will address the use of evidence based practice in a hospital in the metro area. Using assessment tools provided by the instructor, it is the goal of this assignment to look for areas of improvement in implementing evidence based practice by interviewing leaders and staff within the organization. Four staff nurses and two middle management individuals were surveyed. The staff nurse surveys are given more credence as to how well evidence-based…

Health literacy is the ability to understand spoken, written, and numerical information. This allows the patient to make informed decisions about their health care, making them feel empowered to take control of their health (Eadie, 2014). Approximately 90 million Americans suffer from low health literacy, according to The Institute of Medicine, as reported by Eadie (2014), which leads to higher healthcare costs and poor health management of patients with comorbidities because they are unable to…

These past eight weeks have been an eye opener for me as I reflect on the changes that have taken place in the nursing profession over the past several decades. I do believe that nurses have their work cut out to change the way that the public perceives them. Nurses are not doctor’s assistances or someone that couldn’t get into a medical school. Nurse are knowledgeable, compassionate, leaders and they make life and death decisions everyday. Only nurses can change the way on how the public views…

Nursing is one of the most complex careers an individual could pursue. To me, nursing means many things. Caring is what first comes to mind. A nurse is 100% involved in the well being of their patients, which means putting the patients’ needs ahead of everything else and doing everything possible to meet those needs. But nursing also requires critical thinking. Many people view nursing as just performing tasks like giving baths, but it is so much more than that. One could say nurses are…

Nursing has been my passion ever since I was a little girl growing in the West African country of The Gambia. When I was little, I was infected with malaria and got admitted at the hospital. I was cared for by one terrific nurse who gave me the utmost care possible. Ever since, she and I became dear friends because of her caring and hearted behavior towards me. That day, I made a pledge to her that one day I would like to be caring nurse like her .I believe I would have died of malaria illness…

During the manager shadowing clinical, I had to observe a manager of inter-professional development clinical technology and nursing practice in order to become more aware of the role of a nursing manager. The purpose of this paper is to integrate concepts from class into the manager shadowing aspect of clinical. These concepts include leadership and/or management styles, communication style (nursing, interdisciplinary, conflict), staffing, financial/budget, and quality improvement/focus on…

A preceptor is an experienced nurse who assists in teaching and orientating a new staff member or student to the area. The preceptor is a role model and educator and helps to link the preceptees knowledge and apply it to the clinical area (O'Shea, 2002). In this essay the writer will discuss the role of a preceptor and how they assist in linking nursing theory to practice in a clinical area. The support of the preceptor in the precptee gaining competency in two domains of practice will also be…

“Every single day you learn something new,” Nurse Medina says, “ and if you look at everything there is usually never a double moment.” Medina works in the Emergency Room (ER) at Lenox Hill Hospital where she experiences different situations that occur in the department. Nursing isn’t as simple as it sounds. Working twelve-hour shifts with different scenarios every day is arduous for the nurse practitioner that manages the ER. Working in the ER to save a life may sound a bit cliche, “But when…

I understand the value of a quality preceptorship clinical experience plays on my development an entry level nurse. I personally want a placement site that will better prepare me for the demands of real world nursing, and prepare me for my nursing board exams (NCLEX). I feel that placement in a medical-surgical unit help me to meet my goals best and provide me with a great learning opportunity. The practice and competency goals that I would like to achieve center around building on my nursing…