Notes on Nursing

Menorah Park. After this assessment the admission nurse decided that the patient needed interventions since she was deemed a high risk for falls and decided she needed a bed and chair alarm. Cheryl Lukasik, RN, who was the Associate Director of Nursing at Menorah Park at the time of Ms. Bolek’s stay testified to the following: Q: Just to be clear, every new resident isn’t given an alarm? A: No, it’s patient specific. Q: All right. It’s done - - that decision is made after the assessment?…

Paper R. Michael March Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Role Preparation Paper Introduction A Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) is a health professional that specializes in the diagnoses and treatment of patients with a wide age range, from children to the elderly. They are licensed registered nurses with advance academic and clinical training affording them an increased skill set. Nurse practitioners provide both medical and nursing care under their own licenses. As healthcare providers,…

week’s shadowing and what I would like for her to help me with. The next ethics meeting is on the 18th which I will attend. For now one of my goals is to interview a nursing administrator who is an active member of a professional organization. TV made several phone calls and found several administrators who are members of a professional nursing organization. However, everyone…

Philosophy of Nursing In order to serve patients most effectively, one must look introspectively and determine what one believes about nursing. This author chose nursing as a profession because nursing is her calling and she has made it her life’s work. For this author, nursing is a culmination of compassion, service, knowledge, teamwork, integrity, and perseverance. While it is true that one may receive the title “Registered Nurse” by going to school and passing an exam, this author believes…

the nursing profession began with a legacy known as Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale started the basic fundamentals of patient care which is still taught in nursing schools around the world. Her greatest legacy to the nursing profession is the fact that she elevated nursing to a higher degree of professionalism and respectability than ever before.” Nurses have come a long way since then, and have to go by the standards of practice. Nursing Councils Code of Conduct, Scopes of Nursing…

Telenursing: Is It In My Future? Holly Thomason Chamberlain College of Nursing NR361: Information Systems in Healthcare September 2015 Telenursing: Is It In My Future? Telenursing can be described as a way to examine, treat, monitor and assess patients remotely using telephone, video conferencing, and other technology. Using it in a home setting has many benefits to patient’s that are living at home with chronic conditions. In the USA, about 80% of older adults have one chronic condition,…

my work, and often tell my co-workers and family that. However, helping my patients transition into the next life, and watching their families stuggle with this inevitability, weighs heavily on my heart; and it is time for a change to a different nursing specialty. My goal of attending CCU is to continue serving as a registered nurse in the capacity of a BSN. I intend to continue to serve patients and their families as a nurse, and believe completing the BSN will make me an even better nurse.…

This essay will bring an understanding of the need for cultural awareness and competency in nursing practice in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait people, known as Indigenous people of Australia. Different factors responsible for chronic illnesses in Indigenous population will be explained and how nurses can help in conquering the gap between Indigenous and non Indigenous population in relation to health. Emphasis will be on how ethnocentric human nature can affect health adversely. It…

A Nursing Philosophy of Advocacy Robert M Petro RN USA College of Nursing - NU 410 – Fall 2014 A Nursing Philosophy of Advocacy The profession of nursing has matured from the time of Florence Nightingale to the present. Nursing has gone from just treating dying soldiers on the battle field to helping guide people through their entire lives from birth to death. Nurses have become instrumental in the health and well being of the population helping with preventing illness and helping those…

automatically go to “Doctors”. However the majority of the medical field consists of the underdogs, like nurses and nursing assistants. Nurses particularly take on the great load of important work that doctors do not have the time to do. As well as nursing assistants take on lots of work that the nurse does not have time for. The evaluation will focus primarily on Registered Nursing and the entire process that comes along with the profession. Registered Nurses, commonly referred to as RN’s, are…