Notes on Nursing

Notes from Underground Notes from Underground is a novel of notes that the Underground Man writes which expresses his alienation. There are two sections of Notes from Underground, with “Underground” being a shorter version. In the first version, the Underground Man gives an introduction to his position in society. In “Apropos of the Wet Snow,” Underground Man gives events in his life during the 1840’s through the 1860’s. The Underground Man is alienated from all of the people who inhabit this…

NURSING ADMINISTRATIVE STRATEGIES THAT WILL PROMOTE A SAFER WORKING ENVIRONMENT WITHIN A HOSPITAL SETTING Name Professor Institution Course Date Creating a business plan that would promote a safer working environment within a hospital setting, more specifically as a benefit to the nursing administrative strategies is of great importance. The particular business plan that would fit perfectly and stand the highest chance of success, is one that ought to involve helping nursing managers…

advanced of technology that is continually to produce and develop. “….. the use of technology proves to be key in nursing care, however, it should be guided by humanistic principles, since it affects nurse’s work and the client” (Cargnin , 2016)With the advancement in technology it can be a good and a bad thing. Technology makes it easier for nurses to chart patient information versus paper notes, as well making it easier to gather medical history versus going the paper files to find past…

to explore the understanding of the role of a nurse in relation to record keeping in nursing to ensure a safe, high-quality and continuous nursing care to the patients. Nursing documentation is a fundamental aspect of a nurse’s obligation in everyday clinical practice (Griffith and Tengnah, 2010). The importance of record keeping will demonstrate the best practice in nursing by focusing on four key areas of nursing practices to ensure and to maintain the assessment of patient’s records,…

maintaining patient safety, keeping nursing staff happy, and maintaining a budget set by the facility. According to Kath, Stichler, Ehrhart, and Sievers (2013), the nurse manager role is critical to organizational success, patient outcomes, and staff job satisfaction and empowerment (p. 1475). The foremost concern of a nurse manager is to ensure the safety of both patients and nursing staff. However, the nurse manager must also strive to stay within the budget. Nursing managers…

Relational ethics is a theoretical framework that allows nursing professionals to understand the patients’ own story and journey (Abma, 2005, p. 338). Relational ethics derives from relational narrative, a process where “the words the nurse and patient compose together, the words of their engagement yields ethical knowledge that is co-authored, contingent and contextual” (Abma, 2005, p. 339). The application of attentive listening and responsiveness allows the combination of both the registered…

area of nursing that I can improve on would be nursing informatics. I have spent so much time working on my nursing skills that I have not yet written one note during clinicals. This causes a lack of communication and with no formal education on how we should be charting I sometimes feel lost. I realized that this was a problem when I went to start charting because this was the first clinical I have had computer access and realized that I am very far behind. The second area of nursing that I…

Nursing research is associated with the founder of nursing; Florence Nightingale. The beginnings of Evidence-based Practice. Evidence based nursing can date back to the 1800s if one considers Nightingale’s first steps forward. Her “Notes on Nursing” was first published in 1859 inEngland and in 1860 inAmerica (Evidence-Based Nursing, 2012). Practice based evidence nursing evidence-based practice has had an increase around the world today. In the 1970s in the United States was where you began the…

the EHR and it sets a standard for nursing practice to measure patient outcomes that will be interpreted for use in evidence-based practice. If I go into a EHR of a patient who has just transferred to my facility, I should be able to read it and know exactly what action was taken in regards to care of the patient. The continuity of care will not be interrupted if we all use a standardized language. If nursing languages are not standardized across every nursing practice a barrier may exist…

family in Pakistan and it really gave me a rude awakening of some the preconceived beliefs I had of the nursing profession. In South Asian culture nurses are traditionally seen as inferior to doctors, or as their not so needed sidekicks. I grew up with this thought, but having a grandfather who was an RN I thought I’d changed my mind, but I did definitely keep some of the cultural views of nursing buried in my head. Flash forward 3 days later and I began History, Trends and Issues in Health Care…