Notes on Nursing

their freedom in order to gain the benefits of functioning collectively as a group. I decided to test this theory by observing some of the staff members of a nursing home who are attending a meeting to come up with specific solutions for each residents’ weight loss problem. Every week the same staff members, which include the director of nursing, two unit managers, the dietary manager, and the dietician, meet to review the weights of all patients and, more…

Florence Nightingale was born May 12th, 1820 and died August 13th, 1910, during that time she accomplished many feats that shaped the field of nursing today. She reduced death rates during war by thousands, improved sanitary conditions in hospitals, overall health care reform and implemented a formal school for nursing. As a child Florence lived in Italy, she was the younger of two children. At a young age she was interested in philanthropy, ministering the ill and the poor people in the small…

critically and analyses nursing practice 1.6 maintains accurate, comprehensive and timely documentation of assessments, planning, decision-making, actions and evaluations to become a professional nurse, critical thinking is embedded in a nurse’s every day routine. In nursing, critical thinking for clinical decision-making is the ability to think in a systematic and logical manner with openness to question and reflect on the reasoning process used to ensure safe nursing practice and quality…

Nursing documentation is defined as “the supplying of documentary evidence, and the collecting, abstracting, and coding of printed or written information for future reference”. This simple definition fits all the varied roles that documentation, or the process of documenting and demonstrating delivery of patient care, assumes in health care. (Webster’s New World Dictionary) Nursing documentation represents the quality of care that we provided. Through complete documentation, the nurse can claim…

Driscoll’s next part of his reflection cycle. My feeling at the time of the incident was that I felt taken a back at the patient striking out towards the nursing assistant as I felt he may try and strike out at me. This made me nervous as I was unsure if anything I was about to say would cause the same reaction towards me as they made not be the right things to say. I sat beside Mr X and by showing compassion…

Exploring the Accelerated Nursing Program Introduction to Nursing Karissa Rice University of Missouri – Kansas City Over the years, nursing has become a growing field. There has been talk since I can remember in high school about the shortage of nursing. The field is requiring more nurses as previous nurses are retiring and a variety of field’s are expanding. The shortage is still seen today, it is thought the nursing shortage will become more serious within 10 years (Ellis & Hartley,…

Definition of Nursing Traditionally, nursing is defined as taking care of sick, injured and elder people who need help from others. According to Florence Nightingale note, nursing “What nursing has to do… is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him” (Nightingale, 1859). Nightingale stated that nursing “ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet – all at the least expense of vital…

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 definition; this meant that if the true meaning of nursing is yet to be identified how could there be a true nursing theory? Lack of prescription for practice; Nurses need to be knowledgeable in their…

DQ 1 The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), representing baccalaureate and graduate schools of nursing, in collaboration with other health care organizations and disciplines, proposes a new Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) role to address the ardent call for change being heard in today’s health care system. The AACN Board defines CNL as a generalist clinician who possesses an education at the master’s degree level or higher. The board notes that a master’s degree is necessary because…

Florence Nightingale’s Influence on Nursing Florence Nightingale was the most influential person in the nursing profession. Widely recognized as the first nurse, she was first noticed in 1854 during the Crimean War in England, where she organized and cleaned the hospital and provided care to wounded soldiers. In 1859 she published her first book called “Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not.” In 1860, she launched the first training program for nurses at St. Thomas’ Hospital in…