Nurse educator

I was twenty-five years old, single, and a lab tech at a local hospital. I always thought of being a nurse but considered other jobs as well. I believe in the value that every individual should be treated with love and respect. I also believe in the value of a team or group effort. Martha is fifty-one years old, married, and a deli worker by day and a telemarketer at night. Martha’s moral commitment to animals is impressively strong. Myself and Martha are different people, living different…

Practicum Journal Week One Aging Theory, Objectives, Goals and Timeline Nurse Practitioners are nurses with advanced education in diagnosing, treating and managing acute and chronic illness. Transitioning from nursing to advanced practice can be challenging. One way to overcome this challenge is with a practice theory, goals and a timeline. The purpose of this paper is to describe the aging theory Calorie Restriction (CR) and its use as a practice guide. Additionally, it will provide goals…

Clinical Reflection: Prioritization I walked into the emergency department for the clinical observation expecting to see nurses and doctors in an organized chaos, hustling, running, and bumping into each other in their effort to provide life sustaining critical care. Too, I was hoping to see George Clooney performing advance cardiac life support to a patient who was coding, like a scene straight out of the television show. However, that was not what I saw. Instead, I found how calm and…

Ethical Dilemma: Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratios Jamie R. Dupuy University of Louisiana Lafayette  Ethical Dilemma: Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratios On the night shift in an ICU, a nurse finds herself working, the unit assigned to the Code Blue team with one other RN, no ancillary staff support, and six patients. As she is standing between two patient’s rooms, both of which have alarms sounding, a Code Blue is called on the floor. Which patient should she respond to first?…

This time he had been beating and was sent to the hospital again. When I showed up at the hospital the charge nurse informed me that the dad had already been arrested and the mom was not allowed in the room. I walked in to see him and it was the worst thing I had ever seen. He could barely talk but he was willing to tell me what had happened. He went on to tell…

I was given the opportunity to go into the Emergence Department or ED. Kamila, a registered nurse, introduced herself as the charge nurse on the floor. She told other nursing students and myself, that in result of the staff shortage the staff was extremely busy. I was able to meet Sarah also a Registered Nurse and Tennessee State University Alum. What surprised me the most is that majority of the nurses at General Hospital were accurately trained. They practiced evidenced based procedures and…

care-giver but also a counselor, nutritionist, friend, psychiatrist, and so much more. A good nurse, in my opinion, helps their patients not just when they are physically hurting but also when they need mental help as well. They support their patients, listen to them even if just for a moment, so that they feel like they are more than just a person in a hospital bed but a human being. It is my belief that a good nurse holds both their own values and those of their patients at an equal level…

save the life of a child when they are physically sick. A nurse can help many people from different ages group and they can also work in different settings. Nurses do not only work in hospitals but they can educate future nurses, administarions in government services, researchers,forensic nurse. There are many careers that one can go into if one pursues a nursing major. Personally I would choose a pediatric nurse. A pediatric nurse are nurses that take care of the health of a child. In the…

The article explores a comparison study on restraint related deaths (RRD) and excited delirium syndrome (ExDS) covering two time frames. The time frames used in the study were 1988-1995 and 2004-2011. Excited delirium syndrome is defined as a condition that discerns itself with symptoms such as extreme agitation, hallucinations, violent and bizarre behaviour, insensitivity to pain and feats of great strength (Mental Health Daily). The study looks at the use of restraints on people while in…

Literature Review Compassion fatigue strongly impacts nurses as well as patients throughout healthcare. Awareness is essential among compassion fatigue not only emphasizes the reality of burnout, increased unnecessary stress, negative work environments, lack of leadership support, nursing retention problems, reduced patient satisfaction scores, and financial contingencies specifically patient reimbursements (Kelly, 2015; Hunsaker, 2015; Sacco, 2015; Lachman, 2016). However, positive resolutions…