Nurse

grow up. I can remember being asked that many times when I was a young child. I would always give the same answer, to be a nurse. I can not remember the one defining moment, in my life, when I made that decision. My Grandmother was the biggest influence in choosing this career. She would always express how proud it would make her, if I pursued a college education and became a nurse. She lived vicariously through me, and I was perfectly fine with that. 
 I began nursing school at the young age…

Nurses have access to very sensitive information about their patients and if they do not take care to safeguard that material it becomes a major error in nurse-patient confidentiality. Especially as technology in the nursing profession begins to change and technology becomes more ingrained in the profession, it becomes harder and more important to take steps to protect patients right to privacy. When a nurse decides to ignore a patient right to confidentiality, then they can cause undue stress…

Finally, high stress environments can cause nurses to become overwhelmed and mentally exhausted. Within a 12-hour shift they have to be in charge of a lot of different things. They have to make sure that their patients are comfortable, give their patients medications, follow the doctors’ orders, assist in procedures, and more. It is easy for a nurse to feel overwhelmed especially when a hospital is short staffed. A hospital setting can be fast paced; nurses have to learn how to adapt to these…

addressing safe nurse staffing and increasing patient safety. This may be in the likes of lobbying, unions, and professional organizations. The enactment of this policy implies that nursing may desire government intervention but that in itself may be a barrier. This could explain why the legislative bill remains non-specific in that states are required to come up with their own resolutions. Nurse Roles As of May 4th, 2017, two national safe patient ratio bills which fall under the Nurse…

Question 1. The visiting nurse is facing an ethical dilemma over respecting Brady’s right to autonomy and making decisions for herself and the moral principle of fidelity maintaining her agreement with Brady not to call the police or jeopardize having her children taken away. The nurse is vacillating between maintaining a trusting relationship with Brady, respecting her rights and autonomy, maintaining the fidelity of their relationship and a duty of nonmaleficence by reporting Brady to child…

A critical care nurse takes some time to do. You need to know how to take care of ill patients. You need to be ready to spend time on your feet. You probably will be very tired when you get home. The employment is projected to grow 31 percent from 2014 to 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations. The business hours are normal hours, round the clock care or full time. A critical care nurse is not easy, you can't just walk in and know what you're doing. It takes practice and time to…

registered nurse once you’ve became a Registered Nurse then you must work your way up from registered to a Bachelor’s degree for it. A bachelor’s degree in nursing is the highest you can go once you’ve become a nurse, besides master’s which is an extra two years. It can usually take up to four years to get a bachelor’s degree at a nursing school or just a college. Students typically spend the first two years taking the prerequisite courses. (BSN, n.d.) A registered nurse (RN) can be a nurse at…

Leadership is a fundamental part of effective nursing care and nurses are recognized as leaders in patient care. Nursing involves the implementation of goal-driven interventions which aim to improve a patient’s health status or comfort. Nurses are recognized for their role as alliance builders: nurses coordinate and motivate care teams, families and patients to support patient wellbeing (James 2010). Nurses need to be adaptable and have effective communication skills, including the ability to…

transform the unit? Jeannie’s unit have multiple sources of organizational toxicity. Jeannie nurses are separated into cultural groups who does not like to integrate or communicate with any other cultural group unless necessary. Jeannie nurses are anti-social; it is likely that some of the nurses feels alienated by antisocial behaviors prevalent in the workgroup as a whole (Porter-O’Grady & Malloch, 2015) The nurses on the unit also lacks respect for each other by name calling, accusations,…

The community general nurse can assist the client to access supports and health services within the community. For the older person with a diagnosis of frailty, the community general nurse can assist the client to access a falls prevention clinic in the community. Falls prevention clinics have been proven to prevent falls among the older population in their homes as well as in hospitals and care facilities. The falls prevention clinic will allow the client to be reassessed for the risk of…