Nurse

will explore the author’s role as a Cardiothoracic Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in Pre - admission clinic. The assessment, diagnosis and a recommended treatment of a pre – operative patient with symptomatic Aortic Regurgitation (AR) will be discussed. The Royal College of Nursing (2015) and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2005) provide guidance for practice within the United Kingdom .Several features of an Advanced Nurse Practitioner’s (ANP) role, such as physical assessment,…

(1) (a) As learned in the previous chapter, there are local, national, international, and private sectors that help aid through direct assistance or partnerships in controlling diseases. A college health nurse resides more within the community. The role of the nurse within the identification/recognition and reporting a possible outbreak is to simply see the characteristics of a specific illness. This individual must recognize if it a characteristic of a common infection or if it is something…

After watching the four Texas Nurses Association (TNA) videos, I felt that there are several necessities that need to be accomplished in order to become a professional level Nurse Practitioner. First, is joining a professional Association, second is becoming aware of health policy, and thirdly is getting involved in health policy. Without these three, the Nurse Practitioner is practicing on a basic level and is not able to truly succeed at the professional level. The first action is to join a…

attention to the negative portrayal of nurses in the media and how it does not reflect the reality of what nurse’s do. I completed my search by using the sites CINAHL, Proquest, google scholar, and youtube. I used the restrictions; image of nurs*, and stereo*, and I set the databases to find peer reviewed articles within 2008 to 2015 in the English language. The media portrays nursing in a negative manner and the public fails to regard what the job of nurses are in the real world. The media…

a passion for the job they are doing. A great job to have is being a nurse. People say that being a nurse takes too much work or that it is to hard. Those people are right, nursing does take a lot of work and it is hard. It takes a very strong and kind hearted person to be a nurse. Being a nurse…

Annotated Bibliography Article 1: McCabe, C. (2004). Issues In Clinical Nursing Nurse–patient communication: an exploration of patients’ experiences. Journal Of Clinical Nursing, 13(1), 41-49. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2702.2004.00817.x In this article McCabe (2004) reviews the process of nurse-patient communication which involves Arnold & Boggs (1995) theory that communication is a fundamental part of building rapport with a patient through verbal and non-verbal communication skills and Sheppard…

Advanced Practice Nurse Roles: A Reflection As I reflect on the role of the advanced practice nurse, an abundance of thoughts come to mind. In a way, these thoughts are enlightening and at the same time almost overwhelming. As I work closer to achieving this position in my career, I come to grasp the paradox that the more I know about advanced practice nursing, the less know about it. Even so, I feel that advanced practice nursing is more than just a career, it is a role that is becoming more…

Completing this dissertation would not have been possible without the support of my dissertation committee, family, and colleagues who were there for me every step of the way. First let me acknowledge the members of my dissertation committee, Dr. Sue Lasiter, Dr. Ain Haas, Dr. Joanne Duffy, Dr. Anna McDaniel, and Dr. Michael Weaver for their unwavering support, expertise, and guidance. Each member provided unique knowledge and perspectives that made it possible for completing this dissertation.…

When I look up “a nurse” on the internet, I will see something like “somebody who care for an ill person.” Thinking about nursing seems easy; however, I believe that there is way more to nursing than a simple definition. Being a nurse is a very influential and rewarding profession. Nurses will care for people through illness up the birth and health. They not only care for people through their illnesses, but they also help promote health and educate the public on disease prevention As we know…

The communicative approach the nurse takes it is the typical structural unit of discourse: doctor-question, patient-response, and doctor-assessment. Here the nurse takes the role of the doctor in the usual structural unit of discourse. First she starts with the assessment of prior questions that have been ask by the receptionist to confirm why the patient is there. However, after this confirmation she doesn’t make assessments after she asks questions, she quickly moves on to the next question…