Nurse

Self-awareness dimension I was nervous and anxious during the breve interaction performing my role as a nurse because I want to perform my role as I was actually assessing a real patient. I was feeling nervous because I did not know what questions the patient will have and if I will be able to provide adequate and correct answers to her concerns. The interaction lasted only a few minutes but those minutes were running really slow for me that cause me to talk faster than normal to the patient…

Focusing on my past experiences, as a Public Health Nurse, I am able to collaborate with clients and multidisciplinary teams using clients focused approach and social determinants of health to identify clients needs; establish goals; identifies strategies to meet clients’ goals and evaluate outcomes. I believe that early intervention decreases the odd of poor health outcomes in children and promotes optimum growth and development which contributes to the population health. My philosophy is to…

Being in the nurse field can be challenging since it requires so much education and training. In order to become a nurse you’ll need to finish high school, then go to four years of college and get an Associate, Doctorate, Bachelor or master’s degree (lnova.org). This is important because in order to become a nurse you need to have all of these things in a portfolio or resume. There are different kinds of nursing you can choose from like Family nurse practitioner which is one of the best kind of…

Hi Ms. Sanders, Prior to my current role as a patient safety analyst, I worked as an oncology nurse in the outpatient radiation oncology department at the cancer center of the hospital. As an oncology nurse, my primary role is to be the patient advocate with regards to treatment information and symptom management. One ethical issue that always concerns me is informed consent. I see informed consent not just the patient signing his/her name on the dotted line. It is having answers to questions…

The work in a long-term care (LTC) centers is the one that should deal with the emotional interaction between a patient and a nurse. The majority of patients are elderly or people with numerous afflictions and diagnoses. Long-term care nursing is a specialty that involves helping patients who need extended care, as they deal with chronic illnesses and disabilities. These nurses have a wide range of responsibilities in such simple activities as feeding, dressing, toileting and bathing, as well as…

New technological advances have allowed many nurses across the world to do their jobs better. In the past, many nurses lacked education, helpful essentials, and practiced poor care plans that not only put themselves, and their patient in a much worse condition. Now in present day, nurses change lives every day. With new technology, nurses are able to do their jobs safer, and more efficiently by being able to provide better care for each patient, obtaining well education to meet standards, and…

The Nurse Retention Crisis The days of staying at a job until retirement have gone by the wayside. The next ten to twenty years are predicted to have a shortage in nursing (Lartey, Cummings & McGrath, 2014). Administrations and managements systems are diligently studying the possible strategies to promote productivity, decrease call outs and improve retention in the positions (Lartey, Cummings & McGrath, 2014). The prediction of a shortage of nurses by the year 2018 will be augmented with…

Nurse Wound Care Specialist Preventing Pressure Ulcers Pressure ulcers is an issue that nurses have been trying to solve for years, yet it is still a current issue in long term hospital stays and long term care facilities. Pressure ulcers could better be prevented if facilities had a wound care team to provide skin assessment and management of pressure ulcers. The need in facilities is to have nurses that are responsible for preventing pressure ulcers. Pressure ulcers occur on boney…

Department of Labor, by 2024 the need for registered nurses will increase by sixteen percent due to growth and replacement. There are numerous factors contributing to the nursing shortage such as the aging of the current workforce, a reduction in nursing educators and a decrease in retention of new graduates. As the “baby boomer” generation ages, this increases the number of patients who will need care and also increases the number of current nurses who will be approaching retirement age and…

be about the unfair workload of nurses. I will be arguing that nurses are overworked and do not have the support of the administrators. My main argument is to have the administrators hiring more nurse staff or to lower the ratio of nurse to patient. This argument is derived from my field of work. I am an RN, and I work in the same circumstances. Three key points for my selected topic are: ratio of nurse to patient, nurse’s burnout, and patient safety. Ratio of nurse to patient supports my…