Nurses

Best Stethoscope Nurses Nursing Students Nurse Practitioners What is the best stethoscope for nurses, nurse practitioners, nursing students? Throughout my 18 years as a nurse, nurse practitioner, and nursing professor the questions continuously arises, what is the best stethoscope nurses, nurse practitioners, nursing students? You should put some thought into buying a stethoscope before making the purchase. Remember your stethoscope is vital to your role as a nurse. Your stethoscope will become…

One nurse. Six patients. Exhaustion. Stress. Overworked. These components can describe what a nurse goes through daily when they arrive at their job. What must happen for nurses to have an easier workload or a day that does not come with the constant stress of having to attend to more patients than one person can handle? Only one thing can happen to ensure that nurses get the care and dedication that they deserve and that is for staffing laws to be enforced to regulate safety for the patient and…

number of registered nurses in Ontario dropped by 8000 from 1995 to 1998) (Baumann &…

parental over protectiveness. Pediatric nurses strive to make the lives of children healthier and happier everyday. Many people do not realize the impact pediatric nurses have on the lives of children and the struggles a pediatric nurse endures daily. “Pediatric nurses work with patients from infancy to young adulthood, giving developmental screenings, immunizations, and treating common illnesses. They work closely with family doctors, pediatricians and other nurses, to provide preventative as…

Plunket Nurses are considered to be the backbone of child welfare in the New Zealand health system. This essay will describe the function and responsibilities of a Plunket Nurse. Key drivers for the development of a Plunket Nurse will be described along with an evaluation of the impact of the nurse in primary health care (PHC). The scope of development of the Plunket Nurse’s role in future will also be identified and explored. The main function of Plunket Nurses is to assess &intervene for…

Nurse Craig received a phone call report of a patient from Nurse Lucinda. When assessing the patient Nurse Craig should have administered oxygen to the patient in order for her to breathe smoothly. Nurse Craig should have applied O2 and do some deep breathing exercise with the patient which should eventually help the patient feel better. After some time, Nurse Craig went back to Mrs. Jordan and found that she was had in difficulty breathing. Nurse Craig suspected that the patient was suffering…

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?…

. Nurses take an oath to provide the best care possible for all patients and to do no harm. The first question that is raised is how does a nurse manage a 1:5 or 1:6+ ratio while maintaining the ethical standards of a nurse? In the first opened question of the survey, nurses were asked, to explain their feelings from a previous closed question that asked if they felt overwhelmed with current patient-nurse ratios. To recall and summarize the data, out of the respondents, 3 quarters of…

professional. Nurses are scheduled to work 12-hour shifts as a matter of course. Then, to make a 40-hour workweek and obtain benefits they work a fourth 12-hour shift. Already into overtime, the nurse will volunteer for even more hours to satisfy their need to care for people in their charge. Also, the particular needs of the case or a staffing situation may drive the requirement for even more work hours. This significant degree of order is not, however, without its downside. Nurses caught in…

I interviewed Ms. Stephanie Sims for my Nurse Interview. She is my colleague of two years but she has been a nurse for three and half years now. She is one of the good and knowledgeable nurses on the floor. If you ask patients, they will tell that she is one of the most caring nurse and always has a smile on her face. Stephanie is smart, caring, compassionate, flexible, hardworking, and a dependable nurse. When I asked about what made her choose nursing as a career, she gave me a long answer…