Nursing assistant skills

Professionalism is demonstrating the professional, legal and ethical standards required in practice. The nursing profession is a demonstration of professionalism. It is regarded as one of the most highly valued and trusted professions. Just like another other profession, the nursing profession requires skills, knowledge, values and attributes (Nursing Council of New Zealand [NCNZ], 2007). For a nurse to act professionally, they have to be knowledgeable in the subject, responsible to self…

The person I decided to interview was Kristen McKenna, a registered nurse. I interviewed her over the phone since she resides in Maryland. I chose to interview her since she has the profession that resembled a physician assistant the most in comparison to others I could have contacted, plus I know her parents fairly well and knew I could easily get an interview with her. All of my contacts live in other states so unfortunately it was not possible for me to schedule a meeting with any of them.…

of delegation. Moreover, a discussion the legal aspects and the responsibilities that the nurse must acknowledge to avoid legal action against his/her practice. Additionally, I will explain the importance of delegation and why it is essential to nursing practice. Moreover, I will reflect on my placements in my final…

whole heart into making them healthy again. If nurses are using all of their energy and efforts into making people healthy shouldn’t they have a right to receive the benefits they deserve? Strikes are a reasonable mechanism for employee rights in nursing if the nurses aren’t receiving what they deserve. The American…

Thinking Nursing Paper Kaylie Sorensen St. Catherine’s University Thinking Nursing Paper The nursing metaparadigm can be defined as “the four spheres of nursing knowledge that reflect beliefs held by the profession about nursing’s context and content” (Schim, Benkert, Bell, Walker, & Danford, 2007, pg.73). It is a conceptual framework that nurses use to provide quality care for their patients. The four focus points are nursing, health, person, and environment. Not only should nurses know…

constructive way so that both the mentor and the protégé have the potential to grow through the relationship. The person I chose for this project is Alex Carter. She is a junior in her second semester of nursing school and a friend of mine who has helped me prepare for the intensity of Austin Peay’s Nursing Program. What are the traits a mentor is supposed to have and what is their purpose? Some characteristics that I feel a mentor should have and that my mentor does have are being supportive,…

Nursing is one of the most versatile occupations within the health care workforce. The Americans are growing older, living longer, and gaining health insurance coverage in increasing numbers, but the supply of physicians is not meeting the demand for services. Today, nurse practitioners (NPs), together with physicians and physician assistants, provide most of the primary care in the United States. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) will place many demands on health professionals and offer…

became possible. Although Darren is a Physician Assistant, nursing and physician assistants coincide with each other, therefore, interning with a physician assistant will assist and expand my knowledge in the future. However, as much as benefits are the main factor of interning at the hospital, many challenges occurred throughout the internship with Darren over a certain period. The lack of…

the emergency room and the pressure is like none other. I perform extremely well all the time because having to allocation the patients where I have people coming in and ambulances coming in and I have to delegate transporters, clerks, nurses, nursing assistants, plus deal with the patients and know everything that 's going on with every patient in the emergency room. Whether they are critical or not I need to be able to have a group of people to be ready to receive a critical patient. I need to…

Nurses are taught to care for patients in the order of severity. Prioritizing nursing care is very important, and when nurses do not use the proper nursing skills to prioritize nursing care for a patient then, it could compromise patient care. Therefore, the following is the priority I would place my patients in. 1) Chest Pain patient, 2) Elderly confused patient, 3) Post-op Cardiac patient, 4) Crohn’s disease patient. The patient being admitted from the emergency room is the highest…