Nursing by country

internal and external environments are well managed. On (October 10,2015), I visited the Remarkable Healthcare of Preston Wood, a long term care facility in Carrollton, TX that offers hospice care, intravenous therapy, rehabilitation therapy, skilled nursing and respite care. I was able to meet with an administrator and take a brief tutor of the facility. There I meet with a nurse…

To some individuals, art is a way to release creativity, share a story and according to a South China Morning Post by Jeanette Wang, art is also used as a therapeutic mechanism. The article’s name was not apparent, but can be found under “Deliverance; Very sick or terminally ill people can hide their feelings, but expressive art therapy aims to help unlock difficult emotions – and the technique is growing in Asia, writes Jeanette Wang” in the section under the Lifestyle Post published on…

of a Dog In The Night-time”. My participation in a class as a volunteer for AgeUK showed me how difficult it is to live a normal life with MS and made me appreciate the patients’ strength of character. In my ongoing volunteering in an Alzheimer’s nursing home I find patients’ wishes are often neglected due to their age, and I now understand how important the presence of volunteers is to the residents.…

Many students in Kapiolani Community College want to pursue a career in health field, most of them want to pursue a degree in nursing. I am one of those many students who wants to get the in the health field. I chose this path because I am very passionate of having career in health field. My passionate is helping the patients to make their life better. Specially, the homeless who need health care service. People that cannot afford insurance coverage. My plan is to join an organization that can…

Even though Brookdale provide one the best nursing care, but recently Brookdale had been experiencing many critical incidents which involved wrongful death, horrific assault by the resident’s roommate, staff overmedicating patient, staff refused to perform Cardio Pulmonary Rescue for a dying resident, negligence and sexual assault. Because of poor supervision, a resident died twenty-five feet away from the facility (Dolmanlaw.com, 2016). When it comes to assisted living industry Brookdale is…

Chambliss describes the common themes he found during his decade-long observations of Nurses and Doctors in Hospitals around the USA and other countries. The primary focus is how nurses, to avoid chaos, routinize work that to outsiders would find disgusting and horrifying but, at the same time, struggle to sustain a sense of caring and patient-oriented responsibility. Chambliss describes four ways…

AA and a BA degree in human service gave me the knowledge needed to assist the elderly at church and around the community in the obtainment of benefits offered thru the state of Kansas. The services to the cancer patient in filling out forms to nursing home information or getting hospice assistant, food assist, a listening ear to soldiers whom the family has left for one reason or another, spouses and their children for abuse. By obtaining a degree in Counselor will equip me with the…

CONCEPT 5: COMMUNITY DIAGNOSIS This concept is taken from module 5 of block 2 entitled “introduction to public health nursing” 5.1 Significance of the Concept This concept “community diagnosis is very important because it helps to find the common problems or diseases, which are troublesome to the people and are easily preventable in the community, it is a tool to disclose hidden problems that are not visible to the community people but are being affected by them, it helps to impart knowledge…

There are Americans that suffer every day from chronic illnesses. In America we offer care for our elderly family members in nursing facilities around the country. On estimation forty to seventy percent of chronically ill patients die in great amounts of pain.(Angela Morrow RN). There comes a day where we all grow old, and tend to need help, whether it is from a nursing facility or our family members. We then start to feel like a burden to the people that care for us each and every day. I…

These are important skills because if you don’t address the clients main concern or their emotional problems instead of just physical, the client may not be able to learn. As we learned in community nursing, you always go with that is the biggest problem to the client, not what you perceive to be the biggest problem. Sometimes the client will not always voice what their biggest problem is, which is why it takes keen observation and open ended questions…