Nursing by country

Cultural Competence in Nursing Practice There are many different cultures in the world, and it is important to realize that not every culture is alike. Every culture has a different way of doing things, and a different perception on how nursing care should be received. I think it is important for nurses to take into consideration their patients culture before providing care. Cultural competence is what “guides the nurse in understanding behaviors and planning appropriate approaches to patient…

Besides organizational factors and limitations, researchers Park, Blegen, Spetz, Chapman, & De Groot conducted a mixed method research study in 2011 at forty-two UHC affiliated nonprofit teaching hospitals across the country. The researchers attempted to identify the relationship between low nurse staffing ratios on medical- surgical units with high patient turnover and patient outcomes (Park, Blegen, Spetz, Chapman, & De Groot, 2011). The relationship between staffing levels and the registered…

Mexico, Maria Avina relocated with her family to Amarillo, Texas from our neighboring country. Maria, my 20 year old roommate, sat across from me dutifully working on her Calculus 3 homework, jokingly second guessing her choice of being a Mechanical Engineering major. Although she is a permanent resident of the United States, Maria hold strong ties with her mother country, keeping up with news regarding the country and its people. More recently, immigration and healthcare has been a huge topic…

Hunger and malnutrition has always been a problem in the world but a lot of people are very silent about it. Hungry for people in undeveloped countries are different from the hungry that you feel when you are missing a lunch or snack. Hunger and malnutrition in these countries are brutal and means that you don’t have the strength or energy to do the simplest tasks that normal people are able to do. Being hungry makes you weak, tired and unable to concentrate on work or study of any kind. The…

guess, you could say that I am an ambitious young woman who always follows through on her accomplishments and goals that she herself has set. To me, many of these goals are set at high standards and importance, like returning to my birth country to create a nursing home and traveling the world to provide…

data revealing patient’s perspectives, other infectious diseases patients placed on similar contact precautions were taking in consideration into the findings. Barratt et al. (2011), examined literature containing multiple sample sizes, different countries, and different healthcare…

distress within a healthcare setting (Festini, 2014). This was in direct contrast with the view and position that nurses were the sole maternal and primary caregivers for a hospitalised child. The works of Florence Nightingale had cemented the nursing role to that of patients advocate within a medical setting, promoting trust and partnership between nurse and patient (Karimi & Alavi, 2015). Family Centred Care meant that the nurses role and position was evolving to not just caregiver and…

revolution in the medical field that would wage on for a very long time. Clara Barton was a hero because of her ethics to serve this country, as well as her work on the battlefield helping by finding wounded soldiers and establishing the American Red Cross. Clara Barton from a very young age was taught to serve our country and help others. Clara had experience with nursing from the time she was young, for instance when, “her brother slipped from a barn roof and suffered catastrophic…

especially in health care facilities. However, it is not until you experience the situation, that you will know the effect it has upon your life. It can either make you or break you as a person. This paper is based on my experience on discrimination as a nursing student and how I have come to grow and learn from the situation. On my very first day of clinical, which was the 6th of November, I had the honor of working with a lot of residents. However, there was this one particular resident that…

(2012). Perspectives on shared decision making in health care. British Journal Of Nursing, 21(17), 1042-1043. According to the article wrote by John Tingle, There is no universal definition for shared decision making and it is differs among patients and physicians. For example, a population in Norway; including clinicians, patients…