Nursing by country

“Nurses work almost everywhere; on cruise ships, in the military, in hospitals, camps, schools, retirement homes…” (para. 7), and the list goes on. We are proud to say, that nurses, and not doctors, are the heartbeat of the health care system of any country. Consequently, from this alarming truth, nurses are the ones who have more direct contact with the patients, they empathize and sympathize by providing emotional support to them and their families, and they are educators. Firstly, nurses are…

of health sciences professionals is most often associated with the demand for nursing staff. Nurses represent hospitals’ largest labor expense, amount to the single highest component to the hospital staff. Nurses are the primary providers of hospital patient care aside from the Physician's visits throughout the patient’s stay, from“Birth and death, and all other forms of care in between, are attended by nurses” (“Nursing World”, 2001). There are very few other health professions which help to…

family members. It encompasses our duty to streamline their healthcare process. It also includes our duty to maintain the integrity of nursing by being professional at all times. We have to always remember that at the end of the day we are the representatives of the organizations that we work for. Another aspect that is very important is life long learning. Nursing evolves day by day. We practice on an evidence based practice model and this means that what we did years ago may have been…

With predictions that this nursing shortage will be more severe and have a longer duration than previously experienced, traditional strategies implemented by employers will have limited success. The aging nursing workforce, low unemployment, and the global nature of this shortage compound the usual factors that contribute to nursing shortages. For sustained change and assurance of an adequate supply of nurses, solutions must be developed in several areas: education, healthcare delivery systems,…

become an educator of nursing. This registered nurse educational influences continue to be practiced today. Her contributions to the nursing society include grading scales for nursing schools to follow and initiated the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses (Catalano, 2015). Also, she founded Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, known today as the American Nurses Association. Isabel Robb’s existence must be admired by nursing instructors…

III. NURSING INTERVENTIONS OF THE STOMA NURSE The discussions of literature related to this variable under study are divided into four parts. The first part provides a background on Enterostomal Therapy as a specialty in the international and local setting. The second part is an overview of the stoma care specialist's professional qualifications while the third part is about expected roles and responsibilities. This is followed by discussions on the certain nurse factors relevant to the…

based on what treatment options were more efficient and cost-effective. In an effort to support evidenced-based practice and have it more widely accepted; nurses have developed nursing theories or models to help practitioners organize their way of thinking (OJIN, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to identify a nursing model to guide my practice while working with pediatric patients;…

Nursing managers today find themselves amidst a plethora of complex issues. There is the issue of what makes a good nurse manager? Another issue is the governments regulatory bureaucracy with new and improved good ideas that increase problems without really fixing many issues. Retaining an experienced nurse is an issue of importance. Finally, properly staffing the unit in order to provide the right healthcare staff for the right patient population. To begin one must answer the question of what…

who is whose hands are so gnarled by arthritis, she cannot dress or turn the knob on her kitchen stove. She is keenly alert, but she may wind up in a nursing home anyway, at a tab of $60,000 a year, because there is no way she can live alone. The widow and her grown children are shocked to discover that Medicare won't pay for her care in a nursing home. Only when she impoverishes herself,…

Cultural background has a significant impact on the quality of life of the elderly. Each society has certain norms and traditions that determine how the greying generation will spend their golden years. As described in the chapter text, there are communities that will ‘get rid of’ the elderly once they become unable to care for self and are seen as burden in the eyes of the others. This is the case with the Tiwi people who live on an island off the northern coast of Australia. Once an elderly…