Nursing by country

Telenursing: Is It in My Future Sukhpreet Kaur Chamberlain College of Nursing NR-361: Information Systems in Healthcare November 2015 Telenursing: Is It in My Future How about telenursing? Could a position as a telenurse be the career change I have been seeking? These questions have been playing over and over in my head from the moment Tomika suggested that I should apply for the position; it seems to offer many benefits. She says that I would be able to monitor my patients, assess and…

a great idea of what occupational nurses do until doing this rotation. My golden nugget for today was that every position that a nurse can have is important, and it’s good to learn what each position entails. 1. Define occupational health nursing. Occupational Health Nurses (OHN) are registered nurses who independently observe and assess workers ' health status with respect to job tasks and hazards. Using their specialized experience and education, they recognize and prevent health…

Nursing is a profession that started in home, when care givers took care of the sick family members, women giving birth, or the care of babies after death of mother during delivery (Weatherford, 2010). In the beginning nursing was not considered as a profession and nurses followed orders of physicians, but modern nursing is continually evolving (Risjord, 2010). Modern nursing evolved from just following physicians’ orders to a complex and multi focused profession. The basic goal of nursing is…

A final initiative that may be successful in addressing the impending nursing shortage is to recruit RN’s and LPN’s. There are currently three individuals from the area in the RN program and have expressed a desire to return to the community. If the health region could be successful in recruiting these three nursing students it would do a great deal to reduce the shortage. The health service manager knows the individuals and should be in contact with them to recruit them to the area before they…

Communication (how was health information relayed to this client base? Communication was based upon the patient’s developmental level. For the younger children, the nurse would describe what she was doing before assessing and treating the patient. This helped relieve fear and anxiety related to course of treatment. For extra young children, especially a three year old, the nurse was able to communicate based upon demonstrating on the child’s mom. This was done so the child could see what the…

they are usually similar. The LVN must work under the direction of an RN or physician. The RN has more autonomy. The LVN performs a focused assessment as where the RN performs a comprehensive assessment. The RN is responsible for all aspects of the nursing process: assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate. The LVN can assess non critical patients and collects data. The RN has a greater decision making scope of…

Nursing: In Safe Hands One thing that is continuously spoken about in school and in clinical rotations is patient safety. The Massachusetts Department of Higher Education has created ten Core Competencies for the nurse of the future. “In the model, nursing knowledge has been placed at the core to represent how nursing knowledge in its totality reflects the overarching art and science of the nursing profession and discipline” (Massachusettes Department of Higher Education, 2010). Knowledge…

Decision Making in Nursing Nurses make decisions that have life and death implications (Payne, 2015). Nurses must be accountable for their decisions as well as the consequences of those actions (College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, 2012). Clinical decision making is a complex process that requires the nurse to draw from personal knowledge, client history, previous clinical experience, as well as intuition (Banning, 2008; Benner, 1984; Blum, 2010; Payne, 2015; Tanner, 2006). These…

are the internal and external factors that define each person. Nursing is taking into consideration that each client has specific interactions within themselves and the world that makes them who they are. If a nurse is to provide whole body care, a systematic approach should be used. The Neuman Systems Model developed by Betty Neuman is an example of how a new nurse can be an effective part of the interdisciplinary team/approach to nursing. According to Neuman (1989, p. 11) “The Neuman Systems…

In a patient-centered care environment, clinical decisions are guided by the patient’s preferences, needs and values (Wolfe, 2001). In our hospital, some patients and family members have asked about the possibility of bringing family pets in to visit. Nurses will sometimes secretly allow these visits during less crowded visitation times such as evenings and weekends. However, as our hospital becomes more patient centered, and the requests quite possibly become more frequent, the need for an…