Nursing care

Nursing Diagnosis and Plan of Care Name Institution Nursing Diagnosis and Plan of Care Nurses play a vital in the general care of patients. Hence, nurses strive to help the patients maintain high standards of health or regain their health in the event they have lost it as a result of illness. In this case, we will focus on an African American male who purposes of privacy and confidentiality will be simply referred as JM (Gulanick & Myers, 2014). The patient presented at the clinic with complaints of significantly reduced frequency of urination, chest tightness, increased heart rate as well as reduced appetite. For that matter, this paper will explore the nursing diagnosis for JM as well as create a plan for care. Assessment…

Family Nursing Technology innovation has allowed people to live longer. However, this does not mean they are living healthier lives. The U.S. Census bureau indicates that 117 million people had a chronic illness in 2012 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). What implications will this have on nursing? Depending on the severity of the illness, children or spouses may become the decision makers and primary caregivers. Nursing care will need to incorporate the family. Care will…

In the nursing workforce, where individuals obtain many hats and responsibilities, there is one element that remains consistent: Professionalism. Professionalism is "the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person."(Merriam-Webster, 2011). While technical expertise is a key component; it does not embody the whole of professionalism. It also involves a caring attitude and appearance that we must apply to not just our nursing careers, but also our…

I started working in nursing in 1998 as a CNA in a local nursing home. The nursing home I worked in did not require mandatory overtime for nursing staff. Nurses and CNAs could volunteer to stay over and work if they wanted. If staffing could not be found, everyone just had to work short. This was not a very big issue at the time and we usually had enough staffing to cover the facility, but things have changed and most facilities are short nursing staff. The last two facilities that I worked at…

First Nursing Care Plan Nursing diagnosis related to __________ Imbalanced nutrition related to consuming more than body requirements Subjective and Objective Data This is evidenced by JS being over one hundred pounds the weight that is ideal for her height and weight. JS is sixty-four inches tall, weighs two hundred and forty-eight pounds, and has a body mass index of 44.9. JS also has verbalized that she overeats for comfort. Furthermore, she only eats two meals a day, has an increase in…

Preparing for the future can be challenging, as one never knows what life holds for them. It's hard to accurately calculate a person's long-term health care and financial needs, but a close estimate is often possible when one turns to an elder law attorney in New Britain, CT. The attorney can bring together a team of experts to calculate these needs and offer creative and innovative solutions to ensure the client's needs are met in the future, regardless of what life has in store. This process…

Personal Nursing Philosophy of Care According to Kim (2015), a nursing philosophy can be defined as the affective and intellectual outcomes as the result of the efforts by a professional nurse. These efforts are being made in understanding the ultimate relationships between humans, their surrounding environment, and health, approaching nursing as a scientific field, integrating sense of values, and articulating a personal belief system about human beings, their health, environment and nursing as…

Case Study #1 One problem facing patients in hospitals today is that personnel hired to do a job are incompetent or even physically unable to do the job. Surprisingly this is not that uncommon. This seems to be a widespread problem, not just in nursing homes or assisted living places. In the hospital there are so many nurses and other faculty members who lack even a basic understanding of the job they are providing. They merely follow doctor orders and fail to provide the most basic level of…

Introduction There is no doubt that the world is constantly evolving as advanced technology, research, and discoveries are made on a regular basis. From a macrocosmic point of view, nursing in the modern age of today was not like it was one or five decades ago. During the era of Florence Nightingale, nursing as a whole placed greater emphasis on the biomedical model of illness as opposed to a holistic approach with concentrations on health promotion. Overtime, with an increase of nursing…

ethics of care perspective centers on feelings, relationships and individual needs, all of which nurses rely on to enhance their practices and respond to the needs of their patients. Nursing practice separates itself from other practices by virtue of its attitude of ‘caring.’ This universal requirement is met through its commitment to others. “Caring about another person involves an attitude, feeling, or state of mind that is directed towards another’s situation through a relationship with them”…