Nursing care plan

Contemporary nursing has distinguished a significant shift in health care, deviating from the concept of ‘fixing’ an individual with an illness, to recognising the individual as a whole person (Berman and Kozier, 2011). It is concerned with the healing of the mind, body and spirit, accounting for family circumstances; taking into consideration, social, emotional, physical and spiritual needs of the child (Klebanoff, 2016).Within this assignment, a discussion will be commenced, regarding a…

compromise with them: I complete nursing first and fulfill any degree of my choosing. Without letting them know, along with my nursing degree I have planned to finish my bachelor’s in psychology and chemistry with minors in Japanese and business administration. For me to be able to accomplish my goals, I have devised a five and ten-year plan, and figured my motivating force. My five-year plan is my way to get through my bachelor years in college. The first thing I plan on doing is taking up…

During my time in the BSN program at Hesston College, I have focused on achieving knowledge that will help me develop skills to guide my future nursing career. For me, it has been a long journey to get where I am today. As I reflect on my professional achievements attained over the last two years, it’s incredible as I have learned and grown both personally and professionally while attending Hesston College. I have always had the desire to help others since my childhood. My mother has always…

Medicine) is an independent association devoted to addressing important health care policy issues. The purpose of this organization is to inspire a positive change in health care for the benefit of the public (National Academy of Medicine, 2016). In 2010, it produced “Future of Nursing: Leading change and advancing health care”. It recognized a nurses’ role as critical to the fulfillment of the purpose of the Affordable Care Act. It was noted that all states do not utilize APRNs to the fullest…

interprofessional activity, I worked with two second-semester nursing students to increase the medication adherence of an elderly woman with a visual impairment. My role as a pharmacist in the scenario was to be the expert on medications. I was expected to have knowledge about the medications that the patient was taking, including the pronunciation of the drug name and the administration technique and appearance of the drug formulation. The nursing students brought their own expertise to the…

There is no doubt that nursing school is a tough thing to conquer and ‘life’ doesn’t stop for it either. Fortunately, in my twenty-two years of life I have developed ways to keep myself level headed and less stressed out when things get a little tough. Being a strong type A personality, like myself, I have found that I like to maintain a certain level of stress in order to operate. In my head, I need multiple things to be thinking about and doing in order to succeed. This has made it…

Understaffing in acute care hospitals is a major issue impacting nurses (Weaver, 2014). Understaffing is significant because numerous studies have demonstrated delivery of nursing care is affected by staffing and patient load (Blegen, Good, & Reid, 2014). Additionally, high patient to nurse ratios leads to nurse burnout and increased turn over of staff (Blegen, Good, and Reid, 2014). This paper analyzes the importance of safe nurse to patient ratios, how understaffing impacts care, and overall…

reaching success in anything that you put your mind to because failure is not an option (Stanley, 2011). In applying my transformational leadership style to my role as an educator, I plan on using knowledge and training to stimulate and inspire new innovative…

implement the best possible interventions in order for my patients to achieve desirable outcomes. EBP emphasizes the need for redesigning health care that is effective, safe, and efficient for patients. Research in nursing is significant for further improvement of the patients that we are taking care of and it is essential to keep this in mind when we start our nursing career. Issue The way we went about identifying the topic we wanted to further research, was first of all by observation.…

(Registered Nurse) at Carteret Health Care (CHC) has five years of experience working in the Labor and Delivery Department at the hospital. Although having a Bachelor’s Degree in nursing from ECU, she obtained special training in addition to certificates such as; CPR, ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) certification, NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation), Crisis Prevention, S.T.A.B.L.E. (Neonatal education program Post-resuscitation/Pre-transport stabilization care of sick newborns) certification, PCEP…