Nursing care

According to Polit and Beck (2008), nursing research is a process purposely to improved knowledge regarding important issues to nursing profession which involves nursing education, practice, administration and informatics. Nursing research also encompasses a wide scope of scientific inquiry, including clinical research, health systems and outcomes research, and nursing education research (Miller, Ward and Young, 2010). Nieswiadomy (2012) also defined nursing research as the systematic, objective…

Nursing process and critical thinking course has affected me in so many ways. I have learned so much in this course and found it very interesting. I have a very good learning experience from my instructor and classmates. The three main things that have great impact in my learning experience are the cases presented of each group in the class, applying critical thinking in nursing process, and journal. The different case presented by each group refreshed my memory and updated my knowledge about…

Contemporary Nursing Roles Essay My career in nursing happened very different than most. I never wanted to be a nurse, actually never thought about it. I went a business path while in high school. I loved math, economics, business and accounting. I was excited about anything that dealt with figures or formulas. I was actually enrolled at a university for a business career, one day my mother happened to see an advertisement in the local newspaper about a local hospital with a Licensed Practical…

Thinking in Nursing Critical thinking is vital for nurses to perform their jobs effectively and appropriately. Critical thinking is the “intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing or evaluating information gathered from observation, experience…reasoning or communication as a guide to belief and action.”(CITE) Critical thinking is the active and continuous process of analyzing information to guide nurses to judge appropriate…

foundation of the nursing practice, and curing in which takes on a different level of medical attention. Incorporated throughout the theory is a postmodern approach, which pays attention to not only the holistic views but appreciates self-awareness, harmony, and operates through an open system (Alligood,…

Start of Life Care: Nurses and Neonatal Sucrose Kimberley Marie Eady ENL 5645 Section 310 Professor Angela Slonosky July 18th, 2016 Start of Life Care: Nurses and Neonatal Sucrose The accepted definition of pain as per the American Academy of Pediatrics (2015); “pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever the experiencing person says it does.” (p.472). However, what if the person experiencing the pain is an infant? A newborn endures as many as twenty-one…

The Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions Doctor of Nursing Practice Admission Essay 1- My career goals would include continuing to work as an advanced practice psychiatric nurse, pursuing a doctorate in nursing, and applying my education to become a nurse leader while maintaining a clinical practice. Since I have already worked in advanced practice, obtaining a doctorate would simply further my knowledge and skill base and promote my career by giving me numerous…

Nursing theory helps to develop relationship bought together by different ideas so that we can understand behavior and alter our profession to provide suitable and relevant care. The purpose of this paper is to engage myself in the thoughts and writing done by Theorist Dorethea Orem and examine her theoretical field of self-care. I will investigate how her theory was developed through concepts and describe how the terms used to create her nursing theory have developed and the significate its…

The most important day in your nursing career is the day you graduate. As new nurses, we look to the words of Florence Nightingale for guidance as we are called to respect all persons regardless of their background (Egeus, Leinung, 2013). Regardless of these significant words, nurses have failed to observe and carry them out, resulting in hostile work environments. When you ask others how a nurse should act, you expect to hear the words compassionate and caring, not cold, abrasive, disrespectful…

to help patients recover in a way that is different from the traditional approach, either by distraction from hospital or nursing facility routines and treatments or through the presence and interaction with an animal, which serves as comforting and relaxing. As a nurse, we must be fully aware of the patient’s perceptions, as a caring relationship is the key element of nursing practice, which is linked to a positive patient outcome (O’Nan, Jenkins, Morgan, Adams, & Davis 2014). This Capstone…