Nursing care

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…

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…

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…

wasteful, a lot of it will be carried on as I move on as a nursing professional. Each semester felt like putting pieces of a huge puzzle together, and as time went on the information seemed to fit together a little better. There is still a lot to learn, but most important of all I have learned that nursing is constantly changing and evolving, so there is always going to be something new to learn or to develop. Since I have been practicing nursing for three years, my RN to BSN experience was…

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…

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…

then documented this obtain data, and then reporting it to who may need to know about this information in order to take care of the patient. C) The LPN can NOT come up with the nursing diagnosis, but can give the RN needed data in order to come up with the nursing diagnosis to continue on with the plan of care. D) The LPN assists planning by helping the RN come up with a plan of care of needed things based on priority that…

The Stages of My Nursing Career T’ era Moore Columbus State University The Stages of My Nursing Career Within the nursing world, there are five stages that a nurse progresses through in their career. Dr. Benner’s theory created a five stage model that provided a framework for professional development for nurses (Hawkins, 2013). The model delineates over time and skill acquisition necessary to achieve expert status, which is the ultimate goal. The five stages that nurses must proceed through…

that, in response to the skills that nurses require to meet the needs of society and the health-care system, nursing education must be transformed. Benner, Sutphen, Leonard and Day go a step further and call for “urgent and radical transformation” of how nurses are educated and how nursing educators are prepared for their teaching role. Benner et al. analyze the results of the Carnegie National Nursing Education study, conducted in 2006, and share their interpretations, insights, and worries…

introduction The nursing image and it’s portrayal in multimedia has been undervalued and falsified during last decades; but by many nursing community activities, it is achieving the right position in the eye of public as highly valuable and independent part of society. During last decades by significant increasing impact of multimedia on shaping the day to day mindset and behaviour of public in many areas of life and ongoing circumstances all around the world, the image of nursing in medical…