Nursing homes

environments. These environments include: in hospitals, physicians’ offices, home healthcare services, and nursing facilities. Other environments are outpatient clinics, schools, or military service. Educational requirements Educational requirements for a registered nurse usually include three education paths. These paths are a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, an associate’s degree in nursing, or a diploma from an approved nursing program. All registered nurses must be licensed and have…

Every now and then I’m sure, Nurses are like thank you Jesus that annoying family member left! Nurses enter the medical field to help and comfort sick people and their family members but there’s a flip side to every job. Registered nursing (RN) requires a large base of knowledge which is used to assess, plan and intervene a patient’s illness which will promote their health and prevent the spread of their disease. Therefore, it is imperative that one identify and analyze the educational…

That’s how the nurses of the Frontier Nursing Service travelled to see their patients. The patients lived in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. A hundred years ago, these communities were far from towns and hospitals. No one had a car, and railroad stations were miles away. When people got sick or had new babies, no doctor was close enough to help. A nurse named Mary Breckinridge had been to Scotland, where nurses used bicycles to visit patients in their homes. She realized that nurses could do…

Results indicated that there was a significant difference between the percentage of people with cognitive illnesses living in an assisted living facility (78.0%), a home (12.0%), and a skilled nursing facility (10.0%) and people with organic illnesses living in an assisted living facility (42.0%), a home (34.0%), and a skilled nursing facility (24.0%), χ2 (2, N = 100) = 13.5, p< .05, one-tailed. In order to identify where the specific difference is, an LSD post hoc test must be utilized and…

Control and Prevention, n.d.). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (n.d.), the emergency room treats over 2.5 million elderly and hospitalizes over 734 thousand every year. Roughly 50-75% of the nursing home geriatric…

School, I intend to apply and take classes at BridgeValley Community and Technical College. To get into the nursing program at BridgeValley, a student must first be a high school graduate or have a General Educational Development (GED). They will also have had to achieve a 3.0 or above grade point average (GPA) in their high school courses. The student will then have to take a pre-nursing admission exam. They will need to make at least a composite score of 60.5 on the Test of Essential Academic…

School nursing practice, “in daily practice, school nurses implement some or all of the practice components of care coordination based on an assessment of the student and family needs” (p.46). It includes many areas that the school nurse performs to keeps the students healthy and safe. This requires wearing several hats, which are case manager, chronic disease management, collaborative communication, direct care education, interdisciplinary teams, motivational interviewing/counseling, nursing…

started, I read the competencies and objectives and thought they were vague outlines that didn’t really give me any idea about what the class would entail. Now looking back on the course and what my cohort has learned throughout our first level of nursing school, it is easy to focus in on the competencies and objectives as well as come up with examples of how we have been practicing them. Some of the most prominent ones were the NMNEC competency of ethics in healthcare and recognizing the need…

There are nurses who work in cities and big professional hospitals as well as there are nursing homes in both the city and in rural areas that lack basic health care facilities for not only the patients but also the nurses have to suffer from these basic deficiencies. (Anderko, Robertson and Lewis, 1999). On the other hand, we also find discrimination in male and female nurses in the professional nursing environment similar to that in other work places regarding sexuality. Though, both male and…

learn something new,” Nurse Medina says, “ and if you look at everything there is usually never a double moment.” Medina works in the Emergency Room (ER) at Lenox Hill Hospital where she experiences different situations that occur in the department. Nursing isn’t as simple as it sounds. Working twelve-hour shifts with different scenarios every day is arduous for the nurse practitioner that manages the ER. Working in the ER to save a life may sound a bit cliche, “But when you can really save a…