Nursing process

a fundamental aspect of nursing, and traditionally the major type of interaction has been the nurse delegating to competent medical staff. The importance of working with others and the ability to delegate and supervise have never been as challenging as they are today, especially with the nursing and staff shortage and the increase in patients with acute or chronic diseases, nurses are stretched to the limit but nurses must still be able to provide safe and effective nursing care. What are the…

ADVOCACY AND POLITICAL ACTION To be effective, nurses must consider themselves to be experts with the limit and obligation to impact present and future healthcare delivery system. The nursing career depends on the science of human wellbeing and the aspect of caring. It works from a structure that values all individuals in a holistic manner and looks to cultivate and propel individuals' wellbeing all through their lifespans and over all levels of society. Advocacy in Workplace Nurses as a part…

The Washington DC Board of nursing is an agency in charge of regulating all category of Nursing like Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and Nurse Midwives, Nurse Practioners, and Advanced practice registered nurses. The board of nursing also regulate nursing assistive personal such as certified nursing assistant and home health aides. The DC board of nursing perform its regulations by ensuring and verifying that each healthcare provider have adequate education and training needed…

quality of life. Furthermore, Medicare stopped paying reimbursements to hospitals for treating fall-related complications. Improved monitoring by staff is one of the nursing intervention to prevent falls. In order to enhance nursing care and improve patient outcomes, nursing rounds have been introduced (Lyons, Brunero, & Lamont, 2015). Nursing rounds, which involve a checklist approach…

In today’s society, it’s hard to imagine nursing as a wanted job by males. Look around a hospital or a doctor’s office: women will be looked at as nurses while men will be looked at as doctors. The blame should be placed on society itself. Parent’s tell their son to look down at nursing due to its feminine features it receives. Instead, parents push for their son to become a doctor or physician while they tell their daughter to pursue nursing because females don’t get respected as doctors as men…

the occupation. The purpose for highlighting this concept of burnout is to focus on the idea that often newly licensed nurses feel the effects of this burnout from their experiences and environment. According the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), newly licensed nurses can become frustrated and overwhelmed…

based sources. Information related to teaching, learning, the nursing process, advocacy, informed consent, legal terminology, and moral principles are all described with emphasis placed on these in the perioperative nursing environment. Teaching and Learning Understanding our own learning style as well as those who we are teaching is important for effective education. Much research has gone into understanding learning styles of nursing students to better and more effectively direct education…

benefit each patient’s wellbeing (Sackett, Straus, Richardson, Rosenberg, & Haynes, 2000). Evidence-based practice (EBP) is similar to the nursing profession, specifically the nursing process. There are six systematic steps that must be performed during the EBP process. The first step is asking important clinical questions. This can be related to a nursing assessment; asking the patient questions about his or her history. The next step in EBP is finding the best evidence…

NURSING ETHICS 2 Ethics in the Nursing Profession Ethics is defined as a system of moral principles that govern behaviors and relationships and is based on professional nursing values and beliefs (Trakalo, Horowitz, & McCulloch, 2015). Ethical standards of nursing include standards relating to the rights of patients and their loved ones (Trakalo et al., 2015). In addition, ethics also refers to the study and development of the ethical principles of an individual, a community, or a…

Patient-Centered Care in Nursing Practice Originating in 2005, the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) is a project created to educate future nurses on specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes obtained through completion of their pre-licensure or continuing nursing education program to improve quality and safety in the healthcare system (QSEN, 2014). QSEN is made up of six defined competencies, one being patient-centered care. QSEN defines patient-centered care as the ability to…