Nursing

Through the profession of nursing, the professional nurse fulfills multiple roles throughout his or her daily work. These roles vary in the intensity and skill needed, from being able to provide accurate medicine dosages to the patient, to simply being present with the patient, and being a comfort to them. Nurses provide more than just physical care; they provide spiritual and emotional care to their patients every day. Such applies to all registered nurses, regardless of which field they decide…

lot of work and focus to complete my prerequisites at a junior college (Georgia Military), then I will need to graduate from a nursing program at an accredited University. This will take collectively six to eight years of schooling to obtain my Bachelors of Science in Nursing. I am now fully grasping the amount of work required to obtain my Bachelors of Science in Nursing, but I am more than ready to face this challenge and excel. During my research period I used Gcis.com and The Occupational…

Nurses Association states that nursing informatics is the confluence of nursing science, computer science, and information science to explore, communicate, and utilize data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. ("Nursing informatics," 2013, para. 1) It is a specialty that we as nurses need to comprehend to help assist and manage our patient’s care. Nursing informatics has transformed many areas of nursing with one being nursing practice. ("Nursing informatics," 2013, para. 3)…

My nursing philosophy combines the science of nursing with knowledge, empathy, as well as respect and dignity of each individual in different situations. I believe my nursing philosophy is focused on delivering quality patient care that is individualized to the needs of each patient. The delivery of care must be compassionate and empathetic for all people. Therefore, the circumstance that influenced my decision to become a nurse is having the opportunity to be with my mother during the end of…

The Evolution of Nursing: Nursing Informatics and Advanced Practice Nursing The roles of advanced practice nurses (APN’s) and specialty nursing fields, such as nursing informatics, has evolved immensely over in the last few decades. The critical need for nurses during World wars I, II and the Vietnam War topped with the massive technology expansion in recent decades left nurses open to pursuing advancement in their respective fields and led them to fulfilling some of the gaps in the healthcare…

Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society [HIMSS], 2016). Information technology has changed today’s health care dramatically for the better. The field of nursing informatics has allowed nurses and physicians to utilize new information…

compassion, they have lost their profession. This is a growing problem in the field of medicine. The loss of compassion is seen significantly more in emotional areas of nursing such as critical care units and oncology. Further I will discuss what the literature has to say about compassion fatigue and how it affects the nursing profession along with the individual nurse. Review of the Literature Compassion fatigue…

in the nursing field. The purpose of this paper is to inform nurses of the importance of taking care of themselves and protecting their backs from injuries. According to the Department of Labor 's Bureau of Labor Statistics, nursing employees experience more than thirty five thousand back and other bodily injuries yearly. Some of these injuries are severe enough to cause them to miss work. These injuries also cost the hospitals billions of dollars each year. Statistics suggests that nursing…

Nursing has been a career that I have wanted to pursue since I was little. I have learned throughout this semester that being a nurse requires a great amount of leadership. Leadership will always be something that I keep in the back of my mind and keep reiterating to myself because without being a strong leader, especially for nursing, I will not succeed by helping my patients or the doctors. Patients need to get the care they need, and without having the nurses speak up and try to be an…

Clarke’s nursing program we are challenged and taught to learn the culture of nursing education. It is crucial as a nurse to develop your own cultural competence. It is important to understand that diversity is not static it is always changing. Also a thorough cultural assessment should be done on the patient so you can be familiar with their own beliefs and practice so you can provide the best care possible. By being culturally competent and having respect for others is a very important nursing…