Patient and Family centered Care Essay

A Nurse’s Role in Providing Cultural and Spiritual Care to Patients Angelina Holland Ocean County College A Nurse’s Role in Providing Cultural and Spiritual Care to Patients The United States is known as a melting pot. It has one of the most diverse populations in the world. From the very beginning of our country’s history, immigrants have stepped foot on our shores bringing with them their cultural and spiritual beliefs and traditions. In her article on Understanding American Culture, Millet…

Leininger’s Culture Care Theory Han Kim, RN, BSN Clayton State University Introduction Leininger’s Culture Care Theory, which is also referred as a Leininger’s theory or transcultural theory is meant to provide care with cultural beliefs, practices and values (Leininger, 2008). The major concept of Leininger’s theory includes the view and coping skill, the social level of a patient that shape illness and wellness, the religious and cultural understanding and the cultural…

I learned my dedicated, caring, yet practical parents would never have nine to five jobs. Fortunately, in true Albanian fashion, my grandparents have always lived in our home, imparting wisdom I have come to appreciate. As so often happens in families of this nature, as a youngster I started working in my father’s general practioner’s office, assuming I too would eventually study medicine. It is from the nursing staff that I realized what my biology studies did not emphasize; a major problem…

Best practice recommendations are that patients be approached and asked about an advanced directive early, before they become critically ill. Education should be provided, including all treatment options. It is best that this be done in the presence of patient’s family to ensure that everyone is equally informed and involved in making this decision. Although unless the patient lacks decision making capacity it is ultimately their decision to make. (DeNisco, 2016) B. Moral Responsibilities B1.…

Examples of primary care sites include physician offices, school health, ambulatory, or outpatient clinics, surgical centers, and health departments. The acute care environment encompasses the pediatric inpatient, intensive care, and intermediate care units, the pediatric emergency room, same day surgery center, and pediatric rehabilitation facility. Primary care PNPs have the additional knowledge and skill to diagnose and treat episodic illnesses; manage ongoing care of children with chronic…

Cystic Fibrosis Part 1 Jenna Saline Kaplan University Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic condition that has an affect on many organs of the patient. This disease will ultimately lead to fatal impairment of the lungs. It is most common to see Cystic Fibrosis diagnosed from early childhood to young teens. Cystic Fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder in which both gene alleles must be mutated for the disease to be expressed (Ignatavicius and Workman, 2013). As every person…

nursing is centered toward making my nursing career a life fulfilling experience for my patient and myself through what I believe is provision of nursing quality care based on knowledge improvement. To make nursing a fulfilling experience, there should be an understanding that you should have a continuous search for knowledge to improve the practice of nursing to give better care and benefits to the patient. I believe that the patient should be at the center of my care plan and each patient…

The history of nursing is that it began with family and close friends caring for each other during sick times. As industrialization began to spread, nursing became industrialized as well with hospitals being built and strangers caring for strangers in these facilities. The hospitals run by religious nurses gave the highest quality of care while the other hospitals could not compare (Jean Whelan, 2016). This transition in care makes a personal philosophy with a high level of integrity of how to…

Describe why you wish to be a Cook Children 's nurse resident Remember setting goals when we were younger? Even today, I can remember listening to stories from family members about the wonderful experience they have had at Cook Children’s. I knew there had to be something special about this hospital, and I wanted to be a part of this great change. I immediately researched what the mission of Cook’s is, and decided that this is the perfect place for me. Since then, I had a dream about becoming a…

nutrition, optometry, internal medicine, informatics, mental health. This is a model designed to promote patient-centered care, by reducing health care costs for patients, and promoting efficient teamwork among different healthcare professionals. This model fosters trust and respect among the team members. We always have short meetings beginning of the shift and middle of the shift for patient plane of care and update to management. Interprofessional collaborative practice…