Private Practice

case In the video published by MeetTheBoss TV (2011a) and MeetTheBoss TV (2011b) titled Ten Best Practice HR Tips - Human Rescource Best Practise | MeetTheBoss (Only Part 1), McDonald’s Senior V.P. David Fairhurst, KFC’s HR Director Misty Reich, Mattel’s Senior V.P. of HR Alan Kaye, and IBM’s V.P. of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs Stan Litow weigh in on the following three best practices that include: 1) “Define HR for the Business,” 2) “Think Succession Planning 2.0,” and 3) “Be…

I grew up interested in the legal system. As I grew older I started to show a lot more interest to the legal study. I started to research, and at school, I took classes that benefited the pathway to legal study. My interest in the legal system guided me to become a lawyer. I choose to become a lawyer because the salary. Lawyers also have many opportunities to grow and advance in the career. Although everybody is to do right by the law, everyone should be given a chance to make sure justice is…

The purpose of this essay is to reflect on a specific experience on infection prevention and control encountered in a ward while on placement as a student nurse. Duffy (2008, p.1405), describes A reflective practice as an active and deliberate way of critically examining practice in a situation where one is challenged to undertake the process of self-inquiry. It helps an individual look back at an experience and how it makes him/her feel and react, asking what is good and bad and what can be…

Dorothea E. Orem committed her life to making and building up a theoretical structure to enhance nursing practice (Smith & Parker, 2015). Orem’s theory is built on the premise that an individual has the capacity, right, and duty to look after oneself. She was able to see care from the patient’s point of view where patients give self-care with different levels of help from health professionals. The crucial premise of her theory is that each individual has the ability to take care of their…

1.1 Introduction Palliative care in South Africa was recognised towards the end of the 1970s primarily in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth (Sithole, 2012:7). In 1979, Dame Cecily Saunders (founder of palliative care in the United Kingdom) aided the formation of hospice programmes in South Africa and the initial hospice programmes were based on the United Kingdom model (Sithole, 2012:7). Fourteen hospices in South Africa came together to form a national association called the…

A Novice Nurse Journey I much-loved reading Patricia Benner (1984) book “From Novice to Expert”: it provided an insight in to the nursing practice and skills level. Many questions raised about where do I stand and where would I take my skills in the nursing field. Benner talked about the Dreyfus model for nursing skills development levels. The model described five levels of competence that any student must pass through. They are: novice, advanced learner, competent, proficient and the expert.…

Nursing models are, in definition, “abstract frameworks, linking facts, phenomena, that assist nurses to plan nursing care, investigate problems related to clinical practice, and study the outcomes of nursing actions and interventions” (Encyclopedia, 2008). Not only do nursing models assists nurses in how they process and carry out care, but also nursing metaparadigms. The four key concepts, which are health, environment, person and nursing, help reduce the emotional stress often accompanied by…

is essential and has been a component of nursing care since Nightingale’s time. Nursing theory is used to guide and direct nursing practice across the nursing spectrum. Clinical nurse specialist’s (CNS), have the ability to incorporate nursing theory into the care provided to patients and families. There are many nursing theories available to integrate into practice, with the goal of improving patient care and system functioning. This paper will discuss the concepts of Roy’s theory of adaptation…

an increase in clients lately, he is busy trying to accommodate and provide services to some of the 564,000 Canadians living with dementia—and their friends and family members who suffer with them. Now, he is travelling to other family health practices to provide services to people with dementia and their care partners. With a 49 per cent increase in new clients in three years, the Alzheimer’s Society of London-Middlesex now has 2,268 clients. Some of this is due to the baby-boomer…

Jean Watson, a nursing theorist that developed the theory “Human Caring,” implements “carinas” which in Latin means “love for all people.” Watson provided a fresh prospective according to Cara (2003) “upholding these caring values in our daily practice helps transcend the nurse from a state where nursing is perceived as “just a job” to that of a gratifying profession” (p.51). Jean Watson theory is comprised of three elements; the carative factor, transpersonal caring relationship, and caring…