Transcultural nursing

and new things to teach students. As an advanced practice nursing (APN) student, theory fundamentals play an important part in the future of an APN career because theories are what make nursing practice a profession (Cruz,2008). The graduate nursing theory course provided understanding about the purpose of nursing theories and application of theories into the advanced practice setting. The purpose of this paper is to further discuss how nursing theories can be applied in practice, how theories…

My Personal Nursing Philosophy An enhanced understanding of patients develops from personal discovery and being self-aware (Durgahee, 1996). I believe that it is of utmost importance for nurses to understand themselves as well as the patients they are providing care to. When caring for others, nurses should be sensitive to their needs, desires, and especially their cultural beliefs and practices. My personal philosophy of nursing is established from three tenants: caring, competency, and…

component in the nursing community. Knowing a client’s culture can help in communication, and build a therapeutic relationship. Many different types of nursing cultural competency models have been developed throughout the years, though this essay will focus on the Sunrise Model by Madeleine Leininger. The Sunrise Model is a visual representation of Leininger’s Culture Care Diversity and Universality theory, which is a theory that pioneered many others into developing cultural nursing models. St.…

In this assignment, I will use the Gibbs reflective cycle (1998) to reflect on the situation that taken place during my clinical placement to help me to improve and utilise my skills and knowledge from that experienced. • Describe what happened I was assigned in Surgical Ward at Westmead Hospital for two weeks. I was endorsed to one of the Registered Nurses to be my mentor. I was told by my mentor nurse to help her to shower one of her patients. When I took over the care of the patient the…

of school, the job market for new nurses was not particularly good. A lot of my classmates ended up going out of state to other job markets in order to get their first hospital gig. I ended up working at the nursing home where I once was a CNA, for a year and a half. While working at the nursing home, I met another nurse there who ended up paving the way for me to get an interview on the coronary care unit (CCU) of a local hospital. The particular nurse knew the manager of the CCU unit. When I…

more and build with the effort of the team (Marquis & Huston, 2012). To increase my power of the nursing profession, I would like to initiate a study on self-scheduling for nursing staff. This will be information which is evidence-based research to assist other facilities in the positives and negatives of self-scheduling. By implementing self-scheduling this is another way to empower the nursing staff in my…

dress wounds, and even administer Medication. Also, registered nurses operate in a wide range of settings, from schools to prisons, even homeless shelters. Learning a new skill set is not the easiest task, that’s why when I began looking into nursing I had a lot that I did not understand. One question I asked was, what do registered nurse 's do that licensed practical nurse 's can 't? A good friend of mine said “In a lot of situations licensed practical nurse 's get asked to just as many…

The databases that have been used were Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PubMed, and Science Direct. The search was done using the following key words: leadership, nursing, goals, goal-setting, setting goals, and influence. The importance of setting goals must be addressed from the very beginning of nursing graduate school. The transition to advanced practice nurse, such as nurse practitioner (NP), can be a stressful…

While most research has been conducted on the effects of excessive hospital noise on patients, the article by Ryherd, Waye and Ljungkyist (2008) examines the effect of these high noise levels on unit staff. Ninety one percent of nurses surveyed felt that noise negatively affected them in their daily work, and almost half admitted to adjusting alarm levels so that they would not hear them. The literature review conducted by Ryherd et al. revelaed that staff take no action for the majority of…

professional nurse is as accurate today as when written in 1893. This paper will explain the characteristics of professional nursing, why developing a professional demeanor…