Transcultural nursing

A., Fuji, K. T., Gait, K. A., & Paschal, K. A. (2012). How baccalaureate nursing students value an interprofessional patient safety course for professional development. ISRN Nursing, 1-7. doi:10.5402/2012/401358 Burhans, L. D., Chastain, K., & George, J. L. (2012). Just culture and nursing regulation: learning to improve patient safety. Journal Of Nursing Regulation, 2(4), 43-49. Klipfel, J. M., Carolan, B. J., Brytowski, N., Mitchell, C. A., Gettman, M. T., &…

acceptance and buy-in are critical. Describing how a nurse facilitator can prepare the nursing staff for an EMR transition through a pre-implementation team meeting is important because nurse resistance of new technology is often high. Nurses as Change Agents Nurses are in a position to impact the successful implementation of new technology in many ways. Nurse administrators that provide ongoing support for nursing staff are crucial to smooth implementation by providing adequate training,…

Menorah Park. After this assessment the admission nurse decided that the patient needed interventions since she was deemed a high risk for falls and decided she needed a bed and chair alarm. Cheryl Lukasik, RN, who was the Associate Director of Nursing at Menorah Park at the time of Ms. Bolek’s stay testified to the following: Q: Just to be clear, every new resident isn’t given an alarm? A: No, it’s patient specific. Q: All right. It’s done - - that decision is made after the assessment?…

Paper R. Michael March Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Role Preparation Paper Introduction A Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) is a health professional that specializes in the diagnoses and treatment of patients with a wide age range, from children to the elderly. They are licensed registered nurses with advance academic and clinical training affording them an increased skill set. Nurse practitioners provide both medical and nursing care under their own licenses. As healthcare providers,…

week’s shadowing and what I would like for her to help me with. The next ethics meeting is on the 18th which I will attend. For now one of my goals is to interview a nursing administrator who is an active member of a professional organization. TV made several phone calls and found several administrators who are members of a professional nursing organization. However, everyone…

Philosophy of Nursing In order to serve patients most effectively, one must look introspectively and determine what one believes about nursing. This author chose nursing as a profession because nursing is her calling and she has made it her life’s work. For this author, nursing is a culmination of compassion, service, knowledge, teamwork, integrity, and perseverance. While it is true that one may receive the title “Registered Nurse” by going to school and passing an exam, this author believes…

the nursing profession began with a legacy known as Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale started the basic fundamentals of patient care which is still taught in nursing schools around the world. Her greatest legacy to the nursing profession is the fact that she elevated nursing to a higher degree of professionalism and respectability than ever before.” Nurses have come a long way since then, and have to go by the standards of practice. Nursing Councils Code of Conduct, Scopes of Nursing…

Telenursing: Is It In My Future? Holly Thomason Chamberlain College of Nursing NR361: Information Systems in Healthcare September 2015 Telenursing: Is It In My Future? Telenursing can be described as a way to examine, treat, monitor and assess patients remotely using telephone, video conferencing, and other technology. Using it in a home setting has many benefits to patient’s that are living at home with chronic conditions. In the USA, about 80% of older adults have one chronic condition,…

Patient Safety Regina Georgeson 9/15/15 Patient safety is what everything in healthcare revolves around. It should be practiced in every step that a nurse takes at work to care for a patient to reach their individual outcomes without medical error. Patient safety is commonly defined as, “freedom from psychological and physical injury. “ There are multiple ways that patient safety can be breached as evidenced by the thousands of deaths seen each year because of malpractice. Due to…

my work, and often tell my co-workers and family that. However, helping my patients transition into the next life, and watching their families stuggle with this inevitability, weighs heavily on my heart; and it is time for a change to a different nursing specialty. My goal of attending CCU is to continue serving as a registered nurse in the capacity of a BSN. I intend to continue to serve patients and their families as a nurse, and believe completing the BSN will make me an even better nurse.…