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I have been a nurse at the University of Michigan hospital for eleven years. Currently, I work in the psychiatric emergency department. Our patients’ ages range from toddlers to adults. Some of the frequent diagnoses we see are: bipolar disorder, suicidality, psychosis, anxiety, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder. These patients can be very challenging and often have complex medical comorbidities such as cancer, diabetes, cardiac problems, and other medical problems. My job is to…

worked as nurses for centuries. Men are said to be the first nurses, it is believed that during the black plague in the 1300’s, a group of men started the first hospitals to take care of the patients. The word nurse has a long and deep cultural association with women. Nursing is seen as this nurturing, soft, very caring kind of profession. Men choose nursing for the same reason as women to…

skills and leadership skills among the BSN prepared nurses. Registered nurses today are the primary care givers and directly responsible for the coordination of care for their patients and work as part of an interdisciplinary team. Through formal education a BSN prepared nurse is prepared for community education and case management, these areas provide coordination of patient care within and outside the hospital setting. The ADN prepared nurse due to being technical/skill educated lacks…

We make sure that children are safe from having any accidents. We ensure that we maintain a hygienic and safe environment for children, parents and staff. We ensure and participate in improving each child's physical, social, emotional, intellectual development by observing them and having an interest in what they do. We prevent from having any discrimination and/or stereotyping in our nursery by respecting all of the cultures/background, religion, race, children with special needs. By preventing…

After a stream of bad luck, she finally convinces a lawyer to give her a job as a file clerk at his firm. Although no one took her all too seriously at work because of her lack of experience and “trashy” ensemble, she soon changes their perception of her when she begins to investigate a suspicious pro bono real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. After relentless prying she finds out that PG&E was secretly trying to buy land from local residents in order to cover up the…

Problem Identification The problem that will be discussed in this paper is prenatal education and how patients receive this information. When a newly pregnant woman is beginning care with our practice, she will have her first appointment with a nurse. At this visit the patients’ history is reviewed. Patients are given a large packet that contains educational materials, pamphlets, as well as a 200-page book for her to take home. This information is not reviewed with the patient prior to leaving…

I also noticed several nurses with strong leadership skills. All of the charge nurses in which I have come into contact with exhibit strong management and leadership skills. Most of the time in the surgical intensive care unit (SINU), the charge nurse takes on his/her own patients as well as organizing and delegating the unit’s activities.…

The purpose of this essay is to identify and expand on the image of the professional nurse and how the media perceives it to be in comparison to three scholarly articles, which accurately reflect the nursing profession. The media source of which the three scholarly articles will be compared to is a film named Meet The Parents, more specifically a clip where Greg Focker is explaining his career choice of a nurse to his fiancées condescending parents. This essay will discuss how…

Nursing Educator Interview I recently had the opportunity to sit with the Nursing Educator at my local hospital to ask her a series of questions regarding her profession. During her 30 years as a nurse she has gained a plethora of knowledge, experience and critical thinking skills. As a nurse holding a masters degree in the science of nursing, she actively uses her clinical abilities within the acute and critical care unit while also successfully functioning as a nursing educator. After 5…

Following Nightingale We are all drawn to nursing by forces that we can’t see, but we feel them and are so compelled by their forces that we follow these feelings and become nurses. I feel that, spiritually, Florence Nightingale is the nursing theorist that I could compare myself to. Florence Nightingale was born in England in 1820 to two wealthy and well-connected parents. Her parents both came from Unitarian religious backgrounds, but because of her father’s association with the Church of…