546 Search Results for Art and Science of Nursing
The birds flying away in the end are representative of the freedom to love each other that Allie and Noah now have with each other. No physical bounds can restrain them. These elements became apparent on the fourth viewing. I then went back through Continue Reading...
Communication Even Analysis
This report is to reflect on a particular event that occurred during my placement at a general hospital. The placement afforded me a firsthand experience of the importance of communication skills in nursing practice. Effec Continue Reading...
Healthcare
We can compare the healthcare workplace to what is seen by a person when he/she looks through a kaleidoscope: since there are numerous different patterns that appear as the moments pass by. The shortage of nurses which has been publicized Continue Reading...
Diversity Management and Nursing Leadership Philosophy
In the last two decades, influx of nursing professionals from the different part of the world into the United States has created a diversity work environment within the health organizations. The Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Evolution of Nursing Care Plans: History and Impact:
This essay would explore the historical development of nursing care plans, from their origins to the present day. It could examine how nursing ca Continue Reading...
Nursing Health Care Informatics
"…At the beginning of the 21st century, nursing informatics has become a part of our professional activities…[and has] advanced the field of nursing by bridging the gap from nursing as an art to nursing as Continue Reading...
The most practical nursing education facilities began in the 1800s, but minimal education standards were not put into place until 1923, when the Goldmark Report highlighted the need for certain educational certifications for nursing practice (Scheck Continue Reading...
Nursing Philosophy StatementMy nursing philosophy is based on the values instilled in me growing up and then working as a professional. I have been involved in healthcare for more than a decade. Everything I have learned as a nurse and everything tau Continue Reading...
Nursing Degrees
ADN vs. BSN
The ADN vs. The BSN:
A comparison of both nursing degrees
Students wishing to enter the profession of nursing are often faced with two clear choices: that of an ADN (associate degree in nursing) and a BSN (Bachelor of Continue Reading...
Wit and NursingIn the film Wit, Nurse Susie Monahan represents the concept of compassionate care. Her interactions with Vivian show how important empathy, kindness, and compassion actually are in nursing. Unlike other healthcare professionals in the Continue Reading...
Introduction
Theory guides practice. This is true of many things, but is especially true of nursing. While many processes, actions, and rules are involved in becoming a great nurse, understanding and applying theory must be the most important aspect Continue Reading...
Nursing Higher Education and Leadership
Clinical leadership is very important because of the problems that characterize the health care sector, including workforce shortage, high rates of change, staff chaos, quality issues, and safety concerns, amon Continue Reading...
Lessons Learned
Benjamin Franklin once said that, "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." Nowhere is this statement truer than in the field of nursing where I feel that the lessons learned from this course will help sustain and enrich m Continue Reading...
In principle, there is a very good reason for the standardization of medical terminology: it reduces one of the most common and preventable potential causes of serious error: miscommunication.
Non-Standard Medical Terminology in the Insurance Revie Continue Reading...
Patient Management -- Heloma Durum
Presentation and Management
The patient suffering from heloma durum typically presents with complaints of discomfort from the formation of hardened tissue in localized areas of the foot such as the on the dorsolat Continue Reading...
Force 12: Image of Nursing. The VA recognizes the importance of individual care to the perception of quality healthcare in its facilities. Even if the entire organization operates in an effective and compassionate manner, if the nurse that cares fo Continue Reading...
More specifically, when certain species (including homo Sapiens) consume more calories than necessary for immediate energy requirements, their digestive systems efficiently converts those excess calories into storable forms of reserve energy that ar Continue Reading...
Because unions retain the exclusive right to negotiate on behalf of its members, the individual worker may have little recourse to easily address incompetent leadership.
The Disadvantages of Unionized Labor for Healthcare Employers:
The primary di Continue Reading...
Toward an Effective Solution
In principle, the most effective solution to the tremendous problem of cigarette smoking in the U.S. would simply be to impose legislation banning the manufacture, sale, or consumption of cigarettes altogether. In fact Continue Reading...
Ethics of Managed Healthcare
Healthcare policy has emerged as one of the most important issues in American politics and will continue to drive significant aspects of contemporary American public policy debates in the near future. That is because, on Continue Reading...
Numerous studies have documented that shift workers (i.e. those who regularly rotate work shifts from one schedule to another) suffer much higher incidence of many medical problems; likewise, the third shift is widely considered to be the most dange Continue Reading...
Ideally, the diaphragm is used with contraceptive agents to increase effectiveness. The male condom covers the entire penis to prevent any sperm from entering the female after ejaculation. The female condom works on the same principle, only instead Continue Reading...
Generally, weight loss involves a loss of both fat and muscle in comparable proportions; it is impossible to lose only one type of tissue through dieting. A 20-pound weight loss may represent approximately fifty percent fat and fifty percent muscle Continue Reading...
No medical treatment exists for treating HPV infection other than prevention through education about the dangers of multiple sexual partners and unprotected sex, because HPV infection is transmitted through sexual contact with an infected individua Continue Reading...
It is primarily transmitted from patients to healthcare workers through exposure to infected blood by mistakes in procedures involving sharp instruments and needles. For this reason, healthcare workers are routinely vaccinated against blood-borne
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Nursing Grand Theory
Grand Theory
The nursing grand theory is the framework which guides and organizes the knowledge in nursing and explains the nursing phenomena at a more specific level. The nursing grand theory was put forth by Afaf Meleis who c Continue Reading...
Job Satisfaction in Nursing
Levels of Job satisfaction in nursing in relation to generational differences
The contemporary society has suffered an acute shortage of nurses within the public and the government sponsored hospitals. Indeed the shortag Continue Reading...
Applying Watson's Nursing Theory to Assess Patient Perceptions of Being Cared for in a Multicultural Environment" describes the validness and authentication of the nursing theory of care by Jean Watson. She was of the view that the best which a nurs Continue Reading...
Role of Advanced Practice Nurse
Framework for Clinical Practice
Person/Client/Client System
Environment
Health
Nursing/APN (Factors Effecting APN's Practice and Implementation of the APN
Nursing Process)
Interrelationships of Client System, En Continue Reading...
Caring
Nursing Concept Analysis: Caring
Caring is a concept central to nursing theory. Indeed, an esteemed constellation of nurses throughout history, including Nightingale, Watson, Henderson, and Benner, have integrated the concept of care into t Continue Reading...
nursing profession has been a vital part and backbone of health care all over the world. Its methods and practiced discipline focuses on the assistance being rendered to an individual or a group, a family and a community with its primary concern on Continue Reading...
Still, the concept of guided imagery tends to stray far from traditional methods of pain management. Pharmaceuticals have long been a major method of treatment for pain, but have resulted in major backlashes in regards to patients becoming addicted, Continue Reading...
Personal Philosophy of Nursing
As a nurse, the words that have always resonated with me the most as a description of the nursing process can be found in the writings of Patricia Benner. Benner, the author of the 'novice to expert model' writes: " On Continue Reading...
There is a clear divide between the real care nurses must give -- and do give, every day -- and the layperson's perceptions of nursing (Scher 2003).
References
Scher, Betty. (2003). Second opinion. Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Journa Continue Reading...
Timeline: Historical Development of Nursing Science
Nurse Science Timeline
Timeline 1850-2010: Historical Development of Nursing Science
Nineteenth Century
Florence Nightingale begins her nursing training in Alexandria, Egypt at the Institute of Continue Reading...
Caring in Nursing
Over time, nursing and caring have largely been regarded synonymous. With that in mind, it is important to note that quite a number of caring theories have been developed based on caring as a central concept. Some of these theorie Continue Reading...
Philosophy of Nursing
Nursing is both a science and an art. Through nursing, individuals are provided with health care and their societal needs are met. In the health care industry, nurses are at the forefront of patient care, interacting with indiv Continue Reading...
"(History of Nurse Anesthesia Practice)
Among the earlier formal programs for nurse anesthesia were those established at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, the University Hospital of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Charity Hospital in Ne Continue Reading...
Patricia Benner Theory
21st century nursing is an evolving, rewarding, but challenging occupation. Unlike nurses in the past, the modern nurse's role is not limited to the physician's assistant, but rather takes on a critical partnership role with b Continue Reading...