Theoretical Foundations of Nursing: Nursing can be described as a science and practice that enlarges adaptive capabilities and improves the transformation of an individual and the environment. This profession focuses on promoting health, improving t Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Nurses and Prescriptive Authority Though the roles of Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Educator and Nurse Administrator are all vital to the health care industry, they are not allowed prescriptive authority per se. However, the rol Continue Reading...
Nightingale met a friend Richard Monckton Miles in 1842. Then in 1844, Nightingale asked Dr. Howe if she could do a charitable job in a hospital like the catholic nuns, and refused her marriage to her cousin, Henry Nicholson. By 1845, Nightingale st Continue Reading...
Ethics in the nursing and occupational therapy communities is an ongoing concern that is being addressed in a number of different arenas and manners. This paper discusses national and international frameworks that have been created to address, define Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing What is Advanced Practice Nursing? Advanced Practice Nursing offer new ways of practicing and delivering cost-effective health care as well as augmenting access to qualified practitioners for numerous patients and Continue Reading...
resuscitate orders and living wills (also known as "advance directives"). Specifically, it will discuss the ethics of these orders, and how they relate to medical law and professional ethics. Living wills and do not resuscitate orders (DNR) are comm Continue Reading...
Public and Community Health and SpecializationIntroductionCommunity health assessment, program planning, and evaluation are important in order to monitor the health of communities and individuals, plan and implement effective and efficient health pro Continue Reading...
Yet Ana and her family also sought the intervention of traditional doctors or curanderos. The curandero provides services that a Western doctor cannot: the cleansing ceremony referred to in the case study is a perfect example of differences in attit Continue Reading...
Should Euthanasia be Legal?AbstractEuthanasia, as Math and Chaturvedi (2012) point out, is a Greek word which means a peaceful or merciful death. Euthanasia can be induced by a doctor or it can be voluntary. Debate about the legality or morality of e Continue Reading...
Paternalism can take a number of forms. Unfortunately, because of the governments increasing amount of interaction and funding of the medical industry, governmental paternalism can take the form of limiting funding, which affects treatment options. T Continue Reading...
New Nurses and Managers: Organizational Analysis As the nursing profession evolves and rises to meet modern demands, we are faced with growing complexities in our profession and in our workplaces. From the orientation and socialization of new nurses Continue Reading...
While implementing the work-release program may lead to an increased risk to people outside of the prison environment that risk is at least theoretical, while the risks associated with overcrowded prisons are concrete. Moreover, William could attemp Continue Reading...
Ethics and Morality Ethical Analysis: A Nursing Situation Ethical Analysis Identify the nursing issue In ancient times, nurses used to take orders from other senior professionals where they were then permitted to initiate routine procedures. Thei Continue Reading...
Professional Nursing THE RIGHT THING TO DO Two nurses are good friends to an in-patient. One of the nurses got so concerned with this patient that she accessed the patient's medical records and confided her findings to the other friend. Neither of Continue Reading...
It provides health-related advice on its website that all readers can benefit from, not simply those who use its services. As well as reaching out to the wider population of patients, it honors those within its fold who serve the organization with n Continue Reading...
Managing Barriers Barriers encountered in the Capstone project revolved around the idea that the staff felt it was not there job to read rhythm strips, and did not make the time to get off the floor for any continuing education. Good leadership can Continue Reading...
Legislation of Foreign Nurses Practicing in the United States The United States Health Care system is undergoing a major crisis of nurse-staffing shortage. A survey conducted by the American Hospital Association -- AHA of 715 hospitals performed dur Continue Reading...
Some authors show that, contrary to the belief that health care professionals are less sensitive than the general public toward the manipulation of the body, they in fact have great difficulty in allowing action to be taken on the deceased donor, ev Continue Reading...
2008).. This points to the ethical responsibility of nurse educators -- it is not enough to treat the disease, bit one must treat the patient. Failure to provide the proper level of education to a patient is certainly one way to fail them both ethi Continue Reading...
Health Care Delivery Models and Nursing PracticeToday, health care delivery models and nursing practice are experiencing fundamental changes in response to innovations in technologies and controlling state and federal legislation. The purpose of this Continue Reading...
Skill Building The course work has immensely improved my reading, writing, and thinking skills. Prior to reading the course materials, there were established beliefs on certain issues and interest in me. For example, the issue of racism and health Continue Reading...
OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA Advanced English Composition Pastoralism: Is Michael Pollan's dream a viable alternative for most Americans? The second section of Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma contains his most hopeful and also his most polemic Continue Reading...
Advanced Nursing Ethics and Values (b) Justify the importance of ethical theory -- provide one example: The use of virtue ethics, according to the peer-reviewed Business Ethics Quarterly, is a way of providing resources for "moral thinking"; and for Continue Reading...
All these charters that have clearly defined the boundaries of what both the positive i.e. natural rights and negative i.e. The unjust exploitative rights of the people are and how no institution or research domains have the right or power to violat Continue Reading...
In the emergency room, this distinction can have a determinant impact on the ability of the staff to preserve life and diminish pain and suffering. The introduction of a bioethical perspective into this dialogue invokes a question as to the primacy Continue Reading...
A study in this regard by Ainslie Nibert, entitled, Teaching clinical ethics using a case study family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, states that Critical care nurses often find themselves in the midst of challenging ethical situatio Continue Reading...
The Vaccination Dilemma The rights of individuals to refuse vaccinations, and the rights of parents to refuse their children vaccinations, has been increasingly called into question because of the way individual autonomy conflicts directly with the r Continue Reading...
An Ethical DilemmaIntroductionEthics plays a central role in global health, as it helps to guide decisions and actions related to research, interventions, and policies that affect the health of populations around the world. One of the key ethical dim Continue Reading...
The main question revolving around childhood obesity is "When does childhood obesity become a child endangerment issue?"(Alexander, 2009) Definitions of "neglect" and "medical neglect" (parental neglect of a child's medical needs) are not universal Continue Reading...
Though still worthwhile if it leads to an improvement in nursing or medical standards, whistle-blowing can be damaging to the profession (Fritko & Jackson 2005). Whistle-bowing can also empower nurses, however, with successful instances of whis Continue Reading...
However, the growth of the corporation introduced the concept of a fiduciary duty between stockholders and board members, in both open and closed corporations. (Stevenson, p.1144). Put succinctly, the board of directors has a duty to its shareholder Continue Reading...
Theatre Nurses Equipped With the Skills Required to Perform Pre-Operative Visits To Perform Pre-Operative Visits? Are Theatre Nurses Equipped With the Skills Required To Perform Pre-Operative Visits? Dissemination Are Theatre Nurses Equipped Wi Continue Reading...
(2008). The study measures public opinion concerning two scenarios: one in which the kidney donor is given a fixed financial compensation; and one in which the donor is provided with health insurance coverage for life. According to the findings of t Continue Reading...
This is more complicated by the prevalence of other mental disorders like dementia and drug induced mood swings. Nurses need to be well trained in pattern recognition and logical assessment of the condition and take suitable action to solve these pr Continue Reading...
The NP emphasizes health promotion, while, particularly in North America, the MD primarily focuses on disease treatment. The role of the NP and the MD are simultaneously similar yet differ from each other. Consequently, no reason supports the conten Continue Reading...
Diary Entries Diary Entry When we first start out in the nursing profession, there are often incidents that come about to test our ability to confront challenges head on. While these challenges often take the form of medical emergencies, they can Continue Reading...
other values Moral character, that is, having courage, being persistent, dismissing distractions and so on in pursuit of the goal. These are attempts to define ethics by describing actions, and fairly specific constellations of actions at that. Fr Continue Reading...
However, a different kind of problem may arise, when the counselor himself was a user and an addict, and has recovered fully from his addictions, to move on to become a legal counselor of others like him. (NIDA, Introduction and overview) Take for Continue Reading...
" (International Conference on Population and Development ICPD) (ibid) However the meaning of reproductive right extends into other areas. For example, this includes the right to non-discrimination based on sex/gender and the right to privacy as wel Continue Reading...
Life and Death: The Life Support Dilemma by Kenneth E. Schemmer M.D Kenneth Schemmer in his thorough, thought provoking book brings to life the controversial subject of the life support issue. For years, many all over the country have pondered, "Wh Continue Reading...
