Nursing wasn’t my first choice in major, or career, but after meeting other nursing students and researching all the possibilities that a nursing career can bring,
decision. For example, when the nurse is trying to gain consent for a procedure from Sam, he has the right to decline and the nurse must respect his wishes. This is for the reason that he has autonomy to make his own decision. The code (NMC, 2015) supports this statement as it states that nurses should try to encourage and support their patients in making decision for themselves. This is important because the nurse should include Sam in in the care he receives. The nurse should also inform Sam on with…
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Nursing The word nursing might mean different to each person. But to me, Nursing denotes Knowledge, Advocacy, Health promotion, Flexibility, a gift and a calling to service. I have been blessed with the opportunity to build a career out nursing thirteen years ago back in Africa, which I diverted to Pharmacy Technology. I had a second chance this time in United State, yet I selected to do pharmacy again until I had a cesarean section and the nurse who took care of me showed me kindness and…
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According to Provision five “The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to preserve integrity and safety, to maintain competence, and to continue personal and professional growth” (Fowler, p. 55, 2010). The case study present in this provision is centered on religious competence and duty to oneself and to that of patients. A Christian hospice nurse, Michael Tucker in this case study, is plagued with a decision on whether or not to answer religious based questions…
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Needed for Nursing No one likes mean, impatient, or crabby nurses. Patients do not trust nurses who are not nice or show no interest in helping them get better. Nurses are hero’s in patients’ lives. A nurse is responsible for patients’ lives every day and need a healthy life for themselves. There are many ways to have a healthy life but it starts with getting enough sleep every night. Sleep is needed to have a good Nutritional-Metabolic health pattern. Nurses need to have a healthy pattern of…
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modification as the world around us changes and evolves. Nurses and the profession itself is one of the oldest longstanding professions in the history of mankind. Through the hundreds and hundreds of years more advancements, both medically and sociological, have driven nurses to be better educated and better trained in order to face the evolving world that surrounds their profession (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2015). Nurses are also being pushed and trained to become better leaders…
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betterment. However, at every step his efforts are halted by the main antagonist Nurse Mildred Ratched. The themes Forman uses are: power does not ensue wisdom, freedom is a state of mind and the stripping…
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Healthcare Workers Nurses are at high risk of exposure to diseases and viruses because they work around sick patients. When a nurse enters an ill patient's room, he/she may be exposed to a myriad of pathogens, and if they are a susceptible host, they risk spreading it to those who are susceptible, and they risk becoming sick themselves. Vaccinations are available to help nurses and patients build antibodies against these pathogens, and some have been made compulsory if not mandatory. When a nurse becomes sick…
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Professional Experience For my professional experience I listened to Carolyn Strain, a nurse practitioner at a heart failure clinic. She went to Purdue and became interested in the heart after her father had open heart surgery. Though she said that Purdue was very challenging and informative she thought the best way she learned was actual work experience. Carolyn also spoke about what it takes to become a nurse. Not only does it take constant studying and straight A’s but also common sense and critical thinking are very crucial…
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Nursing Residency Programs and the Newly Graduated Nurse Millions of people graduate from college every year. They sit in class listening to lectures and go home and study from textbooks for at least four years. All the sudden graduation comes and then they are expecting to find a job. One of the first interview questions asked in any job interview for most occupations is, “What is your past job experience,” and then that question is normally followed up by “How do you think that experience can apply…
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Traditional Nurse." I will explain her two main arguments and then I will take a stance of disagreement upon several parts of her two main arguments that I find are weakly supported. The issue of a nurse's autonomy, and a nurse as a motherly figure are the two main arguments of this paper that I will critique and argue against. This is an important issue to address because she is wanting to regress back to a time when nurses had less of a voice. Newton introduces her first main argument of nurse autonomy…
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