component of the metaparadigm of nursing must be considered. This metaparadigm was first developed by Florence Nightingale and is still a valid and important tool nurses use every day. Its four components are person‚ environment‚ health and nursing each works to help the other for a better understanding and application of proper care (Fawcett‚ 1994). The first paradigm refers not only to a person‚ but also to the families or social groups who are involved in the nursing treatment. A nurse’s care must
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introduction The issue of the nursing shortage is not a new one. In the last decade the media has mentioned the nursing shortage and other problems faced by the nursing workforce. The article chosen for this paper is titled “Influx of out-of-region patients exacerbates nursing shortage” and it is found in volume 32 of Crain’s Cleveland Business magazine (Magaw‚ 2011). The purpose of this paper is to mention the issues in the article and compare them to the nursing trends discussed in the literature
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Executive Summary The nursing profession has declined in recent years and now the medical community is faced with a shortage of nurses. “Registered nurses (RNs) provide and coordinate patient care‚ educate patients and the public about various health conditions‚ and provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members (Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ 2012). Nurses are an important part of patient care and without them can impact the profits and performance in an organization.
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NURSING Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the
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Abstract Nursing is one of the oldest careers in history. It has grown tremendously since the beginning of the profession and strives forward in hopes to attain more advancement in the medical field. Along the years‚ there have been several controversies regarding nursing as a profession. In this paper we will discuss what nursing professionalism is and why we as nurses need to remain a professional icon in the occupation. This paper will also summarize two nursing articles regarding nursing professionalism
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Dorothy Orem Orem’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory description of category of theory is a set of broad concepts‚ definitions‚ relationships developed and assumptions or propositions created from nursing models or from other disciplines and projects of purposes that are required for care of by individual patient‚ family and community (Current Nursing‚2013). Orem ’s approach to the nursing process provides a method to determine the self-care deficits and then
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translated to more than 330 hospitals operated by the government and the private sector‚ with a capacity of more than 50‚000 beds. Of these hospitals‚ 184 are run by the government‚ with more than 16 thousand doctors‚ 40 thousand nurses‚ and more than 25 thousand assistant nurses according to the Ministry of Health (2003). Based on these figures and the Saudi population of 20 million people‚ to satisfy and maintain the current health care standard‚ one out of every two hundred Saudi nationals and residents
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Nursing and Technology In his textbook‚ Medical Sociology‚ 12th edition‚ Dr. William Cockerham (2007)‚ a medical sociologist at the University of Alabama‚ Birmingham‚ describes nurses as being ultimately responsible for the nature and quality of all nursing care patients receive during their stay in a medical setting. According to Cockerham (2007)‚ they also are responsible for following the instructions of physicians in order to ensure the best plan of action is implemented to better serve the
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(Wilkins 2007). Nurses as professionals make autonomous decisions on how they will care for patients. But they are still held accountable to their profession as a whole as regards these autonomous decisions. A nurse’s deportment has been vastly scrutinized from the start. The famous Florence Nightingale pledge in 1893 included the vow to “abstain from anything deleterious and mischievous… or harmful drug.” The profession evolved into a very complex arena in the last century. Nurses now must confront
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Recognizing and Acting on Clinical Deterioration Introduction The purpose of nurses in ensuring that the medication a patient is undergoing gives the best result is very important. The medication that the patient takes works effectively if the nurse can efficiently observe and identify worsening conditions of the patient and take necessary action that efficiently manages the conditions. It is well recorded that if a nurse does not take note of any change in a patient‚ it can vary the patient’s recovery
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