Personal Development Plan Karin Veleba BSN‚ RN NUR 587 April 13‚ 2015 Dr. Sharon Thompson Personal Development Plan Intro Nursing is much more than a job; it is a lifetime career path. One does not step lightly into the field of nursing just to further their financial gains. As quoted by Florence Nightingale‚ “Nursing is an art… it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation‚ as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble‚ compared with
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SELF REFLECTION The patient centred practice (PCP) was the topic of discussion in the second week of the CIEHP program. During the class session‚ we gained a brief insight of the concept of PCP as well as patient’s right. In the class‚ we discussed that the goal of the Canadian healthcare is not only the provision of collaborative and informed healthcare to patients‚ but it also provides a holistic approach to improving the safety and quality of patient’s life. During my clinical experience‚ I
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NURSING CARE PLAN Nurs 326 SFSU Student Name: Alena Makarava Instructor/Clinical Site Gerardo Caritan‚ RN‚ MSN Date: 2/26/2015 Ms. X is a 34 year old female. The patient is a G3 P2‚ with both children delivered by C-section‚ with the only complication in both being low birth weights. Ms. X has a longstanding history of hypertension‚ anxiety and depression. Additional health history includes a vitamin D deficiency‚ back surgery in 05/06 due to a herniated disc‚ and two previous cesarean
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we delivery is very important not just to the patient‚ but also the nurse. When we care for patients it is important to make the patients the priority and make their clinical experience a good one. A nurse usually develops their plan of care to satisfy the patients needs‚ so we call that patient-centered care. Dabney and Tzeng (2013) describes patient-centered care as a therapeutic relationship that occurs among health care providers and the patients that are receiving health care services‚ that
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Patient education is described as any set of devised educational undertakings created to improve patients’ health. Its main objective is to conserve or to improve the health of the patient or‚ in some cases‚ to slow down the progression of the disease process. However‚ patient education goes beyond the main objective. An informed and educated patient can actively contribute in his or her own therapy‚ improve results‚ help detect mistakes before they happen‚ and decrease length of hospital stay
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nurse but‚ the patient and the rest of the staff as well. By the term “aim” I mean a goal‚ after receiving hand off report from your nurse collegue a nurse can than gather that information to develop their goal for the day. Goals are important‚ they determine the focus of the nurse and allow them to accomplish their tasks efficiently and in a timely manner. Core Competency: Managing Patient-Centered Care Let’s face it‚ a nurse would not have a career if it were not for patients‚ this does not mean
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Patient Education Project The digestive system is a very complex but efficient system that allows the intake and disposal of material that allows the body to perform routine daily activities. The digestive system allows the intake of food and water to be broken down to be used for energy. The digestive system is made up of the mouth‚ esophagus‚ stomach‚ small and large intestines‚ colon and the rectum. A Potential life-threatening disease of the digestive system is color-rectal cancer. Color-rectal
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SMART Goal: Managing Patient-Centered Care SMART Goal: Managing Patient-Centered Care Historically‚ a career in Nursing has not always been one that was respected as a noble and honorable job. Once frowned upon by the elite classes‚ nursing was a job expected of the lower class. In 1853 however‚ a young woman belonging to an elite British family‚ named Florence Nightingale‚ would change that. From a young age‚ she believed that her divine purpose in life was to care for the ill and wounded. After
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Patient Education Project The purpose of this paper is to develop a plan to teach a specific target group of clients regarding the risk of skin cancer and the impact that skin cancer has on one ’s health. Included in the discussion will be the assessment of what the patient needs to know‚ readiness to learn‚ and educational methods to be used. Skin Cancer Skin cancer‚ which is caused from ultraviolet rays‚ is extremely prevalent‚ with over a million cases occurring annually
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“The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a model of care that puts patients at the forefront of care by building better relationships between people and their clinical care teams” (Bitton‚ 2010). This patient care model has received considerable attention as a potential way to improve quality care. Ongoing research on PCMH demonstrates that it has the capacity to change care by how it has improved quality‚ the patient experience and staff satisfaction‚ while reducing health care costs (Jackson
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