patients. His dedication and compassion for the people he treated were motivating and made me realize that I wanted to work in the medical field as well. When my father was later on hospitalized and had a brain tumor surgery‚ I noticed that it was the nurses that played a major role in his recovery‚ and to be remembered by us afterwards for the attention and care they gave him during that stressful time. Nursing became an alternative that I have intended to follow for a while. Having overcome some hard
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What Registered Nurses Do? 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. Duties: Registered nurses typically do the following: * Record patients’ medical histories and symptoms * Give patients medicines and treatments * Set up plans for patients’ care or contribute to existing plans * Observe patients and record the observations
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The authors‚ nurse‚ psychiatrist and dual diagnosis program manager researched from the centre of addiction and mental health‚ Toronto‚ Ontario‚ Canada. The author’s intent is to describe the role of forensic nurses in assessing and managing risk of violent decline in offenders who have mental illness in forensic psychiatric mental health settings. The target audience is offenders who have mental illness‚ and nurses. This article presents risk assessment of forensic patient nurses’ role. It describes
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Career Development International Beyond technical competence: learning to listen James T. Scarnati Article information: To cite this document: James T. Scarnati‚ (1998)‚"Beyond technical competence: learning to listen"‚ Career Development International‚ Vol. 3 Iss 2 pp. 79 - 81 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13620439810207590 Downloaded on: 20 January 2015‚ At: 12:14 (PT) References: this document contains references to 9 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight
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Long hours of direct patient care take its toll emotionally and physically. While the profession is rewarding for most‚ the constant stress can become a catalyst for all kinds of self damaging behaviors. The American Nurses’ Association estimates between ten and twenty percent of nurses will abuse drugs within the workplace at some point during his/her career (ANA‚ 2002). This percentage is similar to that of substance abusers within the general population. Due to the ease of access to narcotics
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the four phases were; Orientation-patient seeking help‚ nurse and patient meeting‚ identifying the problem and interventions needed. Identification- identifying the best person to support patient‚ patient relates their personal feelings about the experience and is encouraged to participate in care. Exploitation- patient explores‚ all parts of the problems‚ and gains independence on achieving the goal Resolution- termination of the nurse-patient to encourage balance both ( can be difficult for
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Nurse Practitioners Taking Over Home Health Fields Nurse Practitioners (NP’s) have integrated their profession into many fields including adult primary care‚ family primary care‚ neonatal care‚ acute care‚ pediatric primary care‚ as well as many more fields. NP’s have started to penetrate the home health care field‚ but have not fully integrated their profession into it yet. This paper will delve into the idea of NP’s fully integrating into the home health profession as well as the legal changes
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towards a comprehensive answer. In cultural terms and in the light of our national situation we as citizens of this earthly city need to be maka-tao‚ maka-bayan and maka-Diyos. We need to exercise a healthy nationalism which would require the living of such values as pagsasarili‚ pagkakaisa‚ pakikipagkapwa-tao and pagkabayani. Heretofore‚ these values have remained mere platitudes. But if seriously taken as the direction for all educational‚ economic‚ political‚ cultural‚ and religious efforts the impact
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ACCOUNTABILITY OF NURSING PROFESSIONALS Jayamole Cherian NRS 430V August‚ 20‚ 2001 Melissa Pasqua Accountability and Concepts Accountability means that somebody is able to explain or answerable for their actions‚ whatever the consequences are regardless of success or failure. Accountability and responsibility
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Nurse Practitioner Competencies Seynor Massalee Kennedy South University Compared and contrasted the roles of the NP‚ nurse educator‚ nurse informaticist‚ and nurse administrator in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice‚ primary care‚ education‚ administration‚ and research. Advanced practice of nursing (APN) is a direct/indirect care individual who cares for patients and manages individuals and the community‚ nursing
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