History of Nursing Many people believe that Nursing started with Florence Nightingale‚ however nursing itself dates back to the beginnings of motherhood when nurses were traditionally female. In fact‚ nursing and medicine have been closely intertwined throughout the ages. The history of nursing has its origins in the care of infants and children‚ so all mothers were in fact nurses. Gradually an evolution started developing into dedicated caregivers who practiced the art. In fact‚ nursing has been
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any point of a person’s life‚ not only during nursing school but can also take place within an individual’s career. Patience is a major key when it comes to dealing with various patients‚ colleagues and especially students who are aiming towards becoming a nurse as well. Patience allows a mentor to have the ability to share their knowledge and skills. In some way‚ they may benefit from it. An effective mentor is willing to learn new practices that have just become recent in their field of profession
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people think about nursing they see nurses care about sick people‚ but this is more about nursing. Today’s a society views nurses only as part of hospital. Part of nursing standard of practice is patient education‚ advocacy‚ and coordination of care and health maintenance (Gordon‚ 2002). Nurses are well educated and can work in different areas of healthcare if both the economy and politics allow them to. Nursing is seen only as caring for sick people. Nurses should be more involved in
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that may lead to errors‚ decision regret or negative emotions following a decision during time of fatigue. Research Purpose/Aim The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between selected sleep variables‚ impairment due to fatigue‚ and clinical-decision self-efficacy and regret among critical care nurses (Scott‚ Arslanian-Engoren‚ & Engoren‚ 2014). The aim of this research explored the prevalence of clinical-decision
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Nursing Leadership and management Ethical Dilemma Synopsis As nurses‚ we vow to advocate for our patients by respecting their autonomy and maintaining their dignity. We practice beneficence and veracity when providing patient care. During my time as a student‚ I have unfortunately heard and seen many breaches in ethical principles regarding patients and their care. As the nurses exchanged report from the previous shift‚ they gossiped about a nurse on another medical-surgical unit making a medication
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Nursing theorist Virginia Henderson‚ RN was a visionary‚ well ahead of her time in terms of her vision for the present and future of nursing. The major concept of her Definition of Nursing theory addresses the role of healthy independence for a nurse in addressing the holistic needs of a patient who is unable to self care‚ and therefore cannot attain independence due to knowledge deficit or debility or decreased will. The nurse practically fulfills the 14 basic needs in ways that are patient centered
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Article Critique Angela D. Plummer King University The research study regarding big data and data science in nursing is a qualitative perspective study that uses an investigational approach. There are a couple of points that make it clear that this article is a qualitative study. The first thing is that fact that numbers‚ statistics‚ and figures are not analyzed. The second thing that screams qualitative is the fact
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Nursing metaparadigm The American Nursing Association defined nursing as the protection‚ promotion and optimization of health and abilities‚ prevention of illness and injury‚ alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human responses‚ and advocacy in the care of individuals‚ families‚ communities‚ and population(2013 American Nurses Association) I perceive nursing as an act used to guard‚ further the progress‚ and keep health at a fully perfect level. This is achieved by
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Nursing has changed in a variety of ways over the years‚ but one of the most important transitions has been related to the increasing cultural diversity of the American population. In the article‚ Leininger ’s Transcultural Theory and Prayer; author D.E. Allyn expresses how prayer has benefit according to the cultural care theory. The first nurse to emphasize cultural care was Madeleine Leininger. According to Leininger‚ the goal of cultural care is culturally congruent care. Thus‚ when a client
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found comfort in certainty‚ which is why from an early age I had decided that I wanted to be a nurse. I spent months on end compiling information on the education required‚ the various programs schools offered and so on‚ but as I did more research‚ I came to discover the reason I wish to pursue nursing isn’t because of the logistics of the programs. Rather‚ my yearning for knowledge‚ compassion‚ and values have driven why I chose the major of nursing. I have always been intellectually driven‚ and
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