essential foundation of nursing practise; it is primarily dependant upon verbal and non-verbal communication. Encompassing both speech and behavioural aspects‚ efficient delivery and receiving of the nurse-patient messages initiates advantageous relationships‚ or contrarily‚ generates significant repercussions if applied ineffectively‚ thus affecting the quality of the nurse-patient relationship. This essay will discuss how effective verbal and non-verbal communication in nursing practice will facilitate
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Nursing Shortage HCS/552 April 7‚ 2014 Nursing Shortage Shortages of registered nurses have taken place repeatedly in the past. Agencies have examined the reasons for the decline in the supply of nurses. There seems to be a cycle of nursing shortages in the United States. “Economist argue that the shortages are related to the lack of increase wages‚ an imperfectly competitive market‚ geographic distribution problems‚ or the delay between salary increases and the ability to afford
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Is Nursing a Profession? As I have begun the pursuit to further my education I have been faced with the question of whether Nursing is a true profession. During the 19 years that I have been a nurse I have thought nursing was a profession but as I have learned in my reading not everyone feels this way. For example‚ World Book (1999) states that there are two main groups of nurses‚ the professional nurses and the technique nurses. They define the professional nurses as graduates of four-year or
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Career Choice: Following my bachelor degree in biology‚ I will apply to graduate programs for wildlife biology and a teaching assistantship. My goal is to become a wildlife biology with an emphasis on ecology and conservation through research. Wildlife biologists study animals and other wildlife and how they interact with their ecosystems. They study the physical characteristics of animals‚ animal behaviors‚ and the impacts humans have on wildlife and natural habitats. The median annual wage
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Mora‚ Nichole Mae V. March 15‚ 2013 BSN III-A Thea Camille Samonte‚ RN‚ MAN TERM PAPER ABOUT ABORTION I. INTRODUCTION Abortion‚ expulsion of the products of conception before the embryo or fetus is viable. Any interruption of human pregnancy prior to the 28th week is known as abortion. The term spontaneous abortion‚ or miscarriage‚ is used to signify delivery of a nonviable embryo or fetus due to fetal or maternal factors‚ as opposed to purposely induced abortion
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To begin with upstream‚ it is defined as the level in which we use primary prevention methods before the person gets the disease. (Levels of Disease Prevention‚2009) Primary prevention aims to prevent the disease from occurring. So primary prevention reduces both the incidence and prevalence of a disease. (Levels of Disease Prevention‚2009). In primary prevention‚ choices are encouraged that will promote the overall health of an individual‚ population or community. Basic healthcare choices such as
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ASSESSMENT Assessment is a core activity of nursing practice. It includes gathering information about the health status of a patient/client‚ analyzing/inspecting and interpreting the data and deciding how to use the information in the patient’s plan of care‚ and evaluating the quality of the plan of care. It also includes assessing community‚ or population and using the information in planning and delivering care. ***How has your practice in nursing enabled you to apply the principles of Physical/Health
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Moules and Ramsay (1998) identify many areas for child health promotion. This includes smoking‚ exercise‚ diet and nutrition‚ sexual health‚ dental health‚ skin care and the sun‚ accidents‚ alcohol and drug abuse. As with the other branches of nursing‚ health promotion can take forms of primary‚ secondary or tertiary intervention. Interventions may depend on the age of the child. Younger children‚ for example pre school aged children will benefit form health promotion aimed at the parents. Health
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several issues binding nursing practice with issues of ethics and the model of reflection which provided me with a good structure and which I found most appropriate‚ is Gibbs model (Gibbs 1988). This particular model incorporates - description‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ analysis‚ conclusion and the action plan. I have examined my own values and beliefs to the individual receiving care and have integrated and explored theory related to this in order to discuss and debate these values which underpin professional
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I. SAFE AND QUALITY NURSING CARE CORE COMPETENCY 1: Demonstrate knowledge based on health/illness status of individual/ groups Indicators : ○ Identifies health needs of patients/groups ○ Explains patient/group status CORE COMPETENCY 2: Provides sound decision making in care of individual/groups considering their beliefs‚ values Indicators : ○ Problem identification ○ Data gathering related to problem ○ Data analysis ○ Selection appropriate action ○ Monitor progress of action
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