I consider there to be several inspiring professions and nursing is undoubtedly one of them. Nurses provide an irreplaceable service to our society and to be part of this occupation has been a long-term ambition of mine. Furthermore‚ I am driven by a real determination to care for others and having studied the human body‚ I find it fascinating. While I recognise nursing is a challenging and demanding career‚ I feel the rewards would be great and I am ready to embark upon this journey. I have worked
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Public health nursing evolved to teach us that wellbeing needs to move outside the individual‚ to include the family and community‚ to make all of the population healthy (Truglio-Londrigan‚ & Lewenson‚ 2013‚ p. 5). Public nursing started out as district nursing‚ in England‚ where nurses transitioned from the hospital‚ to work with the sick poor in their homes. They took care of patients‚ families‚ and communities by protecting the poor from unsanitary conditions and teaching them hygienic routines
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Example: Outline for Nursing Teaching Plan: What have you determined‚ based on your assessment‚ to be key information that the patient needs to know/learn? Outline your plan/your learning objectives. Determine the required content to include to meet your objectives. Determine the resources/methods that you will use to meet your learning objectives. Finally evaluate the effectiveness of your plan and make changes prn. Cellulitis: 1. The patient/family will be able to define cellulitis
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Home Health Nursing Concern for health and wellness in the community has a substantial history in nursing. Home health‚ one component of community health nursing is rapidly growing due to the rising costs in health care. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the history of public health nursing‚ and the impact that home health has on the nursing practice. History of Public Health Nursing The concept of caring for the sick in the community was first introduced in 1601 when the Elizabeth Poor
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NU 306 Mental Health Nursing *Reflections: Clinical Experiences in Community - Gero 1. Describe characteristics of clients served by this program. The clients at Shoals Hospital in the geriatric psyc. Unit were obviously old. I think the youngest person was a 60 year old female. All had psychiatric disorders but the disorder that seemed to be most prevalent was Major Depressive Disorder. I also got to talk to the oldest living person with Huntington’s disease which was very cool. 2
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Health Promotion in Nursing Practice EZIAKU J OLIVER Grand Canyon University NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion January 13‚ 2013 Health promotion is defined by the world health organization as the process of enabling people to increase control over‚ and to improve‚ their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions
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Nursing diagnosis for patient with AIDS (in the movie Philadelphia) Imbalanced Nutrition: Less than body requirements R/T inability to ingest nutrients (Gulanick & Myers‚ 2007) AEB vomiting three times per day after each meal‚ 35lb weight loss in past 60 days‚ height of patient is 5’8” weight of 110lbs (Demme‚ 1993). Impaired Skin Integrity – AIDS‚ R/T immune deficiency; AIDS related dermatitis (Gulanick & Myers‚ 2007) AEB Approximately 10‚ 3 x 2 cm reddened lesions to face and torso‚ lesions
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than cure”‚ population health is the approach that looks at the broader picture of developing and maintaining a realistic and culturally acceptable health plan for the Australian Aboriginal communities. Rather than merely addressing the management of diseases‚ population health goes deeper by aiming to manage the factors that may have caused or developed the diseases‚ and ensure that the World Health Organization’s (cited in Queensland Health 2012‚ p. 1) definition of health as “a state of complete
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care of the dying patient in an acute hospital setting. I am particularly interested in this field as I worked in a hospice during semester break where palliative care of the dying concentrated on the quality of life of the patient. When the prognosis for the patient was imminent death‚ care was focused on reducing the severity of the disease symptoms rather than vainly trying to stop or delay development of the disease itself or provide a cure. When the prognosis for a patient is imminent death
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NURSING HEALTH HISTORY Nursing Health History is the gathering of subjective and objective data from the patient and his/her significant others through an interview‚ physical assessment‚ reviewing his/her past health history and through his/her medical records upon admission. Vital data of the patient are stated in chronological order to effectively assess patient’s needs‚ complaints and problems and to provide individual care. These vital data provide a conceptual baseline data utilized in developing
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