Nursing Timeline Of Historical Events
Week 2 post 1
How does knowledge of the foundations and history of nursing provide a context in which to understand current practice?
I think the knowledge I have learned from the foundations and history helps me be a more proactive nurse while I am practicing today. I think back to how it took only one nurse, Florence Nightingale, to say we need to start sanitation to help cut down on infection. In todays practice we as nurses are utilizing the idea of we can make a change, we can make our hospitals safer, we can help decrease medication errors, and we can make prevention the key focus to help prevent never events.
In my ADN course we had to do a poster project with a presentation utilizing an evidence based practice theory. We chose …show more content…
I must say I am so proud to be a nurse. Identify at least three trends in nursing practice from the "Nursing Timeline of Historical Events" media piece. How have these trends influenced your perspective of nursing practice?
Sanitation –To me the importance of cleanliness, infection control, and hospital acquired infections have made a huge difference in nursing care. I have noticed over the years the emphasis on hand washing, using hand sanitizer, utilizing gloves, glasses, and masks for protection and infection control
Education- Education has also transformed over the years. We put so much more focus on education to the patients, medications, dressing changes, dietary changes, explaining disease processes. I try to teach each and every one of my patients at their level so they can take the information and utilize it in their lives.
Data/Documentation- Collecting data and documentation has also been changed quite a bit, over the years they started keeping better track of statics, I really believe that this is one of the reason our country has been able to get a hold of child hood …show more content…
What this means to me is that we as nurses are our patients advocates, we are to speak for them when they can’t. We are to help educate with prevention, preventable injuries, diseases and treatments throughout our community. For a family as a whole, infancy to our elderly. Every single person in our community deserves the opportunity of dedicated nurses to advocate for them. How does it address the metaparadigm theories of nursing?
Person- is the individual that would be the patient, the family, or the caregiver of the patient. The individual that we as nurses would assess, teach, treat, and advocate for. Sometimes it is just the one person, and other times it’s the family as a whole.
Environment- This can be demographics- wealthy vs poverty, home- clean and stable vs dirty and unstable, climate-hot vs cold, pollution-city vs country, availability of
How does knowledge of the foundations and history of nursing provide a context in which to understand current practice?
I think the knowledge I have learned from the foundations and history helps me be a more proactive nurse while I am practicing today. I think back to how it took only one nurse, Florence Nightingale, to say we need to start sanitation to help cut down on infection. In todays practice we as nurses are utilizing the idea of we can make a change, we can make our hospitals safer, we can help decrease medication errors, and we can make prevention the key focus to help prevent never events.
In my ADN course we had to do a poster project with a presentation utilizing an evidence based practice theory. We chose …show more content…
I must say I am so proud to be a nurse. Identify at least three trends in nursing practice from the "Nursing Timeline of Historical Events" media piece. How have these trends influenced your perspective of nursing practice?
Sanitation –To me the importance of cleanliness, infection control, and hospital acquired infections have made a huge difference in nursing care. I have noticed over the years the emphasis on hand washing, using hand sanitizer, utilizing gloves, glasses, and masks for protection and infection control
Education- Education has also transformed over the years. We put so much more focus on education to the patients, medications, dressing changes, dietary changes, explaining disease processes. I try to teach each and every one of my patients at their level so they can take the information and utilize it in their lives.
Data/Documentation- Collecting data and documentation has also been changed quite a bit, over the years they started keeping better track of statics, I really believe that this is one of the reason our country has been able to get a hold of child hood …show more content…
What this means to me is that we as nurses are our patients advocates, we are to speak for them when they can’t. We are to help educate with prevention, preventable injuries, diseases and treatments throughout our community. For a family as a whole, infancy to our elderly. Every single person in our community deserves the opportunity of dedicated nurses to advocate for them. How does it address the metaparadigm theories of nursing?
Person- is the individual that would be the patient, the family, or the caregiver of the patient. The individual that we as nurses would assess, teach, treat, and advocate for. Sometimes it is just the one person, and other times it’s the family as a whole.
Environment- This can be demographics- wealthy vs poverty, home- clean and stable vs dirty and unstable, climate-hot vs cold, pollution-city vs country, availability of