Cultural Competence: Do Nursing Students Need More Education? Imagine starting your first job as a new nurse in a big hospital in a huge city. You have been there for roughly two months‚ so your training with another nurse is done. You have report and have your patient load for the day‚ so you begin your day. In room 303 is Amir‚ a 75 year old Muslim man who is a post-operative patient for a fractured femur. You walk in‚ introduce yourself and begin your assessment. You move his gown to listen to
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glance of reading the ANA code of ethics it seemed way beyond my “scope” of practice. I took a lot of time to read since it was kind of repetitive in a sense. I’m a new graduate to nursing field and without experience I don’t have ample nursing philosophy yet. I have worked as a hospice nurse now for 3 weeks‚ and have a nursing perspective of 3 weeks. It’s hard to imagine the code of ethics being realistic‚ 100% of the time. As nurses we are humans and not robots. The ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses
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procedures for communicating information on health and social care workplace in accordance legislative requirement. The health and safety is an essential consideration for all the practitioners in health and social care. And also this unit will enable learners to develop an understanding of the importance of continually monitoring the implementation of health and safety legislation and policies within any health and social care setting. Learners will gain a clear understanding of the implications
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patient’s danger of getting harmed and the patient’s wellbeing (Henneman‚ Gawlinski & Guliano 2012). This essay contains a rationale‚ a case scenario of a patient who shows respiratory deterioration and the appropriate nursing actions to be undertaken in such a case. Nurse’s role Nursing assessments and interventions which reduce unpleasant patient outcomes are vital. There are various reasons for worse patient outcomes like improper diagnosis‚ lack of administering the right medication and poor control
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Patient Safety and Efforts of Infection Prevention in the Surgical Field Dana Cook Nova Southeastern University Patient Safety and Efforts of Infection Prevention in the Surgical Field It is estimated that 1 in 10 patients will experience a nosocomial infection (Biddle‚ 2009). With this staggering fact‚ patient safety and infection prevention is at the forefront of healthcare. Many changes have occurred in this area since the 1840s. This is when Semmelweis‚ a Viennese obstetrician‚ made
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unfortunate that this has been their experience. It is because I am a health care provider‚ I want to be optimistic‚ and assure that health care facilities and Nursing‚ in general‚ are doing all that they can to change that. As a nursing major‚ I had taken many classes which taught me about the importance of culturally congruent nursing care and cultural sensitivity. As I had explained in the response to Elizabeth’s post‚ providing certified‚ medical interpreters by all health care facilities to the people
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Safety Issues for Women Traveling Solo Stay Safe But Don’t Stay Home By Zahara Heckscher Zaraha Heckscher(left) with a Musonda friend in Zambia from Safety Issues for Women Traveling Solo: Stay Safe But Don’t Stay Home. Women are frequently warned about independent international travel. Unfortunately‚ it is true that women are much more likely than men to be the victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault. In virtually every country I have visited I heard from female travelers and volunteers
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Explain how health and safety policies and practices are monitored and reviewed. Define the following: ❖ Health and Safety- According to World Health Organisation health was defined as ‘a state of complete psychic‚ mental and social well-being [which] does not merely consist of an absence of disease or infirmity’. The scope of health and safety includes protection of the worker’s well-being‚ social and psychological as well as physical. Social well-being may be affected by the organisation
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Introduction 2 3.1 Safety Culture 3 3.2 Safety Climate 5 3.3 Culture versus Climate 6 3.4 Why is addressing culture‚ being promoted as the panacea to the problem of health and safety performance‚ particularly in the construction industry? 8 3.5 Can culture be measured in an organisation? If so‚ how can it be measured? 9 3.6 What are the factors/components of culture? 10 3.7 How can health and safety culture be promoted in an organisation? 12 References 18 Introduction Health and Safety until very recently
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component of the metaparadigm of nursing must be considered. This metaparadigm was first developed by Florence Nightingale and is still a valid and important tool nurses use every day. Its four components are person‚ environment‚ health and nursing each works to help the other for a better understanding and application of proper care (Fawcett‚ 1994). The first paradigm refers not only to a person‚ but also to the families or social groups who are involved in the nursing treatment. A nurse’s care must
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