Family Assessment Assignment As a nurse practicing in today’s health care environment it is always important to be very attentive for the needs of the patient and the patient’s family. In order to realize the needs of the patient and the patients loved ones it is often helpful to conduct a family assessment. This assessment was carried out on an urban family which is in the middle income group. Some of the factors which were inferred from the assessment were as follows. In terms of values‚ health
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NURSING INFORMATICS and the Foundation of Knowledge Introduction Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science‚ computer science‚ and information science to manage and communicate data‚ information‚ knowledge‚ and wisdom in nursing practice (McGonigle‚ 2009). Most hospitals now utilize computer systems to track patient health information. The purpose of this paper is to show how a computerized system can help the health care
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first is Pre Implantation Genetic Diagnosis." You and your wife finally decide on PGD‚ a type of in-vitro fertilization. But there are so many issues to think about. BIG IDEA: In this speech I ’d like to show how issues of disease prevention meet ethical concerns of customized conception. Transition: First‚ let ’s explore some background. I. What exactly is Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis & how did it begin? A. Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (or PGD) is a procedure used with
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Future of Nursing Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS-430V Future of Nursing Thinking of healthcare‚ it is easy to automatically think nursing. When I think of nursing‚ it is easy to automatically think of healthcare. They are interchangeable and equivalent. Nursing has grown by leaps and bounds throughout the years due to struggles and devoted people to servitude and promotion of wellness. One‚ question that has always silently surrounded nursing as a profession. Where is
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Philosophy of nursing occurs in four domains: person‚ health/illness‚ environment‚ and nurse. This writer intends to explore and explain philosophy in nursing in all four of these areas. The earliest theorist‚ Florence Nightingale‚ identified the main concerns of nurses to be the person‚ the environment‚ and the relationship between them (Williams&Wilkins‚ 2008). The idea of the nurses’ main concern to be on the person and the environment and the relationship between the two has shaped this students
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Pediatric Nursing Pediatric Nurses are defined as nurses who devote their knowledge and skills to caring for children and their families from infancy through late teen years (Pediatric Nurse). Pediatric Nursing did not develop as a specialty in the U.S. until the second half of the 19th century. During this period‚ hospitals did not admit children with communicable diseases because of high mortality rates. Most children were delivered with the help of midwives and cared for by their families. The midwives
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Nursing Metaparadigm Nursing has various definitions depending on every culture and generation from around the world. In my opinion‚ I defined nursing as a healthcare profession‚ which focuses on the care of people‚ their families‚ and communities to achieve an overall goal of relative health and quality of life throughout life. From this worldview I can define the metaparadigm concepts (Person‚ Environment‚ Heath‚ Nursing) of nursing to develop my own philosophy of nursing which‚ addresses the
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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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There are two distinct models of disability that seek to empower those with disabilities- the medical model and the social model. The medical model refers to a disability as a “physical or mental impairment of the individual and its person with social consequences. It regards the limitations faced by people with disabilities as resulting primarily‚ or solely‚ from their impairments” Wasserman et al (2011). Under the medical model people are defined by their illness or medical condition. The medical
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