have heard through our nursing career‚ nurses play many roles in their profession including being an advocate and a leader. As Dye (2010) mentioned‚ “leaders are advocates for personal and professional needs” (p. 85). Advocacy Needs Tomajan (2012) described advocate as a person who tries to protect others’ interest and needs (p. 2). Therefore‚ wherever there is a need‚ there can be advocacy as well. Nurses can be advocate for their patients‚ co-workers‚ the nursing profession‚ or even themselves
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All nurses need to strive for maintaining a professional appearance at all times. People will always judge nurses by their appearance. When it comes to nursing‚ a nurse’s appearance can either instill confidence in the patient or total mistrust. Part 1: Watch and Analysis Was this individual professional? I think the individual in the image is a professional nurse. The nurse is dressed appropriately in a clean blue scrub. Her is hair short‚ neatly styled and out of her face. What made
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Grand Canyon University In 2010 the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) was signed into law and initiated a transformation in United States health care. Every aspect of health care‚ including health care professions‚ have begun to evolve as a result of the laws passed in 2010. The nursing profession is one of the largest divisions in the healthcare workforce and requires large transformations in order to meet the goals that the United States has set forth. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) conducted
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she has‚ Matos obtained several degrees. A bachelors‚ doctorate‚ and masters. She received an undergraduate degree at Princeton College‚ she then went to medical school at the University of San Francisco‚ and then pursued a masters degree of public health at the University of
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GENDER BIAS AMONG NURSES Gender bias is common in nursing. It is my own experience of facing gender bias in my own institution. When I was working as an Instructor in my institution‚ there was opportunity to for me to get promotion but was denied and it was given to a female colleague. As I was working there for last three years with an out standing performance for all those years in my opinion and that of many others‚ it was my right to promoted to that post. But the head of my institute had promoted
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Career in Nursing Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care
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Horizontal Violence The clinical issue of interest to me and one that I would like to focus on his Horizontal violence. This topic is of interest to me because in my profession as a nurse supervisor‚ I have encountered and had to resolve many instances of horizontal violence in the work environment. In this paper‚ I will provide a rational as to why Horizontal Violence (HV) is a relevant workplace issue and provide the research to support this rational. Horizontal violence has been defined as “hostile
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Exploring the Future of the Nursing Profession The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) partnered up in attempt to improve the future of nursing and to meet the increasing demands being placed on the American health care system. Previous U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala‚ chaired the committee and produced a report in 2010‚ The Future of Nursing: Leading Change‚ Advancing Health‚ which makes recommendations in the areas of training‚ education
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Nursing: My Dream Profession Nursing as I know is an important component of the health care delivery system that requires a whole lot of energy and time to put in patient welfare. Although‚ nursing is a profession that is rewarding and challenging‚ I have always admired becoming a nurse someday in the future. As a child‚ I had my father as a role model. My father was a nurse in Cameroon‚ central Africa. When he retired‚ he settled back in the rural area where I and the rest of my family lived with
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Judgement is a vital trait to have in a nursing profession. It involves both intellectual and professional maturity from the nurse. Judgement alone requires the ability from the nurse to pay attention to the clients surroundings‚ taking into account all the events that have occurred and making an appropriate judgement based on these reasons. It can be defined as “having an idea‚ a clear opinion following a period of reflexion whereas the term clinical indicates that it is related to the patient”
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