The Caring Nurse: ADN versus BSN The Caring Nurse: ADN versus BSN Caring is the heart of nursing. Most nurses have a quality about them that harbors caring. Caring is defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary as‚ “effort made to do something correctly‚ safely‚ or without causing damage‚” or “things that are done to keep someone healthy‚ safe‚ etc.” Nurses‚ whether they are an associate degree educated or baccalaureate educated‚ want to do a good job. They don’t come to work to intentionally
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Nursing Role in the Society Nurses are the care professions who are a part of a health care team. They play a substantial role in quality of patient care. The core of nursing is patient care and patient advocay. Nurses are increasingly working to promote people’s health and prevent illness from hospital setting to community health. The role of nurses develops globally over years. Nurses share a commitment in advancement and development of nursing science (Waldie‚ 2010). Various nursing role
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overview of the nurse prescribing initiative and how it developed will be addressed. The importance of ethical principles‚ accountability and legal issues that surround nurse prescribing will be demonstrated. As a patient will be addressed in the example‚ a pseudonym will be used. According to Luker et al (1997)‚ in 1985 the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) made a case for the prescribing rights for nurse. The Cumberledge Report (1986) acknowledged that the government recognised that nurses should be eligible
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Evaluation: The patient is a 67year old female that was re-admitted for a surgical infection following an abdominal hysterectomy. She was admitted to the facility seven days ago followed by a surgical procedure which was completed five days prior to this report. Patient is scheduled to be discharged with home health and IV antibiotics. This patient was selected for audit. Review of the chart shows that the patient’s H&P was completed on day 3 of the admission. Joint Commission hospital accreditation
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IF I STAY Gayle Forman 2009 Realistic Fiction Sabrina N. Period 7 Setting The setting mainly takes place in Oregon. After she gets into a car accident‚ she is taken to the hospital at around 10:12 a.m.‚ the ambulance arrives to the nearest hospital in a small local place that looks more like an oldage home. Characters Mia: Physical Characteristics: 18 years-old Wears a silver bracelet with small cello & guitar charms Dresses causally Adjectives of Personality: Sincere- she was honest to Adam
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Today‚ one of my patients presented to the ED with a 3cm laceration on his right hand that was three days old. He also reported a pain level of 7/10. First‚ my nurse preceptor and I had the patient wash his hands with soap and water to remove the dirt and bacteria from the wound. Thereafter‚ we sprayed wound cleanser to the wound and rinsed it with normal saline to further aide in removing debris and decreasing bacterial counts. After‚ I dried the wound edges with a sterile gauze. This is done in
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It has been suggested that in order for nurses to overcome compassion fatigue‚ they need to stop focusing on the stressful aspects of being a helper and begin to consider ways in which their work brings a sense of fulfillment (Radey & Figley‚ 2007). The phrase compassion satisfaction is used to describe this feeling of accomplishment that results from the process of helping others and brings nurses back to the altruistic reasons they had picked the profession in the first place. Radey & Figley (2007)
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currently the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and is rising. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is treatable but currently there is no known cure and it is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. COPD causes reduction in airflow during the ventilation cycle due to the loss of air way elasticity‚ narrowing of the airways‚ chronic airways inflammation and over active mucous production (Frace‚ 2008). Known risk factors for development of COPD include tobacco use (including second
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the group Acknowledgement We wish to thank our course instructor Shamsul Arefin‚ Lecturer‚ School of Business‚ Department of Business Administration‚ Southeast University. For his kind guidance’s‚ advices and encouragements during the course of this study we prepared our assignment successfully. He also provides a guideline for preparing this Assignment. This work was not so easy. We face many difficulty for complete this assignment. We hope everyone like our assignment.
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Problem Summary The Riverview Children’s Hospital is eight months behind schedule with the implementation of a new computerized financial system. Management wants the system to be in place by the end-of-year audit [April]‚ which is only six weeks away. However‚ management estimates that there is only a fifty percent chance that the system will function correctly if its implementation is rushed. While this makes a case for delaying the implementation‚ it also pushes the schedule into another
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