The cause and the extent of Sleep Deprivation Sleep Deprivation can lead to fatigue‚ learning and concentration difficulties and workplace accidents. Medications‚ illness‚ stress related to work or home and just personal choice (i.e. going out the night before work) can all be causes of sleep deprivation. Emotional issues such as anxiety and depression can often lead to sleep deprivation or in worse cases‚ insomnia. Studies suggest that sleep loss may have an effect on the cardiovascular‚ endocrine
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Crystal L. Finney ENG-111-103A June 28‚ 2012 Bad Nurses He was lying in his bed struggling to take every breath. The Hospice doctor said he wouldn’t live more than twenty-four hours now. Uncle Ralph’s chest sounded like a motor running because his lungs were so congested. We thought that suctioning out his lungs would help him to breathe a little easier so I volunteered to ask the nurse for help. Doctor Kinsley called for an available nurse. The one around the corner yelled back that she
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registered nurse are as follows. Maintain accurate and detailed reports on each patient as they are responsible for one or many other patient’s. One has to also administer a patient’s medications and check for reactions to the medication or for any side effects. They must report any serious symptoms to the patient’s Doctor. A Registered nurse must be able to do any sort of modification to the patient’s health care plan in case the patient does not responded well to the previous plan. Nurses must prepare
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my own personal experience‚ I agree with this article. I think that sleep deprivation poses a public health issue. Not getting enough sleep affects our grades‚ and how well we do in school. Along with some physical disadvantages‚ there are some psychological as well. In the article‚ it said‚ “...neural remodeling is important for learning and memory.” The quiet time can be good for strengthening or weakening certain neurons. Sleep is a significant thing for students to get so that they are mentally
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This reflection is based on my observations of the need for of effective communication skills and knowledge of nurses regarding the management of aggression in elderly patients with dementia. Clinician need to be equipped with seclusion‚ medication and de-escalation skills to be able to manage patient aggressive behaviours safely. I have chosen these particular observations after realising how fundamental they are in implementation aggressive behaviour management strategies in patients. While working
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Male Nurses In today’s society male nurses are still looked upon negatively in the nursing profession. There are several stereotypes that society has placed males into that chose to become nurses‚ males who become nurses are considered gay‚ society views the work that nurses do as “women’s work” not a man’s job. In today’s society maybe the male nurse just simply enjoys helping people and giving something back to society? Colleges need to institute programs that will get the attention of male
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Registered nurses are very essential aspects in the medical field because they are the root of the healthcare establishment. Nursing has been around for decades and resorts back to the medieval era. Registered nurses and doctors as well as encourage health and provide medical attention to sick and injured patients. The actual diagnosis of the patient is determined by the doctor; however‚ nurses spend more time monitoring the health and physical estate of the patient. A registered nurse is one who
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The role of a nurse An bord altranais (2000) believes that‚ The code of professional conduct aims to equipped the nursing profession the highest standard of care possible to service users and to be their advocate .Nurses are more accountable for their actions and decision making due to modern medicine and society. It is important for the nurses to promote the image of people with intellectual disabilities that they are not second class citizens and they deserve to have equal rights to treatment
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Culturally Competent Nursing Care To be a successful nurse one must have knowledge of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. It is important to provide culturally competent nursing care. A nurse must know what the patient beliefs are and how their certain beliefs relate to health care. This will effect the patient ’s decisions on the way he or she chooses to be taken care of. A nurse should be very open minded and knowledgeable of different cultures and there beliefs
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Comparative Claim Nursing education Nursing has always seemed to be a profession in which the nurse is the follower of the doctor such as their personal minion only doing the nominal things that the doctor does not want to do. However in Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing and the article “Quality and Nursing” by Hall‚ Moore‚ and Barnsteiner you can see that nurses can have a much larger impact on the healthcare system. In Nightingale’s book the author takes an in-depth look at nursing and
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