Nurse Practitioners (NP) are becoming an important part of today’s health care system and their role has grounded in the disciple of nursing. Many studies proved the effectiveness of NP as a primary care provider compared to physician. These studies also indicated that care provided by NP in primary care settings brought improved patient satisfaction. This improved satisfaction is related to certain approaches NPs used in patient interaction such as‚ openness‚ connection‚ concern‚ respect‚ reciprocity
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Predictors of Nurse Burnout Jessica Beitler‚ Tabatha Menapace‚ Lorelei Starr‚ Jodi Swihart NRN 422‚ July 2‚ 2008 Malone College School of Nursing Abstract Aim. To identify characteristics that predict the incidence of burnout in Registered Nurses. Background. Burnout was first described in the early 1970’s by human service professionals and healthcare workers. In 2001‚ The Joint Commission reported that 43 percent of nurses currently working scored high in a range of burnout measures and
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Image of Nursing If the only work a nurse does actually coincided with the image of a "being that comes to you in your darkest hour" or as a guardian angel‚ then patients would never make it out of the hospital. This article made some very good points as to where the image of nursing has been and where it is going. Sure nurses are caregivers‚ people who have possibly felt a draw towards the profession. But to be that caregiver takes a lot more then possessing the desire to help people. You
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Patients whose care needs changed from curative to palliative were intended to be transferred out of critical care to patient care environments more suited to end-of-life care. However‚ as more patients become “chronically critically ill”‚ critical care nurses are being asked more often to provide care to patients on their deathbeds (Puntillo et al.‚ 2001). Deciding which ICU patients are actually dying remains an extremely inexact science‚ and the transition to palliative care is not one easily
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result of their environment. Three systems exist within the professional nursing model: the compensatory system‚ in which the nurse provides total care; the partial compensatory system‚ in which the nurse and the patients share responsibilities for care; and the educative-development system‚ in which the patient has the primary responsibility for personal health‚ with the nurse acting as a consultant. The basic premise of Orem’s model is that individuals can take responsibility for their health and
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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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Psychiatric Nurses Student name School name Course name or course # Date Abstract There are many different types of nurses all over‚ but each has a different task to follow. Nurses in general are trained and set out in the world to generally help others. Nursing is at such a high demand nowadays that it’s really attracting a lot of people who don’t even have a career choice set coming out of high school. Psychiatric nurses are trained in behavioral therapy‚ which basically allows them
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from the start. I was able to get quick peeks of the tasks that the nurses had to accomplish throughout the day as I ran blood and specimens back and forth to the lab and various floors. The nurses were always up on their feet‚ running around taking care of the many patients that flooded the floors. As I discharged patients from their stay in the hospital‚ they always made a comment regarding the outstanding care that every nurse provided them during their stay. Whenever I heard those comments‚ I
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Nurse Practitioner Nurses Practitioners are registered nurses with advanced training and education; they work in conjunction with physicians in caring for patients. The hours they work can vary depending on the patient and health care facilities. Their long hour range from ten‚ twelve‚ or twenty-four hour shifts. It takes four years in a registered nurse program and a two year practitioner program in order to become a nurse practitioner. Their duties are to take care of minor illnesses such
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epigastric pain described as bad heartburn. Her sister tells the nurse‚ "I felt like that when I had toxemia during my pregnancy." Admission assessment by the nurse reveals: today’s weight 182 pounds‚ T 99.1° F‚ P 76‚ R 22‚ BP 138/88‚ 4+ pitting edema‚ and 3+ protein in the urine. Heart rate is regular‚ and lung sounds are clear. Deep tendon reflexes (DTRs) are 3+ biceps and triceps and 4+ patellar with 1 beat of ankle clonus. The nurse applies the external fetal monitor‚ which shows a baseline fetal
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