This essay will discuss a clinical skill in which I have become competent in practicing as a student nurse. I will use a reflective model to discuss how I have achieved the necessary level of competence in my nurse training programme. The reflective model I have chosen to use is Gibbs model (Gibbs 1988). Gibbs …
?Cesaria Tan – First Filipino nurse who had Masters Degree in Nursing in the United States. Annie Sand – Founded the National League of Philippine Government Nurses. Socorro Diaz – First editor of “The Message” the first journal of Philippine Nurses Association Dr. Julita Sotejo – Considered as Florence Nightingale of the Philippines; Founder of …
Role of Nursing Intervention in Diminishing the Stigma of Mental Illness 1. Introduction Among the many diseases today, mental disorders can be considered to be the disease most misunderstood by the general population. Such illiteracy and unawareness to the nature of mental illness have caused stigma, and discriminatory treatment and care to patients. Generally, …
A conceptual model is a theoretical framework that provides an organized structure, related ideas, design, and concepts in research while a theory is a foundation for basis of action that describe a phenomenon (Grand Canyon University, 2018). A nursing conceptual model gives direction and an orderly way to research in a nursing field. On the …
Most of us dreams of becoming the boss of the bosses, I mean, we always envision ourselves on the top. We want to fulfill the 5th stage in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, which is the Self-Actualization stage less do we know that in attaining that, we have to deal with such great responsibilities. Experiencing the …
Sociology helps a nurse understand what makes people “tick” the same way psychology does. The only difference is that sociology does it from a “group” or “community” perspective. These are important because besides medical knowledge a nurse really needs to be kind, sympathetic and compassionate. Patients have families. The information gleaned by even a cursory …
Introduction Nursing care can vary from one hospital, community and from one country to the other. The model also varies but most depict the stages involved which are the assessment, planning, implementation as well as evaluation. The use of logic and systematic approach to care by way of application of models and theories as …
Clarissa “Clara” Harlowe Barton, who is a daughter of a farmer and a woman who is a valued member of the community from Massachusetts, was the very first president of the American Red Cross organization. Being a smart girl she already achieved a lot of things early in her life, at the age of 30 …
Impact of the IOM Report on Nursing The Institute of Medicine (IOM), in collaboration with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), released their report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health on October 5, 2010, after a two year initiative. The goal of the IOM report is to promote quality, safe, and cost effective …
The decision to covertly administer the medication will be critically assessed in this assignment. The Gibbs(1988) reflection model will be used to guide the discussion. The discussion will also consider the legal, ethical and professional issues surrounding covert medication. In the mental health sector, medication non-adherence remains a serious health-care problem with far-reaching ramifications for …
Characteristics of Professional Nursing By Maksim Khasin, eHow Contributor Nurses are crucial to providing patients with adequate health care. Nurses are critical components of the health care system. While doctors determine the health care plan for a patient, a nurse helps to execute the plan and serve as a liaison between the doctor, the patient …
Introduction There are 2 important purposes for the nurse practice act. The first practice is to protect the Health and safety of the citizens in the jurisdiction, and the second purpose is to protect the title of the RN (Cherry & Jacob 2011). The Florida Nurse Practice Act was implemented to ensure that every nurse …
It is important to me that nursing is identified as an honorable and essential profession. I believe that nursing is a status that reflects the two equally important parts of nursing knowledge: Empirical knowledge and Esthetical knowledge. “It is the artful nurse’s interactions that can bridge the gap introduced by technology and science, thereby creating …
Running head: NURSING PROCESS Nursing Process University of Phoenix Nursing Process In the field of nursing, the nursing process is a vital tool used to promote appropriate and effective nursing care to patients. The actual nursing process consists of five components, which are intermingled, and constantly adjusting or changing according to the patients needs. The …
Isis Nursing Horus 1. Introduction As I entered the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, I began viewing the artworks, and it was there that I noticed a beautiful sculpture. Right away it captured my attention. It was a statute of Isis sitting with Horus on her lap. It was called Isis Nursing Horus. First, I liked the …
The aim of this reflection is to describe my personal experience in wound care and its management. Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle has been adapted in order to provide structure to the reflection process. Description At the care home I had to nurse many client’s who had developed pressure sores. One particular wound stands out from …
Dorothea Elizabeth Orem: Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory Dorothea E. Orem was known as a pioneer in the development of distinctive nursing knowledge and as one of foremost America’s nursing theorist (Alligood & Tomey, 2010, Fawcett, 2000). Her self-care deficit theory which is a general theory of nursing, is used widely in nursing today (Hartweg, 1995). …
Caring for a patient’s needs is the most important quality that any practical nurse should have. When a patient sees and feels that the nurse cares about them, immediately the patient starts building a trust relationship with that nurse. By building this trust the patient most likely will discuss its health problems with the nurse. …
Stigma greatly affects people with mental illness. A large portion of the population fears and socially rejects people with mental illness. Unfortunately, this includes nurses and mental health care professionals (Sobstyl, week 6). Also, stigma is a hindrance for the mentally ill that are in the preliminary stage of the illness to seek for help …
Abstract The 12-hour shift schedule of nurses is one of the hospitals’ response to the shortage of nurses in the United States. Having this type of schedule practised among nurses, some studies have shown deleterious effects on the provision of care and providing safety for patients. The focus of the research paper is to …
NURSING MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR SMOKING CESSATION OF A PATIENT INTRODUCTION Nowadays, there is an escalating recognition for nurses that produce evidences illustrating how nursing endeavours in both clinical and community settings are efficiently improving the health status of patients, decreasing death rates and improving the quality of life not only of patients, but the larger …
Medical genogram is very important in the nursing profession in that, it gives an overall picture of medical conditions about an individual or a family drawing from generational medical history. This is crucial in understanding health dynamics affecting a given family and it can help to save costs, which would be undertaken in the diagnosis …
Nursing in Multicultural Society: Transcultural Assessment Model Introduction Problem and its Background Culture is a simple word with complex meanings that encompass the entire domain of human activities. As variant areas in the world possess their own identity, culture is one of the defining factors that forms the pattern of shared meanings, beliefs, and …
My Dream to Become a Traveling Registered Nurse “What do you want to be when you grow up?” She said. In my mind, I had so many thoughts running through my little learning brain while sitting in those bucket seat wooden desks that were covered in pencil writings of people’s names. I was in 7th …
