I want my patients safe, and I want them to maintain as much of their health as possible while on the road to recovery and/or acceptance of their conditions (in the event that they have an illness that is terminal or a progressive disorder or injury for which there is no cure).
In order to do my job effectively, I will need to learn all I can; continuing education in the field of nursing will be a key factor concerning my job performance and Nursing Career 5
my ability to provide the best care possible to my patients. I first plan to earn my Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and pass the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX-N). I then plan to complete a nursing internship in order to get "hands on" experience in my career field, find a nursing mentor who can share with me his/her career experiences, and then…...
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Gastmans, Chris. (1999). Nursing Ethics: Care as A Moral Attitude in Nursing. Vol. 6. no
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Certified egistered Nurse Anesthetists are among the most highly-paid nurses, and are in great demand; unlike most positions, these nurses have very little patient interaction but are instrumental in the conducting of successful surgeries (Santiago 2010). Nurse practitioners are one of the most common types of nurses, providing general primary care in a variety of settings, with earnings near those of CNAs but with greater patient contact, making it a more rewarding career for many (Santiago 2010).
After choosing a specialty and receiving the necessary education, which takes years of academic learning as well as practical application and practice, the final step in achieving a career in nursing is finding the right job. There are near-constant openings for short-term and long-term nurses, traveling nurses, in-patient nurses for hospitals, home care nurses on a live-in or live-out basis -- just as almost any imaginable medical scenario provides an opportunity for nurse…...
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Johnson & Johnson. (2009). "Job opportunities. Discover Nursing. Accessed 9 June 2010.
With step four, five and six of this eleven-step process, I continued my search and exploration to gather relevant information, began to eliminate choices that required too much education, were not practical for my current situation, or did not spark some form of personal interest and desire. By the sixth stage, evaluating the evidence, I had narrowed down my choice to a few alternatives and began to rate them on various criteria, such as degree of personal interest, educational parameters (length of study, cost, degree offerings, etc.). By this time, I also realized that I wanted to go into a newer area for several reasons. First, every new area has a greater need and more positions and opportunities available. Second, I always have liked challenges and experiencing something new. Third, I wanted to find an area that would interest me for the long-term and would be changing enough that…...
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Life
Types of math used in a nursing career
Math used in a nursing career and in everyday life
Nurses use math on a daily basis: on a very basic level, simple arithmetic is required to keep track of supplies, patients, hours worked, and other logistical issues. Math is used to add up a patient's caloric needs, to compare the patient's lab readings such as cholesterol to that of the general population, and also to assess the patient overall in light of different demographic groups and lifestyle practices. For example, a young, healthy, adult male will require more calories to support his activities than a sedentary one. Expected vital data on health such as blood pressure and cholesterol will vary depending on the patient's age, gender, health and demographic status.
Thus, mathematics can be an issue of life and death. One of the most important ways in which nurses use math on a…...
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Career in Nursing (Trauma Unit)
A nursing career in trauma unit has been my desire for a long period of time, especially after joining college. I have found this an attractive career for me simply because it will provide me with an opportunity to wear different hats when dealing with emergency situations. Trauma nurses are usually the line of healthcare or nursing professionals to attend to emergency situations involving seriously injured patients (Health Career Institute, n.d.). Through this career, I'll be able to provide different kinds of nursing interventions to seriously injured patients. I chose this career because I enjoy fast paced working floors and helping people during their most difficult and challenging moments. Since working as a trauma nurse entails being the first line of healthcare professionals dealing with emergency situations, I'll enjoy the fast paced working floors and helping severely injured patients.
My personal values that align with trauma nursing…...
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Brookdale Community College. (2016). Nursing Program, A.A.S. Retrieved from Brookdale Community College website: https://www.brookdalecc.edu/documents/nursing/New-Nursing-Curriculum-11_2016.pdf
Health Career Institute. (n.d.). Trauma Nursing Job Description. Retrieved Health Career Institute website: http://www.hci.edu/hci-news/news/282-trauma-nursing-job-description
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Nursing Definitions
Autonomy
Autonomy in the nursing profession states the importance of the client's role in making decisions that reflect advocacy for the client (Wade, 1999, p.310). Ultimately, this includes taking care of the patient physically as well as mentally and emotionally, developing a relationship with the patient that is beneficial to his care and actively advocating for the patient's rights and care. This type of autonomy, it is important to note, is not the same as individual or work autonomy, yet it must be considered that empowerment in nursing autonomy will inevitably lead to better professional and personal autonomy and should also lead to increased job satisfaction (Wade, 1999, p.310).
Typical definitions of autonomy would include the idea of complete independence for the person making the decisions. However, in the case of the nursing profession, the client's needs and desires must be heavily weighed and, in fact, become central to the idea…...
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Gaylord, N. & Grace, P. (1995). Nursing advocacy: An ethic of practice. Nursing Ethics, 2(1),
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As such, a nurse is primarily to recognize herself as an individual in the world, with certain responses to this world. When a patient enters the hospital, such a patient is also to be seen as a unique individual who responds to the world and his or her environment in a certain way.
Humanistic nursing is then primarily experiential rather than experimental. This means that new knowledge is gained with every new patient that arrives for treatment. In giving treatment, responses are observed and noted for future reference in similar situations. It is not however assumed that a treatment will work because it did in the past and in similar conditions. Instead, hypotheses are based upon experiences of the past. The recognition that hypotheses may prove incorrect helps the nurse to be open to new experiences. Each human being is then seen as a "world," as it were, with the…...
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Nursing profession is a complex and important field of human care. In addition to the challenge of high workloads and long hours, nurses are also faced with the challenge of caring for persons who are often hostile or otherwise difficult to handle as a result of the conditions they suffer from. In such cases, nurses must provide care with professionalism and friendliness, regardless of their personal feelings. To be able to perform their work effectively over the long-term, it is vital for nurses to receive as much support as possible from their leaders and peers. In addition to leadership systems such as the transformational paradigm and the synergy model, there are also technical support systems that nurses can benefit most profoundly from.
The nurse's relationship to the information systems and technology department, for example, is of optimal importance. According to the Biohealthmatics.com Website (2010), this relationship is currently tragically underutilized despite…...
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ange Theory in Nursing
The credibility of a profession is mainly based on the professional's ability to create and apply the appropriate theory. Theories are notions or concepts used for inferring observations, elucidating experiences, and unfolding relationships of project results. Theories are derived from conceptual models. The main function of a theory is to narrow and fully specify the phenomena that is contained in the conceptual model. The theory should also provide a relatively concrete and specific structure for interpreting the initially puzzling situations, behavior, and events. A nursing theory is defined as a set of concepts, relationships, definitions, and assumptions that are derived from nursing models and project a systematic view of phenomena by designing particular inter-relationships among concepts with the purpose of explaining, describing, predicting, and prescribing. Theories are derived using either deductive reasoning or inductive reasoning (Smith & Liehr, 2013). Nurses make use of various theories in…...
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Speaking Truth Concept
Discuss the concept of speaking truth to power. Are you better prepared to advocate for patients, nurses and nursing after taking this class?
During a time when there is a nationwide shortage of nurses (Glazer, 2009), identifying opportunities to improve their working conditions and status has assumed new importance and relevance and the concept of speaking truth to power can help achieve this outcome. According to Greear (2015), the concept of "speaking truth to power" was coined by the Quakers during the 1950s and has come to mean "taking a stand and mobilizing society around change" (para. 2). An important point made by Greear (2015) is that mere humans are only capable of knowing some of the truth at any given point in their lives but it is essential to act on what truth is known by taking action to effect meaningful change where it is needed. In this…...
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Nurses
The nursing profession has always attempted to put forward a positive, clean and healthful image. Throughout history the nursing industry has tried to portray nurses as angels of mercy, and as ethically upstanding, helpful healthcare professionals, just a few steps down from doctors in terms of medical needs. But lately the images of nurses has changed and not always for the best. This paper critiques the images of nurses through a review of the available literature.
The highly respected Gallop Poll ranks nurses at the top of the list of several important professions in terms of "honesty and ethical standards" (Gallup, 2010). In a 2010 polling project by Gallup eighty-one percent of respondents rated nurses "Very High" or "high"; number two below nurses was "military officers" (73% rated them "very high" or "high"; number three was "druggists or pharmacists" (71% rated them "very high" or "high"; and number four on…...
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People Employed in the Nursing Profession:
As compared to nursing practices in the previous years, the profession is much different today with the expectation of ongoing change for the better of both patients and nurses. The nursing characteristics and values are considered to have begun at home because of the similarity with the traditional responsibilities of daughters, sisters, wives, and mothers. The traditional nursing role has usually incorporated humanistic support, nurture, comfort and caring (Limon, 2007). This role of traditional nursing care was mainly associated and related to physical maintenance and comfort. While women were the majority in the early development of the nursing profession, they were not the only people providing nursing services. Though they were the minority, men were also providers of nursing services especially through caring for their injured and sick comrades.
The development of the nursing profession to include the employment of various people has mainly been influenced…...
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Recruiting more males into the nursing profession: A Positive, Proactive Position Statement
The aging population has caused a crisis in the healthcare profession. The population needs more nurses, that fact is clear even to individuals outside of the field of health. One way to increase recruitment numbers of any profession is to expand the targeted populations that are traditionally attracted to the profession. Traditionally, men have been underrepresented in 20th century nursing, although monks used to perform such functions before the evolution of modern medicine. (hittock & Leonard, 2003, p. 243) Thus one way to increase the population of nurses is to increase the number of men in the profession.
Nursing is a vocation as well as a profession, and it would be tragic if men who felt the 'calling' eschewed entering nursing as a profession because it was perceived as a female-only employment. Also, as nurses often present the human face…...
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Antecedents and Importance of the IOM eport, "Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health"
In an era of widespread nursing shortages, identifying opportunities to improve nurse practice, nursing education and nursing workforce development has assumed new importance and relevance. To this end, this paper provides a discussion concerning the work of the obert Wood Johnson Foundation (WJF) Committee Initiative on the Future of Nursing and the Institute of Medicine research that led to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, "Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health." A discussion concerning the importance of the IOM "Future of Nursing" report related to nursing practice, nursing education and nursing workforce development is followed by an evaluation of the role of state-based action coalitions and how they advance goals of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. In addition, a summary of two initiatives that have been spearheaded by the Oklahoma Action Coalition and…...
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Nurse, Must I always tell the truth
Truth in nursing fraternity
"I think it's difficult for many physicians and nurses to be completely truthful about their patients' medical condition. I believe we prefer giving positive news because of the desire for nonmaleficence and to avoid the stress of delivering bad news to patients and their families" (Crystal Hird, 2005).
Despite the grave sadness that truth saying within the nursing practice may bring to the nurse or the patient and at times the family members, there is need to have the truth told at all times by the nurse and truth that is handled with absolute care and professional communication system must be followed.
This paper is purely based on the value of truth in nursing and the virtue of nurse telling the truth despite the situation. It will also look at how the truth needs to be told in the nursing practices especially…...
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1. In todays rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the role of nurses has become increasingly crucial in providing high-quality patient care. As a result, nursing education programs, especially at the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) level, must constantly adapt and innovate to ensure that graduates are equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to meet the demands of the profession. One key component of a well-rounded nursing education curriculum is the essay introduction, which plays a vital role in setting the stage for the topics that will be discussed throughout the program. By providing a strong foundation and clear direction....
Part 1: Introduction
Importance of Nursing in the Healthcare System
Overview of the Nursing Profession
Different Types of Nursing Careers
Personal Motivations for Pursuing Nursing
Part 2: Educational Pathway
Types of Nursing Degrees: Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate
Accreditation and Educational Standards
Prerequisites and Admission Requirements
Nursing Program Curriculum and Clinical Experience
Part 3: Skills and Competencies
Foundational Knowledge in Anatomy, Physiology, and Nursing Theory
Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Abilities
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Technical Skills in Medication Administration, Wound Care, and Monitoring
Ability to Work Effectively in Interdisciplinary Teams
Part 4: Clinical Experiences
Supervised Clinical Rotations in Various Healthcare Settings
Preceptorship Opportunities with....
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III. Conclusion
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