Nursing is a noble profession that requires individuals to possess a unique blend of compassion, knowledge, and dedication. The role of a registered nurse (RN) is multifaceted, ranging from providing direct patient care to advocating for health promotion and disease prevention. This essay aims to...
The field of medicine is a complex and intricate one, requiring a deep understanding of the human body, its functions, and its ailments. One key aspect of this understanding is medical terminology, the language used by healthcare professionals to communicate and document patient care. Medical...
Introduction In today’s society, success is highly valued and often used as a measure of a person’s worth. However, success is not a one-size-fits-all concept and can vary greatly depending on an individual’s values and ethics. Success is a multifaceted concept that requires individuals to...
Nursing is an exciting profession, but with the levels of interest, there is still a sheer level of challenges that are encountered in the nursing environment. Thus, by writing a nursing reflective essay, I would identify the strategies that are applicable and variable to be...
Introduction Although there is a daunting number of candidates working toward becoming nurses through Montana Tech, the reality is that there is still a lack of graduates going into the field to make up for the vast nursing shortage. Without nurses, hospitals, clinics, and nursing...
Nurses today provide a critical role in maintaining a functioning healthcare environment. Many nurses have the same complaint—too much work, not enough nurses to go around. There are three main components that make up the this shortage: Not enough nurses to staff the hospitals at...
Introduction Introduction: Some might think professionalism as dressing smartly at work and performing good in job, whereas some think being professional is having degree form good institutions. For me professionalism encircle all these explanations, but it covers much more. Professionalism can be discerned out better...
When you’re a kid, the number one question adults love to ask you is what you want to be when you grow up. I’m sure I said something like a princess or an astronaut, but I definitely didn’t say nurse. I figured that out in...
Nursing is one of the most highly rewarding and highly respected professions. The increasing number of patients coupled with the increasing complexity has posed workplace challenges, placing nurses at risk for negative consequences (Neville & Cole, 2013). The negative consequences are not only affecting nurses...
Introduction Nursing is a well-respected profession that offers numerous benefits such as job security, personal fulfillment, a livable wage, etc. With all of these benefits, there is one big downside to nursing that affects hospitals and other healthcare settings all over the United States: nurse...
The Canadian health care has some major challenges that do not let it function as well as it could be, some of these challenges include: hallway medicine, shortage of nurses, not enough funding, and wait times, but the challenge that needs to be addressed and...
The Reflective journal is a way of recording ideas, own perceptions, and experiences, as well as persuasions and understandings one has in the process of learning over a period of time. The benefits of the reflective learning process are usually accrued over a period of...
American Nurse Association (2015) defines nursing as “the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities,...
Prior to making that final decision on a career as a nurse professional in the busy world of healthcare, there are many questions an individual must be able to answer in regards to self. First, gather your own understanding of what exactly being a nurse...
Low nurse-to-patient staffing practices impact healthcare in many ways. Studies have revealed a direct relationship between low nurse staffing and outcomes of both the nurses that work in this field and the patients that they serve. Harrington et al. explore the high costs related to...
Nursing plays a pivotal role in healthcare, and effective management and leadership are essential to ensure the delivery of high-quality care. Nurses, irrespective of their levels, have the opportunity to display leadership qualities that empower both themselves and their colleagues to attain organizational goals. This...
As I have grown from a nurse into the nurse practitioner role my personal nursing philosophy has shifted and also grown over the years. My philosophy of nursing is centered around the metaparadigm of nursing concepts (Kenney, 2013) and two theories: Jean Watson’s Theory of...
Introduction Dignity is always a chief concern in Hong Kong health services. In Hong Kong, residential Care Services for the elderly can be divided into homes for the aged, Care and Attention Home for the Elderly, and Nursing Home. The total number of places under...
The U.S. being a home to millions of peoples with a rapidly aging population and exponentially growing burden of the chronic disease makes Nursing a prodigious piece of a never-ending puzzle, most crucial in every aspect of human life. If you believe you have what...
Introduction As a brand-new nursing student who is in the first semester of nursing school, I do not have much experience in the nursing profession and do not have a decent grasp on the philosophy of nursing. However, I do know my own beliefs and...
The nursing profession over time has developed methods and role expectations to not only ensure safety of the patient, healthcare team, and community, but based off of evident based practice has proven to provide optimal care. One of those methods developed is Self-Care Nursing Theory...
Introduction According to World Health Organization (WHO), health means ‘‘A completion state on physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’ (WHO, 1948). Comprehensive health assessment can know how a person obtained the changes from different situation like new...
Abstract Palliative care needs to be demonstrated in a way that makes sense and comes with mutual understanding of the patients and their families to reach its goal. A nurse having strong communication skills can positively influence palliative care patients’ understanding in order to promote...
Leadership means it has potential to lead. It is a skill that can handle any kinds of situation. The ability to solve problem, and it is a unique attitude that can have to a person. A person that born as leader have a higher goal....
Palliative care nursing is a speciality where you observe your patients in their most vulnerable moments. Whether it be watching a patient struggle to hold on until their last family member arrives to say good-bye, or accompanying them as they take their final breath. It...
According to my point of view, leadership is the quality of a person who leads a group of individuals enthusiastically and effectively. Setting up feasible objectives and providing information significant to accomplish those objectives. Leadership considers various attributes such as creative thinking, patience, excellent communication...
Low fidelity stimulation is used to teach students basic skills like IV insertion, IM injections, etc. High fidelity is used to teach students critical thinking with different scenarios that may happen to a patient. Most nursing or medical students use stimulation mannequins to learn and...
Primary health care is referred to as, “essential socially acceptable methods and technology that is made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community” (Stamler, Yiu, Dosani, Etowa, & Van-Daalen, 2020, p. 142). One of the many underlying values of primary health care is...
The existence of health discrimination among racial and ethnic minorities is a significant problem within the health care industry and is a topic of importance. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that the frequency of injury, incapacity, illness, and death is excessively greater in...
Analysis of research surrounding gerontology is suggesting that nursing students are preferring not to work with the older population, prompting the need to review the educational needs of students (as cited in Flood & Clark, 2017, p. 588). Therefore, the question arises, “How do you...
