Portfolio project Throughout the years of studying for the nursing program, a lot of information have been read, revise and analyzing with the intention of developing a better understanding of the nursing role on the medical field. By being able to look back to a variety of prior papers created as part of the program, the understanding of the intention of those projects become clearer as development of researching, analyzing, critical thinking and understanding of evidence base practice. The rationalization
stating that nurses must be prudent and diligent when making decisions for nursing care by using only the most up to date and accurate information to base their clinical decisions upon. More recently, decision making models have been brought to the forefront as excellent tools nursing students and novice nurses can use when transferring evidence into useable knowledge for practice. The decision making models highlight the importance of assessments, identifying the problem, evidence informed interventions
My primary interest for nursing was when my mother had severe depression, she needed constant care, which was provided by nurses, so she could lead a healthy lifestyle. This motivated me because as a nurse, you need to provide support to the family, a quality of care and sympathy towards the patient. Throughout the years I recognised nursing is a very stimulating and challenging career, as I would help her with everything she needed, from bathing her to collecting her medicines from the pharmacy
respondents (one hundred and one practicing nurses and forty two nursing students) were served the questionnaire and completed it, giving a response rate of 100%. Almost all the respondents were females in both categories (Table 1). The age ranged from 18 to 54 years and the mean age of the nursing students was 24.72+3.39 years while for the registered nurses their mean age was 34.59+8.72 years. The registration experience and the unit experience for the registered nurses were 10.19+9.76
The Connecticut Nurse Practice Act defines advance nursing practice as the " performance of advanced level nursing practice activists that, by virtue of post basic specialized education and experience, are appropriate to and may be performed by an APRN". This act describes the role of an APRN as one that "performs acts of diagnosis and treatment of alternations in health status" including collaborating under a physician to prescribe, dispense, and administer therapeutic and corrective medical interventions
Leadership involves bringing people together and motivating them to accomplish specific set goals (Plonien, 2015). Leadership in nursing is a critical field that is needed in the nursing profession and patient care (Plonien, 2015). Exceptional leaders in the nursing profession are required to motivate the staff to provide patient-centered care and increase their productivity in providing patient care (Plonien, 2015). Several specific qualities are necessary for effective leadership that differs
Annotated Bibliography Since healthcare organizations throughout the country strive for positive patient outcomes and patient satisfaction, preventing falls among patients in healthcare settings remains a nursing staff priority. Unfortunately, fall prevention is not a new problem. Nurses face the challenge of recognizing patients who may be at high risk for falls and intervening to prevent falls on a daily basis. To identify areas for improvement in fall prevention, a thorough review of the organizational
The authors’ experience and wide range of existing research on inter-shift handover reveals that there are many different ways to hand over a client in the end of the nursing shift. This so-called “ritual” is central to good practice development but also aids a nurse to gain essential caseload knowledge at the beginning of the shift. Handover process may be divided into five major types: handover sheet, tape recorded, bedside, written and verbal (Miller 1998, Sexton et al. 2004). However, verbal
billing, working with patients and being part of a team focused on improving patients’ health and well being, proved very rewarding. Although my job brought me personal satisfaction, it was not until I became a nurse that I began to understand the importance of the care
component which can be measured in a variety of methods. Patients that are of the highest acuity and require the greatest level of care are admitted to the Intensive Care Units (ICU) within the hospital. While being cared for in the ICU, patients may experience a myriad of procedures, assessments, consistent care provider traffic, and among all else, a plethora of emotions. Many of these patients are accompanied by spouses, family and friends alike, all of whom have the patient’s interests and well-being