England’s Chief Nursing Officer, Jane Cummings launched the 6Cs which was set out to allow for nurses and midwives to be able to provide the best possible care for others. Each C carries equal weight therefore by encouraging the 6C’s, it helps patients to be independent, improve health and provides a positive environment (Department of Health, 2012). The 6Cs include: care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment. Care is a fundamental element from the 6Cs which will be examined
experiences or emotions to the care I provide (Wilson and Kirshbaum, 2011), that is why I felt sad for Mr Smith. I was not also knowledgeable about how to give him hope or understand hope meant to patients with a terminal illness. Instinctively I felt like I needed to give Mr Smith some encouragement. This
This report will discuss the care required for a patient with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is one of the common causes of dementia, it is a disease that causes symptoms such as memory loss and interferes with a person’s intellectual abilities, making it very difficult to perform simple daily tasks. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease, the symptoms are not as noticeable at the beginning but get a lot worse as time goes on. (1) Out of the 5.4 million people in America living with
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
Nursing 3312: Health Assessment Nursing 3312 was an introduction on the process of assessing the body in terms of illness and wellness. The instructors in this course were knowledgeable and experts in their field which enabled them to teach the basic skills needed to assess different systems of the bodies during time of health or infirmity. This course gave me the tools to increase my assessment and interviewing skills in order to have more confidence when assessing patients in the healthcare environment
Bachelor of Science in Nursing can continue her education through advance studies. A 2010 Institute of Medicine report noted the importance of continuing education for nurses. The report recommended that nurses must practice nursing to the complete extent of their education and training. Typically, barriers to this notion have been historic, regulatory and policy driven. The report emphasized the importance of bachelor prepared nurses to continue to higher levels of nursing education in order to fill
calling, vocation, or employment; whole body of persons engaged in a calling”. So what does this mean in terms of the nursing field? In order to understand this question, it is important to look not only at the vigorous training nurses must receive but to also explore the Code of Ethics for Nurses and how nurses are incorporating those ethics into their every day practice through care, compassion and communication. In order to even sit down and test to become licensed as a nurse, it is required that
Evidence Based Decision-Making Supports Quality Safe Care In 1996, Sacket, Rosenberg, Gray, and Richardson identified the increasing emphasis on evidence based practice, 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
My personal philosophy of nursing revolves around caring. For me, it is the benchmark of high quality, patient-centered, holistic nursing care. I believe that to provide high-quality care to those in need, we must first make an effort to purposefully include the art of caring (Jasmine, 2009). This does not negate the importance of including medical and nursing scientific knowledge in the care provide. Schrock (1981) stated that, “philosophy is an attitude toward life and reality that evolves from
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