TITLE: Evaluate the long-term effects of being a night shift nurse has on the body compared to the health of a daytime nurse and the effects their health has on the quality of work. INVESTIGATOR: Mike Caravella Team: Professor McGloin A. SPECIFIC AIMS This study is being conducted to determine the health problems that night time nurses suffer compared to day time nurses, and how these health problems effect there quality of work within a hospital setting. The main research question guiding this
Marilyn Ray and Jean Watson’s Theories Compared By Jessica Soler NAU University Nursing Theory and Healthcare Models Abstract Nursing is a intricate profession and is constantly changing for the better. Evidence based practice can bring on some of these changes as well as government mandates. Nursing is challenged with increased patient loads, and new innovations such as computer charting. In nursing, caring, must be a part of our lifestyle in order to be to be an effective nurse
Advance Practice Nurse Nursing has evolved in many different aspects. Development of theories and models are used interchangeably in nursing practice. A theory is “a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action” (Dictionary). Nursing theories are concepts that help lead the nursing practice. (Nursing theory website). For years, the role of a nurse has been changing in the healthcare realm as well as its scope of practice. Advance practice nursing (APN) has been growing
AFT Task 1: Accreditation Audit Assessment Code: AFT2 Kyle Cluff 000505604 09/29/2015 Nelda Turner A Executive Summary Nightingale Community Hospital is a healthcare organization that prides itself on how it treats you personally. In order to help Nightingale continue the extraordinary care it provides, we partner with the Joint Commission to help mitigate breakdowns and failures, with the hopes to continuously improve the care we provide to our patients. I firmly believe that lessons
I choose the 50 year old woman admitted with chief compliant of headaches and decrease in range of motion in her neck. Also, noted with complaints of vertigo, hearing loss in one ear, profuse sweating and uncontrollable eye movement. The woman was involved in motor vehicle accident three days before her admission. First, I would perform a neurological assessment on the patient due to the signs and symptoms reported from the patient and considering the patient was involved in a motor cycle accident
Paramedics are the first responders to injuries and serious casualties. When choosing to study Paramedics, you’re choosing a vocation, a field, a career – not just a degree. This greatly appeals to me as I like to know what I am doing later in life. Although it is not exceptionally well paid, I believe it will be incredibly rewarding and worthwhile. For the majority of my life I have known that I wanted to work in some kind of medical profession. Maybe this was due to having to spend years in and
I have been working at my current place of employment for ten years. I began as a CNA, went back to school in 2007 to complete my LPN. I have work as an LPN now for seven years. I have learned quite a lot from the RNs here at Bayada Home Health Care and my clients. My director and Co-workers have been nudging me to go further and complete my RN to BSN. At this point I am more than ready to do so. I do have my wound care certification. I had attended online schooling with Wound Educator a couple of
Self-Care Plan A self-care plan is important for being a professional and maintaining a high quality of life. It is by having a self-care plan that I will remain ethical in my treatment to clients that I serve. If I am not functioning at my best then I will not be able to help my clients. Additionally, my desire to help others will be of no benefit if I become sick myself by placing too much priority on being a perfectionist in the helping profession. The Professional Quality of Life Scale is
theory-practice gap is not a new problem in healthcare today. This problem has existed for many years and does not seem to be disappearing from healthcare anytime soon. The theory-practice gap in nursing is the difference between what is taught in the classroom and how care is actually given in practice. Theories in nursing are developed to help nurses in practice; these theories have been developed along side and around medical knowledge and medical theory along with evidence-based practices. Applying the
What is the IOM (Institute of Medicine) report you might be asking? The Future of Nursing of Medicine: Leading Change, Advancing Health is the reports name and it is a thorough examination of how nurses’ roles, responsibilities and education should change to meet the needs of an aging, increasingly diverse population and to respond to a complex, evolving health care system. (Campaign for Action, 2013). Nursing is one of the fastest growing fields in the U.S. today and is always changing, causing