She answered the question differently she answers the question as being a role model for nursing and patients by being an advocate for nursing. I believe the reasons for the different answers are have to do with the fact that each of these nurses work in a different field. One is in a community based setting where she has taken on the role of a manager. The other nurse works in a hospital setting under a manager or charge nurse. The Second question in the interview has to do with working on an interdisciplinary team.
Family Nursing Diagnoses Kristine R August 30.2013 NUR/405 Joni Knapp, RNC, MSN Family Nursing Diagnoses As a patient is considered to be individual and unique in his or her own way, a family is one and distinctive within a community. According to Stanhope and Lancaster (2012), a family nursing assessment identifies family problem areas and family strengths that help build for interventions to maintain health. In providing a family with nursing diagnoses, utilization of an appropriate family assessment tool would be of benefit. One family assessment model used by community health nurses is the Friedman Family Assessment Model (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). Friedman’s model views family as a subsystem of society and enables nurses to assess the family system as a whole, as a component of society, and as an interactional system (Stanhope & Lancaster, 20012).
Midwives are personally responsible for the health of both mother and baby and only refer to obstetricians if there are medical complications. They work in multidisciplinary teams in both hospital, and increasingly, in community health care settings. Midwives do a multitude of duties, all the while following to hospital policy and maintaining an awareness of issues such as health and safety, examples of these duties are; diagnosing, monitoring and examining women during pregnancy, developing, assessing and evaluating individual programmes of care, providing full antenatal care, including screening tests in hospital, in the community and at home. Midwives identify high risk pregnancies and make referrals to doctors and other
I will use reflection to compare my findings to how literature states it should be done. I plan to show an understanding of holistic care and how it is used in each stage of the nursing process. Holistic care is an approach to healthcare which treats the individual as a whole person in relation to their needs (Hinchliff et al, 1998). In order to maintain confidentiality I have provided my client with a pseudonym (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2002). I based this assignment on Mary, who is a 72 year old lady and suffers with osteoarthritis which is a degenerative disorder in bone and cartilage (Hinchliff et al, 1996).
As stated before, I believe that the effect of alcoholism on the brain in the central nervous system is the greatest threat. There are serious consequences to the alcoholic from all the systems in the body but the effect on the brain affect more people that the alcoholic alone. I know that from being in a family where a member suffers from alcoholism that the family dynamic changes. An alcoholic is secretive about their alcohol use
Cocaine is a very expensive drug also selling up to $100 per gram. It will affect you straight into the nervous system. Cocaine will affect your emotions. It will make you feel paranoid, hostile, and anxious, even when you are not high. Cocaine is addictive it interferes with the way your brain processes that create feelings of pleasure, so you need more and more of the drug just to feel normal at the time.
RUP 1 Laurie Mahaffey Western Governors University A. Functional Differences The differences between a regulatory agency such as the Board of Nursing (BON) and a Professional Nursing Organization (PNO) is that the BON regulates, writes laws, approves licensure and governs nurses at all levels of nursing and at all levels of care. Its ultimate goal is protection of the patient. A PNO consist of groups of nurses that gather for the purpose of education, information sharing, benchmarking and overall growth of the nursing profession and the patients they serve. PNO’s provide strength to the nurse’s voice as well as serving as an advocate for patients (Matthews, 2012). The states regulate laws established to protect the
Nursing Theorist Grid Use grid below to complete the Week 4-Nursing Theorists assignment. Please see the “Nursing Theorists’ Grading Criteria” document, located on the Materials page of the student Web site. Name: kisha Theorist Selected: Dorothea Orem Description of Theory: According to Somchit, (1989), Orem’s theory, “Focuses on self-care needs of the patient and is a deliberate action of the nurse who views patients in terms of their self-care capacity. Orem has specified the relationship of her concepts into a set of theories that are interrelated in nursing: theory of self-care deficit, theory of self- care, and theory of nursing systems. With Orem’s theory the focus of nursing is the individual, more specifically the individual’s self-care requisites.
District nursing teams provide services to patients who are housebound and unable to visit their GP or local health centre. The service provides individualised patient-centred care that takes into account patient choice and appropriate care given by highly skilled staff (QNI, 2010).The Queens Nursing Institute launched a campaign called 'Right Nurse, Right Skills' which aims to ensure that patients get the right care in their own homes. The QNI provides a wide range of support for community nurses at all stages in their careers and influences policies which affect community nursing and patients (QNI, 2011). Health policy developments in recent years, have developed around the reduction in cost and making resources more effective (DOH, 2009). A clear example of this was highlighted in the transforming community services program.
RNs also manage and assign tasks to licensed practical nurses and nursing assistants. And they also advise and provide emotional support for patients and their families. There are a number of educational programs available to become a RN. According to the article “Nursing Job Descriptions”, “the main degree programs are hospital diploma, associates degree in nursing,