The importance goes further to the core of the problem focusing on the nurse and evaluating what is needed to be done in order to educate this patient group. The research problem involves nurses who are not comfortable discussing end-of-life issues with their patients and is identified in the first few paragraphs of the article. This is a significant problem nurses and doctors can educate, manage and monitor for these chronic patients. The purpose is not clearly stated in the study, but is inferred within the abstract of the article as well. Patients and families dealing with potential end-of-life issues is a very common problem in health care today.
Using a laminated card and by displaying the Whooley questions discreetly I have implemented them at each clinic I have undertaken since. It is essential that the HV is both confident and competent in the delivery of the questions and committed to exploring any concerning outcomes fully. It has been suggested that many new mothers will not disclose feelings of low mood due to the perceptions a health professional may have if she does. Edhborg (2005) suggested women who are depressed after giving birth often struggle with tremendous guilt over their depression and believe that it means they are a bad mother, this inhibits their likelihood to disclose feelings of low mood to a practitioner. I have seen mothers react after presentation of the Whooley questions, with a sheepish “No” on occasion.
Once I started researching a career in nursing I realized that there were a lot more types of nurses then I had originally imagined. I have not decided on which field of nursing I would like to specialize in yet but I just imagine myself as a general nurse, working in a hospital setting. A Registered Nurse (RN) is not a doctor assistant; a RN gets to treat wounds, give IV’s and basically get to treat their own patients. Right now my main priority is to stay focused on taking all necessary steps to pursuing Nursing as a career.Gwendolyn Mink describes most Registered Nurses as working directly with the patients and their families. They are the families’ contact with the medical world, in the hospital and at the patients’ home.
We have come to prosper in this industrialized world we live in, and have reaped countless benefits from science and technology. Yet, from the post-Enlightenment emphasis on science and reason to the women’s movement, the nurse’s efforts to elevate nursing practice to the status of profession and to prove herself intellectual among the scientifically practicing physician, has nearly drown the historical spiritual intentions of nursing. Somehow, during the shifts in our culture and our society, we came to believe (in the world of medicine) that spirit was something to be avoided because science and reason could not explain it. Opportunely, we are on the brink of a shift in paradigm. Healthcare seems to be returning to a more holistic and integrated view of humans.
john smith Mrs. Farner English 032 November 30, 2010 Personal Response Growing up I always knew I wanted to be in the medical field, recently I figured out that I want to be an OBGYN. Reading these three articles gave me a lot of information and better insight that can help me through my studies of nursing. But the article that really stuck out to me was the Cosmopolitan article “What your Gyno Is Really Thinking”. This article drew me more than the others because like many I’ve always been curious about what Doctors really think and what really goes on behind the close doors of Doctor Offices. The new information I found out while reading this article is that certain PAP exams can be rushed and the patient doesn’t receive all the
| 1 | The Differences in Competencies between ADN vs. BSN Mary P. Tharakan Grand Canyon University: NRS- 430V January 13, 2013 Mary, your paper is very informative. A few areas for improvement are noted in the paper. The vigorous, standardized education gives the knowledge, values and skills needed for a layperson to become a competent nursing professional (Lindeman, 2000). The challenging nature of today’s healthcare system has led many nursing leaders to believe the necessity for all the nurses to have a baccalaureate degree which will help them to cope with the increased use of technologies at work, as well as the societal changes and shift from acute to community based settings (Speziale & Jacobson, 2005). In United
We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story Before I Started reading the story, I assumed that there main character would be talking about the how she handle everything that deals with abortions I know that this could be a an uncomfortable subject for many people personally it makes me a bit uneasy and I think that’s what the author tried to achieve just by reading the title. The author is speaking to mostly young and middle age women and how she sees her job, how one day there won’t be a need for abortion clinics any more but that she returns to a world that were it is still necessary. “I imagine a world where this won’t be necessary, and then return to the world where it is.” I think that this is a strong text because it makes the reader
I came to Chestnut Grove today to talk to you about maturity. I matured a lot when the doctors told me that I might have soft tissue sarcoma which is a type of cancer that affects the bone, joints, and soft tissue. I learned to appreciate my family more because if it wasn’t for them I would not have been able to do much around the house. My mom and dad continued to work twelve hour shifts every day and still make it back in time for my appointments at Wake Forest Baptist hospital which is all the way in Winston Salem and cancer visits are not cheap so they also had to give up a lot of money for that. My brother was really little at the time but he still did his best to help me with anything I needed, like getting me a drink or if I left something in my room he would go get it so I
I never knew all the different types of treatments and therapy that my friend went through before she passed way in 2005, until I read more about it for my paper. While researching all this information I really wish the newer drug Kalydeco was approved while my friend was still alive. Even with some of the common side effects I really believe my friend would be still here today and would have lived passed 37. Overall, I really enjoyed looking up this information and writing this paper I feel I know a little more about this disease and understand the different symptoms as well. References Lauren B. Cystic Fibrosis Community Children’s Health Understanding Cystic Fibrosis: The Basics Wedmd Understanding Cystic Fibrosis—Diagnosis and Treatment Dankert-Roelse,Jeannette E. International Journal of Clinical Reviews Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis: From Experiment to Routine Procedure O’Sullivan, Brian P; Cystic Fibrosis KALYDECO is the first and only FDA-approved CFTR potentiate For patients with cystic fibrosis age 6 years and older who have a G551D
7 of the text, and this week’s articles on cardiovascular health. Remember—you will come into contact with seniors from all walks of life, so write questions that are direct, yet friendly. Apply judgment when writing questions; you cannot possibly cover all forms of cardiovascular disease with one 10-question interview. Finally, imagine you are actually conducting the interviews within a retirement community when one interviewee says her sister has been diagnosed with a particular cardiovascular disease. She wants you to explain what must be done to treat the disease because her sister did not understand the doctor’s explanation.