Introduction In the American civil war, thousands of women were involved as volunteer nurses in different military hospitals and the battle field. Although social taboos prohibited women from working outside their homes, women sought direct and convention involvement in the civil war. They focused on participating in the national struggle and pursuing career opportunities in the military rather than the traditionally confined domestic support roles. Women nurses experienced the detrimental and depressing constants of the civil war, such disease, as mutilated bodies, amputated limbs as well as death. In addition, they offered invaluable aid to the wounded and sick soldiers as well as medical authorities.
On the other hand, Susie Monahan, Vivian’s nurse, served as her advocate from the beginning of her treatments to Vivian’s death. Nursing Role In the film, Susie not only represented the nursing community but exemplified what it means to be human. Vivian frequently highlighted the irony of having to physically and emotionally decline and lose all of her dignity to receive necessary medical attention. “I [Vivian Bearing] am learning to suffer.” However, Susie consistently rectifies the lack of compassion and recognizes how vulnerable Vivian is in this stage of her life. She continuously nurtured Vivian physically and emotionally.
Patch 1 Developing Professional Identity Within this essay I will consider my knowledge and understanding of two professions within the health and social care context as I begin my career in health service. I will look at the roles and perceptions of an adult nurse and social worker as they are play an integral part together. I will look at how my views have been formed, seeing through the influence of mass media, family views and personal experience, and also how my views have changed since entering university and starting my training in adult nursing. I decided to become a qualified nurse after the work as a Clinical Support Worker. I found working within care that is something that comes as second nature to me, the way I think and
Nursing has evolved from nuns and military personnel providing services similar to a nurse into the modern practice of not only being a support system within the different clinical settings, but also being leaders and crucial members of the healthcare system. One of the issues with nursing is that there’s always a shortage. Some of the obstacles that the nursing profession faces are the stereotypes of it being a female only profession, being the assistant to the doctor and doing all the dirty work, and being a fall back profession if you don’t make it into medical school. But according to Kirby (2009), “Revisiting the past demonstrates the continuity of the debate on the preparation of nurses and the role of the press in an emotive misrepresentation of nursing” (p. 2). Kirby (2009) also mentions that, “Nursing was not unpopular.
Hildegard Peplau published the first nursing theory in 1952 and was recognized internationally as a nurse leader. Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations Theory emphasized the nurse as a change agent for patients healing. This encouraged interaction between the patient and nurse including concepts of anxiety, frustration, conflict and needs (George, 2011). She describes four steps in the interactional process that are relevant to nurses; orientation, identification, exploitation and resolution (McCrae, 2011). Her work contributed to the development of the National Mental Health Act of 1946 as well as providing input to the World Health Organization and National Institute of Mental Health (George, 2011).
I am sure my keen interest in psychiatric nursing had a lot to do with this decision. Peplau’s theory of interpersonal relations is based on the nurse and patient developing a type of interpersonal relationship, which developed into a type of partnership, where they are both active members in the patient’s care and outcome. The client is the decision maker and the nurse is there to provide guidance and support to help the patient reach their desired goal (Pearson, 2006). Peplau’s nursing background mostly involved psychiatric patients. She became increasingly involved and interested in psychiatric issues when serving in the United States Army and working at the 312th Station Hospital and School for Military Neuropsychiatry for the European Theatre, during World War II.
Compassion Fatigue and its Affect on Nursing Kelly Kramer Drexel On-Line Compassion Fatigue and its Affects on Nursing Compassion fatigue is a rising issue for nurses working in all specialties of nursing, mainly in critical care. In this paper I will be discussing compassion fatigue, it’s symptoms, how it affects the nursing profession and individual nurses, as well as the hospitals and what untreated compassion fatigue can mean for the future of nursing. Compassion fatigue, also referred to as secondary traumatic stress syndrome, has been defined by Charles Figley as the “natural consequent behaviors and emotions resulting from knowing about a traumatizing event experienced by a significant other – the stress resulting from helping, or wanting to help, a traumatized or suffering person”(Figley, 1995, p. 7). Although compassion fatigue has been studied more in the past 20 years in regards to nursing, there have not been many tools developed to measure the presence of it. There is a general consensus among all the articles that I read regarding the need for more studies, tools to assess and programs at hospitals for nurses.
In this paper I will apply the Ida Jean Orlando’s Nursing Deliberate Nursing Process Theory to patient boarding in the Emergency Department (ED), a current issue at the facility I am employed. Orlando's Deliberate Nursing Process Theory emphasizes the shared relationship between patient and nurse. It describes the responsibility of the nurse is to find out and meet the patient's immediate needs for assistance. Nurses have to use their discernment, thoughts about perception, and the feelings produced from their ideas to explore the meaning of the patient's behavior. This method assist the nurse in discovery out the root of the patient's suffering and offer the aid they require.
We were doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, professors, deans, architects, programmers, and more” (August 2003, Riverbend, p.22). This is drastically different the US’ media portrayal of Arab women before the war. Furthermore, after the war, women’s freedoms drastically decreased. James Ridgeway writes about Riverbend experiencing this change saying, “As a young educated woman who once worked as a computer “geek” and moved freely about her city, Riverbend is particularly poignant in relating what has happened since the war; the loss of her own job, the fear she and other women now feel walking in the streets without men, the risks of stepping outside with her head uncovered” (December 2004, Ridgeway, James). The media portrays that women had an awful, restricted
A Comparison of the Professional Roles of Nurses In this paper, the nurse’s unique role in providing inter-professional care, patient care quality and safety, cost effective healthcare, and care to diverse patient populations will be investigated. A Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), J.W. and a Nurse Educator, M.,H., were interviewed, their roles as nurses were analyzed using provided protocol to discuss the difference between research and quality improvement, also how informatics affect the quality of patient care. The two specialties based on the individual interviews will be compared and a copy of both interviews will be incorporated into the paper. Lastly, a reflection of findings will be discussed as to how nurses could contribute the information from the two interviews into their own professional growth and development.