Essays on Nursing

Assessment Tool Analysis NUR/440 Assessment Tool Analysis Nursing has evolved throughout the years to become more than a job, it is a profession. Jean Watson developed her own theory in the late 1970s because she believes there was something missing from the profession. Jean Watson …

Typically, in the field of behavioral studies, the objective of intervention has been to diminish a challenging behavior (i. e. aggression, property destruction, self-injury). Nonetheless, as research and practice in behavior analysis have matured to address the point of behavioural functions, there has been an …

As nursing profession continuously progresses in its quest for excellence, its nature becomes complex in the light of meeting the standards set forth by the implementing bodies in nursing profession. These standards are indeed the result of careful assessment and observation made to resolve the …

Life is the largest ongoing educational facility in the world, and attendance is mandatory for all living breathing individuals. Nothing prepares an individual for life or its many lessons, as the old saying goes, “You live and you learn. ” While we are all students …

In chapter 7 of outliers Gladwell talks about plane crashes in the 1990’s in Korea. He says that there are far to many crashes that statistically should happen. Also since Korea was having way to many crashes other countries started to say that they were …

Nursing is a profound profession which requires professional skills and knowledge, high level of expertise and managerial skills. Following Parker & Clare (2006): “Critical thinking is a vital skill to have as a nurse. Nurses are engaged in providing care to people who have a …

This paper will explore two of Mankiw’s (2001) “ten principles of economics” (p. 3) and how these apply to the labor market for nurses. The paper will briefly discuss the two principles: a) “No. 1 People Face Tradeoffs,” (p. 4-5) and b) “No. 7 Governments …

Nurses are facing many legal or ethical dilemmas in their career. It is very essential to know what kind of dilemmas nurses may face during their profession and how they have been dealt with in the past. Nurses should combine knowledge of ethical and legal …

Some people may not agree that working at a nursing home can be very enjoyable. Especially when this work comes to things people may not like for example, changing briefs or toileting an adult. Some workers can’t even handle certain situations that may occur. They …

Identification of important issues that determine job satisfaction of nurse may allow managers to develop strategies to increase job satisfaction nursing staff. The problem of the current quantitative research was to examine and compare the nurses’ job satisfaction at public healthcare organisations in U.K. and …

There are many major challenges facing the nursing shortage environment today. One of those challenges includes the facility recruitment of registered nurses and then the facility retention of the registered nurses that they have recruited. Factors to consider would be as to why a registered …

“Nurse Betty” is not so much a movie about a nurse, but it is a good depiction of how nurses can sometimes be portrayed by the media. In this film a small town waitress named Betty fixates on one doctor as portrayed in her favorite soap opera, …

A friend always believes in you even when you are going through tough times and your own sense of security and confidence has been torn apart. He is your best and worst critic and he shows you a path to a higher self by being …

This Gothic Cathedral of Florence is now becoming a great difficulty for me. If the Cathedral’s commission was given to me from the beginning of the construction, it would not have been such a pain. But this unfinished dome! Oh my God! Sometimes I get …

Hello there. I understand you are thinking of entering the care profession as a support worker. As a support worker we all have a duty of care to clients. The duty of care is to ensure that we act in the best possible way to …

The relief of acute pain in adult postoperative patients continues to be a common problem despite the use of pharmacologic therapies. Unrelieved pain can cause various effects including: increased heart rate and blood pressure; increased need for oxygen; tachypnea; increased susceptibility to infection; and anxiety/fear …

The long term health care problem has been acknowledged by many health care institution and health care organization as difficult to address.  Dennis Robbins admitted that the difficulty lies in obtaining “accurate and up-to-date guidance” (p. 1), towards addressing conflict, developing policies, and also the …

Medicine has evolved since the days of bloodletting, but from the perspective of a waiting recipient on the organ donor list, we still live in the dark ages. With a list of 110,941 hopeful candidates for organ transplant, the status of organ donation as a …

Childs are the hereafter and hope of world. Health is wealth. Today ‘s kids will be the Masterss of future universe. If kids are healthy, future coevals will be healthy, ensuing in a healthy state. The physical wellness of a kid is really of import …

With the development of more advanced ways to deliver consumer centered quality health care services the traditional professional roles of nurse and doctor are being transformed. The shift from provider driven to consumer driven health care system anticipated a change in traditional ethical, cultural, and …

The development of nursing informatics was inevitable.  As a matter of fact, nursing informatics is a growing discipline, defined as the “use of information technologies in relation to those functions within the purview of nursing, and that are carried out by nurses when performing their …

There are many literature reviews related to quality improvement/ evidence-based practice on reducing falls in the healthcare settings. Three databases were search; namely: EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and SAGE Premier. Five articles were reviewed; and the following four articles were included in the review of the literature: …

Comparison Paper Brittany Seawright NUR/ 408 February 11, 2013 Beth Edwards Comparison Paper According to a report published in 1988 by the Institute of Medicine, public health was defined as “what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can …

As the first child growing up in a Chinese family In a predominantly minority Oakland community, I watched my grandfather take countless prescribed medications for Illnesses from cancer and thyroid Issues, and being Diabetic. Noticing the medicine cabinet full of drugs made me question what …

It was on a Monday morning, the 1st day of December, 2010. I had spent two years preparing and saving money for this memorable day. I was going to be my best moment after my wedding day. The whole village where I was born “Makupa”led …

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public. It asks and answers the nation’s most pressing questions about health and health care through studies, their expert …

Introduction             The article ‘Confidence in controlling a SARS outbreak: Experiences of public health nurses in managing home quarantine measures in Taiwan’ is a 2006 publication authored by Chih-Cheng Hsu, Ted Chen, Mei Chang and Yu-Kang Chang and published in the American Journal of Infection …

Nursing profession is a career with a vast field of different practices with different roles to choose from. This variety makes the nursing field a vulnerable profession for mistakes if not tackled with adequate educational and clinical training. Although there are different specialties for a …

Learning New Things As a full-time college student majoring in Nursing I hope to become a RN one day. I work part-time as a CNA in a Nursing Home now. Being a CNA is very hard work. I don’t want to do that forever I …

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), set up by the Department of Heath in July 1848 as a healthcare provision, is based on its citizen’s needs not ability to pay. The Department of Health oversees the NHS with funds provided through taxpayers (History of the NHS, …