We Can, But Dare We? Karina Jankuc Chamberlain College of Nursing NR-360 Informatics Systems in Healthcare November 2014 Introduction Johnson & Johnson’s campaign last year preached, “Be a nurse… they dare to care”. This campaign challenges nurses to complete and stay committed to the task at hand. It challenges nurses that the moment you step into your scrubs you play your role professionally and oriented to serve your purpose and that is to protect, promote, and optimize the health of all the patients you meet. As a nurse you are challenged to prevent illnesses and injuries, alleviate suffering, and assess, diagnose, and treat people as if they were your own family or friends. Parts of these responsibilities also come with a set of guidelines for self-control over your personal emotions, leaving your judgment’s aside, and making your patient’s care and privacy your main goal. Technology Advances As technology advances, it is without questions that smart phones are everywhere these days. You can find smart phones in the hands of driver’s driving alongside you to work, you will find people walking aimlessly looking down at their phones on sidewalks, you can pretty much see people staring into the screens of this technology every chance that they can get. It is a worldwide epidemic with no end in site, people today are just addicted to these smartphones! To prove this, it is estimated that 60% of all homeless individuals own a cell phone. Demographics
Nursing is one of the most intimate health care professions. They are connected to their patients as soon as they are admitted into their care right through until they are discharged into someone else’s care. With this, nurses have a strict professional identity and scope of practice to prevent a nurse from over stepping their professional boundaries. A nurses’ duty of care does go beyond the average healthcare professional but still does not impair the
According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, nearly two-thirds of the United States adults own a smartphone, which is up from 35% in 2011 (Anderson and Posts). As the acceptance of smartphones expand, many question whether it will have an adverse impact on our lives. Author Nicholas Carr indirectly criticizes the use of a smartphone; however, smartphones, such as Apple’s iPhone can have both positive and negative impacts on a population.
A nursing career and caring for the sick intertwine inseparably. It requires a tremendous amount of compassion and empathy to care for those who are in need. My philosophy of care is to treat others with dignity, respect and compassion regardless of their race, ethnicity or cultural background. It’s about treating people the way you want to be treated and to understand that sometimes the best medicine of all is kindness. In addition, not only is it important to provide effective and competent care to all patients, it’s extremely crucial to provide care that is genuine and compassionate. All health care consumers should be receiving care that reflects their values and beliefs.
As a nurse, we have the responsibility of providing safe and patient-centered care to the community. Patients are more than numbers, and as nurses we must treat them as individuals who need attention and personalized care. While caring for patients, we must use
For as long as I can remember, I have been overwhelmed with a desire to care for those in need, and I feel this ultimately led me to the career choice of nursing. I chose nursing as my profession because I truly believe that the desire to help people through nursing is a calling, and I feel drawn toward helping those in need. Nursing is an honorable career, and should not be treated as just a job to earn a paycheck. My mission is to proudly provide nonjudgmental care to those in need regardless of race, spiritual beliefs, lifestyle choices, financial status, or disability. Before entering to the profession of nursing, it is important to explore my personal values and principles that will guide my nursing practice. My philosophy is that nurses have a responsibility to the public to provide safe, holistic, patient-centered care. This paper will explore the values I feel are necessary in relating to patients as well as health professionals, my personal work culture, and society as a whole.
With 87 percent of American adults owning a cell phone (Jerpi, 2013), it becomes obvious that cell phones have become a staple device in today’s society. Although cell phones offer convenience, they arguably come with negative affects. Cell Phones have become one of the fastest emerging technologies (Campbell, 2006). With 87 percent of American adults and teenagers owning a cell phone (Jerpi, 2013), it becomes obvious that cell phones have become a staple device in today’s society. Since the release of the first cell phone, they have immensely evolved and some would say, have become an essential to everyday life. Although cell phones offer convenience, they arguably come with negative and impactful effects on our social
Nursing is a profession that provides quality and culturally sensitive care to help a patient achieve the highest quality of life possible. A nurse utilizes skills (technical, cognitive, and interpersonal) that promote all aspects of health. There are many components to nursing. “The primary objectives of the nurse as caregiver are to promote health, to prevent illness, to restore health, and to facilitate coping with illness, disability, or death” (Taylor, Lillis, & Lynn, 2015, p. 43). A nurse recognizes the worth of all people and understands the importance of doing what is best for the patient. A competent nurse builds a relationship with the patient that is the perfect balance between professionalism and treating the patient like family. Nursing installs hope in a patient while at the same time being realistic about a patient’s condition. Another aspect of nursing includes empowering a patient to feel confident and comfortable in making
Nurses are the first line in patient care management, therefore by providing holistic, safe, patient- centered care, they can cause a great impact in the individual’s hospital experience. My philosophy of nursing includes providing nonjudgmental care to those in need regardless of race, spiritual beliefs, lifestyle choices, financial status or disabilities. Furthermore, I believe patients are more than a chart on the computer or a room number, they are individuals who require and deserve all my attention as a health care provider. Advocating for my patient’s rights and doing what is best for them, is my motto in the profession.
Initially, I defined a nurse as a person who cares for all, emotionally and physically. Over the course of the semester, this definition has remained fairly consistent, though I have added the tremendously important aspect of being an advocate for each and every patient- no matter who they are or how the nurse personally feels about them. In my Mask Reflection: Who I Bring to Practice essay (12/1/15), I reflect that even though “I believe I have become much more open-minded since I entered college, my personal beliefs, values, and history will still impact the nurse I will become” (p. 2). Since I am able to recognize this, I understand how important it will be to be constantly “checking-in with myself at work to make sure I am staying open-minded, that I am removing my own emotions from each encounter, and that I am recognizing my own privileges” (Meserve, 12/1/15, p.
This week, I witnessed a baby being born. One day later, I held a man’s hand as he took his last breath. Throughout these celebrations and tribulations, the admiration for the career of nursing flourishes within me. Strong, compassionate, determined, and empathetic are often adjectives used to express the qualities of a good nurse. Unlike many professions, nurses are unlikely to gain these traits just through textbooks and classwork alone. Our clinical experience evolves our thinking and skills into that of a true nurse. We are the forefront of patient care. Upon admittance, it is our duty to transform a patient's most vulnerable experience into one of comfort and care. Nursing is a career that is multifaceted. Changing lives and growing as
While the nurses have built that foundation, we are continuing to grow from that. We as modern day nurses are responsible for educating much like they did in the 1900s. Nurse’s responsibility has changed and gone beyond just physical care to requiring more trust from the patient. Nurses have become it’s own self-governed entity. We developed a more needed team effort that is necessary for the health of the patient making constant communication with staff, patient, nurses and doctors. We’ve learned that compassion and genuine care is essential to the healing process of the patient. As we spend the most time with our patient, we as nurse will know their health more intimately than anyone
If anyone were to ask myself five months ago, “when you think of nursing what comes to mind?” my response would completely if the same question were to be asked today. Within five months, the profession of a nurse and what it means to be a nurse has certainly unfolded. What speaks out if the many values that one holds when the decision is made that they will be a nurse. A nurse is simply not an individual who takes care of an individual in need of overcoming an illness and ensures the client is given the treatment. A nurse is a caring, reflective, knowledgeable, helpful, respectful and goal orientated who fixate their practice in order to strive to reach a patient’s goal. There are many layers embedded in the nursing profession that often go
Everyday many nurses remove their private hats at the door to transform into an advocate for patients whom they’ve never met or may never see again. Nurses choose nursing as a profession to make a difference in their patient’s life. Florence Nightingale, a pioneer who defined the evolution of her philosophy in nursing by anticipating the needs of her patients, advocating on their behalf when they could not speak for themselves and educating the public about her theologies (Masters, 2017, pp. 51-52). The core of my philosophy of nursing is compassion. Compassion is the key component of professional nursing; it renders hope, loves selfless, and displays acts of kindness regardless of race, color, creed, sex, or economic status. An integral parent of my nursing is taking time to adequately and compassionately assess where my patient is psychologically and giving them my undivided attention to listen to their concerns, educate them about their illness and allow them to make informed choices about their care. Compassion delineates my personal existence and places the physiological, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of my patients above my own within my professional practice.
As a new nurse, I strive to become an instrument in providing excellent care for my patients with my core values of empathy and compassion. I always believe that nursing profession is a calling, and that only chosen individuals have the capacity and the willingness to uphold this noble career. I am certain that I embody this degree of professionalism and the standards of being an outstanding nurse. My long-time commitment of furthering my education will allow me to stay current with my knowledge and skill and with the new technological advancements and the use of evidenced-based practice.
The reason i am writing about this topic is to inform people about this epidemic and i am stating why this needs to be fixed. “Unlike other technologies there is something very specific about smartphones it represents life, entertainment, social