Neonatal Nursing Personal Statement

technology and the help of neonatal nurses. By having an advancement in technology and medicine gives us a wider range to work with to help these premature babies survive. Neonatal nurses are there to help contribute to the health of these babies so they can grow strong and healthy. Within nursing, especially neonatal nursing, that has been around since early 1900s have helped save and nurture our babies of the future. Neonatal nursing is defined as a subspecialty of nursing that works with newborns

hospital dedicated to women 's services and a separate name has been given to this area of the hospital, St. David 's Women 's Center of Texas. The Women 's Center branch of the hospital contains Antepartum, Labor and Delivery, Nursery, Postpartum, and Neonatal Intensive Care Units. There are many specialty services offered at this location that involve fertility treatments, Level III NICU (North and Main locations only), and DaVinci Robotic Gynecological services. The hospital claims to be all things for

scientific research and nurses play a key role. As healthcare providers, nurses not only administer the vaccines, but are responsible for documentation, education, and advocating for the well being of the patient. For this paper, I will use my own personal beliefs to support the importance of vaccines and to describe the nurse’s role in advocating for childhood immunizations. “Immunization is the process whereby a person is made immune or resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration

What is Nursing? There is no perfect sentence or two that can describe what nursing is. My personal definition of nursing is that nursing is providing care for patients and helping to promote them in sickness or just to promote their overall well-being. Nursing is helping clients and their families during tough times or in the final stages of life. Nursing is an overall caring and assistance of anyone that nursing knowledge could help. No one statement can describe all that nursing encompasses

Philosophy of Nursing Philosophy has influenced the development of nursing. Philosophy of Nursing promotes the application of nursing knowledge and helps develop nursing theory and knowledge. Nursing theories and philosophies of nursing influence each other. Nurses designed Philosophy of nursing to explain the beliefs, role, and interaction with patients. Philosophy is the application of one 's knowledge to different situations that occurs when practicing as a nurse. It changes the identities, belief

Clinical Issue and Rationale for Choosing I am interested in learning about the reason for and against infant male circumcision. The question of whether the baby boy should be circumcised is commonly faced by mothers all across the world. There is a lot of conflicting opinions, that can make it hard for the baby’s parents to decide. There is confusion of which would be worse for their child getting the circumcision and the pain associated with it, or will not getting it cause their son health problems

Personal Philosophy of Nursing My philosophy of nursing has developed and evolved over my career as a nurse from taking care of just the patient to a more holistic approach that fosters hope and includes caring for the entire family unit while placing the patient at the center of care. I believe that all people are important no matter their culture, station, or religious background. Patient care affects not just the individual patient. It affects everyone around the patient including the society

is the Nurse Manager of the Morehead Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) for the VAMC. She obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in nursing twenty years ago working in public health, outpatient surgery,

The Legislative Process and Healthcare Lobbying Nurses have a loud voice when it comes to influencing our lawmakers. According to The American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN, n.d.) “1 in 44 women voters is a nurse and there are 10,000 nurses per congressional district.” Armed with both the education and experience in many healthcare issues facing legislation, nurses have the credibility to make a significant influence with health care policy (AAACN, n.d.). The controversial topic of a

situation (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2000; Catlin and Carter, 2001; Stutts and Schloemann, 2002). Nurses spend much time caring for their patients but forget to look after themselves. Caring for the nurse is an often-forgotten component of nursing that can affect quality of care. Exploring the nurse’s experience in caring for a dying child will help to identify effective coping strategies. It has been suggested that effective coping strategies are crucial in prevention of burnout and damage