Essay about Nursing 4510

Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine

Today, my kismet, had other plans. A knock on the door resounded, followed by a heaving breath, the twisting of the doorknob, and a bang as the door shut. My eyes widened when instead of a nurse, an unfamiliar face burst into my room and my reality. Two tantalizing grey eyes peered into my own, a wild mix of fury and contention battling to surface. The latter claimed the victory. Opening a green folder, the boy steered his gaze on a stack of papers. He flipped through them until an aqua colored paper stood out to him, and ripped it from the folder. His eyes scanned the paper until he read something that turned his nonchalant expression,

There is an obvious deficiency in the application of theory in nursing practice. This paper will include a discussion of how nursing practice is affected by the use of nursing theory. I will provide evidence in relation to how theory based practice relates to the core competencies of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project. I will discuss a journal article that reinforces the gap of nursing theory in nursing practice, and interview colleagues regarding the incorporation of theory in their individual practice. In conclusion I will express my own view point of why theory has been neglected.

For this author, eating healthy and exercising is a constant struggle, but is still a part of this author’s philosophy.

The nursing shortage most likely does not mean a great deal to people until they are in the care of a nurse. The United States is in a severe nursing shortage with no relief in sight due to many factors compounding the problem and resulting in compromised patient care and nurse burnout. Nursing shortages have been experienced in the past by the United States and have been overcome with team effort. However, the current shortage is proving to be the most complex and great strides are being made to defeat the crisis before it becomes too difficult to change. Researchers anticipate that by 2010, the United States will need almost one million more registered nurses than will be available (Cherry & Jacob, 2005, p. 30).

At this point in time nursing is what I am sticking with and I am extremely excited for this new chapter in my life. Although this is college and it isn’t uncommon for a student to change their major once they realize they would enjoy doing something else instead. Therefore, I am writing this paper in hopes of avoiding that messy pathway later, which will save both my money and time. If in the near future I decided nursing isn’t what I wanted to do I think I would enjoy looking into becoming a therapist or special education teacher.

There has been great strides and advancement in medical care over the last twenty to thirty years. People are living longer due to the advancement in technology and disease are more complex. A lot of current patient’s live today that have multiple co-morid conditions as well. For the medical field to provide the best care to date guidelines have to be reviewed and revised. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report in 2010, to aid in the development of a new system of health for the 21 century, it demands an increase of eighty percent of nurses with a baccalaureate in science degrees (BSN) to increase by the year 2020 (IOM, 2010). To achieve eighty percent of RN BSN by 2020, change needs to take place in nursing education, practice, and

I decided to pursue nursing because most of my relatives from my father’s side are nurses. I was hesitant at first, but after starting the program and doing clinical in different hospitals, I felt really happy being able to help people. I am currently not employed, but I used to work in Skilled Nursing Facility before staring the Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) program. I decided to pursue my BSN because I want to go further in my education and become a more competent nurse in the future. I see it as a stepping stone to my higher educational goals One of the clinical rotations I enjoyed the most during my Associate Degree in Nursing (AND) program is Mental Health Nursing. I really want to help those people who are suffer from mental illness

81 year old Hispanic male, from Lovington NM. Patient is unemployed, worked in the oil field for 30 plus years. Patient had to quit working due to a back injury that happened at work. He is married and lives with his wife and disabled daughter. Patient also has 3 other children but they don’t live with him. Wife is the primary care giver for the patient and disabled daughter. Patient’s primary language is Spanish.

Amy is a 29-year-old here today for a followup regarding her anxiety and depression. She would also like to talk about some dysuria she is having and a breast lump she has noticed.

This assignment will present a nursing care study of a patient on a cardiac ward. The patient will be referred to as Ann to maintain confidentiality (NMC, 2008). Ann’s consent was gained prior to starting this care study. The care study will be developed using the Nursing process and the Roper, Logan and Tierney model. These will both be outlined. The assignment will focus on the assessment process and one problem identified during the assessment and the nursing care which followed this.

Nursing is universal in the sense that nurses can be found almost in all countries around the world (Henderson, 1978). They are in the hospitals, in school clinics, in the community centres, residential homes and even play major roles in some of the popular soap operas in television. There are even television shows that mainly revolve around nurses and which chronicles what they do at work - both the positive and the negative. It is one of the most visible and easily identifiable occupations as compared for example to other occupations such as engineers, managers or even pharmacists, medical technologists and other health related occupations. This is partly because of what nurses do and most especially how nurses look - with some still

The American short story was published in the year if 1998. It was written by the author Greg Changnon and it takes place in town called Winetka in the USA. The protagonist is the 15-year-old girl Tess who is a girl that participates on the William Shakespeare play on her high school. She is living with her parents and they expect her to overtake her mother’s fabric store after she graduate from college. “Both my parents think that after college I will come back and take over Mother’s fabric store, but they have no idea.” Tess tries to escape from her own identity by acting because it makes her feel like another person. “I have to feel what it’s like in somebody else’s skin.” The play that they are performing on their school is Romeo and Juliet and her role is Juliet’s nurse. Tess is having troubles with identifying herself in the role as Juliet’s nurse because she cannot relate with the feelings of the nurse, because Tess never have experienced to feelings of losing someone she is related to. That changes during the short story when she meets Tiger De Soto. Over a phone call Tess evolves feelings for Tiger De Soto even though there is going rumours on their school that he is doing drugs, and their relationship is only build on one telephone call. When he passes away during the snowstorm Tess suddenly becomes capable of performing the Nurse. “Juliet is lying

In today’s society nursing has had to face several challenges in its pursuit in becoming a recognised profession. Nursing has gone through many stages of attached stigma, changing as technology and society evolved as a whole. Going from a low social class responsibility in the 19th century, to becoming a well-respected profession that it has become today, public perception, the way in which society views, has changed greatly in the last two hundred years. Along with these changes has come a large change in technology which is causing the responsibility of nurses to change as well as now individual actions are tainting the image of the nursing profession. This is due to the technological evolution with mass communication drawing attention

The history and development of the nursing profession is very interesting. Theoretically, nursing is believed to have began in the home as a result of the tradition of women taking care of their family when needed, whether it be the role of a wife, a daughter, a mother, or a sister (Self Growth). Women were the typical use for the care of society. Nursing beginning in the home is just a basic belief that came about from modern type thinking. Nursing became very popular in times of war. Nurses were needed to care for the army and the military, and all those who were hurt from the war.