Reflection On 'Weekly' By Briley Belling

Morrie was an old man, and he was dying of ALS or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Mitch Albom was a workaholic who loved his work too much. Mitch had kept a promise to his professor to keep in touch with him, but ever did, and sixteen years later, Mitch turned on the TV one day to find his old professor, Morrie, talking about his final project: death. This sparked Mitch to think about his old professor, and would soon be the inspiration the famous book Tuesdays with Morrie, based on the true story about Morrie’s last lesson, teaching Mitch about life.

I also find myself frustrated with those who do not follow the polies and procedures of my hospital. As I stated before, I am a rule follower and get very uncomfortable if I am asked to perform a task that does not follow policy or see others not following policy. I find that the staff are the largest offenders of this were trained at other institutions or travel nurses. Travelers get very limited orientation and may have been trained elsewhere in a way that does not follow my institution’s policies, and I see some not looking up the policies of the hospital they are currently working at prior to performing tasks. I do not agree with this practice at all. I feel that policies and procedures are in place to protect the institution, its staff, the patients, and

Nurses prefer working in an environment where they feel appreciated in both their actions and decisions. In the event that they are ignored, they tend to experience subjection and they are likely to resist. At one time, our healthcare facility sought to implement the bedside shift reporting (BSR). This process would have required that nurses be informed and trained on the use of the documentation. However, this did not happen, on the start of the month each nurse received a formal letter form the chief nursing officer informing us that we would be reporting to a newly hired nurse educator who would evaluate our performance in implementing the BSR. This was met with anger and most of the nurses seemed to have decided that they would not accomplish

The American Nurses Association (ANA) has the Code of Ethics which holds Nurses to the codes or provisions of these documents. I summarized Provision 1 of the ANA 's Code of Ethics. I give a scenario where this provision is broken by the nursing staff and consequences of doing so. Provision 1: Provision 1 reads as follows “The nurse, in all professional relationships, practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and uniqueness of every individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of health problems” (American Nurses Association 2001). Provision 1 is divided into five subdivisions. Provision 1.1 is titled “Respect for human dignity"(ANA 2001). The nurse always needs to place value on their patient as a unique individual. Provision 1.2 is titled “Relationships to patients” (ANA 2001). As a nurse you need to leave all prejudice, personal beliefs, and convictions out of the care of your patient. The patient’s self-worth and value is not defined by their religious choice, culture, lifestyle, hygiene, financial status, sex, and race. The nurse needs to form or follow an individual treatment plan that fits your patient’s personal preferences, religious beliefs, and requests. Provision 1.3 reads as follows “The nature of health problems” (ANA 2001). A nurse is not to judge or look down upon a patient by their "The disease, disability, or functional status “(ANA 2001).The nurse needs

If you were a Member of Congress (or a senior staff member of one), what additional statutory authorities/legislation would you propose, and why, to enable homeland security officials (at any level of government) to function more effectively? From which perspective or research (refer to course readings) would you base your proposal to substantiate it beyond political opinion?

Day by day Toby and Elizabeth went through doing their assigned jobs, eating meals, and going to bed according to schedule every single day for the past year. At first, it wasn’t that hard for them to do because, everyone else was just doing their jobs and continuing the schedule so, all they had to do was keep quiet and obey what they were told. Unfortunately after a while, it became very difficult for them to act like robots never having emotions being expressed it was almost like they were stuck inside their minds day after day keeping everything to themselves as if they weren't humans at all.

Student nurses should be following the guidelines of the facility that they are working at for their clinical sites. There are many documented situations in which nursing students violated a patients HIPPA rights and have been dismissed from the nursing program they were attending. This type of behavior puts schools, clinical placements and the relationship of these facilities and institutions at risk. Nursing schools follow QSEN guidelines in teaching their students and have polices regarding social media. School polices should be understood and followed by nursing students. Professors of nursing should also remember to keep relationships with students professional and should not become friends with students on social

In Minnesota, a landowner has a duty to use reasonable care for the safety of everyone invited upon the premises. Baber v. Dill, 531 N.W.2d 493, 496 (Minn. 1995). Even if a particular danger is known and obvious, a landowner is still liable if they would be expected to anticipate the harm despite such knowledge or obviousness. Sutherland v. Barton, 570 N.W.2d 1, 7 (Minn. 1997). A restaurant is also required to provide restrooms based upon the maximum occupancy of the building. Minn. R. 4626.1075 5-203.12, 4626.1460 6-302.10. These restrooms (and the facility generally) must be cleaned as often as necessary. Minn. R. 4626.1520

Nurses have a professional responsibility to ensure that safe boundaries are kept in the relationship between patient and Nurse. It is these boundaries that provide the nursing profession with integrity, and according to Baca (2010, pp.195) it is essential these boundaries be maintained because of the difference in power between the nurse and patient. However, boundary violations can occur, when a nurse crosses from the zone of helpfulness to over involved, the ANMC (2011 pp.3) believes that when a violation occurs a nurse is behaving unprofessional manner and misusing their power in the patient nurse relationship. This misuse of power can be categorized into 3 types; boundary crossing, boundary violation and the extreme form of sexual misconduct. Often by mistake a nurse could cross the boundary without thought, a

n regards to the article,by Joseph Turow, "The Daily You", Joseph Turow discusses and explains data mining. In addition, in what ways data mining effects us the consumers. As he mentioned, data mining is, "The practice by such digital media giants as Google and Facebook track every move by internet users and sell that information to marketers who use it to construct advertisements that are tailor-made for their recipients." Moreover,he asserts how advertisings methods change the ways consumers view themselves. Speaking upon that, Joseph Turow uses examples to demonstrate how marketers gain information about consumers through internet activity. For instance, he mentions two parents Larry and Rhonda, a family consisting of three children

The first reading that I went to was David Kerns reading from his book Fortnight on Maxwell Street. After reading the summary on the book, I was very interesting before even going to the reading. It is also safe to say that the reading from the book was good as I had expected it to be. To begin, Kerns talked about the setting of the book and how he had began writing this book. The setting was in Chicago 1968, during the time when he was there are a medical student. Kerns was starting his “2 week hell week” through the hospital (similar to clinicals now), but at this time it was terrifying. Home deliveries done on kitchen tables were popular and were done by untrained and inexperienced “doctors”. Although home deliveries were very terrifying for those performing them, everyone that has done it labels it as the “single most impactful memorable experience in their entire medical career” according to Kerns. At the time the book was written, the inner city of Chicago exploded. There were riots, looting, shootings, overflowing hospitals, and it was overall a catastrophe.

Nurses continually strive to bring holistic, efficient, and safe care to their patients. However, if the safety and well-being of the nurses are threatened or compromised, it is difficult for nurses to work effectively and efficiently. Therefore, the position of the American Nurses Association (ANA) advocate that every nursing professional have the right to work in a healthy work environment free of abusive behavior such as bullying, hostility, lateral abuse and violence, sexual harassment, intimidation, abuse of authority and position and reprisal for speaking out against abuses (American Nurses Association, 2012).

In past generations, it has been clear to society that males and females use segregated bathrooms. It is also known that the rate of transgender people has been growing over the past years. Transgender people constantly face troubles when using a bathroom in public. Nevertheless, as society has become more aware of the transgender population and the issues that they face, many schools have had to decide how they will respond about the issue of school bathrooms when students identify themselves as transgender. A school should be able to provide separate facilities based on sex, but must allow transgender students access to the facility which matches their gender identity.

When the applied the focus no longer on learning, it flips on to when and where a person should use the bathroom. If a student does not have the ability to use the bathroom they are comfortable with then what should they do? Schools do not normally have gender neutral bathrooms unless it is in the faculty lounge or an area only accessible to non-students. Those bathrooms can be all the way across campus depending on where that

In the first scenario, the nurse was going to listen to the patient's lung sounds and she moved her hair to the side and saw numerous red circular marks on her back. The nurse immediately freaked out and started saying things like "oh my god, what are these marks on your back?", "Are you being abused?", and "I'm a mandatory reporter" (DiversityNursing, 2011). She did not give the patient a chance to speak up and explain the situation. Instead, the nurse stormed out of the room before the patient could talk. This type of cultural incompetence did not enable ethically sound nursing care. The second time around in the video, the nurse started off by asking the patient how she would like to be referred to. When the nurse saw her back and the marks