Reflection Paper On Being A Nurse

professors and clinical instructor put in to help me learn the practical skills I need to go and do my assessments with confidence and ability. I’m not going to lie, there have been many, many times where I’ve doubted my desire and ability to be a nurse. But for every time I’ve

As a registered nurse on my floor I love providing care to my patients but sometimes it can become difficult to not be able to make clinical decisions for them. One day while performing my morning assessments on my patient I realized his right elbow was swollen. I compared it to his left elbow and my inner-self told me that this wasn’t normal. I paged the attending MD and made him aware of the situation and I recommended he order an Ultrasound of the right elbow just to be safe. He denied and said

discrimination in nursing care and examine the importance of anti-discriminatory perspectives in nursing. In this paper, the case study I will elaborate is of an elderly woman who was of a non-British ethnic origin and spoke little English. A junior nurse visited her home to provide care but her attitude towards the patient has been discriminatory and abrupt, a situation that calls for serious reflection on the issues of racial discrimination at the clinical setting. The patient was

Reflection Paper Julie Benedict University of Mary REFLECTION PAPER 2 Reflection Paper Experiences and Comfort Levels with Research I have been accepted into the Doctorate of Nursing Practice: Family Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Mary to officially begin this fall semester. I graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota in 2014 and since then have been employed as an inpatient registered nurse by Sanford Health. I have not participated in research throughout my career

Final Reflection Paper This semester, I have not only grown as a person, but as a student nurse. I was so excited and nervous to start clinical and be able to take care of patients in need. I have become more aware of my actions, words, and care because of having the responsibility of having a resident to take care of. Objective: Patient-Centered Care Document Choice and Reason for Selecting the Document The document I chose for patient-centered care is the NURS 353 Nursing Process. The nursing

just a job, it is a career. However, being a reflective nurse is extremely important, “Reflection is an essential attribute to the development of autonomous, critical and advanced practitioners” (Caldwell & Grobbel, 2013). It allows for nurses to reflect on the day’s practice, whether they treated the patients with the best possible care or whether improvements were required. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to show the significant importance of reflection within the nursing profession. Since

2015, p. 967). The researchers understood the challenges nurse educators faced in engaging students and cultivating new nursing graduates with skills benefitting societal and professional sustainability. The aim of this paper is to determine by integrative review whether nursing student motivation and performance are improved with active learning and student-centered teaching strategies. Active learning strategies such as reflection, simulation, and feedback can increase motivation to learn in

Coyer, 2015, p. 967). The researchers understood the challenges nurse educators faced in engaging students and cultivating new nursing graduates with skills benefitting societal and professional sustainability. The aim of this paper is to determine by integrative review whether active learning and student-centered teaching strategies improve motivation and performance among nursing students. Active learning strategies such as reflection, simulation, and feedback can increase motivation to learn in

promotion and education, along with direct care. The philosophy of Department of Nursing at Lehman College relates to human science simply because it expresses the ways in which nursing plays a crucial role in the maintenance of health. Not only are nurses working to maintain the health and wellbeing of individuals, but communities as well through the study and understanding of their experiences. It also stresses the importance of nursing in collaboration with patients, their families, and other healthcare

intervention. New goal A new goal has also been developed during this course as we have been trialing a new product for improved pain management for adult tonsillectomy patients. Consequently, I have started to create a research team of staff nurses and a nurse practitioner to develop a research project to evaluate the effectiveness of the new product, and if it does result in improved pain control/ reduced opioid usage. The goal would be: To develop a research proposal regarding pain management post-tonsillectomy