Resistive Nursing Practices

Nursing is a critical thinking field. Being a nursing can be challenging and time consuming. A workaround is a system used to bypass a task (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). Workarounds allows nurses to create logical and time efficient short cuts. While using the “short cut” method nurses still have to provide clinical decision making choices, quality care, and safety.

Nursing interventions include: Nurses must recognize the cultural differences when providing care by not judging, but open in accepting other peoples' ways of doing things. “Cumulatively, with the increasing cultural diversity in society, nurses find it difficult to uphold their moral integrity through genuine engagement with those who appear different and hold cultural beliefs that differ from their own “(Bearskin, 2011, p. 554). Nurses must encourage the use of western medication for its accuracy and potency, at the same time develop cultural awareness, by not forcing his/her own view and opinion of others when it comes to choice of

The amount of nursing research published every year continues to grow, with an expectation that nurses will understand and apply these research findings. However, understanding statistics is the most frequently reported barrier to nurses applying research in clinical practice. Understanding statistics is important because it allows advanced practice nurses to better understand their patients (infection rates, admission and discharge rates, mortality rates), compare and identify best practices (best dressing types, best intravenous fluids for a given patient) and advance the profession (development of new practices, policies, procedures) and many more.

Millennials, people age 18-34, are visiting the doctor less and less every year. In the Elizabeth Whitman’s article she says, “Half of millennials surveyed by ZocDoc, an online appointment website, in June said they visited a doctor less than once a year, with 93 percent saying they did not schedule preventative visits to the doctor” (Whitman). These numbers seem very similar to William Jewell’s campus. Most students do not go visit the nurse practitioner here on campus. Whether the reason is not enough time, students are unsure of the nurses hours, or they feel put down when they go see her, students do not go. Not visiting the doctor and/or nurse practitioner seems to be a trend that is catching fire.

It takes a combination of theories to make healthcare organizations function at a quality standard. Providing the patients with the best care possible is always the goal for any healthcare organization. It takes, not only the nurses, but all the staff of the organization to achieve this goal. Non-nursing theories exist to help guide all staff and provide an optimal work environment to allow quality care to be given to the patient. In this paper, some non-nursing theories will be examined and the importance of each one will be ranked according to this nurse.

Nursing is a caring and compassionate profession. We incorporate our critical thinking skills with our desire to help others. I believe my mission in life is to be a servant for God and I turn to help others fulfill their purpose. To live in the spirit of a nurse one must be conscious of what nursing entails. Nurses are compassionate, caring, motivating, teachers, sisters, brothers, and often at times the only family a patient has. The spirit of nursing is in me. The spirit is within me because I care about the ultimate meaning of things. Being in tune with my inner self and spirit, allowed me to yield compassion for others. My inner nurse spirit encompasses my values, beliefs and virtues of a nurse. I believe that the virtue that I possess the most is compassion. Compassion and the spirit of a nurse goes hand and hand. One cannot have spirit of a nurse without being compassionate. To have compassion for another being, brighten up their day. Showing compassion shows that you are caring and that you are capable of loving another. But, feeling the spirit of the nurse is completely life changing. The spirit of a nurse cannot be taught or learned, it is felt.

The importance of nurses reflection on the quality of care provided to their patient and ways to improve themselves

Technology is so important in healthcare for caring for those within and those that leave far away from getting health care. For instance, a patient has open heart surgery and is discharged home. The physician has order home health care to assist in the patient wound. However, the patient leaves in a remote area and would be difficult

In order to determine the safest and most appropriate discharge plan for this patient the case manager will work closely with the interdisciplinary team who is directly caring for the patient; together they will come up with the most effective, appropriate, and safest discharge plan. In this case study, there are several important healthcare issues the case manager needs to address with the team prior to Mr. Trosack’s discharge from the hospital. The first issue that needs to be addressed is the issue of the patient’s safety. There are many concerns regarding Mr. Trosack’s living environment. The case manager would want to inform the team, that

Professional nursing is grounded in science, education, practice and theory. Nursing theory clearly defines nursing and outlines measurable concepts and ground rules of which practice is built upon. It also facilitates in the enhancement of nursing knowledge. Nursing is flourishing the health facilities, promotion, and development of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, through diagnosis and treatment of a person’s psychological and physiological behavior, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations (American Nurses Association (ANA). Nursing theory provides the framework which guide nurses to deliver individual nursing care which improves wellness for the patient. An official illustration of nursing theory justifies, for nurses, their function and how it’s valued in the world of healthcare. Nursing theory encompasses the needs, interactions, outcomes, and humanistic perspectives of an individual and includes four levels of theory. This paper aims to focus on the work of Ida Jean Orlando, a middle-range nursing theorist, and her theory of the deliberative nursing process and will bring forth an examination of the importance of nursing theory and how it can be applied to professional nursing practice.

Hospitals share valuable data between medical professionals increasing greater outcomes for immediate needs and long-term care. Koken and Mester writes, “Stanford University and Willow Garage developed a generalized open source operating system called Robot Operating System (ROS) for robots” (2015, p. 24). The cloud basis for having one platform is to narrow the open focus of different deliveries in information and storage. Medical teams benefit from ROS so they can focus more on assisting the patient rather than the tools used. The level of comfort is important in a virtual world. The professionals and the recipients of the virtual activity must not feel a parasitic relationship. It is imperative both see mutual respect for the innovation and the outcomes when teaming for delivering goods and services.

Artificial intelligence is defined as the development of computer systems to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. In the scientific industry, artificial intelligence is used to assist surgeons in surgery, called robotic surgery and is most likely to become the most dominant form of surgery. Robot assisted surgery has been prevalent for about ten years now, and is becoming popular in many industries. From an aeronautical point of view, NASA is implementing robotic surgery for astronauts in space, in case of emergencies. From a military standpoint, the Pentagon is investing their time in a project to create surgical robots to perform medical operations on soldiers on the battlefield. To enhance the medical industry, Google and Johnson and Johnson teamed up to develop surgical robots that use artificial intelligence. This could potentially change the way hospitals function in the future. In reference to artificial intelligence influencing surgery, these include, but are not limited to an improvement in dexterity, surgeon related benefits, and patient related benefits. These specific areas have been scientifically researched and proven to be affected by artificial intelligence through extensive studies, experiments, and evidence. Overall, artificial intelligence in terms of robotic surgery has its pros and cons, but all in all, robotic surgery has shown to have a positive effect in the medical

A robotic arm designed to hold a surgical saw equipped with an arthroscopic camera, that guides it through the incision process, is an example of a surgical navigation tracking technology. Technologies like this are used in delicate operations such as brain surgery. Patient and device management technologies are instruments, devices, and information technologies that help healthcare professionals diagnose medical conditions, monitor and better manage a patient’s medical condition, or interrogate and program devices (Medtronic, 2013).

Throughout history, nurses have previously been expected to conform to society, follow the orders of doctors and maintain adequate hygiene care for patients without questioning the reasons behind the action. Thanks to the generation of nursing theories, nurses now have a better understanding of how the provision of good nursing care affects the outcomes of nursing care. Theory-generating research provides reason behind care, enabling nurses to build their own professional knowledge base used in current nursing practices. This essay will explore the notion that improvements in hygiene practices have been shaped by the development of nursing theories such as that of Nightingale (1860), Orem (1971,1991) and Neumann (1972).

If you were in a hospital bed and needed assistance, you would be able to push a button for the nurse to come in and assist your needs. But, instead of having a human nurse walk into the room, you would see a robotic nurse roll around the corner and bring you the items you requested. With technology advancing, eventually robots rolling around hospitals will become a reality. A company named Aethon is currently in the process of creating robotic nurses called TUGs which, according to Aethon, “TUG[s] works around the clock. It is a substitute for the labor needed to haul and transport goods, materials and clinical supplies in the hospital.” These robots will eventually be able to complete more tasks that can allow human nurses more free time to focus on patients who need more attention and can assist them in ways robots cannot. Although many people believe robotic nurses have a negative impact on hospitals, technological advancements allow robots to be used in a beneficial way throughout hospitals, completing small tasks a human would normally do.