Essays on Nightingale

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Scholars across the board have been persistent on the need for the near perfection of the concept of vital signs monitoring. Prior contributions to this field of knowledge all seem to bend towards correcting the wrongs that at times overwhelm the nursing practice, while at the same time constructing updates and ingenious suggestions towards the bettering of methods of monitoring vital signs. This paper cuts across the dimensions of nursing practice as applied in a reflective situation, and the evaluative outlook into the perks of vital signs monitoring as a physiological assessment process, its outcomes, and its repercussions both ...

1. Summarize Journal Articles The article “Florence Nightingale: Her Personality Type” by Dossey (2010) examines the famous nurse Florence Nightingale according to her personality type. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Dossey determines that Nightingale was an IITJ (introverted-intuitive-thinking-judging) personality. The author worked from a collection of Nightingale’s own written work and her letters, as well as her history. Dossey breaks Nightingale’s personality down into these four factors, using her life and work as a template to explain those personality traits. For instance, Nightingale is determined to be introverted due to her desire to be alone in ...

In the past 3 decades, there has been a significant increase in nurse shortage with the numbers expected to fall even more by the end of 2020. Most researchers, healthcare managers, and nurse leaders assume that the issue has been resolved but the truth is it is far more disastrous. Nursing shortage has many negative implications within the healthcare system. Registered nurses have a high demand in the market place, wherein the current RN workforce of over 2.7 ˘million is expect to grow above 3.5 million by 2022 (AACN 2014). Due to the increasing number of elderly patients, acute ...

1. How would the nurse practicing from Nightingale’s theory, begin her home visit? What would be the priority for the nurse in this situation? Home visits provide an opportunity for the nurse to access the situation of the client at their home. Based on this assessment, the nurse can make decisions, and plan her care activities. In this given client, she has two children who are been taken care, along with a cat. Considering the situation of the room in which the children spend are raised, there is poor ventilation, and potential source of contamination like the cat, ...

The Nightingale’s Environmental Theory conceptualizes how nurses can manipulate the patient’s environment to initiate fast recovery. The nursing conceptual model can be employed to improve nursing practice in the following three ways. First, the patient’s rooms can be cleaned thoroughly often to eliminate soil particles, dust, and other dirt debris. Nightingale noted that preserving cleanliness is an essential part of nursing (Nightingale, 87). Thorough cleaning and opening room windows improve ventilation to make patient's breathing easier. In case the room is dirty the patient might develop breathing problems and worsen their conditions. Ideally, without cleanliness, ventilation ...

Multiple choice questions

Multiple Choice Questions

Increased erythropoietin production Increased heart rate Increased cardiac output Enhancement in oxygen extraction The answer for this question is b. increased heart rate. A reduction in tissue oxygenation as happens in anemia stimulates increased production of erythropoietin through a complex feedback mechanism. Increased production of erythropoietin enhances erythropoiesis in anemia. Increased extraction of oxygen in anemia is a compensatory mechanism that is mediated by an increase in 2, 3-diphosphoglycerate concentrations. Increased cardiac output is the main hemodynamic compensatory mechanism in anemia that aims to increase blood flow to the body organs. An increase in heart rate ...

Introduction

Even though her works were exemplary, she was little known to the world; after all, Marie de France was not her original name. All her fame came from her distinct poetic works. Information about her birth place remain scanty, however, there is a strong belief that she was French born but raised up in England; all this is disputed for one reason or another (Bloch 160). It is believed that Marie lived in the 12th century. Putting her debatable biographic information aside, her poetic works remain iconic; in fact, they are an everyday inspiration for upcoming poets. Through her ...

Nursing is basically defined as an act of protection, optimization and also the promotion of abilities and also health, the act is promoted by nurses who are professionally trained on how to prevent injuries and illness as well as aiding in the alleviation of suffering on patients by clearly diagnosing and treating various human responses. In addition to this nursing as a profession serves as an advocacy in the care and protection of different individuals and even families. Therefore the basic elements and characteristics of nursing revolve around the practical professionalism of offering care for those who are either ...

The young generation endeavors to build a healthy and high-performance society based on principles of activity, vitality of the body and positivity. According to that and due to the fact of raising unfavorable disasters the popularity rating of starting the career within the healthcare area has been increasing throughout past decades. The many young adults show an interest in life saving and demonstrating their skills to provide the community with well-qualified medical workers such as registered nurses (RN). It is significant to absorb the features of the nursing profession in order to estimate its pros and cons for those ...

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The outcome of the treatment process in health facilities is dependent on several factors among which is the safety of the facility. There is a need to ensure that all the systems and facilities in the health facilities are safe to enhance the treatment procedures, services delivered and the quality of care. The principles behind the accreditation process are very influential to achieving the status described above. The purpose of the accreditation process is to ensure that the health facilities can not only identify but also formulate resolutions for the problems identified. The accreditation process also aims to inspire ...

Thesis statement: The occupation of a Registered Nurse seems to take an enormous amount of responsibility. The duties of a Registered Nurse are many. Nurses also "assist physicians during treatments and examinations." The jobs of a Registered Nurse will be a challenge for me. The working conditions of a nurse range from one extreme to the next.

INTRODUCTION

The history and evolution of the Registered Nurses roles Nursing is a profession that begun as a result of women who cared for soldiers The Profession however developed latter on into the 19th century during which it was now viewed as an ...

The Millennium Development Goals make up the action plan created by the United Nations in order to help developing countries improve their living conditions, medical services, educational and social aspects of their people’s lives. This work is aimed at the consideration of the eight Millennium Development Goals with regard to nursing profession. The legacy of the famous Florence Nightingale cannot but influence the perception of these Millennium Goals. Many of her opinions and attitudes resonate with the Goals, which is impossible to overlook. Florence Nightingale’s avocation was nursing and helping ill. Therefore each and every nurse familiar ...

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There are many online websites that ask for an individual’s personal information, before they allow people to join these websites. This necessity of sharing an email address brings with it online websites leads to several problems for email sharing individuals. Websites end up collecting personal information of a large number of people and they treat is as their asset and find ways to make of them (FTC, 2012). These online websites use personal information of individuals and share it without even asking for consent of individuals. It is essential that online websites protect the personal information of individuals ...

MODERN MARKETING FOR AN ANCIENT CITY

MODERN MARKETING FOR AN ANCIENT CITY

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Belfast is one of the world’s most ancient cities, its location at the mouth of the River Lagan having been continuously occupied since about 2,000 years BCE. There are good reasons for this. Courtesy of the Gulf Stream, the site has a mild climate that seldom gets above 65 degrees F. or below 35 degrees F. Its northern latitude gives it one of the world’s shortest winter, and longest summer, days at the biannual solstices. It rarely snows. The city is ringed by low mountains that create a microclimate to ...

Owing to the different types of nursing practice available, it is easy to confuse these on consideration of all being professional nursing practices. However, this concept is based on the assessment of various contributing factors. The context of professional nursing practice is premised on the definition of ‘profession.’ According to Masters (2014), a profession refers to a chosen occupation that is guided by standard rules of practice and one that requires formal qualification and prolonged training. In this case, professional nursing practice is explained on the determination of the accepted nursing standards at this level, the requisite nursing educational ...

Hippocratic Oath and Nightingale Pledge are taken by the healthcare professionals with the aim of promoting ethics in their profession. Healthcare professionals undertake this by pledging to lead by example, faithfulness, accuracy, devotion, responsibility, quality, and accountability (Kantarjian & Steensma, 2014). Nurses are responsible for giving quality care and therefore, the decision they make in their profession should be seen to promote quality care for all. One of the fundamental duties of a nurse is to maintain the noble traditions of the nursing profession and not going against the code of ethics that govern their profession. This, therefore, shows that ...

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Florence Nightingale

The modern day nursing owes thanks and pays tribute to Florence Nightingale, who was a nurse and a statistician by profession. She is acknowledged as the founder of the modern day nursing and her work and contributions to the field are studied across the world in all the countries as part of the graduate syllabus. She was born in 1820 and died in 1910. Born in England, she was very fond of making a difference in the society through her efforts and though she could have opted for any career at that time in any part of ...

1) The well-known phrase, ‘a woman’s place is in the home’, quite clearly sums up the way women have been viewed by society. In both the east and the west, a woman’s primary duty was to nurture her family and take care of the home and defer to the decisions and opinions of the men of the family. These ideals were ingrained in them from a very early age. Hence most women confined their world view to acquiring domestic skills and maintaining an attractive physical appearance; both these factors were considered vital in finding a good husband, ...

Introduction

The world has changed drastically in recent years, and with these changes have come changes in the way the workforce operates on nearly every level. In Canada and many other developed nations, these changes have meant that many features of the workplace have been shaken: things are no longer what they once were, and these changes can mean that employers and employees alike must begin to operate within a new working space paradigm. This discussion will focus on a number of key issues in the Canadian environment, investigating how each of these issues contributes directly to the current environment ...

Nightingale’s Environmental Theory: The Exclusion of Illegitimate Immigrants from Medicaid/ Medicare Cover in the U.S.

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The natural environment, political, legal and social policies can have significant health impacts on an individual and the community at large. For instance, political and social policies may limit certain segments of society such as the illegal immigrants from accessing affordable health care services, thus leading to health care disparities. Nightingale claimed that political and social isolation is associated with poor environmental and social conditions, which include overcrowding, unemployment, inaccessibility to basic services and poor diet (Hegge, 2013).

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Nature often amazes everyone who has an eye for the beauty and the blessings of God’s work. One can enjoy the natural elements without fear or without the boundaries of walls and bar. But, nature is best enjoyed from an elevated view and that makes the beauty of nature best seen from the top of a mountain. The elements in nature allow persons to become relaxed and free. But one cannot truly enjoy the beauty of nature without the use of the senses as nature touches our lives in so many ways. The view was even more spectacular ...

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Working today can be can be considered to be quite safe in comparison to the conditions as they were initially during the industrial revolution. This is because, currently, various governments in the world have made legislations that touch on the ways in which employers ought to provide employees with their welfare e.g. safe working environment and conditions together with the required equipment to conduct their duties. Notably, at the commencement of the industrial revolution, the laws that safeguarded the workers were non-existent and as a result, working in the factories and farms could indeed prove to be dangerous. In ...

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Enter Name of College Here Part A The Board of Nursing is a state governmental agency that primarily regulates various nursing practices within organization. The agency “protects the overall public’s health and welfare to ensure that safe nursing practices are being met at all times” (NCSBN, 2016). Their functional duties may consist of three components which are a) the enforcement of the Nurse Practice Act, b) approving and accrediting various nursing educational programs throughout colleges across the global region and c) the creation and enforcement of policies, regulations and administrative guidelines. Whereas, the difference would be with the ...

Being a nurse is no easy task. It is an occupation which involves being around people who are having, more often than not, a really bad day. For instance, a nurse may be assigned to a dozen patients with varying illnesses. That is 12 different people who need care and support. However, as time passes, a nurse evolves. There are around 3 million nurses who are registered in the United States. (“Quick Facts”) This number includes both new and old nurses in different levels of expertise. Whence she/he started out pliable, moldable and feeling, later in her career, he/she ...

Florence Nightingale’s legacy has influenced many peoples view regarding nursing and the nurses’ perception of the millennium goals. I am one of those greatly intrigued in terms of insight and perception. The eight millennium goals developed by the world leaders in the U.N reflect on the noble work of Florence Nightingale. It is amazing how she could have visualized about the solution to many problems that are even haunting us today, back then. She must have been very visionary (Wagstaff, 2004). Her concern about taking the practice of nursing to a whole different level was a great idea. ...

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Hildegard E. Peplau was an American nurse who developed the interpersonal relations theory of nursing. Her specialty was mental health nursing and her theory revolutionized nursing practice by emphasizing on the need for a partnership between the nurse and the patient instead of a situation where a patient receives health care services passively. Patient participation is the foundation of patient centered care which is one of the dimensions of quality in modern health care setting. Peplau’s interpersonal relations theory is a midrange nursing theory which bridges grand nursing theories to day-to-day nursing practice. This essay evaluates Peplau’s interpersonal relations theory with ...

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Anderson, M. & Ramos-Reid, R. (2011) Core competence-definition and dynamics in the not-for-profit sector. School of Management Blekinge Institute of Technology Sweden.

The study is among the few that treats the subject of core-competences (core capabilities) within the nonprofit sector, explaining how it applies to the not-for-profit operations. The core competences concept is related to the added value notion, and the authors of this study aim to identify how nonprofit organizations can generate added value by optimizing their internal resources. Developing a multi-case study analysis, the book identifies that nonprofit operations follow the same patterns as for profit organizations for ...

A poem titled “The Solitary Reaper” gives a reflection of the power of imagination and the manner in which imagination can transform events surrounding us in our day to day lives (Mahoney, Page 5-19). The poem gives a representation of various realities that surround our day to day life. It further brings out the poet as a romantic individual and that to him imagination is not just to be used as a synonym when writing poems by creating some fantasy. The writer saw an opportunity to relate the imagination closely with various intuitions, as well as emotions in his piece of work. ...

I believe that the nursing profession is one of the noblest professions in the world. Indeed, this can even be traced back to its pioneers such as Florence Nightingale who concerned themselves with looking after those who were injured during the war. Like any other person, they could have chosen to sit on the fence and avoid doing anything. On the contrary, they immersed themselves in the war, not to fight, but to look after those injured during the war. This was irrespective of which side they belonged to. The care that Florence Nightingale and other pioneers provided to ...

The nursing profession is a dynamic, caring and unique one among the health care professions. Several definitions have been given to nursing as an act and as a profession. According to Florence Nightingale, Nursing implies making use of the patient’s environment to help him/her in his recovery (Nightingale, 1860). She had in mind a spotless, clean, quiet and well ventilated environment for a patient’s recovery. She went further to describe a nurse as someone that assists an individual regardless of being well or ill in performing activities that contribute to recovery or health or to peaceful death that would be performed by ...

1. Components of Metaparadigm

There are a number of factors that influenced the nursing theorists when it came to the definition and description of the metaparadigm components. In order to understand these factors, it is important to start by understanding and identifying these metaparadigm components. To start with, it is important to have a complete overview and understanding of the person (who is in this case the client for example a patient). Understanding the person societal, psychological, physical as well as physiological variables that might affect him is therefore important (George, 2011). Secondly, the environment in which the person lives both internally and externally is also ...

William Wordsworth’s famous lyrical ballad “The Solitary Reaper” tells a story from Wordsworth’s wanderings through the Scottish Highlands (Poetryfoundation.org). As Wordsworth and his companions wander the countryside, they come across a young Scottish maiden singing to herself in a field as she cuts the grain that she sowed earlier in the season. Wordsworth seems transfixed by the beauty of her song, and he stops to listen to her sing in the field; although the initial reaction of the speaker is to the beauty of the voice and song of the young woman, the speaker—ostensibly Wordsworth himself, although this is ...

There are a lot of ways how to win a person and create alliances. Relationships can be developed in just a matter of days, months, years, or in just a matter of moments, depending on the circumstances and other factors. Some of the most important question that this paper aims to answer are: how exactly relationship structures work and develop. In this paper, the authors draw upon evidences from three literary works namely Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn, Grass for his Pillow by Lian Hearn, and the Knight of the Lion by Chretien de Troyes. The paper will focus on the ...

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Introduction

In January of 2014, a new healthcare policy which is the ACA (Affordable Care Act of 2010) was created and implemented to open doors as a healthcare marketplace for the low to moderate income population. These individuals who sign up within the marketplace would also be eligible to receive special healthcare tax credits to purchase health insurance. The Affordable Care Act has already helped forty seven million people who lacked health coverage due to financial circumstances finally have the opportunity to see a physician for their medical concerns. (Garfield, Licata, & Young, 2014). Although this marketplace has ...

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Evidence base practice is crucial in the health care of the patient. In fact, establishing the quality of care depend totality on evidence. To insure the important of evidence in practice, many studies have been done over the years. The research done in these studies gave the world a view about the importance of evidence based practice. Globally, it should be used as a standard in care given to patients. From this point, each nurse should be aware of how to link between traditionally practiced medicine and evidence based medicine. Evidence base practice (EBP) has been established since the 1900s. ...

Nursing profession has seen developments throughout the history. There has been changes from type of caregivers, practice, policy changes to roles. Nursing remains a profession of service and care to people in need. Various personalities have worked to revolutionize nursing career. The nurses of the earliest time did not attend nursing school. They were women that provided care for the homeless, poor and sick. The women worked as midwives during the delivery of babies and as wet nurses during breastfeeding. During war period, nurses provided care for the wounded soldiers. This was during 18th and 19th century. Florence Nightingale worked ...

Anne Crowther’s Why Women should be Nurses and not Doctors compare the differences between female doctors and nurses with respect to a classic example of two of the most prominent figures in their respective fields: Florence Nightingale and Sophia Jex-Blake. The paper starts with the author describing how Nightingale, on return from the Crimean war and already a legend in her field, set up the Nightingale school for nurses. Even though the school was never considered a success, it was able to keep up a good reputation in accordance to the reputation she had made amongst the public. Through the article, the ...

Introduction

In many societies, in the world, the role of women was that of caregiver or nursing care. The nurturing of children by mothers gave people the supposition that the women can provide the same care to the ailing and wounded in the society. Nursing history, as a piece of women’s history, has faced the paradox of being women’s work: invisible, devalued, and underpaid and yet a critical necessity to society (Judd et al., 2010). In the early years, there were no learning that existed for the caregivers, it was a trade passed from one generation to another or through try-out ...

- Describe a full entry in the OED A complete entry in OED does not only provide the meaning of particular English words; instead, the entries are distinctively represented based on their value, the background or the history they have behind each phase of evolution that it took for such work do be developed. This is the reason why OED is often used when trying to decipher a particularly classic literature that uses old English terms or at some point symbolic phrases that are based on critical principles of semiotics. - A) Describe the English major rule in Cartoon ...

Introduction

The concept of leadership is complex and multidimensional that includes intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup and situational variables (Grohar-Murray & DiCroce, 2003). Grohar-Murray and DiCroce (2003) also state that a leader is a person who inspires, develops, gains trust, and relies on people . Nowadays, nurses at all levels of organization are expected to have and exercises leadership skills (Grohar-Murray & DiCroce, 2003) . In this paper, I have chosen Florence Nightingale as a leader to be discussed. I will explain why I have chosen her, what leadership style best describes her, and both positive and negative aspects of this style. I will also give examples where she ...

Florence Nightingale metaparadigms have fundamental aspects on the healthcare programs that emerged in the 19th century and have been in use in the current world. Nightingale was a strong proponent of anti-contagionism that held that for effective control of the spread of diseases, the society ought to remove filth from the local places and leaving the infected people and commerce alone. Such is the basic focus of the health practices that tragedy disease control by targeting the causative agent and the transmitters of the diseases. She advanced her theory on four parts. This paper focuses on the health part. The ...

The following paper will look at various concepts of nursing professional roles and values present in this field.

Explain the functional differences between a regulatory agency, such as a board of nursing (BRN), and a professional nursing organization (PNO) as it pertains to your professional nursing practice. The former is a regulatory agency by the state that an individual who after meeting all the requirements like the required curriculum can apply for a nursing license. The latter is a specific body that emphases on a specific category or field of nursing. A Professional Nursing Organization can offer ongoing education packages, progressionpreciseconferences and certification in that field. The State Board of Examiners for Nursing got positions that arechosen by the director and hasprogressive degrees ...

Paddle surfing is my favorite hobby. Before enrolling in nursing school, I used to go paddle surfing in the sea at least once or twice in the summer. At the sea, I used to see a particular sea lion, which popped its head and faced in my direction. I saw the animal so often that I named it Taki, a Japanese word that describes a plunging waterfall. One day I went out to the sea and saw the sea lion twisting in a weird way. I paddled over and freaked out when I saw a red marine rope made of hemp wrapped around its ...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oskar Wilde Children have difficulty sharing, understanding and minding other people`s interests, especially young ones. This is a normal part of the development process. Knowing and accepting this is the first step in helping the child to grow up to be person, not a living being. True sharing implies empathy, the ability to get into another’s mind and see things from the other points of view. Consequently, the question comes on: “How to teach the child to ...

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Ebola is an emerging rare, yet deadly disease brought about mainly by an infection caused by a strain of the Ebola virus. The recent Ebola epidemic is by far the worst in history, covering the largest geographical area especially in West Africa. It is easily spread since the infection occurs through direct contact with blood as well as body fluids of an already infected person. Ebola, however, is not spread through water, air, food or even mosquitoes. Health professionals are on the course of finding the cure as well as a vaccine to this deadly viral disease, but meanwhile, preventive measures ...

The Romantic Period implies that the period reflects a time of whirlwind and old-fashioned romance. But, it does not. The misconception of the period is common and anyone can make such errors about the true meaning of the Romanticism. The Romantic Era in literature is the period that saw many writers placing fundamental significance on the emotions and on the individual. While the Romantic period lasted for approximately thirty years, it revolutionized the way individuals see literature today. Literary critics points to romanticism as the principal artistic movement in the latter part of the 1700s. The influence of the era ...

The Nightingale Pledge: Past, Present and Possible Future

The Nightingale Pledge: Past, Present and Possible Future Florence Nightingale is the most famous nurse in the history of the nursing profession. It perhaps was inevitable that a Nurse’s Pledge, written in 1893 by a Detriot committee of the Farrand Training School for Nurses (Calhoun; 1993), would be named the Nightingale Pledge: “I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will ...

1970-1980’s (Newman, Parse, Watson, Rogers) iv. Development of the metaparadigm per Fawcett

v. Development of paradigms 1. Simultaneity and Totality 2. Particulate-Deterministic, Interactive -Integrative, Unitary Transformative III. Discuss knowledge development in nursing (10 points) a. Carper’s Ways of Knowing b. Emancipatory Knowing c. Ways of unknowing d. Role of research e. Role of the socio political environment IV. Application/Synthesis for Advanced Practice (10 points)

Describe how the new advanced knowledge, in the course to date has informed and influenced your own perspective on nursing:

i. Philosophic a. What philosophy is most congruent with your own personal philosophy and why? ii. Paradigm of Nursing a. Discuss the congruence between your nursing philosophy and your nursing paradigm b. Describe ...

1. Discuss specific contributions to nursing science that have been influenced by applied theories Nursing theories contribute to the improvement of the nursing science by providing a framework for thought when examining different situations. When new situations are encountered in the daily nursing practice, this framework serves as a structure for analysis, organization and decision-making (Alligood & Marriner-Tommy, 2010). Moreover, nursing theories provide a mechanism for communication among the health care team. In essence, nursing theories help the nursing science discipline in clarifying values, beliefs and goals. Furthermore, the theories are pertinent in defining the special contribution of nursing in the care ...

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Explain how theoretical models can be used to construct plans of care for individuals, families, and populations of various socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. In our multicultural society, providing quality health care for a person requires that the nurses understand how the patient’s socio-cultural background affects his health beliefs and behavior . Most nursing theorists like Leninger, Nightingale, Roy and Rogers have pushed the limits of providing health care by taking into consideration factors that influence a patient’s health and well-being. These include the environment, the situation they are facing and the communities they belong to. These nursing theories focus ...

(S4 DQ) IT Management Decisions Some of the most important concepts to be taken into an account when crafting disaster recovery policies and procedures involves around disaster recovery planning. The plan should not only identify, but also classify risks that might results to specific disasters. The plan should also define resources in addition to processes that might guarantee the continuity of business in the course of disaster. The reconstitution method ought to be defined to reinstate back the business to usual from disaster recovery condition after the alleviation of the effects of ruin (Dovers & Handmer, 2012). The ...

Nursing has had challenges since the beginning. The challenges included lack of knowledge to treat diseases and injuries. As generations progressed, the environmental conditions have improved and provided effective and efficient conditions that provide good conditions for treatment (Miller, 2009). Other complexities that faced nursing practice in the past-included societal acceptance of nursing as a discipline, educational, regulatory disarray and gender discrimination. All these factors have created a complicate history for nursing but various people have contributed to this important profession of providing care. During the 19th century, Florence Nightingale because of her profound vision and religious convictions of the ...

Nursing: Class discussion.

A nurse’s duties are based on principles established centuries ago and thus are guided by a strict code of ethics. This limits the decisions available to a nurse as a health practitioner when in the line of duty and to some extent when even off duty as the Hippocratic Oath doesn’t specify that a nurse or any other medical practitioner must be in his or her line of duty so as to deliver the necessary responsibility. This has several implications on the decision options available to a nurse with regards to, or due to constraints imposed by, ethical and legal liability and ...

Philosophy of nursing denotes nurses’ thoughts and what they believe in, with respect to their profession, and this provides the basis for their activities (Watson, 2008). Philosophy of nurses embodies the ethical values that nurses subscribe to as basic and basis of their belief in theory. This concept stems for the works of ancient nursing theorists such as Florence Nightingale, as well as Virginia Anderson. According to Nightingale, nursing is a call from God. In line with this, the sick must be given quality civilized care irrespective their situation in life. Nightingale saw sanitations, fresh air, cleanliness, socialization and comfort ...

What is your worldview of nursing?

Nursing continues to evolve because of new developments in the world of technology. The nursing profession undergoes real revolution because there is rapid development in all the aspects. The increase in globalization has really influenced the health care industry and nursing profession forms the backbone of health care (Buttz & Rich, 2011). Nurses have a bigger role to play in the health of nations.

What assumptions inform your philosophical lens?

There are major assumptions that inform the philosophical lens in nursing. The underlying assumptions include the independence of the patient and the nurse. Some philosophies in nursing include serving the needs of individual and the society. Provision ...

A nurse requires certain qualities, and this growth is during learning. The most significant qualities are empathy, understanding and assessment for each patient irrespective of their age, gender, race or social class. In performing this, a nurse commits to “faithfully practice” her profession and to practice proper ethical values (Domrose, 2001). The nursing code of conduct permits the nurse to perform their duties as needed. The nightingale oath is an adoption of the Hippocratic Oath taken by doctors. The nightingale oath taken by the nurses ‘I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous,’ Nurses are to be part ...

Pledges are common in many professions. They are solemn declarations to adhere to specific guidelines, terms of services and to some extent allegiance to specific people in authority or God. The nursing profession has had its share of the same. The Nightingale Pledge is the pledge use by nurse upon graduation. It is named after Florence Nightingale in honor of her contribution in the nursing profession. She is credited as the founder of modern nursing and also the actual initial idea of pledging. The pledge was created in 1893 by modifying the Hippocratic Oath by Lystra Gretter and a the ...

Introduction

Florence nightingale environmental theory Florence nightingale, often considered as the mother of modern nursing formulated a theory of nursing known as the environmental theory. In this theory, nightingale compiled the tenets of nursing that she felt should be applied for the most effective nursing practice on patients. Her theory held that, a nurse has to utilize the natural environment in the restoration of the patient’s previous state of health. In nursing practice according to this theory, the nurse has to make sure that the patient enjoys the best conditions of nature in order for them to recover. The environment ...

Civic engagement refers to both individual and collective actions that are aimed at identifying and addressing matters of public concern. Health care especially in the United States is a key area of concern for the public requiring both individual and concerted action on the part of several persons. Indeed, civic engagement embodies the principle of democratic governance which is to the effect that sovereignty reposes in the people or the citizenry and that they should thus have a say in such matters. It encompasses the right of the citizenry to define what is the public good as well as form the ...

“Ode to a Nightingale,” and “Ode to a Grecian Urn”

No writing is truly complete without the use of figurative language; one element of this language is the symbol. In “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner; “Ode to a Nightingale,” and “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” by John Keats the authors use symbol to represent the theme of death. “A Rose for Emily” is Faulkner’s Gothic and most famous short story, Emily’s father died. Miss Emily realizes that everything she has is gone and in a rather uncanny way she reasons that if she could keep her father alive by pretending he is not dead, she could keep ...