Nursing Interventions: Problem-Based Nursing Assessments

Hospital wards have been the traditional clinical placement setting for nursing students. Newton, Jolly, Ockerby and Cross (2010) purports that practice in the clinical setting is a requirement to ensure fitness to practice as a nurse. From an educational view, clinical placement is the avenue where skills, knowledge and attitudes developed in the theoretical part of the curriculum are applied, developed and incorporated. Wang, Shang and Jin (2005) asserts that after visiting the clinical area for a week, nursing students begin to dislike the nursing profession however Holsem (2010) stated that the development of confidence during clinical experiences places emphasis on the openness about expectation, time of reflection and been welcome and appreciated. If these priorities are put it place nursing students clinical experience will be effective as they look forward to gain additional knowledge and skills to tackle the world of work but if this knowledge and skills are not garnered through effective clinical experience nursing students will fail to gain confidence and high levels of competency to venture into the world of

Cindy Meldenson’s qualitative study was used to observe how women manage living with Lupus. Meldenson uses the ethnographic approach in which she took two different samples and compared how they managed with living with Lupus. Sample one was drawn from the local community and were diagnosed within a year of symptom recognition. Sample two were drawn from the internet and described a frustrating process of diagnosis. Each sample went through many life changes after being diagnosed and had to learn how to cope with it.

It is the underlying foundation of the process, on which other phases of the process are based upon (Foster & Hawkins, 2005). The nursing assessment is the foundation to building a therapeutic patient-nurse relationship. The patient-nurse relationship begins to form at the first encounter. Nursing assessment is the first encounter between patient and nurse. First impressions are made and these judgements can greatly affect how a client perceives a nurse (Patrick, 2013).

Coming into the nursing career you will face anywhere from eight to twelve hour shifts each day. If your relief doesn't show up you are stuck there until someone shows up ("It's). One will face many situation that they will not want to. The nurses responsibilities are to tell the mother and father with any changes that are going on with the infant. NICU nurses are there to provide the parents with emotional and physical support that they need during this time ("It's).

The first metaparadigm is nurse or nursing. Merriam-Webster describes a nurse as “a person who is trained to care for sick or injured people and who usually works in a hospital or doctor’s office” (Merriam-Webster, 2015). This basic definition of a nurse barely scratches the surface of all that the title of nurse entails. Masters (2012) in her book defines nursing as “the actions taken by nurses on behalf or in conjunction with human beings, and the goals or outcomes of nursing actions: the process of which encompasses activities that are referred to as assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation” (Masters, K, 2012,

In addition, they provide a transitional living program called Blooms Place for women and their children that are left homeless due to domestic violence. The monthly fee for the program is based on the client’s

Appendix NCLEX Questions The following two alternate format NCLEX questions were created related to the case study information and focus on the nursing responsibilities prior to blood administration and the signs/symptoms of acute hemolytic transfusion reactions. NCLEX Question #1 The RN on day shift is looking after Anita, a 93-year-old female patient in with an upper GI bleed. Anita’s latest lab results show an Hgb of 62 g/L. The registered nurse notifies the physician, who then orders for Anita to receive 1 unit of packed red blood cells (PRBCs). What are some of the nursing responsibilities before administering the ordered PRBCs?

This theory defines nurses developed skills and the understanding of patient care over the years, with a combination of educational background and personal experiences in the clinical area. This theory has five levels of Nursing; Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient, and Expert. . A novice-is a beginner with no experience, they are bound by rules to assist in performing tasks. They simply follows instruction and under continuous supervision.

as a nurse who has your policies being forced upon me without any request for input I know that it 's vital to get input from my co-workers. So my plan would be to hold a series of staff meetings in which co-workers can express their doubts or their favor and I would listen honestly to their concerns. Also having the help of Educators unit Educators and also Hospital Educators to help me with presenting the plan to my coworkers would also be beneficial. I would also remind or workers that this new policy has only the patient 's well-being in mind and if

As a nurse working in the home healthcare industry there were many instances when I had to utilize my nursing critical skills. One day I was contacted by a clinical supervisor, who stated she was contacted by an LPN with a question regarding medication administration. She stated that the LPN informed that she was instructed by a parent to give a patient medications that did not have a physician’s order. I informed the clinical supervisor to refer to the Pa cod of RN scope of practice, where it states, A licensed registered nurse may administer a drug ordered for a patient in the dosage and manner prescribed. I also informed her that although the parent instructed her to give the medications to the child, it was not within her scope of practice