Short Summary: Josie's Story By A Mother

Respect: Even though Patients are hard to deal with on duty, nurses have to provide care with respect. Patients have to be treated the way the nurses would like to be treated. It 's crucial for the nurse to keep in mind that the patient is in clinical setting take delivery of care. A professional nurse is organized to treat all patients with the respect and dignity. Caring is a foundational value in the nursing profession.

My home has been a place where many a newborn have had their first glimpse of the world, both literally and figuratively. In a tiny village on the coast of Southern India, my parents, both surgeons, ran a small surgical and maternity hospital just by our home. My mother joyfully announced the birth of a newborn baby almost every single day of my lovely childhood. The figurative birth in my home was not long ago, when my father, after years of struggling with failed kidneys, finally received his new kidney from my aunt. As he sat up in his hospital bed, his cheeks, which were once puffy and pale, were now pink and his eyes shone bright when he said the words - “It’s like a fog has lifted”.

Dorothy has her MSN/MBA in HCA. Her MSN was with a focus on leadership. Her MBA had a focus on healthcare administration. She began as a clinical leader within the emergency department for three years. She then assumed an interim manager position for one year at Tufts Medical Center.

The goal of Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory is to decrease the self-care deficit. When patients are ill, they need assistance with care. As nurses we are there to provide the care needed while allowing the patient to perform as many tasks as they can for themselves. By allowing patients to provide care for themselves, they develop a sense of confidence and can assist them in overcoming obstacles in care. Per Meleis (2012), “Orem’s theory is categorized as a theory whose primary focus provides a framework for assessing needs of clients and developing intervention in enhancing peoples’ abilities to manage daily care for themselves and their dependents, and conserve their energy, and

It taught me about the compliance of risk management for fall and the consistency of skills required based on the standard of nursing practice so that as a nurse, it will help us to improve our quality of care and keeps risk management skills updated. Besides, it taught me about how to be a careful nurse at the same time try to fulfill the patient’s needs. Decision making is important. As a nurse, we need to think the rationales before you provide your care to or for the patient. Risk management do help us decrease the nursing liabilities, but it also remind us to always follow the protocols and principles of nursing practice or on the other words ‘not to break’ it.

The patients will trust the nurse when they know that they can be reliable. The nurse can gain clients trust by being caring, showing an interest in them, being honest and showing the client that they are listening to them. In nursing it is important to be empathetic. The nurse ensure that they are being empathic towards the client and not sympathetic. Empathy allows the nurse to relate to the client’s pain or distress.

When dealing with the burden of hiding the truth from Torvald, Nora begins to contemplate suicide. At the beginning of act two, Nora is speaking to the nurse and says, “Do you think they would forget their mother if she went away all together?” (Ibsen 1378). This is about her children and her taking her own life, which is incredibly outlandish. The nurse speaks to Nora saying how they need their mother at such a young age and would be damaged by her absence. Nora again is choosing to run and hide from her problems only this time it is affecting her family.

One was the importance of honesty. Annabel was always keeping her emotions to herself to avoid her friends or family from getting hurt. When Annabel wanted to quit modeling she felt like she couldn’t tell her mom. Modeling became an important aspect of her mother's life, and she couldn’t take that away from her. After the death of her grandmother, her mother went into a deep depression, so Annabel tried to avoid hurting her mother’s feeling as much as she could.

Nurses are considered professionals and professionalism is defined as the skill, and good judgment that is expected from a person who is trained to do a job well. The general public respects nurses and therefore a high level of professionalism is expected when working with clients. Nurses have to be aware of the ethical values and nursing principles such as: beneficence and autonomy, to help them make an ethical choice. These values fall under the ethical principles of promoting health and well-being, and respect the decisions people make. Vaccinations is an on going dilemma because the decisions that are made by nurses’ effects populations differently, however, nurses must make choices that are reflective of the code of ethics, and principles for registered nurses.

In adhering to the principles of veracity, I as a nurse must carefully choose how I present the truth in the least hurtful way. At the same time, I must be careful to make sure I act in the name of beneficence, and provide care with the goal of helping my patient and avoid doing harm. (Ramont, Niedringhaus & Towle, 2012) Conflict is bound to happen in the health care setting. Values, beliefs and expectations have to mix with those of others, and consideration must be given to culture and religion. I expect to put in hard work keeping up to date and being self aware so that I can best advocate for my patient without