Cultural safety is an important aspect in nursing to provide patient-centered care and nurses are responsible for providing culturally safe practice to the patient. The nurse should be culturally competent while giving care to a patient. Firstly, nurses should identify their own cultural beliefs and values. Secondly, it is important that nurses recognise the cultural differences of the patients and deliver effective nursing care on the basis of cultural diversity. The nurse becomes culturally competent…
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Communication Disparities in Nursing Practice Naty Jane Shackelford Grand Canyon University: NUR 502 June 14, 2015 Diana D. Naser, PhD, APRN Description of Problem Efficacious communication is universally recognized to be the fundamental antecedent of patient fulfillment, conformity and convalescence. All through the years, remarkable and crucial imperfection of communication skills amongst health care professionals particularly nurses validated…
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Interpersonal Relations Professor McGill February 6, 2015 Structured Reflection Communication, an ongoing process that involves the perceptions of ourselves and others as well as verbal and non-verbal messages, is one of the most important tools utilized by nurses (Sawada, Mendes, Galvao & Trevizan, 1992). Florence Nightingale was one of the first people to realize the importance of nurse-patient communication, stating that leaving a patient uninformed and with a fear of the unknown will cause…
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Nursing: Essential Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes Introduction Nursing is not just a collection of tasks. To provide safe and effective care to the clients, nurses must integrate knowledge, skills and attitudes to make sound judgement and decisions. This essay describes some of the essential knowledge, skills and attitudes of nursing and discusses why they are essential attributes of a competent nurse. Nursing knowledge and clinical skills These are obvious essentials for nursing practice…
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maintain the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship. Therefore, the Gibb’s (1988) model was used for the reflective writing as it is widely used by health professionals and is recognized as the framework of reflective writing. “Gibbs (1988) consists of six sequential steps which includes; beginning of the description of an event, identification of feeling, evaluation, analysis and conclusion through producing an action plan for future practice” (Brooker & Waugh, 2013). Reflective practice is an essential…
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moral ideal of nursing with transpersonal and humanistic values. Watson’s theory of nursing practice is based on the ten Caritas processes containing a spiritual dimension and an open call of love and caring (Watson, 1997). This essay specifically describes the Caritas processes 7 and 8 explaining the promotion of transpersonal teaching -learning and provision for a supportive, protective, mental, social and spiritual environment respectively. Further, in the essay, the AHPRA nursing standard 2 (engages…
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Peer Reviewed Concept Analysis Article Concept Analysis Article 2 Introduction In the article, “Therapeutic Relationships in Specialist Palliative Care Nursing Practice” by Deebs Canning, John Rosenberg, and Patsy Yates, the focus of the concept is on nursing care. Considered to be one of an essential focus of specialist nursing practice is the therapeutic relationships formed with those for whom the nurses care as well as their respective families. Such relationships allow…
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The practices that I would like to retain from doing this learning plan is to continue to incorporate the research findings during the interactions with the patients on regular basis rather than just during the admission process. I am very well able to use the new knowledge in acute care setting but also transfer those skills to outpatient settings as well. Also, I can utilize those skills in any area of nursing as it is crucial for the nurse to build a positive rapport to establish a trusting nurse-client…
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Development of Nursing Timeline Blesilda Galsim NUR/513 March 6, 2012 Noura Kassis Ed.D.,R.N. Historical Development of Nursing Timeline Introduction The evolution of nursing as a profession had showed through time that it is both an art and science. Before the 19th century, the military and religious orders are the ones who perform the duties of how nurses work today. As time went by, different events throughout history such as wars and epidemics had shaped nursing to its present…
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Therapeutic relationships are beneficial for nursing practise, it involves building a connection of trust, respect, confidentiality and empathy, which all surrounds the ethics of patient centred care (Arnold, 2016). The Nursing Council of New Zealand (2012), has written and formulated specific standards for nurses to abide by to ensure appropriate practise, in nursing in New Zealand; “Guidelines: Professional Boundaries and Code of Conduct: For nurses”. In accordance with the facts stated in these…
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