After completing my interview with Melissa, I learned that leadership is all about working as a team and making it known that we are all here for each other. Most authoritarian leaders are not fully successful especially in the healthcare system due to the fact that people are scared to approach these types of leaders. When in truth, everyone should have their center focus on the patient and their well-being, and work as a part of the healthcare team in…
Since completing the ethics assignments, I’ve added some insight to my understanding of the nurses contribution to ethical conduct and implementation of research. After watching the movie “Miss Ever’s Boys” I learned that not only is it the nurses role to advocate for their patient and promote patient privacy, safety and autonomy, but through education, using research the nurse can provide knowledge to those with knowledge deficits such as those in the movie. through research, nurse Ever’s was able to…
As a nurse, we will see ethics in our every day life. From protecting a patients rights to privacy, to protecting their rights as a human being, even when it becomes second nature and we don’t notice it, nurses will constantly have a role in ethics. Reflecting back to the ethics class that I took last year, we were assigned to read “my sisters keeper” about a girl who was born to be her terminally ill sister’s “spare parts.” As…
In my opinion, there is so much stigma surrounding mental illness because people are uneducated about mental health and the influence it has on a persons total wellness. People who stereotype mental illness as “incompetent” or that they are not “normal” are those who do not have experience with individuals who have mental health disorders. Personally, I have a cousin who has a very rare mental disorder, so I have been surrounded by mental health for the majority of my…
Empathy and Compassion in Care Nursing is more than a profession. As nursing students, we hear this frequently, but what does it really mean? Nursing as a profession means we are able to competently do skills within our scope of practice and document them accordingly. However, we couldn’t call ourselves nurses without the ability to be compassionate and empathetic towards our patients. Empathy can be expressed as “a feeling, portrayed non-verbally, and includes thoughts and emotions related to understanding patients’…
In my project I did notice some safety concerns just in the medications that my client was taking. Since she was on so many antihypertensive medications this increases her risk for developing the adverse effects that these medications may cause. Most of the antihypertensives caused the same adverse effects which would increase her risk even more. The most concerning and most common adverse effect among the medications she was taking was drowsiness which increases her risk of falls and other…
This piece of art is very special to me, it shows so much in just a simple drawing and it is also drawn by my very talented big sister. When I look at this drawing I see a rib cage along with the thoracic spine leading to the pelvic bone, however it is not just any ordinary skeleton. Weaved into the detailed drawing of human bones are beautiful pieces of nature which can mean many different things depending on the…
