I chose my subject because she is someone that I have a personal relationship with, and she has helped me make many decisions not only nursing wise but also just in an everyday since as well. I have observed this person not only go above and beyond and help others when they aren’t asked to, but I have also seen what being a nurse means to them. I know that this person works two jobs and both of those are…
This semester I am most excited about learning new concepts and the end of our clinical experiences. I am also excited about looking forward to this next step in our lives, I can’t wait to start looking at jobs and what this next step will look like. I am going to celebrate this next step by taking a vacation with family and probably friends before I start a new job and will be busy. I will also celebrate by taking…
We right this minute are waiting for feedback on our dissemination project. From this project I will take with me that documenting input is very important. Many people remember to record the output that happens, but it doesn’t always help if we don’t know how much the patient is taking in, If someone is losing weight and it seeming like they are going to the bathroom and wasting big amount without it being recorded of the same being taken in,…
The primary roles and responsibilities of a nurse in the events of a natural disaster are to work as a team, some nurses may do tasks that they normally would never do like coordinating team huddles and providing updates to staff so they know what’s going on. During different disasters there are going to be different roles that will be needed but everyone should always know what is going on. For example, during a power outage many of the nurses…
My preconceived thoughts about dying with dignity include, terminally ill patients having the choice of when they want and how they’ll end their life. I knew that only certain states allowed for this to happen and that there was a long process that people needed to go through. I knew some information on this topic because freshman year I took an ethics class and we talked about this but at that time I believe it was still a newer topic…
After picking a topic and getting articles that supports that topic, as well as having to draft and revise our proposal. We as a team realized that our topic was too specific so we needed to broaden what we wanted to research. We needed to revise the topic that we chose as the topic of intake and output recording on a cardiac floor was too narrow so we switched it to just the importance of recording intake and output in…
Trauma exposure can impact all aspects of someone’s life, it can impact someone’s psychological well being by increasing their risk for having depression, anxiety and even PTSD, which can then impact someone’s social well-being as well. If someone has bad enough anxiety or depression, then it can impact how they interact with others especially if someone has PTSD and something triggers them without any waring. Trauma can also impact someone’s spiritual well-being as well, many time when someone goes through…
There are many different factors that influence the health of vulnerable and marginalized populations, looking more deeply at individual, environmental and societal factors. Some individual factors would include race, age, gender, sex, and income would all influence the health of a population. Environmental factors include where they live whether it is in the city or the suburbs, how many people they live with, whether they have transportation and if so what kind like a car or if they must take…
I believe that this dissemination project will be a good learning opportunity for everyone and not just in the aspect of EBP and doing a class project but in that we will have to figure out how to communicate with nurses on our floor about what they think needs to be changed. I think that might also be a learning opportunity for them as well because some people might think everything is going well and nothing needs to change but…
This team project has taught me many different things, from what nursing research is to how to formulate and write a research paper and learning to collaborate with others on a paper. This research project wasn’t always easy, having to go back and find new information that in the end might change out topic question was sometime frustrating but in the long run it ended up helping use strengthen what we were talking about and make the paper that much…
