Nursing

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Or one who practices that medicine. - An obstetrician

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics the estimated mean annual wage for registered nurses as of May 2008 is, $65,130 This would amount to $31.31 per hour. Median annual wages of registered nurses were $62,450 in May 2008. The middle 50 percent earned between $51,640 and $76,570. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $43,410, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $92,240.

The average yearly income of a nurse can range anywhere from $51,000 to $76,000, with the median at somewhere around %60,000. The lowest 10 percent earns around $40,000, while the highest 10% can earn up to $90,000.

wake them up and buy them a hot dog

Flexner's1915 Essay "Is Social Work a Profession" stated 6 criteria for a profession: · Professional activity is based on intellectual action along with personal responsibility · The practice of a profession is based on knowledge, not routine activities · There is practical application rather than just theorizing. · There are techniques that can be taught. · A profession is organized internally. · A profession is motivated by altruism, with members working in some sense for the good of society.

Depending upon the scope of practice for the particular level of nursing that the person hold they do all the things necessary to ensure the safety and comfort of the patient, or client. These can be simple daily necessities such as toileting, dressing, and hygiene, bathing, and eating.

You have to study alot and pass tests of knoledge to even become a unemployed nurse...nevertheless a nurse with a job that has to do even more. To become a nurse it take about 2 or 3 years to become a nurse.

Nursing theory is the term given to the body of knowledge that is used to support nursing practice. In their professional education nurses will study a range of interconnected subjects which can be applied to the practice setting.

Registered Nurses just graduating from a four-year university with a BSN can expect to start out at $18.63 an hour at hospitals and about $20.00 an hour at Long Term Care Facilities. Two-year RN's earn less and have little to no chance of manager positions. Texas is known as one of the lowest paying states for nurses. LVN's make anywhere from $12.00 to $16.00 per hour. As RN,BSN's gain experience they will make more money promoting within the hospitals or moving on to more lucretive careers and other area's of nursing.

DVT=deep vein thrombosis, most often occuring in the legs or pelvis. The affected part should be elevated to promote venous drainage, heat may be applied for comfort and to increase circulation, administration of anticoagulants and monitoring of the levels to ensure proper dosing, bedrest initially, avoid standing, sitting with legs down, crossing legs, do not massage legs which could cause clots to break off and travel to lungs (pulmonary emboli). Best interventions are those to prevent DVT- early ambulation after surgery, anti-thrombus devices, keep well hydrated, avoid prolonged standing, sitting and immobility in general.

1. IMPAIRED GAS EXCHANGE related to inadequate surfactant levels; as evidenced by grunting, flaring, substernal and intercostal retractions, CO2 50 and pH 7.31 per CBG and CXR with ground glass appearance suggestive of hyaline membrane disease.2. INEFFECTIVE THERMOREGULATION related to prematurity and low birth weight; as evidenced by poor flexion and lack of subcutaneous fat stores needed for non shivering thermogenesis. 3. ALTERED NUTRITION: LESS THAN BODY REQUIREMENTS related to respiratory distress; as evidenced by confinement under oxyhood, oral gastric tube to drainage, respiratory rate greater than 60 per minute, and NPO status. 1. IMPAIRED GAS EXCHANGE related to inadequate surfactant levels; as evidenced by grunting, flaring, substernal and intercostal retractions, CO2 50 and pH 7.31 per CBG and CXR with ground glass appearance suggestive of hyaline membrane disease. 2. INEFFECTIVE THERMOREGULATION related to prematurity and low birth weight; as evidenced by poor flexion and lack of subcutaneous fat stores needed for non shivering thermogenesis. 3. ALTERED NUTRITION: LESS THAN BODY REQUIREMENTS related to respiratory distress; as evidenced by confinement under oxyhood, oral gastric tube to drainage, respiratory rate greater than 60 per minute, and NPO status.

I want to be a nurse because... I would like to help people and make them better. People may also have as known like, cancer and all like those things. Bieng a nurse is a really big deal to me because I'm a nine-year-old girl who wants to be a nurse when I grow up. Also, If you work as a nurse or want to be a nurse when you grow up you actually get paid alot of money it depends. I want to be a nurse not just I get paid alot of moeny I also care about other people too.

a doctor or the matron

Nonsense!!! Doctors are never in charge of nurses in a hospital. Nurses and Doctors are two completely separate teams that run paralell to each other and also work with each other. Doctors enter the ward as visiting staff, there is always a ward manager in charge of a ward and he/she is a Band 7 registered nurse. In Most hospitals a nurse manager will manage all of the nurses within the hospital.

TV shows such as Holby and Casualty always show a doctor telling a nurse to go for their tea break etc and giving them rows. THis would never happen in real life and if a doctor attempted to do this to a nurse, there would be sparks flying!!

In the US, the Director of Nurses (or Chief Nursing Officer or similar designation) heads the Nursing Department. She is responsible for the overall functioning of the department and answers to the Chief Executive Officer (who may or may not be a doctor, but who is responsible for the entire hospital.) She does not answer to the Chief Medical Officer (who is responsible for the medical staff). Hospitals may variously have shift nursing supervisors (sometimes called house supervisors) who oversee the day to day running of units on a shift basis and coordinate between them, as well unit nursing supervisors (sometimes called clinical supervisors, used to be called head nurses), who frequently have 24 hour responsibility for their unit. Charge nurses take on some of the oversight functions on a shift basis in individual units (these used to be called assistant head nurses) doing things like patient assignments, phone calls, trouble shooting and generally supporting the bedside nurses. A nurse may be permanently a charge nurse, or the role may shift between team members on a daily or other basis. All of these people are RNs (Registered Nurse), some with advanced practice licenses and/or specialty certifications. Physicians are not in charge of nurses. Haven't been for at least the 35 years I've been in. Good thing, too. They really don't know a thing about nursing. Not even when we take breaks.

Florence Nightingale was instrumental in sanitizing hospitals and bringing reforms to the way medical care was provided to patients.

Nightingale began her work to reform hospitals during the Crimean War. When she arrived in Scutari, Turkey in 1853, she found the conditions at the military hospital there to be appalling. The men were kept in rooms without blankets or decent food. Unwashed, they were still wearing their army uniforms that were stiff with dirt and gore. As a result, diseases such as typhus and cholera were the main reasons why the death rate among soldiers was so high. Nightingale established more sanitary conditions, and ordered supplies, including clothing and bedding.

Nightingale later began to focus more attention on administration than actual nursing. She applied her education and interest in mathematics to develop statistical analyses of disease and mortality, inventing the use of the pie chart.

When she returned to England in 1856, she went to work on improving and reforming conditions in military hospitals in England. She also advocated for nursing education and the professionalization of nursing.

If you are talking about nurse asst. then, reducing the friction on the patient while pulling them up in bed would help to prevent bed sores. For example: Using 2 people instead of 1, and using a pad to pull them up.

Also,reducing or eliminating any other friction, or pressure, especially on the bony areas that lie on the bed. For example, floating the heels.

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Nurses should be caring, sympathetic, responsible, and detail oriented. They must be able to direct or supervise others, correctly assess patients' conditions, and determine when consultation is required. They need emotional stability to cope with human suffering, emergencies, and other stresses.

To help people get better, to make sure every patient gets the right diagnosis, and to organize the hospital.

The emergency room nurse must be alert at all times. This position requires accurate assessment of condition severity and the ability to work under stress. The nurse will help to stabilize patients for either discharge or admission to the hospital.

American Nurses Association (ANA)

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)

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Yes, part of the routine care when someone dies is to wash and re-dress a deceased person prior to transport. Often, Nursing Assistants do death care, but nurses must know how to do it. It's actually one of the most caring--and humbling--acts a nurse can do for his/her patient.

NOTE: IF A DEATH IS SUSPICIOUS, ALL IVs, TUBING, ETC. IS LEFT IN PLACE.

closely monitor blood pressure during initiation and throughout the course of treatment.