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Nursing

Nurses are professional healthcare providers that work alone or collaboratively with doctors to promote and provide holistic health care.

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Why is school nursing considered community nursing?

I think this is because the school is still basically a community and that it is outside the hospital or clinical setting.

Telemetry alerts ICU nursing personnel of what event?

Telemetry monitors your heart rhythm. From a computer at the nurses station the nurse and doctor can watch your rhythm. It will alert them to an arrhythmia; heart beat that is to slow, to fast, to strange, or to fatal.

Types of therapeutic communication?

· Active Listening: being attentive to what client is saying both verbally and nonverbally. SOLER is part of active listening.

· Sharing Observations: conveys concern and interest to the client be taking note of their behavior (how they look, sound or act).

· Empathy: ability to understand and accept another person's reality, to accurately perceive feelings, and to communicate this understanding to others.

· Sharing Hope: communicating a sense of possibility.

· Sharing Humor: to bring hope and joy to the situation.

· Sharing Feelings/emotions: assisting clients to share feelings by making observations, acknowledging feelings, encouraging communication, giving permission to express negative feelings and modeling healthy emotional self-expression.

· Using Touch: hand to body contact to convey affection, emotional support, encouragement, tenderness, and personal attention.

· Using Silence: the therapeutic technique of silence is the deliberate lack of verbal communication for a therapeutic purpose.

· Providing Information: telling others what they need or want to know

· Clarifying: checking to see if your understanding is accurate.

· Focusing: used to center on key elements or concepts of a message; used to guide direction of conversation to an important area.

· Paraphrasing: restating another's message more briefly and in your own words; lets another know you are actively seeking understanding of what they are saying.

· Asking Relevant Questions: to seek information

o Open-ended questions: to allow client to take the lead in the conversation and give information

o Focused questions: used when more specific information is needed in an area.

o Closed-ended questions: elicit a yes, no, or one word response. Most often they block communication, but can be useful when conversation gets off track.

· Summarizing: concise review of key aspects of the communication

· Self-Disclosure: sharing personal experience with another to show you understand their experience (Remember this is not intended to be "about " you)

· Confrontation: direct confrontation to help person be aware of inconsistencies in his/her feelings, attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors

What are the nursing responsibilities for fistulography?

Nurses specializing in fistulography ( kidney dialysis ) are responsible for providing IV. But they also prepare patient for x-rays in which examine the blood flow and clot formation. After examinations blood pressure is taken, catheters are removed, a nurse will monitor until stabilized.

How carmencita abaquin define health?

Carmencita Abaquin did not specifically mention her definition of health. She did, however, have a theory about illness. Her theory especially revolved around cancer patients, and the provision of holistic care to improve a patient's quality of life.

What are the responsibility of nurse?

Many responsibilies mainly involving having a positive impact on the patients and family's wellbeing.

Ie making sure the patients are fed, watered, medically treated and generally put back on the road to recovery - and giving cares which are proven to be safe and beneficial.

Why wont the dog let puppies nurse?

She might have metritis (inflammation of the uterus), consult with a veterinarian as to make sure she does before giving her medication.

METRITIS (INFLAMMATION OF THE UTERUS)

Signs of this condition are as follows:

  • fever
  • foul smelling vaginal discharge
  • listlessness
  • loss of appetite
  • no interest in the puppies
  • decreased milk production

If these signs are noted, usually in the first day or two postpartum, a veterinarian should be consulted. Your dog may have retained a placenta or have suffered some trauma during delivery. Animals who have required assistance with delivery are often predisposed to metritis. She will likely need to be spayed.

What is an example of a nursing report?

Nursing reports can vary depending on the department of the institution and from hospital to hospital. Basically, they contain the details of the client, including their name and personal information, medications, other medical details, etc.

Nurses also have shift report sheets and other reports that they use.

For a sample of a nursing report for a client, see the Related Link.

What are the nursing interventions for tonsillitis?

what are the nusring intervention and discharges planning for tonsilitis???

What is the hourly rate of a nurse in new york?

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.

What is the payscale of a Comcare RN?

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.

What are the medico-legal aspects of emergency nursing?

obtaining consent, occupational mhealth risks for ED STAFF and provoding holistic care in a fast-paced ED environment

How does the ICN support nurses?

ICN supports quality care for all. It is founded and run by nurses. It was founded in Switzerland in 1899. It is supported by nurses internationally

What is a person in charge of nurses called?

Typically there is a nurse manager who oversees the running of a hospital floor and coordinates nursing care.

When should an interpreter be used?

Any time the patient's first language is not English. Each health care organization does have their own policy on this though.

What is the difference between nurses and paramedics?

A paramedic is a health care professional who works in emergency medical situations and provides basic or advanced life support treatment in a pre hospital situation. They usually work in ambulances, emergency response vehicles or even bicycles. They provide a initial assessment, a diagnosis and a treatment plan. They are dispatched from Ambulance stations or sometimes Hospitals. They respond to any emergency medical situation that they are dispatched to and provide treatment and Transport to a hospital for further advanced care. Nurses are healthcare professionals who work in a hospital or elderly care facility(primarily). There focus in on care of individuals, families and communities. Nurses are a very important component of our healthcare system. You usually see a Nurse before you see the Doctor. Nurses work under Doctors.

Main differences:

Skill Set/Scope of practice: Paramedics are emergency specialists, because they work in emergency scenes by themselves(2 EMTs per ambulance) there very good at thinking on there own. Nurses are generally in a hospital where they can call for a Doctor at any time. Paramedics can perform certain advanced skills that no other HCP can perform besides a Doctor such as intubation, cricothyrotomy, intraosseus infusion and more. They can also interpret 12 lead ECG. Nurses are very good at giving medications and focusing on patient care, they are very compassionate and good at there job.

Education: To become a Paramedic you take a college level course, generally about 2 years. To become a Licensed Practical Nurse/LPN(first level of Nurse) it takes about 2 years also at a college level course. To become a Registered Nurse it takes 4 years at a college or university.

Location/Work environment: As mentioned above Paramedics work by themselves in emergency situations and are dispatched by Ambulance to a scene. Nurses work generally in hospitals.

Pay: The max a Paramedic can make is about 90,000, in Canada if you are a Critical Care Paramedic it can go up to 100,000. Nurses tend to get about 70-150,000.

Opportunity for Advancement: There are 3 levels of EMT in the US and 3 levels of Paramedicine in Canada. Not as many chances for advancement but there are definitely still some. There are 3 levels of Nursing, but Nurses can specialize in certain areas like pediatrics, surgery, emergency and so on.

Nursing interventions for a child with wilms tumor?

It is important to prepare parents and the child for the extent of the incision, which is considerable.

general nursing measures for the comfort of the patient are carried out. one factor pertinent to this condition is that all unnecessary handling of the abdomen is to be avoided because it can cause the tumor to spread.

Do not palpate abdomen.

What is a nursing diagnosis?

A nursing diagnosis is a current or potential problem that the patient has that the nurse can diagnose and treat for the most part independently. For example pain is a nursing diagnosis that may be related to an abdominal incision. The nurse can then come up with a care plan to reduce the patient's pain by repositioning, or having the patient listen to music to relax.

Are Puncture wounds dangerous?

Puncture wounds appear innocuous on the surface, but the underlying injury goes deep