Nursing

Nursing as an Entity Casey Berling, BSN Student Eastern Kentucky University NSC 252 Intro to Professional Nursing Department of Baccalaureate & Graduate Nursing, College of Health Sciences October 31, 2012 If the question was asked, “What is your definition of nursing,” to the thousands of nurses in the world today, there would be one word […]

Nursing is a profession that needs a courage, compassion, and patience. It is not just a matter of giving assistance to the doctors nor an attendant to the hospital units. Nurses are doctor themselves. They are the ones who do the monitoring and caring for the patience. They help the ill to recover not just […]

Introduction In different healthcare institutions the question of feeding patients, particularly those who are seriously sick and expected to die soon, raises questions of moral and ethical nature thus making a decision making process very difficult for the caring staff. Such questions may include: How can decisions of giving or withholding feeding and hydration be […]

This paper aims at analyzing the consequences of understaffing nurses. Some of the outcomes I observed this semester are nurse burnout and dissatisfaction that arise due to nurse shortage. The focus of this context is on the socio-economic impact in the nursing field, ethical bias, legality of the matter and psychological interference that have adverse […]

Six years prior to the publication of Spetz and Given, reports of the US media indicate a shortage of registered nurses (RNs) in the US. In that article too, forecasts see the continuity of this trend, such as that of the Bureau of Health Professions projecting a shortage of 800,000 nurses by 2020. However, Buerhaus […]

The Significance of Imparting Delegation to Nursing Students Johannes Gonzalez Aquinas College N232 Trends and Technology in Nursing Changes in the health care system and the nursing shortage have been a major cause of the transformation in primary care for the patients. Hospitals are now using unlicensed assistive personnel who help provide direct as well […]

Nursing as a profession has fascinated me as a child.  I derive a lot of inner satisfaction in helping people, especially the sick, the needy and elderly people.  I do feel happy once I am able to observe the reaction and the gratefulness they suggest to me in their own humble way, once they have […]