Specific leadership objectives of the project include (1) development of a government-wide proposal for bereavement procedures and benefits for federal employees and their families, to be submitted to OPM (spell this out) for approval, and (2) development of a proposed implementation manual. The bereavement procedures and benefits proposal and proposed implementation manual shall aim to foster greater caring, by leaders of federal government branches and other federal agencies, about the welfare of those they lead and their families, during times of loss and bereavement in particular.
Procedures and Methods
Procedures and methods to be used for this project will include (1) the reviewing of the history and content of military and federal government bereavement legislation; (2) the collection of anecdotal evidence of positive or less positive effects, on federal government employees and other employees, of bereavement policies and procedures within their workplaces, or the lack thereof, and (3) based on…...
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Harari, O. (2002). Leadership secrets of Colin Powell. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Kouzes J., and Posner, B. (1997). The leadership challenge. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Pascarella, P. (1999). Christ centered leadership: Thriving in business by putting God in charge. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing.
Woolfe, L. (2002). The bible on leadership. New York: American Management
Caring and Nursing
Nurse patient relationship caring relationship Boundaries maintenance relationship Nursing practice standards esearch paper, primary source House Arrest Ellen Meeropol (2011) Need a good introduction a good conclusion Do a reference page text citation a refer illustrative House arrest. ID
The nurse-patient relationship as caring, professional relationship
One of the primary reasons that nurses embark upon the profession of nursing is their desire to give care to others. However, caring in the sense of 'nursing' is different than the type of caring that a person gives to a friend. Nursing is a specific discipline that dispenses a specific kind of care. There must be preservation of professional barriers when dispensing that care. Yet although a nurse is not a friend, a nurse must also be a good listener and dispense care that shows sensitivity to the individual patient's needs.
Trust is at the heart of showing caring in nursing. "The concept of…...
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References
Bell, L & Duffy. (2009). A concept analysis of nurse-patient trust. British Journal of Nursing.
18(1):46-51.
Henderson, S. (2001). Power imbalance between nurses and patients. Journal of Clinical
Caring for the Elderly
"Caring for elderly patients with dementia: nursing interventions"
The paper is centered around identifying the challenges that people living with dementia face and how these can be handled in order to make their lives easier that it is currently. The paper therefore looks at the supportive strategies that should be employed in dealing with this group of patients. These strategies include the correct assessment process, correct problem identification and ultimately a nursing intervention that is geared towards providing quality life for the patient with full cognizance of the status of the cognitive ability of the patient. This concern expressed by the paper is founded on the fact that most of the time the mental and behavioral challenges faced by this group are often ignored, coupled with the difficulty in identifying such conditions and the patients are totally vulnerable. It is imperative therefore that the nurses detect dementia through…...
caring for elderly patients with dementia article & Carehome staff can detect the difference between delirium, dementia and depression
Caring for elderly patients with dementia
Dementia, delirium, and depression: The three Ds
Caring for elderly patients is a growing problem for nurses, and given the aging of the population the need for geriatric nursing is likely to increase. Nurses must be mindful of the three 'Ds' that can affect patients -- dementia, delirium, and depression. Dementia is the irreversible, slow cognitive decline due to Alzheimer's or other age-related complaints. Delirium is a temporary state of cognitive disassociation which occurs as a result of medications or other biological factors such as a lack of sleep. Depression is a mood disorder that can affect persons of all ages; however, the elderly are often particularly prone to depression due to life circumstances and the biological changes that occur as result of the aging process.
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References
Joosse, L, Palmer, D. & Lang, N. (2013). Caring for elderly patients with dementia: nursing
Interventions. Nursing Research and Reviews, 3: 107 -- 117
Peacock R., Hopton A., Featherstone I., & Edwards J. (2012). Care home staff can detect the difference between delirium, dementia and depression. Nursing Older People (1):26-30.
Caring for Populations - Assessment and Diagnosis
Caring for Populations: Assessment and Diagnosis
The aging population in America is no secret. The baby boomers are reaching retirement age and people are living longer, which means there is a growing number of individuals over the age of 65 who are going to need care in the future. While there are some communities that have more elderly individuals than other communities, this is still an overarching problem that is affecting the entire United States. The 2010 census indicated that the over-65 population in the United States was 40,267,984 (Census Brief, 2010). That was up from the 2000 census number of 34,991,753 (Census Brief, 2010). It is not difficult to see where the trend is heading, and also not difficult to imagine how that will impact the need for skilled workers who can care for the aging population and its rapid expansion.
Caring for the Population: Assessment and Diagnosis
Caring for Population
With the introduction of machines and new technology in our lives we as Americans, have become very lazy and heavily dependent on the software driven machines which in turn has reduced the total amount of physical activity undertaken throughout the day. The concept of earning more and more money while we totally avoid giving time to ourselves through exercises, gyms, aerobics and yoga has in turn, made us into the fattest nation of the world. And due to obesity and tension our pancreases stop working and condition arises that is known as diabetes. Obesity can create many problems on an individual level and on a community level. Obesity hinders the functional level of organism and can cause loss in terms of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) or GNP (Gross National Product). It is obvious that a slow and unproductive organism wouldn't perform well…...
Caring for a Child having a Mental Health Problem
Children with mental health problem or children with mental health challenge are the children with learning disability. A mentally retarded child has neurodevelopmental disorders, impaired adaptive and impaired intellectual functioning. A mentally retarded child can develop a lifelong impaired mental development. This paper provides the summary of the interview that I have with a mental health therapist that focus on the method to care for a child having a mental health challenge. The summary of the interview with a healthcare professional is presented in the next section.
Summary of the Interview
I am a professional mental health therapist, and find the work very challenging because of the load of work involved. Assisting children with mental health problem requires a professional specializing in children mental health, who can provide more health care support and understanding for children. The challenging thing about the work is that…...
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Byrne, M.B. Hurley, D.A. Daly, L. et al. (2010).Health status of caregivers of children with cerebral palsy. Child Care Health Dev. 36: 696-702.
Michael, S. Micheal, B. Annette, G. et al. (2011). Time demands of caring for children with cerebral palsy: what are the implications for maternal mental health? Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. 53(4): 338-343.
Raina P. O'Donnell ., Schwellnus, H. et al. (2004).Caregiving process and caregiver burden: conceptual models to guide research and practice. BMC Pediatr. 4: 1 .
Singer, G.H.S. (2006). Meta-analysis of comparative studies of depression in mothers of children with and without developmental disabilities. Am J. Ment Retard. 111: 155-69.
There are numerous reasons for which obesity exists, as some people are obese from their early years while others become obese because of their living standards. Obesity is a severe disease and it is in most occasions easier to prevent the malady than it is to treat it.
Natural life history
Obesity is typically caused by the eating of high-fat aliments and influences inflammation in peripheral tissues. Similarly, the hypothalamus is believed to influence weight increase by impeding the signaling associated with leptin and insulin. The disease can apparently be fought through anti-inflammatory therapies. (Thaler & Schwartz)
Summary
Social change is one of the main factors influencing obesity, as people can be prevented from living as they did before because of the various elements coming into their culture and presenting them with new opportunities, each more confusing than the other and more difficult to interpret. Even though upper classes are less probable to…...
There must be special training programs for doctors and nurses to be able to help support psychiatric services on the initial temporary basis. This can work on empowering physicians and nurses to be able to diagnose and therefore recommend treatment for psychiatric conditions... This is essentially extending their roles within the care community, but it is needed in order to best serve the community within the short run. These programs need to focus on working primarily with restoring individuals quality of life before the earthquake disrupted so many people in Japan in 2011 by getting people to their normal functioning levels so they can continue to pick up the pieces of the disaster and move on, without the looming taboo of being stigmatized for life. Moreover, it will be important to provide support to those who most need it. This would include extending special services to those vulnerable populations…...
Healthcare
Initially, I was attracted to the idea of working as a sales vendor for healthcare. I liked the idea of having a variety of clients, as well as the facets of travel and meeting different people that are involved with this kind of work. I also was intrigued by the role that sales vendors play in the delivery of health care -- they help health care providers maintain a steady supply of products and equipment that the latter utilizes in their daily operations. Still, after researching a couple of different sources about this position, I actually do not think I am interested. The constant selling point that is the proverbial bottom line of this position interferes with, I believe, the role this position plays in health care delivery.
I found an authentication policy template from the American Health Information Management Association, AHIMA. This document provides basic information about a health care…...
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One of the advance directives of my doctor's office involves filling out a living will. The importance in filling out this document is that it provides a degree of accountability of a patient's own accord in the event that there is something noxious (if not fatal) that occurs to him or her while undergoing diagnosis or treatment. It also helps to make provisions for such harmful situations. I don't have a living will nor do I necessarily fill out those type of forms. Not all doctor's offices require them; I do not want to think too much about such morbidity.
The ICD-10-CM is a replacement for the ICD-9-CM (volumes one and two) as a system for the international classification of disease. During the summer of 2014 there was a mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandating this replacement to take effect in 2015. This code will be used to classify mortality data found on death certificates. The ICD-10-PCS is another code that replaces the ICD-9-CM coding system. The former is radically different from the latter, and focuses more on anatomy and physiology than the latter did.
I believe in myself strongly. I know that I am a great, beautiful person, who has much to offer to the world. In doing so, I will complete my education related to health care in a manner in which I do so successfully, with grace, and create the potential to help others. I will not let adversity deter me. I refuse to let setbacks defeat me. I will continue in my persistence to fulfill my goals and ambitions. Also, I am a unique person. There are things that I was meant to do on this planet, on this plane of existence, which will not get done unless I do them.
Caring
When most people are asked 'what do nurses do," there is a strong likelihood that the word 'caring' will arise in the conversation. Many nurses, particularly new nurses, identify caring as one of the personal qualities that attracted them to the profession. However, caring can be a very nebulous concept, as even non-nurses give 'care' to others and non-nurses can be 'caring' people. Nursing, in an effort to create an empirical and academic basis for itself as a discipline has fought against the idea that nursing is just about caring. However, it cannot 'ignore' the idea of caring, given that one of the concepts that distinguishes nursing from other forms of medical care is its patient-centric and individualistic perspective.
I have chosen caring as the concept I will focus on in this paper, with a specific focus on Jean Watson's Theory of Caring, given that it is one of the…...
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References
Cara, Chantal. (2011).A pragmatic view of Jean Watson's caring theory.
Universite de Montreal. Retrieved www.humancaring.org/conted/Pragmatic%20View.doc
Caring is important to human kind and in our daily experiences. Although caring is fundamental, knowledge about it and its application is not one of the serious academic concerns. Caring as a topic can raise various descriptions. In nursing as a discipline of concern, caring relates to the ability and desire to help someone grow or overcome a depressing situation. Caring is the moral ideal in nursing practice. It involves ones will to care, and mind about the situation of others. In nursing practice, Caring is a process that nurtures itself from a person's moral responsibility to meet a society's mandate. According to Watson (1985), nurses are the caretakers of care for other helping professions. Nursing is the epitome of care and a nurse has to guard and develop the concept. Caring is not only required in nursing but also in various disciplines. Caring can develop from different motivational…...
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References
Caudill, M. (2009). Managing pain before it manages you. New York: Guilford Press.
Watson, J. (1985). Nursing science and human care: A theory of nursing. London: Jones & Bartlett publishers.
Srivastava, R. (2007). The healthcare professional's guide to clinical cultural competence.
Caring in Nursing
Over time, nursing and caring have largely been regarded synonymous. With that in mind, it is important to note that quite a number of caring theories have been developed based on caring as a central concept. Some of these theories include the Cultural Care theory by Leininger as well as the Human Caring theory by Jean Watson whose development took place in 1970's. In this text, I will concern myself with caring as a concept in nursing. In so doing, I shall come up with a detailed evaluation of the nature of the practice theory gap most particularly in Bahrain as far as nursing is concerned.
Caring in Nursing: A Definition
To begin with, it is important to note that caring behaviors in the context of nursing can be taken to be those approaches as well as practices that are evidenced by nurses as they seek to care for…...
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References
Barker, A.M. (2009). Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession. Jones and Bartlett Learning
Callara, L.E. (2008). Nursing Education Challenges in the 21st Century. Nova Publishers
Chitty, K.K. (2005). Professional Nursing: Concepts and Challenges. Elsevier Health Sciences
Cody, W.K. (2006). Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives for Advanced Nursing Practice. Jones & Bartlett Learning
Caring for ody and Soul
Critiquing Research Report
Modern nursing practice has focused more and more on treating the whole person, through four domains (Chan, 2009). These are physical, mental, social, and spiritual. Of the four, the spiritual domain is the most neglected. A retrospective study recently found that nurses with religious beliefs are more likely to extend spiritual care. The greater their spiritual perceptions, the more frequently they include a spiritual dimension to their care of patients (Chan). However, not many nurses are able to extend care in this domain.
Jean Watson's Theory of caring is applied as theoretical framework. Her concept sees caring as a process of transpersonal caring. It is something exceeding the self and recognizing the relationship as "mutual and reciprocal (Goliath, 2008)." It is in this environment that the nurse connects with the patient under his specific circumstances. Watson uses 10 carative factors in applying her theory.
Palese et al. (2011). According to Wood & Haber (2014) " the critique is process of critical appraisal that objectively and critically evaluates a research report's content for scientific merit and application to practice." Using the text's understanding of this examination this essay will explore the article and examine it for practical use and valid argument.
The problem that this research is premised upon is the idea that nurse's caring has gone mostly under examined in relation to patient's view of quality of care. The role of caring within the nursing profession is described as the factor which inspired this research. The variables within this examination are the patients' satisfaction measured against the practice of caring executed by nurses in their professional duties.
This problem is clearly identified and can be empirically tested as the article revealed in its conclusions. To help lessen the distortion of the ideas and values of…...
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References
LoBiondo-Wood, G., & Haber, J. (Eds.). (2014). Nursing research: Methods and critical appraisal for evidence-based practice. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Palese, A., et al. (2011). Surgical patient satisfaction as an outcome of nurses' caring behaviors: A descriptive and correlational study in six European countries. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 43(4), 341-350.
Gandhi's life can be considered a success, not just because of all the peace he brought to others, but because of the peace he had within himself. His ethical and political views were grounded firmly in the spiritual views he held, as evidenced by the calm demeanor he always possessed. He had wise words for nearly every leader in politics about how they should treat others, and he spoke great truth about the world and society even though it was often ignored. The world did not change him when he saw that most people did not subscribe to his calm....
First, we want to reassure you that being confused about nursing worldviews puts you in some good company. Many nurse practitioners find that the approach that place worldviews at the beginning of nursing inquiry may actually be hampering the development of nursing scholarship and keeping the profession from evolving as quickly and as efficiently as it should. In addition, the material can become very confusing because different authors use the words paradigm and worldview interchangeably, though they distinguish them from metaparadigms.
Broadly stated, an individual’s worldview consists of the beliefs and assumptions that the person uses to interpret....
I. Introduction A. Introduce the characters of Jerry and Armand in the short story "President Cleveland, Where Are You?" B. Provide a brief summary of the story and its theme
II. Jerry A. Description of Jerry's character traits 1. Kind-hearted and caring towards his brother 2. Resourceful and clever in finding solutions to their problems 3. Determined to reunite with their father
III. Armand A. Description of Armand's character traits 1. Self-centered and rebellious 2. Impulsive and quick-tempered 3. Not as focused on reuniting with their father as Jerry
IV. Comparison between Jerry and Armand A. Their approaches to finding President Cleveland 1.....
1. The role of a substance abuse nurse in promoting and providing support for individuals struggling with addiction 2. The impact of substance abuse on mental health and the role of nurses in managing co-occurring disorders 3. The importance of culturally competent care in substance abuse nursing 4. The challenges and rewards of working with individuals with substance use disorders in a nursing setting 5. The ethical considerations of caring for patients with substance abuse issues 6. The role of education and prevention in addressing substance abuse from a nursing perspective 7. The impact of substance abuse on families and the role of nurses in supporting....
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