paragraph 4

Please respond to the following post with a paragraph

ORDER A PLAGIARISM FREE PAPER NOW

Re:Topic 2 DQ 2

The general public is always very diverse in their thoughts and views as evidenced every day when people voice their political views or discuss food choices or banter back and forth about what cars they choose to buy. Nurses unfortunately, are not on any different spectrum when it comes to how they are perceived. Many people think that nurses are just transporters of patients or gatherers of supplies. They have learned all they know about nurses from watching hundreds of hours of television shows over the years where they show the doctors doing the work that the nurses usually do. Some people think that nurses are only there to take you to the bathroom or help you with a shower or bath. They have no idea what a Certified Nurse’s Assistant is or what duties they perform. Many times, throughout the work week in the Intensive Care Unit phone calls are received or friends or family of patients visit, and they want to talk to the doctor. Those requests are triaged and sometimes they can be valid because of a very complex situation but usually more often than not they are simple questions that the nurse or charge nurse is able to answer. That is something that is always mind blowing and makes one realize what little information that a lot of people think nurses know.

Television plays the biggest role in people’s thoughts and understanding about what nurses do. Television has very unrealistic situations and very rarely shows nurses doing the actual work that they do on a daily basis. On the daytime show, “The View” one of the hosts mocked a nurse during a pageant asking why she was wearing a “doctor’s stethoscope.” This sparked national attention and debate. Many nurses took a stand and the program ended up losing some of their sponsors and had to issue an apology.

Clothing also creates a huge amount of confusion over what a nurse’s role is. Scrubs are worn by anyone and everyone that chooses to wear them whether they be a food services worker, a housekeeper, or a biomedical engineer. Anyone wearing a white coat that is male is usually perceived as a doctor, even when they have already verbally identified themselves to the patient and family as a nuclear medicine technician or echocardiogram technician. Medical assistants in physician’s offices are often called “nurses”. Many of them have a certificate in medical assisting from a college but this even is not always required for them to work in a physician’s office as it is up to the physician and office manager’s discretion.

In order to educate the general public about the professional nurse’s role it would take a lot of work and a large number of nurses coming together to create change along with consistency of follow through year after year. Some suggestions (Summers & Summers, 2016) to start the education process would be for the nurse to project a professional image in all interactions. This would entail that when you meet someone you would introduce yourself as a nurse and include your last name as physicians do. Also, when performing your nursing assessment, you could describe your assessment and interventions as you perform them. This could help patients and family members to understand your professional knowledge and ask questions. As referenced above, clothing can play a big part in what the public may think a nurse’s role is. Cartoon characters on scrubs can seem childish and unprofessional unless worn in the correct limited setting. Nurses should work to maintain professionalism in their own attire, appearance, grooming and hygiene.

Media portrayal of nurses has a huge effect on the public’s thoughts and knowledge of the nursing profession. Hospitals often have communication departments that highlight physicians on their bulletins or webpages. One way to promote the nurses in a facility (Summers & Summers, 2016) would be to form a work group to increase awareness of nursing achievements and innovations and publish those on a bulletin or webpage that is seen by the public and/or other facility employees. Many times, the media can get things wrong just as they can also get things right. Nurses can submit feedback to media outlets by giving positive reinforcement. This can be done by phone calls, hard-copy letters, email, twitter hashtags or other social media commenting. The same strategy can also be used when negative nursing portrayal is observed.

Works Cited
Summers, S., & Summers, H. (2016, March). American Nurse Today. Retrieved from https://www.americannursetoday.com/lets-take-lead-…

Tags: citations nursing references paragraph

Paragraph 1

Please respond to the following post with a paragraph

ORDER A PLAGIARISM FREE PAPER NOW

Critical thinking as defined by (The Foundation for Critical Thinking, (n.d.) is the “ability to think in a systematic and logical manner with openness to question and reflect on the reasoning process used to ensure safe nursing practice and quality care”. Nurses must use critical thinking in every aspect of the nursing process. For example the nurse taking care of an elderly man with pneumonia who is requiring high flow oxygen, understands and uses critical thinking prior to showering the patient without continuous oxygen while in the bathroom. She understands that his tissue perfusion will be altered for such activity. Instead the RN chooses to bathe the patient while in bed, with continuous oxygen, also includes breaks to preserve energy while ensuring patient safety is maintained. Using such skill improves patient outcomes. “Critical thinking skills are very important in the nursing field because they are what you use to prioritize and make key decisions that can save lives” (NurseJournal.org, 2018).

“The term evidence-based practice has become pervasive in the health care industry. This concept signals a major shift in how health care providers deliver their services, and in how health care institutions function. It is no longer acceptable just to perform in a given way because “that’s how it’s always been done.”(Melnyk, B., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2005). An example of evidence based research change would be instead of automatically inserting foley catheters for convenience of the nurse, the nurse instead would evaluate the need of an indwelling catheter and by doing such evaluation she/he prevents a hospital acquired infection.

Finally evidence base practice and the use of critical thinking both play important roles in providing safe and effective patient care, while improving patient outcomes. If a nurse does not use critical thinking while providing care, injury may happen.

References

Melnyk, B., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2005). Evidence Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare: A guide to best practice. New York: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

The Value of Critical Thinking in Nursing Examples. (2018). NurseJournal.org. Retrieved from https://nursejournal.org/about-us/#Published

The Foundation for Critical Thinking. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/critical-th…

Paragraph 5

Please write a paragraph responding to the discussion bellow. Add citations and references in alphabetical order.

ORDER A PLAGIARISM FREE PAPER NOW

Grounded theory and phenomenology are the most common approaches to qualitative research used by nurses. Although there are differences between the two, they have much in common. Both take an interpretative approach in which the researcher seeks to explore real-life situations, and require a high degree of interaction between the researcher and the individual, groups or situations being examined; this usually takes the form of interviews and/or observations. Both grounded theorists and phenomenologists seek to collect and analyze data from participants’ perspectives and try to ensure their findings are not influenced by inflexible ideas. To achieve this they often involve participants in data analysis to increase the reliability of the findings. In brief, grounded theorists and phenomenologists both seek to explore individuals’ experiences in the context of the world in which they live. Because both approaches have so much in common it can sometimes be difficult to differentiate between them.

Differences

Phenomenology describes and explores experiences, which can only be done by collecting data from individuals who have lived through those experiences. Hence phenomenologists often refer to the “lived experience” and data is often limited to interviews, while findings are reported as a rich description of the experience drawing on characteristics identified during data analysis.

Grounded theory is a qualitative methodological approach in which the aim was to generate a “grounded theory” to describe and explain the phenomenon under study. Unlike phenomenologists, grounded theorists seek to include all data sources that might contribute to theory development. Interviews are commonly used but they might also include observations, diaries, images, past literature and research. Using a technique described as ‘constant comparison’, they compare all the data collected with all other data look for contradictory cases, which might challenge the emerging theory but will eventually strengthen it. This complex process of theoretical sampling, data collection and analysis can be extremely challenging.

Both grounded theorists and phenomenologists seek to understand peoples’ lives. Sticking to a single approach usually gives researchers the tools to undertake their research. There are differences but this does not mean that one approach is right and one is wrong. Grounded theory and phenomenology are research tools and one will not be suited to all jobs.

https://www.nursingtimes.net/…difference-between-grounded-theory…phenomenolog.