During the spring semester of 2022, I have focused all my service-learning hours on the volunteer services towards homeless individuals. I attended two different services that both had the goals to serve and aid the homeless of our local area. The first project that I attended was a blanket making project. The goal of this project was to supply homeless people of the area with homemade blankets. Along with the blankets, we also provided written affirmations and…
This team project has taught me many skills that I look forward to utilizing in my future career. Evidence-based practice is a systemic process that is meant for improved measurable outcomes of communities. This project has shown me the steps as a nurse that I can take to utilize this practice in real life examples. Our class project was divided into teams. This helped strengthen my team working capabilities. Overall, I had a very good experience with the team members…
Nurses are with the patient more than any other healthcare provider throughout the course of a patient’s stay. They are the primary advocates for all patients and are ethically held responsible for the benefit of the patient. Since completing the ethics assignments, my understanding of the nurse’s contribution towards ethics and research have changed immensely. Nurses are indeed involved in research-based studies and play an important role. It is a clinical responsibility to ensure that all rights are provided to…
In my opinion, the nurse’s role has always been to be an ethical advocate for their patients. As you may be aware, studies progress immensely with each decade that passes. With that, comes new evidenced based practice. Each generation of nursing has a different perspective when it comes to implementing these in their practice. For example, nurses in the early to mid-nineteen hundreds were endorsed in a medical era where studying diseases were important. At the time, they had an…
After appraising all journal articles, I have seen a common conclusion from all documents. Every article determined that there is great evidence to support the concept that altered sleep patterns can be a result of and/or add complications towards the mental health of adolescents. As a future nurse, I take this information very seriously. There needs to be more education and awareness towards encouraging proper sleep within adolescent aged children. I believe we should also place a closer view towards…
How Mental and Physical Health Intertwine Jenna Jacobsen University of New England The career of nursing comes with a large responsibility revolving around the focus of holistic care. Holistic care involves a view of the patient as a whole. They may have a physical disease that is imposing poor health on them, but as a nurse, it is important to acknowledge that there are other forms of illness that can also be present. It has only…
