PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING SCHOLARLY PAPER

A philosophy of nursing is a written paper declaring a nurse’s beliefs, values, and ethical considerations regarding their practice of nursing.  The purpose of this paper is to provide you with the opportunity to reflect on your nursing care and treatment of patients and how you see yourself as a practicing nurse and an individual.  You will find that your nursing philosophy is dynamic, growing as you grow personally and professionally. 

Assignment Criteria:

1. Discuss your professional belief system of nursing. This will include broad statements of your values and beliefs that propose the nature and concerns of nursing and its moral obligations to society.
2. Use the nursing theory you chose for the nursing theory PowerPoint (THEORY OF HUMAN CARING BY JEAN WATSON). Explain the theory and how your values and beliefs are guided by the theory. 
3. Provide your definition of nursing based on your personal belief system and nursing theory. Your definition should be only a few sentences in length.
4. Give at least two examples of how you apply your definition of nursing to your nursing practice. Clearly identify each example.
5. The scholarly paper should be in narrative format, no more than three (3) pages in length excluding the title and reference pages. An abstract is not needed. Include an introductory paragraph and a conclusion.
6. Include Level 1 and 2 headings to organize the paper (see below).
7. This scholarly paper is intended to include first person formatting, with statements such as “I believe…” or “My values include…”
8. Include a minimum of four (4) peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles, professional organizations, or government websites to support the paper. At least two (2) of the four (4) references are current peer reviewed journal articles. References must be no greater than five (5) years old unless considered a “classic source”.
9. APA Student Paper format is required; also attention to spelling and grammar. APA (7th) Student Paper format is required (title page, a reference page, and all citations). Also, attention to spelling, grammar, and style. Do not use quotations.
10. Review your Turnitin Similarity Score and make any needed changes. If the score is greater than 20%, you must revise the paper prior to submission.  A Turnitin Similarity Score of 20% or less is required by the RN to BSN Program.

Title of Paper

(Note: Here you will write your introductory paragraph but do not label it as Introduction)

My Personal Belief System of Nursing

Nursing Theory Best Matching My Values and Beliefs

My Definition of Nursing Based on My Values, Beliefs, and Nursing Theory

How I Apply My Definition of Nursing to My Practice of Nursing

Conclusion

 

Hello, please are two tasks. Task # 1 is a Care Plan, below I attach two forms in words that must be completed. Please below I attach a document with an example of a Nursing Care Plan that will serve as a guide to make mine. Task # 2 is a Case Study that has three items a, b, and c, which must be answered independently. 

 Required Textbooks and Reading Material:

Touhy, Theris DNP and Jett, Kathleen, (2018). Ebersole and Hess’ Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging, 5th Edition. Elsevier. ISBN: 9780323401678

Task # 1

Care Plan 

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Task # 2 

Case Study 

Case Study: Health Care of the Older Adult

2.The nurse is completing the admission assessment for a patient scheduled for cataract surgery in the outpatient center. Because the patient is over the age of 70 and has several chronic conditions, including hypertension and congestive heart failure, the nurse focuses on completing a thorough medication history. (Learning Objective 4)

a. What questions should the nurse include in the medication history?

b. The patient states that she stopped taking one of her medications due to cost, since her health insurance would not reimburse for the medication. What are other reasons that older adults may be non-compliant with ordered medications?

c. How does aging affect drug absorption, metabolism, distribution, and excretion?

HA4050D – Healthcare Law

 Discussion 06.2: Premature Discharge?

Read the Discussion 06.2 Scenario. We will debate two related issues:

SCENARIO (BASED ON A REAL LOUISIANA CASE)

As your Pozgar textbook states, “The premature discharge of a patient is risky business” (p. 249). As the

text points out, improperly discharging patients is a very common basis for negligence suits against

physicians.

Scenario (based on a real Louisiana case): A patient with chronic kidney failure required continual

dialysis treatment. As such, hemodialysis catheters, also called access grafts, were surgically inserted in

the patient’s arms. These access grafts eventually caused problems and needed to be removed by a

vascular surgeon. After the procedure, the patient was hospitalized and he suffered two incidents

where he bled copiously from a surgery site in his left arm. The bleeding was stopped with pressure

dressings, and the patient received a blood transfusion. The patient was hospitalized for four additional

days for observation. He had no other episodes of bleeding, he received his dialysis treatment fine, ate

well, and had good vital signs—therefore, the patient was dismissed from the hospital. The physician’s

discharge summary noted the patient had been instructed on how to apply pressure if his arm should

bleed and was told to call his physician if problems occurred.

Upon returning home, the patient had two bleeding incidents. Pressure was applied and the site was

wrapped with gauze. No one called the physician to report the two bleeding incidents. The next day,

the patient was left alone while his wife went to run some errands. When she returned home about 30

minutes later, she found her husband dead, lying in a pool of blood. The patient died from loss of blood

caused by hemorrhaging from the incision in his left arm. His wife filed a wrongful death suit against the

physician, claiming that he never should have been discharged from the hospital. 

.Was the physician who dismissed the patient guilty of negligence?

.Even assuming the physician was negligent, recalling your reading from Chapter 8, are there any affirmative defenses he could raise in this case that might shield him from liability? If so, what are they, and what facts support them?

We will divide the class into two groups:

.Group 1:  Students with last names starting with the letters A-M will represent the defendant physician and argue that the doctor was not negligent and/or he should prevail because of an affirmative defense he could raise at trial.

.Group 2:  Students with last names starting with the letters N-Z will represent the plaintiff and argue that the physician was negligent and that there is no affirmative defense that should excuse the physician from liability.

Each group member is required to debate their position based upon facts and research. Fully explain your reasoning, using legal principles you have learned and applying them to the facts of this case. Opinions offered without evidence are not welcome in this debate. Defend your position by citing research, such as a page of the textbook or an outside source.

Legal Aspects of Healthcare Administration 13th Pozgar 2019 Jones & Bartlett-Vitalsource Bookself-username-crtshhill49@yahoo.com-Password-#magicMAN61

  

Final submission – Phase V (Due by WEEK 13) The final submission is the combination of the other four phases into one paper. You will combine Phase I, Phase II, Phase III, and Phase IV to make Phase V. You are responsible for editing and formatting your paper so that your paper will flow for the reader. This paper will need to be corrected with all the feedback provided from previous papers. Include conclusion and learning experiences from the essentials and from the class. Do not forget to document limitations and implications for future research/practice. 

  

Research Paper Rubric

Integration of Knowledge 12.5% 

The paper demonstrates that the author fully understands and has applied concepts learned in the course. Concepts are integrated into the writer’s own insights. The writer provides concluding remarks that show analysis and synthesis of ideas

Topic Focus 12.5% 

The topic is focused narrowly enough for the scope of this assignment. A thesis statement provides direction for the paper, either by the statement of a position or hypothesis

Depth of Discussion 12.5 %

In-depth discussion and elaboration in all sections of the paper.

Cohesiveness 12.5% 

Ties together information from all sources. Paper flows from one issue to the next without the need for headings. Author’s writing demonstrates an understanding of the relationship among material obtained from all sources

Spelling and Grammar 12.5%

Minimal spelling and/or grammar mistakes

Sources 12.5% 

More than 5 current sources, of which at least 3 are peer review journal articles or scholarly books. Sources include both general background sources and specialized sources. Special-interest sources and popular literature and acknowledged as such if they are cited. All web sites utilized are authoritative.

Citations 12.5% 

Cites all data obtained from other sources. APA citation style is used in both text and bibliography

All papers submitted must be in APA format according to the Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (7th ed.). 2020 ISBN: 9781433832154, 1433832151

All written assignments will be submitted via Turnitin for evaluation. Papers submitted with a Similarity Index of greater than 20% will be viewed as an indication of high plagiarism content and subject to receive a grade of zero.