Healthcare Environment
In my portfolio I hope make efforts that show how I can be an advocate for myself, my patients and other nurses in the healthcare environment. I plan to find a balance to this outcome finding satisfaction for all who are involved. The BSN program has given me the ability to identify disadvantages and use resources to help those people who are suffer from healthcare disparities.
In the first paper below I was able to recognize and research a problem within our schools and the healthy/unhealthy meals children are getting. Being able to find reputable evidence and understand where the needs are will result in reaching goals and optimum outcomes. Not only do I need to advocate for patients and fellow healthcare staff I found I must advocate for myself and make sure that I maintain an healthy lifestyle so that I can better care and be a better advocate for my patients. When I am able to care for myself I can then be a role model for my patients. In the paper I developed a strategy that set goals so that I might live in a healthier lifestyle.
The second assignment addressed health care disparity in the poverty and homeless population. In this program we had a few opportunities to study populations that face health care disparities. These assignments were eye opening for me. Not only to learn about each population but the help that is available to them through the community they live in or the state they may reside in. We may tend to forget as nurses in the ED the needs of this population type and that these people need just as much if not more help than our other patients. The people in poverty and homeless need to be treated as individual and not stereotyped based on the disparity they may face. The scholarly work assesses the importance of nursing's role in today's health care environment with vulnerable populations such as homelessness. As health care changes in America today, nurses are called upon to fill a greater role in the provision of evidence based, high quality caring to all. An article in the Journal of Professional Nursing looks at the ongoing evolution of nursing and finding our balance in the healthcare environment. The nursing profession is evolving through meaningful collaboration with inter-professional peers, service users and careers and increased input from students themselves. We are using our communities of reference to reflect on our identity as nurses and how nursing impacts on the wider community locally and increasingly globally (Crigger, N, & Godfrey, 2014).
In Nurs 450 I had the opportunity to work with another nurse and analyze a troubling issue in health care today, Childhood Obesity. Together we put together a Powerpoint showing the data to understand and identify the reasons that make it such a troubling issue. We also put together recommendations that would minimize this disease. In addition to this Powerpoint, individually we were required to develop a policy brief on childhood obesity with the intent to educate and change the way individuals think about this epidemic. This project allowed me to understand where childhood obesity came from, where we are today and how we might be able to reverse the trends within the hospital and our community.
In my portfolio I hope make efforts that show how I can be an advocate for myself, my patients and other nurses in the healthcare environment. I plan to find a balance to this outcome finding satisfaction for all who are involved. The BSN program has given me the ability to identify disadvantages and use resources to help those people who are suffer from healthcare disparities.
In the first paper below I was able to recognize and research a problem within our schools and the healthy/unhealthy meals children are getting. Being able to find reputable evidence and understand where the needs are will result in reaching goals and optimum outcomes. Not only do I need to advocate for patients and fellow healthcare staff I found I must advocate for myself and make sure that I maintain an healthy lifestyle so that I can better care and be a better advocate for my patients. When I am able to care for myself I can then be a role model for my patients. In the paper I developed a strategy that set goals so that I might live in a healthier lifestyle.
The second assignment addressed health care disparity in the poverty and homeless population. In this program we had a few opportunities to study populations that face health care disparities. These assignments were eye opening for me. Not only to learn about each population but the help that is available to them through the community they live in or the state they may reside in. We may tend to forget as nurses in the ED the needs of this population type and that these people need just as much if not more help than our other patients. The people in poverty and homeless need to be treated as individual and not stereotyped based on the disparity they may face. The scholarly work assesses the importance of nursing's role in today's health care environment with vulnerable populations such as homelessness. As health care changes in America today, nurses are called upon to fill a greater role in the provision of evidence based, high quality caring to all. An article in the Journal of Professional Nursing looks at the ongoing evolution of nursing and finding our balance in the healthcare environment. The nursing profession is evolving through meaningful collaboration with inter-professional peers, service users and careers and increased input from students themselves. We are using our communities of reference to reflect on our identity as nurses and how nursing impacts on the wider community locally and increasingly globally (Crigger, N, & Godfrey, 2014).
In Nurs 450 I had the opportunity to work with another nurse and analyze a troubling issue in health care today, Childhood Obesity. Together we put together a Powerpoint showing the data to understand and identify the reasons that make it such a troubling issue. We also put together recommendations that would minimize this disease. In addition to this Powerpoint, individually we were required to develop a policy brief on childhood obesity with the intent to educate and change the way individuals think about this epidemic. This project allowed me to understand where childhood obesity came from, where we are today and how we might be able to reverse the trends within the hospital and our community.
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