The RN Journal is all about the registered nurse, or the "RN". As health care professionals responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for the sick and injured, Registered Nurses are considered the "backbone" of the health care industry. Without the RN, there is no healthcare...!
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END-OF-LIFE CARE: ARE NURSES EDUCATIONALLY PREPARED?
By Lisa Marie Chiplaskey, MSN, Ed., BSN
This study identifies that nurses are educationally unprepared to offer quality end-of-life care to patients and families. Exploration into end-of-life care issues is examined utilizing a historical context. Focus areas for improvement in today's education of nurses have been identified as spiritual-psychosocial health areas and physical health areas. The recommendations for improved end-of-life nursing care outcomes are identified as: an increase in end-of-life issues in curricular content, continuing education, and revision of texts to more current competency standards...CONT'D
CONFLICT RESOLUTION – TOOLS FOR NURSING
By Antonie Hiemer MS RN
Abstract
The nursing profession is one that is based on collaborative relationships with both colleagues and patients. It requires individuals to work closely with others with varying backgrounds or cultures. Individuals can hold diverse values, potentially affecting these relationships, which may result in conflict. Good communication or conflict resolution skills can decrease the risk of conflict. ............CONT'D
Alzheimer’s
THE STRANGER IN THE MIRROR
By Brenda Fountain, BSN, RN
As a nurse, I have always found it difficult and frustrating to understand the needs of a person with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia. It is a progressive degenerative brain disease first discovered in 1906 by Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German physician. His autopsy of a patient’s brain indicated abnormal amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles on the brain. ............CONT'D Journal Index
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