Fundamentals of Nursing refers to the basic principles and essential skills that form the foundation of nursing practice. These fundamentals encompass a range of core concepts and techniques that nurses use to provide safe and effective care to individuals, families, and communities.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory developed by an American psychologist called Abraham Maslow in 1943. Needs are requirements that must be fulfilled. Certain needs are basic to all people and some may be more essential than others. Once a need is fulfilled, people tend to experience a need on a higher level […]
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Errors around drug administration are the most common types of medication errors in many health care settings. They may at times lead to permanent disability and fatalities in patients. The Rights of Medication Administration Tool is a set of steps that helps the health care worker to administer patients’ medications the right way. The nine
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The Nursing Process is described as the deliberate approach to meeting people’s health care and nursing needs. This approach was introduced in 1958 by Ida Jean Orlando, adopting the scientific methods of observing, measuring, gathering data, and analyzing findings. She restructured these methods into 5 steps which include assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
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Health history is essential when it comes to nursing care. It involves obtaining subjective data directly from the patient/client or from his or her significant other. Relevant questions are asked by the nurse and responses are delivered by the patient. It is carried out in a sequential manner starting with the demographic data of the
In 1987, Marjory Gordon developed the 11 set of Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns to be used in the Nursing Process by nurses to ensure that a more comprehensive nursing assessment is done of the patients. In each pattern, nurses ask questions to obtain more details that perhaps the patient may not have provided during the
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Understanding the history of nursing and nursing education in Kenya will help many student nurses and practicing nurses appreciate the developments of the profession throughout the years. In this article, you will learn about the events that preceded modern-day nursing education and practice dating from the pre-colonial era. Nursing During the Pre-Colonial Period This period
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