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Nursing

Samantha Gonzales

University of Texas at El Paso

RWS 1301

Dr. Vierra

September 25, 2019

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Research Questions

What characteristics must nurses have when caring for patients?

What is compassion in nursing defined as?

How has the nursing program at the University of Texas at El Paso influence the West Texas?

When did the nursing program join the University of Texas at El Paso?

What kind of challenges do nurses face in the healthcare environment?

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Monograph

Temple, J. (2012). Becoming a registered nurse: making the transition to practice. Thousand

Oaks, Calif: Learning Matters.

Nurses must be very assertive and organized in a rapid healthcare environment.

According to Temple (2012), being assertive is something that is developed and can be

used to get ones point across in a non-aggressive manor to a colleague or patients (p. 35).

Managing one’s time and showing a routine towards their work during the transition from

a student to a RN is a great way to keep up in a rapid healthcare environment (p. 30-1).

This proves nurses have expectations that are put out by society and for them to reach

those expectation they must approach a situation delicately but firm.

Essays

Ballatt, J. (2016). Healthcare culture and intelligent kindness in practice. In A. Hewison, & Y.

Sawbridge (Eds.), Compassion in nursing: Theory, evidence, and practice (pp. 92-105).

London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Nurses deal with difficult tasks such as distractions, pressure, and feelings. According to

Ballatt (2016), nurses go based off of a virtuous circle promoting kinship which then

generates kindness, this helps a patient feel safer and leads to a better outcome of

situations (p. 95). When one works in a compassionate setting it is difficult to deal with

all the feelings and having to suppress those feelings because they must keep the

relationship between them and the patient professional (p. 98). All this proves is that

caregivers have a guide to follow to create a professional and safe environment for

patients.
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Cornwell, J. (2016). Improving patients experience: The point of care 2007-14. In A. Hewison,

& Y. Sawbridge (Eds.), Compassion in nursing: Theory, evidence, and practice (pp. 119-

135). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Compassion is an awareness of the suffering of another person and the wish to relieve

their pain. According to Cornwell (2016), the Department of Health’s framework consist

of physical comfort, emotional comfort, having the right information, communication,

and education on a patient’s situation can help end their suffering (p. 122). Schwartz

Center Rounds was developed as an intervention to strengthen the relationships between

nurses and patients and to improve a caregiver’s compassion and understanding (p. 131).

What the author is trying to prove is that having these frameworks and interventions

within the healthcare community can help beginner caregivers and advance the

knowledge of trained caregivers.

Craig, G. (2016). What compassion means: The person and family perspective. In A. Hewison,

& Y. Sawbridge (Eds.), Compassion in nursing: Theory, evidence, and practice (pp. 77-

91). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

The National Health Service (NHS) has a framework to deliver outcomes related to

experience for patients on an equal stance with clinical outcome within the system.

According to Craig (2016), the National Health Service relies on patient satisfactory

surveys and Friends and Family Test to manage their performance (p. 78). This system

focuses on three elements: physical, psychological, and relational and if any of these are

not met during patient care the patient then feels lack of compassion which leads to

distress (p. 80-9). All this proves is the system helps nurses keep the patients satisfied,

their bosses and themselves for succeeding with a patient.

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Hewison, A. (2016). Compassion in care: The policy response. In A. Hewison, & Y. Sawbridge

(Eds.), Compassion in nursing: Theory, evidence, and practice (pp. 24-38). London:

Palgrave Macmillan.

The failures in care in the healthcare community is not as unique as people think and

reports have reported that it has a negative effect on compassionate nursing. According to

Hewison (2016), the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct states that nurses

must put the patient first, respect them, and treat them as individuals which leads to them

having compassion (p. 26). The cause of failure in compassionate care was due to. The

hospitals and nurses focusing on reaching access targets, reaching for financial balance

and looking for foundation trusts (p. 29). All this proves is that the failure for

compassionate nursing was caused by someone that was in charge of the hospital and told

nurses that their main priority was within reaching the targets, financial balance and

foundation trusts besides the patients that needed care.

Iles, V. (2016). Managing in compassion. In A. Hewison, & Y. Sawbridge (Eds.), Compassion in

nursing: Theory, evidence, and practice (pp. 152-170). Palgrave Macmillan: London.

The most significant factor that influences the healthcare today is the environment nurses

are put in. According to Iles (2016), as the technology advances and demography

changing it challenges nurses to learn about the newest techniques and technology to give

better care towards patients (p. 153). The digital revolution has changed the environment

for nurses, the use of computers has been used to record the key points from the client

conversation and the treatments prescribed (p. 154). All the author is trying to prove is

that nurses go through a lot of change over the years that challenge them to be better and

to give better care.

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Jones, J., & Pattison, S. (2016). Compassion as a philosophical and theological concept. In A.

Hewison, & Y. Sawbridge (Eds.), Compassion in nursing: Theory, evidence, and practice

(pp. 43-56). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Compassion as a philosophical and theological concept of nursing that has to do with

ethics in care for females. According to Jones and Pattison (2016), ethics in care was a

feminist response to morality which the principles of justice, duties and obligations were

the most moral way of resolving complex problems but then was used within males (p.

50). Ethics of care is an important framework of nursing and the lack of reciprocal

arrangements that provide for care and compassion is problematic in the environment (p.

51). All this proves is the ethics of care is not only a female’s response to a situation but

can be used within any gender of the nursing community.

Schofield, B. (2015). Compassion in nursing: A concept analysis. In A. Hewison, & Y.

Sawbridge (Eds.), Compassion in nursing: Theory, evidence, and practice (pp. 57-76).

London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Nurses use the form of compassion to provide care within the healthcare community.

According to Schofield (2016), compassion is showing kindness which is described as

paying attention to another person’s situation and seeing their point of view, dignity

meaning being concerned for others feelings, and empathy is the awareness of their

feelings (p. 63-4), caregivers must feel concern, not apathetic, patients must be able to

experience some sort of satisfaction or regret of their actions (p. 65). Overall the concept

of nursing has to deal with the way nurses deliver compassionate care is through their

moral, ethical, and professional obligations.

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Journal Articles

Li, Y.-S., Yu, W.-P., Yang, B.-H., & Liu, C.-F. (2016). A comparison of the caring behaviours of

nursing students and registered nurses: implications for nursing education. Journal of

Clinical Nursing, 25(21-22), 3317–3325. doi:10.1111/jocn.13397

The behaviors between nursing students and registered nurses in a clinical setting are not

different. According to Li, Yu, Yang, and Liu (2016), when caring for patients one must

have the skills and knowledge to provide the medical instruction (p. 3318), the beliefs

that a nurse has may determine the way they approach something and most outcomes

must come from a respective review (p. 3320). All this proves is there is no difference

between a nursing students’ attitude versus a registered nurse attitude, all nurses, no

matter the age, are taught to put beliefs to the side and focus on the conditions of the

patient.

Scholarly websites

American Nurses Association Staff. (2018). Nursing workforce development. Retrieved

from https://ana.aristotle.com/SitePages/nursingworkforcedevelopment.aspx

The employment of Registered Nurses (RN’s) is thought to grow from the years of 2012

to 2022 and. The job openings for RN’s to reach more than one million. According to the

American Nurses Association (2018), Title VIII uses federal funding for nursing

programs but those funds do not take value the institutions that provide practice for

registered nurses (para. 3). A demand for RN’s is driven by the aging population and as

the population grows, the need for nursing care in non-hospital settings remain (para. 2).

All this proves is that Registered Nurses play an important part in hospital settings and

non-hospital settings but do not receive the right practices due to the funding.
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Primary sources

McCorkle, R. (1993). Nursing program's felt throughout west Texas. Nova Quarterly: The

University of Texas at El Paso, Retrieved

from https://digitalcommons.utep.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1076&context=nova

The nursing program at the University of Texas at El Paso provides many health services

and nursing services to help nursing students get into the areas to help in family planning,

health screening, and elderly care. According to McCorkle (1993), UTEP has been

seeking to improve their nursing skills and provided graduate level courses on the El Paso

campus to accommodate those goals (p. 10). UTEP has drawn many students from far

Midland- Odessa because they have flexible schedules and at the same time maintain an

excellent quality program (p. 10). All this proves is that UTEP’s nursing program has

helped many people reach their goals and at the same time keep a well program running

to this day.

The Prospector Staff. (1976, March 30,). Nursing under control of UT El

Paso. Prospector. Retrieved from https://theprospector.newspaperarchive.com/el-paso-

prospector/1976-03-30/

Moving the nursing program to UT El Paso’s control was thought that it will be

beneficial long-term towards the school. According to the Prospector staff (1976), the

amount of nursing students during enrollment would grow by at least 300 by the next fall

semester when the nursing program is placed at UT El Paso (p. 2). The control over the

nursing program was not such a big priority to the university but assistant to the president

of the UT System administration thought it was going to benefit UTEP later on (p. 2). All

this shows is that in 1976 the University of Texas at El Paso was barely starting up and

the thought of placing the nursing program there would help the university grow.
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Tertiary sources