EssayNUR2000: Introduction to Nursing Praxis – Denise Palmer – Aaqib Abbas – Nursing Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

Overview:
Nursing is often described as the art of both science and caring. To provide high-quality care, nurses need to practice within professional standards and ensure that their care is based upon quality evidence. On commencement of your nursing education will help you to develop an understanding of caring from a professional context and help you to develop the skills and behaviors considered crucial in providing quality, evidence-based, and patient-centered care.
Related Course Objectives for this Assessment Item:
1. Identify and demonstrate a knowledge of person-centered care as they apply to basic nursing skills.
2. Enact professional behaviors and communication skills in accordance with standards of practice.
3. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to do comprehensive health assessments, including the collection and recording of data, for persons across the lifespan. 

Assignment Stimulus Material:
Denise Palmer
This video is a USQ production involving 3rd year nursing students for Denise Palmer who is one of the key patients involved throughout your nursing program. The video is approx. 19 mins. You can also find this video inside the virtual simulation room on the study desk.

Aaqib Abbas
This video is a USQ production involving 3rd year nursing students for Mr Abbas who is one of the key patients involved throughout your nursing program. The video is approx. 13 mins. This video takes you on a journey from Mr Abbas’s home to his admission into the USQ hospital. You can also find this video inside the virtual simulation room on the study desk.

Assignment Task:
This assignment enables you to demonstrate a beginning understanding of caring. This understanding will relate to the importance of caring within the profession of nursing, common types of caring behaviours and how caring can be viewed within a theoretical perspective. As you also progress through your nursing program, you will begin to observe behaviours from other nurses and you will also engage in reflection of your own ability to care for others, and to care for yourself.
Step 1: Choose either Denise Palmer or Aaqib Abbas as the focus of your assignment
Introduction
Provide a brief overview of caring as it relates to nursing practice, and a thesis statement providing an argument about the importance of caring.
Section 1: (approx.500 words)
Write a description of the types of caring behaviours that are observed in the video by the nursing students. This description should also demonstrate a beginning understand of what caring behaviours are based on descriptions from literature.

Section 2: (approx. 500 words)
Describe how these behaviours relate to the 6 C’s of caring described in your nursing textbook (compassion, competence, confidence, conscience, commitment,comportment) and relate these behaviours to the patient experience. This task requires you to link the observations from Task 1 with relevant nursing literature (e.g. your textbook and other professional journal articles).

Section 3: (approx. 500 words)
Identify one nursing theory focused on caring. Describe one key idea that is of interest to you from that nursing theory and outline how in the future this concept could be incorporated into your care of a patient (such as Mr Abbas or Denise Palmer).