Doctoral Project1- Clinical Psychology

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Doctoral Project1- Clinical Psychology

(Doctoral Project1- Clinical Psychology)

Doctoral Project I

This course prepares the doctoral candidate for the development of a final project. It is the first of five courses to accomplish the final project. A review of research design, modes of inquiry, techniques of analysis, the social and ethical context of research, and the uses of research is undertaken. The focus of study is on the delineation of a problem in the field of psychology and a plan for conducting research that will lead to its resolution. Emphasis is on developing the background of the problem, statement of the problem, purpose, and significance of the study in respect to the proposed problem. The doctoral project is intended to make a significant contribution to the field of Psychology and provides an opportunity for doctoral candidates to integrate and apply theoretical and practical knowledge gained in the degree course work.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABSTRACT

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF FIGURES

CHAPTER ONE OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY

Background of the Problem

Statement of the Problem

Purpose of the Study

Theoretical Framework

Significance of the Study

Limitations and Delimitations

Definitions and Key Terms

Organization

CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW

Provide Heading for First Theme

Subheading-Level Two

Subheading-Level Three

Subheading-Level Two

Subheading-Level Two

Discussion for Section

Theoretical Framework

Summary

CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY

Research Method

Participants

Instruments

Data Collection

Data Analysis

CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS

Participants

Results Research Question One

Results Research Question Two

Results Research Question Three

Summary

CHAPTER FIVE DISCUSSION OF THE FINDINGS

Discussion of Findings

Implications for Professional Practice

Recommendations for Research

Conclusion

REFERENCES

APPENDIX A (if any and then list others below this one)

Learning Outcomes:

  • Evaluate course concepts critically and competently through interaction with diverse Learners and Mentors
  • Analyze various research methodologies
  • Identify a specific problem or an area for analysis and/or intervention
  • Formulate research questions and identify an applicable theory
  • Identify and establish key words regarding criteria or variables
  • Support research questions by assessing the literature
  • Demonstrate the ability to conduct research
  • Analyze and evaluate information critically and effectively
  • Demonstrate ethical behavior in the use of technology
 
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Animal Research Informs Behavior

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Animal Research Informs Behavior

(Animal Research Informs Behavior)

Research Paper – Operant Conditioning: Applying Animal Research To Human Behavior

I need an A on this assignment.  I will provide Instructor main points that he want to see you write on in a few days.  Please read over carefully the instructions in detail.  I already got a F done by another tutor on this hw and the instructor is allowing redo on my term paper counted as my final exam.

Minimum of 6 pages – 7 pages max, APA format 12 point font Times New Roman Double space – not including the cover page and reference page. Do not number cover page, number 1 start on the first page of essay and 1″ margin on all four side.  Do not use right-justified (even-right hands) margin.  No plagiarism cannot quote or paraphrase from summarized articles or other sources.  Need to be your own words throughout, if the summary is better than the interpretation, than it is evidence you are copying.  This is counted 50 percent of my grade and is like a final exam.  Work must be provided with a no plagiarism report.  Please see the attached for full instructions.  Below is a brief summary of what you need to write on and you must follow the instructions listed below on how to right this research paper.  I need an A and I do not want to get an F.  The professor state you must follow his direct instructions,   THERE MAY OCCASIONALLY BE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TEXT’S VERSIONS OF CONCEPTS AND THE VERSIONS THAT I PRESENT IN CLASS, IN 302notes.doc, OR IN DOCUMENTS LISTED IN 302schedule.doc. WHEREVER THERE IS A DIFFERENCE, THE VERSION THAT I PROVIDE IS THE ONE THAT YOU SHOULD PRESENT IN YOUR PAPER.(Animal Research Informs Behavior)

The paper is divided into two parts (you do not need to include the headings listed below).  

Part 1: Basic Concepts and Principles  The first part of the paper discusses the fundamentals of operant conditioning based on animal research. First Two Paragraphs on Page 1:  Begin with a definition of operant conditioning as an approach to analyzing behavior that focuses on the ways in which behavior is influenced by its consequences in the environment. You can illustrate the process of operant conditioning by using the prototypical experiment of a rat that presses a bar, receives food, and then presses the bar at a higher rate. NOTE: It would be useful to define reinforcement and punishment here in the first paragraph when you discuss the consequences of behavior.

However, DO NOT start defining positive and negative reinforcement, and positive and negative punishment, in the first paragraph because these are technical distinctions that would distract from the basic point of the paragraph.   For contrast, in the next paragraph (not later in the paper), present a short paragraph (half page maximum) that discusses classical conditioning as a process in which learning occurs even though the learned behavior has no consequences in the environment. You can illustrate this process with the experiment in which the ringing of a bell is paired with food and a dog learns to salivate when the bell is rung even though the food is given regardless of the animal’s behavior. (You don’t have to use the terms US, UR, CS, CR.) Starting with the Third Paragraph and Continuing for 2 or 3 pages:

Define and give your own examples of the terms listed below (Part 1 is not a literature review). A common problem with students’ papers is that they leave out required terms or do not provide the requested information. It is suggested that you check off each of the following terms and related information as you complete it. Do not simply the list the terms. They should be conceptually related to each other with logical transitions between terms.

SEE CHECKLIST ON NEXT PAGE(Animal Research Informs Behavior)

Key Points on Terms … 1. Be sure to define a technical term before you use it t\4. o explain something else. 2. Do not use the term that you’re defining in the definition of that term.

Part 2: Human Operant Research  The second part of the paper summarizes two or more experiments (from different research articles, not from the same article) on human operant behavior that illustrate concepts from Part 1.  The articles you use must involve human participants in either a laboratory or applied setting. No credit will be given for a summary in which the subjects were animals. IN AT LEAST ONE OF YOUR ARTICLES, THE PARTICIPANTS MUST BE NORMAL ADULTS OR NORMAL TEENAGERS (i.e. not children, not psychotics, not mental patients, not autistic persons, and not mentally retarded persons).

The main purpose of the research must have been to study a process in operant conditioning (they can’t just use an operant concept to explain results from a study in a different field). Do not use an article that assesses ways of teaching operant conditioning.  The articles must be from a primary source in a printed journal (not a website or web page) describing the full original experiment and not from a secondary source, such as Psychological Bulletin, that presents summaries. Each of the experiments you summarize must come from a different research article. If a research article includes more than one experiment, you do not have to summarize all of the experiments in that article. One is enough if your summary of it is detailed and substantial. Each article must be summarized separately.

Do not combine two  9 articles into a single summary that makes blanket statements about what the two studies had in common.  Begin each summary by stating what concept or concepts from Part 1 it illustrates. In at least 1 page per article (preferably more than 1 page), describe the rationale, procedure, and specific findings of the study. In other words, you should compare findings (e.g., response rates) in different conditions or groups and not just state a general conclusion that the researchers drew from their findings. The summary is in past tense.  For an article on shaping, describe in detail the successive approximations that were used to establish the target response.

Whatever topic you select, your description of the research must be thorough enough to demonstrate that you have carefully read and understood the research. Use your own words and avoid paraphrasing and jargon.   Before summarizing your first study, present a paragraph to relate Part 1 to Part 2. You should indicate which concepts from Part 1 will be illustrated. Also, point out the key role of instructions in human operant research. A significant way in which human operant research differs from research with nonhuman species is that with human participants instructions are usually included to speed up the conditioning process.

(Animal Research Informs Behavior)

Typically, instructions are used to describe the response that will be reinforced. After the response occurs, it produces reinforcement and then the frequency of the response is increased. Instructions may also be used to describe the reinforcers (or punishers) involved and the schedules under which they will be administered (e.g., the complex reinforcement systems used in token economies).  You can point out that even though the use of instructions may seem to make human operant research fundamentally different from animal research, the instructions themselves may be conceptualized in basic operant conditioning terms. Instructions can be a type of discriminative stimulus in that they precede the response and signal that if the response is performed it may be reinforced. In this sense, instructions are just a more complex form of the visual and auditory stimuli used as discriminative stimuli in animal research.

Referring to an article. When you introduce an article in Part 2, give the authors’ last names and the year of publication, like: “A study by Renee and Creer (1976) used shaping to …” Do not give the authors’ first names, their institutional affiliation, or the title of the article.  SUGGESTED READINGS  As a general suggestion, you could look through issues of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. This journal specializes in the study of human operant behavior in socially significant settings. In addition to the paper copies available in the library, all issues (except those from the most recent 6 months) are available online for free in pdf format. Links to all of the issues and articles can be found in the following archive: In your summary of each article, highlight the ways in which the researcher used instructions to facilitate conditioning, for example, by describing the response that was required for reinforcement or by describing the possible outcomes of that response.  see attachment for articles to read and research.

 
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Substance Use Disorders

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Substance Use Disorders

(Substance Use Disorders)

Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) refer to conditions where an individual’s use of substances like alcohol, drugs (both legal and illegal), or other substances leads to health issues or problems at work, school, or home. These disorders are characterized by a pattern of harmful use, leading to impairment or distress. Treatment typically involves a combination of therapy, medication, and support groups to help individuals manage and recover from their addiction.

Read the following two case scenarios:

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    Assignment 1a due today 10/11/2014

    The following is a list of the most commonly abused substances:

    • Alcohol
    • Marijuana
    • Hallucinogens such as LSD, or PCP or angel dust
    • Stimulants, such as …
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    Read the following two case scenarios:

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Training for Radiation Emergencies

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Training for Radiation Emergencies

(Training for Radiation Emergencies)

Respond to the question using the lessons and vocabulary found in the readings. Support your response with examples and research. Your response should clarify your understanding of the topic. It should be your own—original and free from plagiarism. Follow APA format for the writing style, spelling and grammar, and citation of sources.

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your peers as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your peers. Participate in the discussion by analyzing each response for completeness and accuracy and by suggesting specific additions or clarifications for improving the discussion question response.

Training for Radiation Emergencies

The public can be exposed to hazardous levels of ionizing radiation from nuclear war and disasters involving releases from nuclear reactors (e.g., the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, related to reactor malfunction and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, related to the earthquake and tsunami). Dispersion of radiation may also occur from medical devices unintentionally. In 1985, a radiotherapy clinic in Goiânia, Brazil, was closed down. However, the clinic left behind an unsecured cesium-137 therapy device. The device was taken apart for scrap by unknowing members of the public, exposing dozens of people to radiation and causing four deaths (International Atomic Energy Agency, 1988). Some experts have predicted that terrorists might use ordinary explosives to disseminate radiation (dirty bombs). To prepare for these events as well as other events involving releases of ionizing radiation or nuclear material, emergency responders such as HazMat personnel, emergency medical services professionals, law enforcement, and the public health workforce receive training.

Using the Internet, find one example of such a training program or course for emergency responders described in detail. This may be a training that is provided locally or regionally in your state or provided at the national level by groups such as those listed in the Federal Emergency Management Association’s (FEMA’s) Center for Domestic Preparedness.

In your response, address the following:

  • Briefly describe the course or training program, including whether the goal of the training is awareness or performance. List several key course objectives.
  • Discuss any hands-on training components of the training (such as drills, operation of equipment, handling of radioactive sources, etc.).
  • Who may benefit from the trainings on responding to radiation emergencies? What are some barriers to providing training to those groups?
 
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Nutrition In The News Blog

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Nutrition In The News Blog

(Nutrition In The News Blog)

This assignment allows you to find current nutrition information in media sources (internet, magazine, etc) and critically analyze and evaluate validity.

There is a lot of confusion about nutrition these days and this is often related to the massive amount of information in the media, including television, radio, the internet, social media, magazines, etc.  There are other examples; these are just some of the common sources of nutrition information and misinformation found in the media.  For this assignment, think about nutrition information that you have recently read or heard about – perhaps it is from Facebook, or standing in line at the grocery, etc. Then consider whether or not the information is really science based.

Examples might be: blueberries prevent cancer, sugar causes diabetes, it does not matter how much saturated fat you eat, coffee is good for you, etc

You should use your knowledge of nutrition science that you will accumulate to determine whether or not the story is really science or if it is really another myth.  You can use stories from the news, video, movies, television, radio, magazines or you can simply search the Internet to find a website that offers nutrition information.

You will carefully review the information in the story/article/video/at the site and identify any “red flags” for misinformation.  You will then evaluate the quality of the information presented.

To write this blog:

Identify a source of the story (information and provide a reference to that which could be a website, URL, etc

summarize the information, including health-related claims;

find 2 valid sources of information concerning the topic – summarize what those sources say and provide APA references

evaluate the site for bias; and search for any disclaimers.  Y

decide whether or not this is a reliable source of nutrition information, and clearly explain why it is or is not.  Use material from your readings to make your argument.

 
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Developmental Stage Literature Review

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Developmental Stage Literature Review

(Developmental Stage Literature Review)

Integrating The Field Of Developmental Psychology: A Review Of The Literature

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the age group / developmental stage you selected in Week Two of the course. Remember, you must use this age group / developmental stage.

You will then review the Developmental Psychology literature examining findings for that age group / developmental stage in terms of the physical, emotional, cognitive, social dimensions, and how they impact development and can best be used to meet developmental needs.  Additionally, create a summary of the developmental stage as viewed through the lens of one developmental theory we have studied across the course (Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development, Freud’s Psychosexual Theory, Erickson’s Psychosocial Theory, etc.).

In your paper,

  • Examine the physical changes associated with the selected developmental stage.
  • Examine the cognitive changes associated with the selected developmental stage.
  • Examine the emotional changes associated with the selected developmental stage.
  • Examine the social changes associated with the selected developmental stage.
  • Evaluate the developmental changes and appraise the effects of the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social environments.
  • Integrate developmental and environmental factors into an assessment of developmental needs.
  • Create a summary of the developmental stage as viewed through the lens of a selected developmental theory.
  • Propose solutions for areas not addressed by the theory.
  • Analyze the ethical considerations for research and practice with the selected developmental stage.

The Integrating the Field of Developmental Psychology: A Review of the Literature

  • Must be 8 to 10 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
    • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
 
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HCO’s Vision And Mission

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Vision, Mission, and Values Statements

(HCO’s Vision And Mission)

The course is structured so that each week you will work on specific segments of your marketing plan for the Final Project that is due in Week Six. This week you will choose a specific healthcare organization (HCO) and begin examining the products and services found in the HCO’s strategic plan. For this assignment, read Chapter 3 in the course text, which addresses the importance of the mission, vision, and values statements to organizations. Why is it important for an organization to have these statements? What purpose do they serve?

Next, research and choose a specific healthcare organization for your marketing plan. You could select the organization your currently work for, one you are familiar with, or one you would like to work for in the future. After selecting your HCO, conduct research online to locate the organization’s strategic plan and read its vision, mission, and values statements. Add the term strategic plan after the HCO’s name in the search engine box (e.g., Sharp Healthcare strategic plan) to narrow your search results.

In your assignment(HCO’s Vision And Mission)

  • State your choice of HCO and explain why it interests you.
  • State the organization’s vision, mission, and values statements
  • Discuss whether the organization’s purpose and priorities are clearly defined
  • Discuss whether the mission statement clearly separates the HCO from competing organizations.
  • Include any ideas you have at this point for improving the mission statement in terms of aligning the HCO’s stated priorities with its products and services.
  • Discuss whether the current vision statement correctly describes the HCO’s path as it implements the strategic plan.
    • Could the current vision statement be utilized to motivate the organization’s workforce?
    • If not, how would you reword the vision statement to better reflect high ideals and aspirations to fulfill the HCO’s strategic plan?
  • Discuss whether the current values statement takes into consideration the values of multiple participants such as the community, employees, shareholders, and customers.
    • How would you reword the current value statement to better reflect priorities found within the HCO’s strategic plan?

The assignment(HCO’s Vision And Mission)

  • Must be five to six double-spaced pages in length (not including the title page and references page) and formatted according to APA style
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style
  • Must include a separate references page
 
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FNP Roles and Scope Insights

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FNP Roles and Scope Insights

(FNP Roles and Scope Insights)

“Professional Roles and Responsibilities”Family nurse practitioners (FNPs) are graduate-educated, nationally-certified and state licensed advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) who care for medically stable patients across the lifespan, from infants to geriatric patients. Share your thoughts

“Professional Roles and Responsibilities”Family nurse practitioners (FNPs) are graduate-educated, nationally-certified and state licensed advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) who care for medically stable patients across the lifespan, from infants to geriatric patients. Share your thoughts.

  1. What are the educational requirements to practice as a FNP?
  2. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), what is the recommended terminal degree to prepare nurse practitioners.
  3. Who determines the scope of practice for FNPs?
  4. Who defines it? Who Credentials and what is the role of a Professional and Political Organization in defining the role?
  5. See rubric

Discussion 3:

Much of the ongoing debate over scope-of-practice (SoP) laws that govern the practice of nurse practitioners (NPs) across the country focuses on the cost of and access to health care and on whether these laws legitimately promote patient safety or are simply anticompetitive restrictions on NPs’ ability to compete with physicians. After completing the following CE activity at Medscape https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/506277_1 ( sign for the free account), please answer the following questions:Should an NP who is educationally prepared as an acute care NP work in an adult primary care setting?   Is it within the scope for an FNP to diagnose and treat uncomplicated mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and ADHD?Are there any restrictions for the FNP to treat patients with mood disorders and to prescribe them antipsychotics or SSRIs ?

  Discussion 4:

CS/SB 614 authorizes  an ARNP to prescribe, dispense, administer, or order any drug, which would include controlled substances.ARNP disciplinary sanctions are added to the bill in s. 456.072, F.S., (Section 5) to mirror a physician’s sanctions for prescribing or dispensing a controlled substance other in the course of professional practice or failing to meet practice standards. Additional acts for which discipline may be taken against an ARNP relating to practicing with controlled substances that are added to the Nurse Practice Act (Section 10) include:

 Presigning blank prescription forms.

 Prescribing a Schedule II for office use.

 Prescribing, dispensing, or administering an amphetamine or sympathomimetic amine drug, except for specified conditions.

 Prescribing, dispensing, or administering certain hormones for muscle-building or athletic performance.

 Promoting or advertising a pharmacy on a prescription form unless the form also states that the prescription may be filled at the pharmacy of your choice.

 Prescribing, dispensing, or administering drugs, including controlled substances, other than in the course of his or her professional practice.

 Prescribing, dispensing, or administering a controlled substance to himself or herself.

 Prescribing, dispensing, or administering laetrile.

 Dispensing a controlled substance listed in Schedule II or Schedule III in violation of the requirements for dispensing practitioners in the Pharmacy Practice Act.

 Promoting or advertising controlled substances.After reading the following news article http://c-hit.org/2015/04/06/high-prescribing-nurse-surrenders-drug-licenses/Identify what issues may arise with prescriptive authority of controlled substances and how you may avoid these situations? 

 
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Cyber Bullying Research Plan

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Cyber Bullying Research Plan

(Cyber Bullying Research Plan)

Question description

Assignment 2: Develop the Topic and Plan for Your Applied Research Project Proposal

Review the Unit 6 Final Project Requirements.

As part of this capstone course, your main Assignment is a major Applied Research Project Proposal, due in Unit 6. You will be working on this Project independently over the next 6 weeks and will be checking in with your instructor throughout the course to discuss your progress and receive any necessary guidance.

Your Applied Research Project Proposal needs to address the overarching question that this course asks, which is, how can we collaborate, innovate, and motivate leadership to create homeland security and emergency management policies that will make our country, and the world, safer and more secure?

Your Assignment for Unit 1 is to create a timeline for completing your Applied Research Project Proposal within the timeframe of the course and to present your proposed research topic along with initial plans for completing the components of the Project as listed below. This Assignment should be a minimum of 4 pages in length and contain scholarly references to support your choice of research topic. This will be your action plan for completing your capstone research Project for your homeland security program and will be submitted in Unit 6 of this course. Your professor will review your plan and approve it (with revisions, if necessary). Once you hear back from your instructor, it will be your responsibility to update this plan as needed and continue a dialogue with your instructor throughout the term as you work to complete your Final Project. In Unit 3 there is a mandatory progress report as part of your weekly discussion activity.

Note that the final Project is a research proposal. As such, while you will detail proposed research methods, including plans for data collection and analysis, you will not actually go out and collect data. The paper must comply with APA guidelines for research papers; among other things, this includes proper formatting, both title and reference pages, and any relevant appendices (such as sample survey or interview questions).

Compose your paper in Microsoft Word and save it in the following format: Last name First name Assignment. (Example: SmithJohn_Unit1_Assignment2). Submit your Assignment by selecting Unit 1: Assignment 2 in the Dropbox by the end of Unit 1.

 
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Navigating Death in Nursing

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Navigating Death in Nursing

(Navigating Death in Nursing)

Nursing Staff, week 4 discussion help

Question description

Please do a paragraph about this post with this instruction . post most have 4 or more sentences . you also have to have a high quality post from a content perspective. This means it also needs to do more than agree with or praise a class mate. If you agree with a classmate, explain why, give an example, share what you learned in the readings I have been in nursing for many years now, close on to 35 years and been in different types of nursing settings. After my training I worked in large teaching hospital and furthered my training by specializing in critical care nursing as well as in midwifery. But my most recent experiences have been in the critical care setting in a CCU/CVICU for many years, in fact in the same unit for now close on to 27 years, and have had to deal with some rather dire situations. I will always recall my first encounter with death as a student nurse, of a young gentleman who had the misfortune of having had cancer and expired from that. It was very difficult for me at that time as I was new to nursing and felt so sad for the patient and the family and it made me realize that life can be taken away whether you be young or old.

In my midwifery days, my encounter with an infant demise was extremely difficult and questioned the Lord as to why this should happen to such and innocent child. It took a lot of soul searching and found peace by talking to the chaplain of the facility.

(Navigating Death in Nursing)

I have found over the years that debriefing after incidences that have been difficult have made those encounters easier to deal with. Today, in the critical care setting, we have death occurring fairly frequently in our unit and it has had me think about my own mortality and of the life hereafter. Our facility has a debriefing session for difficult cases called “Teatime for the Soul”. We can call on our chaplains at any time to help us through these difficult moments and our unit staff have always found it of great relief once we all talk it through. The main purpose of these sessions is make death more acceptable and offers hope and promise for staff. For the family members, our facility has a chaplain available to them twenty four hours of the day and every day of the week. It is very helpful to have them help the family members through the grieving process.

(Navigating Death in Nursing)

Sometimes we are so busy trying to save a life that we as the nurses do not have time to talk to the family, such as during code situations and the chaplain comes to assist with the family, while we are trying to resuscitate the patient. I feel comforted that the family are not abandoned at the time they most need someone. When patients are placed on comfort care, we have members of the hospital who volunteer time, who function as companions to the patient if they have no one available to be with them during this time. This program is called “No one dies alone”. I find that most comforting that no one in our facility dies alone. As a nurse, quite a few patients have passed away.

I have learned to take care of the patient as well as myself spiritually. Death, I know is inevitable, but sometimes it is unexpected. When it is unexpected, that is when it is most difficult. My view on death has changed from the beginning of my nursing career till now. Death is no longer scary for me. My view is that my body is here on earth to do good and help others and that at death, I have something to look forward to. I believe that my soul lives on after the death of my body and believe that how you live life today impacts your soul in the hereafter. I believe in “karma”.

We all die at some point and how we live our lives and treat others is what reward be can hope for when we die. Our body dies but our souls are immortal. My only fear is how my children will cope with my passing. I try to keep my house in order, so that they won’t have deal with too much! To me dying is easy, but what is left behind is what is difficult.

 
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