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iCARE Paper

Marie Michel

Chamberlain College of Nursing

NR451 RN Capstone Course

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ICARE PAPER 2

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Currently, I work as a charge nurse in a hospital’s step-down ventilators unit. I work for a

full 12-hour night shift where I must interact with other inter-professional teams to achieve the

goal of quality patient care. Insurance and Care (icare) is an organization which was

fundamentally created for the purpose of delivering insurance and care schemes. It is thus the

focal point of excellent services for long-term care needs for patients with severe injuries hence

improving the quality of life. Such professional teams include patient care technicians, LPNs and

monitor technicians. One key team function which has proven to be key here is high-frequency

interventions and monitoring since most patients regularly become unstable with a heartbeat.

This is caused by a variety of care settings, such as ICU, coronary care unit, cardiothoracic

surgery unit, and trauma unit. In fact, there are cases when patients are served the patient in

ventilators and hence high-frequency monitoring and intervention are critical. In such units,

nurses should have the capability of providing education and thus should be well equipped with

rhythm interpretation. Nurses must understand the relationship between various co-morbidities to

care for the patient efficiently.

Compassion

Nursing is a career of compassion. Consequently, there are several nursing actions which

contribute to compassion even in an environment where interprofessional teams support each

other to deliver quality patient care. Such acts of compassion provide the patients with the

confidence and support they fervently need to be ready for lengthy recovery or even fight

overwhelming diseases. Compassionate nurse becomes empathetic to their patients’ suffering and

pain. Communication is always an important tool in every sphere of human life. A patient in

critical conditions may not utter words but can still communicate when he or she sees what the

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