Nurse Role Specialization Credentialing Issues Becoming credentialed as a nurse practitioner (NP) for a hospital clinic is a process that demands a lot from recent graduates. Depending on the hospital, recent NP hires may or may not have restricted Continue Reading...
Advance Nursing Practice In order to sustain life, the human body has to have oxygen. When a person cannot breathe, or there is not enough oxygen coming into the body through the act of breathing, it is not possible for life to continue. The respira Continue Reading...
Leadership Ethical Leadership in the Nursing Profession Nursing leadership is uniquely challenging because of the practical, physical and philosophical demands placed on nursing professionals. When one considers the ethical implications that must a Continue Reading...
Christian Worldview Nursing Health care in the West and worldwide has undergone very extreme changes over the past decades. However, the basic principles of nursing like caring for the sick and elderly have remained consistent. While technology has Continue Reading...
Health Care The overall health care industry has undergone fundamental change over the last decade. Most of the changes have occurred within the underlying business operation of the healthcare industry. These changes will ultimately effect nursing a Continue Reading...
Medical Futility in Nursing Care CARING AND CHOOSING Bioethics is described as both a field of intellectual inquiry and a professional practice that examines moral questions affecting various disciplines (Arras, 2007). These disciplines include bio Continue Reading...
Whether someone views something as a placebo or not from a medical standpoint, if it improves the health and well-being of a patient then it is good for that patient, and good for the medical community as a whole (Ambrose, 2007). The second reason Continue Reading...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder presents itself in many different ways for many different people. It is further complicated by the fact that there are three types of ADHD recognized by the DSM-IV and even further evidence that females and ma Continue Reading...
Leadership Profiles of Senior Nurse Executives by E.A. Hemman In a changing health care environment, the need for a change in leadership is evident. Communities are largely becoming aware of the holistic health care needs of its citizens. These com Continue Reading...
SOP Nursing When I look back on my early career as a nurse, I want to be sure that I challenged myself to step outside my comfort zone and stretch my boundaries of what I deemed possible to achieve. I am applying to the Georgetown University program Continue Reading...
"Participants were instructed to drink no more than 3 caffeinated beverages and no more than 2 alcoholic beverages per day" (pg. 2457). Two features from this study that stand out when compared to the previous study (as read about earlier) was that Continue Reading...
New York Times by Fred Brock, dated June 2, 2002 details a national medical problem that is having a concrete impact upon the practice of advanced nursing and health care, particularly in emergency rooms across the country. Due to the recent downtur Continue Reading...
Nurse practitioners receive employment within the context of IP or interprofessional teams worldwide (Hurlock-Chorostecki, Forchuk, Orchard, van Soeren, & Reeves, 2013). The 2013 article seeks to describe the role of the nurse practitioner within Continue Reading...
Nursing Practicing TodayThe purpose of this paper is to provide an explanation concerning how nursing practice has changed over time and the implications of these changes for nurses scope of practice and approach to treatment as well as a comparison Continue Reading...
Quality Improvement Activity (QIA) Form Instructions When to Use the QIA Form This document is a guide for completing NCQA's Quality Improvement Activity (QIA) form. This form can be used for the QIA required NCQA accreditation and certification pr Continue Reading...
Client Autonomy in Community Health & Nurse Safety in Community Practice Nurses involved in community nursing often face ethical and practical dilemmas, particularly with regard to the issue of patient autonomy. Community practice differs for nu Continue Reading...
Unintended Consequences of Health Care Reform Consequences of Health Care Reform My discussion is related to the individual mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010. The policy problems addressed by the Patient Pro Continue Reading...
Improving Nursing Practice by Reducing Burnout Levels Nursing may be the most stressful of all professions, and it is not surprising that many nurses abandon their careers after experiencing the rigors of their workplace. A growing body of research Continue Reading...
This site contains no information directly related to the problem of substance abuse within the profession. The industry related information on the workplace environment is geared towards serving the nursing professional, and especially protecting Continue Reading...
Blueprint for Evaluating Patient Safety Competency in Nursing Students Ever since the report To Err is Human was published in 2000 by Kohn and colleagues, healthcare stakeholders in Western countries have intensified reform efforts designed to incr Continue Reading...
Family nurse practitioner is a member of a specialized group of healthcare providers. "Nurses represent the single largest group of health care providers in the United States and are the initial point of patient contact in many settings" (Naylor & Continue Reading...
Competency Although both nurse practitioners and nurse educators are advanced positions in the nursing field, these positions differ because they require different core competencies. This study compares the two professions. It also analyzes the sim Continue Reading...
Family Nurse Practitioner: Promoting Change Strategies to communicate and educate stakeholders I am currently employed as family nurse practitioner and am doing my DNP at a clinic under the supervision of a medical doctor. Communicating with patien Continue Reading...
Insomuch, I have worked closely with customers on a myriad of issues to ensure their needs were met. Such concern for my constituents has transcended to an elevated level of service for individuals in the healthcare field. Additional Information fo Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Nurses and Prescriptive Authority Though the roles of Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Educator and Nurse Administrator are all vital to the health care industry, they are not allowed prescriptive authority per se. However, the rol Continue Reading...
The most practical nursing education facilities began in the 1800s, but minimal education standards were not put into place until 1923, when the Goldmark Report highlighted the need for certain educational certifications for nursing practice (Scheck Continue Reading...
reason I selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing for graduate studies in nursing is because I ultimately seek to become a leader in the field of nursing, and there are several facets of this institution that legitimize its Continue Reading...
School Nurse Conflict Mission Mary Jackson did exactly what a professional RN should do -- she tended to the injured children that were her responsibility. It happened that her efforts spilled over into a hospital emergency room, which technically s Continue Reading...
Advance Practice Nursing Advance Practice Nurses Defined Throughout history nursing has been defined in many ways. In recent years the field of advance practice nursing has emerged as nurses are taking on more challenging and comprehensive roles w Continue Reading...
Rules & Ways of Knowing The author of this report is asked to answer several questions as they relate to the current nursing classes that the author is taking. The first question is the role of scholarly during an APN/DNP program. The second que Continue Reading...
Prescription RequirementsThe prescription of medications is governed by specific legal requirements that vary from state to state. This discussion explores the regulations that govern the ability of Nurse Practitioners (NPs) to prescribe medications Continue Reading...
Advance Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) role of Family Nurse Practitioner The US is witnessing a growing demand for the services of primary care providers, owing to an increase in the nation's elderly population. With Obamacare's enactment in the y Continue Reading...
Why I Want to be a Psych NPMy motivation to become a Psych NP comes from my desire to serve and support underserved minority populations. I believe that providing quality care for those in need should be a top priority, and as a Nurse Practitioner I Continue Reading...
Motivation for the Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner (PHCNP) Comment by babyliza: Part 2 of 3 not answered: How are NPs important in the delivery of primary health care to diverse populations? In my opinion, the profession of nursing is more of Continue Reading...
FNP vs. PNP My preferred role in nursing is Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). I prefer this role over that of a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP). An FNP is a well-rounded practitioner working to meet the health care needs of any number of members o Continue Reading...
Indeed, interaction with the patient on this point would demonstrate a very poor inhalant technique, a factor which the physician failed to consider before increasing the patient's dosage. Additionally, the physician failed to check concordance with Continue Reading...
According to the AACN's report, "Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Competencies in Specialty Areas: Adult, Family, Gerontological, Pediatric, and Women's Health" (2002), "Competencies are the domain or body of knowledge and skills that essentially def Continue Reading...
Overlap An ethical dilemma that virtually any Advanced Nurse Practitioner can face when he or she is involved in palliative care is encountering a situation in which their patient's ability to get well has been so reduced that the patient's death i Continue Reading...
