Advanced Nursing Practice Roles Analyze the essential roles of the APN including educator, researcher, expert, consultant, leader, and change agent. Explain the functions of each role. Which role do you see as the most important and why? Educator Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory The broad definition of the term 'theory' is development and elucidation of any aspect or field of cognition. Theory then is a collection of interrelated propositions that must forecast, describe, influence, or explain events. Theori Continue Reading...
Achievement of the AONL Nurse Executives CompetenciesIntroductionThe American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) provides competencies for nurse executives to achieve so they can have the skills and the knowledge to succeed in healthcare. Thi Continue Reading...
I. NURSING PRACTICE DIMENSIONPRACTICE--Designed and Implemented the Basic Quality Care Blood Pressure Teaching Plan (BPTP). This project is not demonstrating a mere demo leadership. It shows the characteristic leadership at service where the systemat Continue Reading...
In my personal opinion, it is, firstly, imperative to define philosophy, before embarking on a discussion of the topic. I believe the following definition by Shrock is the most ideal: Philosophy represents an outlook towards reality and life, arising Continue Reading...
Mrs. Margaret Foley's Culturally Congruent, Personalized Nursing Care Plan Case Scenario Overview Mrs. Margaret Foley (Maggie) is a 46-year-old Aboriginal female has had an emergency open cholecystectomy. Although the case does not specifically Continue Reading...
Leadership Development Plan As Moneke (2014) notes, the CCRN certification "is a mark of excellence and a distinguishing accomplishment" (p. 77). It represents the knowledge that one, as a nurse, has and professionally uses to provide optimal level Continue Reading...
Clinical Problems: Coping With the Nursing Shortage Like many healthcare institutions, Nightingale Home Care Inc., in La Mesa, CA is suffering from a severe staffing shortage. The nursing shortage has been a persistent problem within the professio Continue Reading...
Nurse Turnover and LeadershipThe healthcare industry faces numerous challenges, one of which is the high rate of nurse turnover. This persistent issue can significantly impact patient safety, care quality, and overall healthcare operations. Addressin Continue Reading...
Public Policy Annotated BibliographyOne potential public policy issue that may be of interest to me is the issue of mandatory staffing ratios for hospitals so as to ensure that adequate quality care is available to patients. Fox and Abrahamson (2009) Continue Reading...
Combining Nurse Leader With Advocacy My strengths outweigh my weaknesses in personal and professional accountability. On this front, I am actively pursuing continuing education, which gives me to the tools to advance both in understanding of the fie Continue Reading...
Demand vs. Supply Supply vs. Demand: Nursing Shortage The shortage of nurses in this country is caused by a simple economic principle -- supply and demand. Briefly, the demand for skilled registered nurses is greater than the supply. This may sound Continue Reading...
PBL vs. Traditional Two of the methods of pedagogy that are currently employed in respiratory therapy are Problem-Based Learning and Traditional Teaching. Both instructional methods can provide a strenuous curriculum for the student interested in co Continue Reading...
Application to Nursing SchoolOne of the main reasons I decided to pursue a career in nursing is my longstanding goal to help others. Over the years, I considered other helping career choices that could further this goal, but I always returned to the Continue Reading...
Communication in NursingCommunication is absolutely a must in nursing when it comes to promoting a safety culture, because communication is the means by which information is shared and gathered. Breakdowns in communication mean breakdowns in continui Continue Reading...
" In addition to the highly qualified mandates of NCLB there are also requirements to use research-based education practices over effective-based education practices. The different levels of ability combined with the various qualifiers of special e Continue Reading...
Critical Thinking in Nursing Education For far too long nursing has been seen as a profession that requires compassion along with obedience to the orders of doctors who were traditionally considered to be the "real" medical professionals. Nurses wer Continue Reading...
But the real world was a whole and perfect entity." (Philosophy Is a Way of Life) The theory of dualism and its implications in term ethics and politics can be derived from the following concise but insightful analysis. A dualistic view of reality Continue Reading...
American Healthcare System: Implications for Advanced Practice Nursing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) is the group of health care professionals on whom stakeholders and lawmakers depend to deliver most of America's health care. APRN Continue Reading...
Competencies of IOM The Institute of Medicine is an American organization founded in 1972 with the aim of training health workers, unlike other medical organizations aimed at profit making. As a non-profit organization, IOM has made remarkable prog Continue Reading...
Health Delivery System Competencies Program Outcome #4: Evaluate the design, implementation, and outcomes of strategies developed to meet healthcare needs (MSN Essentials). Nursing leaders are in a good position to facilitate the evaluation and imp Continue Reading...
PPACA on Nursing Practice: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a legislation that was enacted in March 2010 as part of meaningful and comprehensive reform for America's healthcare system. Upon enactment, the legislation has had signif Continue Reading...
The reluctance to refer patients to specialists may also mean that nurses must practice more holistic, rather than specialized forms, of nursing. The desire for cost containment has resulted in many nurses assuming physician's duties, such as those Continue Reading...
Impact of Nursing Informatics on Efficiency of Nursing and Improved Patient Outcomes Although some critics charge that innovations in technology are having a negative effect on humankind, virtually none of them deny the positive effect of such innova Continue Reading...
Ethics, Values and Decision-Making in Nursing Practice RIGHT FROM WRONG A nurse's primary tasks are monitoring the patient's vital signs, administering medications, and helping doctors treat and perform procedures (Williams, 2012). Oftentimes and i Continue Reading...
Leadership in Nursing: "The How and What of Leadership" There are those who would define leadership "as a social influence process in which leaders use interpersonal behaviors to motivate followers to contribute to group goals" (Kaiser, McGinnis, &a Continue Reading...
The comparatively simplistic provider to patient ratios and demand-based estimates cannot accurately predict need; therefore, inefficiencies in the health care system will remain. By comparison, the needs-based model provides at least the possibilit 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...
Political Activism in Nursing There exists a dire need and urgency for a change in political and legislative advocacy in health care system. It has been observed that most of the female health care workers including nurses are facing problems with t Continue Reading...
107) could also apply here. The confidentiality clause in such a case then only applies insofar as it is estimated that there is no need to disclose confidential information to others. In the case of Mrs. Z, her family deserves to know about her sit Continue Reading...
Health Care -- Philosophy of Graduate Nursing Education In many senses, the nurse practitioner (NP) takes the profession of nursing to the next level. While the treatment of illness important, the NP also has broader focus of total well-being, inclu Continue Reading...
Halcomb, Peters, and Mclennes (2015) aims at examining pre-registration nurses' experiences in community clinic assignments as well as the effect such assignment has on their education. The authors have determined that clinical assignments to commun Continue Reading...
ACNPC-AG Interview The scope of practice for nurse practitioners varies depending on range of skills, processes, and procedures for which the professional has been trained, educated, and licensed to perform. Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certificati Continue Reading...
Blueprint for Teaching Ethics in Nursing Practice The development of a test blueprint is an important component in teaching practice just like architecture is to the building and construction industry. One of the major reasons for the development a Continue Reading...
Academic Honesty in Nursing Profession: Annotated Bibliography Kececi, A., Bulduk, S., Oruc, D. & Celik, S. (2011). Academic Dishonesty among Nursing Students: A Descriptive Study. Nursing Ethics 18(5) 725-733 This cross-sectional, descriptive Continue Reading...
