Translational Research Emphasis for the last thirty years has been on shifting nursing curricula out of hospitals to universities. The education of nurses is now increasingly leaning towards theory. This has led to an obvious gap between what is exp Continue Reading...
Cross-Sectional Study to Determine Factors in the Educational Advancement of the Licensed Practical Nurse to the Registered Nurse in the State of North Carolina According to the Harvard Nursing Research Institute, United States nursing school enrol Continue Reading...
Organizational Role Description Long Island Jewish Northwell Health is a healthcare network comprising 21 hospitals, which makes it the largest integrated healthcare system in New York State. This integrated healthcare system has a huge employee bas Continue Reading...
How Registered Nurses can Help Prevent Urinary Tract Infections Background and Context Concepts, models and theories Today, catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) remain one of the primary causes of nosocomial infections in the United Continue Reading...
Nursing educators normally combine their clinical expertise and the passion they have for teaching into a career that is rich and rewarding. They work in the classroom as well as the practice setting, they have the responsibility of preparing, and ac Continue Reading...
Nursing Higher Education and Leadership Clinical leadership is very important because of the problems that characterize the health care sector, including workforce shortage, high rates of change, staff chaos, quality issues, and safety concerns, amon Continue Reading...
Nurse Advocacy After sixteen years of working as a nurse, I realized more fully the impact my profession and the people in it have on public health, public safety, social norms related to health, and public policy. This MSN program has effectively p Continue Reading...
Leadership and Management of Nursing Shortage and Nurse Turn-Over Several research scholars have stressed the significance of effective healthcare leadership, and leadership by nurses is critical to this, since nurses constitute the largest healthca Continue Reading...
Nursing Handoff Communication This research work will be carried out on medical, rehabilitation and surgical wards in a couple of fairly large Australian hospitals with mostly six beds in each room and some double and single rooms as well. In one of Continue Reading...
Nursing Role in Patient Safety The nursing workforce is the biggest workforce in the health care industry. The nursing staff in hospitals is primarily tasked with patient surveillance in both ambulatory settings and care facilities (seldom termed as Continue Reading...
Leadership Principles in Health Care Health leader competencies in terms of leadership knowledge are skills consist of communication, professionalism, understanding of the health care system, and a business skill set (Stefl, 2008). These competencie Continue Reading...
Nursing Informatics / Annotated Bibliography & Brief Critique Harris, R., Bennett, J., and Ross. F. (2013). Leadership and innovation in nursing seen through a historical lens. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70(7. 1629-1638. Aim of the Article an Continue Reading...
Nursing Technology is crucial for healthcare delivery. Healthcare technologies range from those directly related to medical care interventions, namely medical technologies, and technologies that support and enhance care delivery and administration. Continue Reading...
Leadership Styles -- Mentor Observations Primary Form of Leadership My mentor's leadership style is mostly democratic or participative. This form of leadership is particularly effective in a clinical setting as it encourages teamwork, collaboration Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory Caring as an integral nursing concept can be viewed from diverse perspectives. It can be an attribute, a complex set of behaviors, or an attitude. This has made some people believe that it is impossible to improve and measure it altho Continue Reading...
Leadership, according to La Monica (1938), is when a person has authority that is recognized by others, and the person has followers/subordinates under them, who believe that the person will assist them in attaining certain goals (carrying out speci Continue Reading...
Nursing The greatest challenges facing nursing leadership and the profession as a whole include, but are not limited to, "highly political environments, budget reductions, changing reimbursement patterns, staffing shortages, and rapidly evolving tec Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage Issues Surrounding the Nursing Shortage In the early 2000s, national strategies to improve the nursing workforce profile were largely focused on increasing the number of nurses at the bedside through the use of sign-on bonuses and Continue Reading...
Nursing Administration-Staffing A strategy for recruiting nurses for the acute care units The effect of the nursing shortage crisis combined with higher patient acuity has become a crucial concern for the nursing management team. This relates large Continue Reading...
For example, although many nurses were taught to place infants in the prone sleeping position to prevent aspiration, there is now persuasive evidence that supine (back) sleeping position decreases the risk for sudden infant death syndrome." (p. 28) Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory Applications in Nursing Nursing Theory and its Applications In this paper, we will assess a grand nursing theory namely the Humanistic Model. First let's have a brief introduction regarding this theory. The nursing theories either g Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage Background and Current Reality The shortage of nursing staff in the workforce has become a global crisis. Numerous research articles and even books have been written on the subject from all around the world, all giving causal facto Continue Reading...
Nurse Implementation Plan Implementation Plan It is important to understand that plans do not simply manifest themselves into existence and a specific implementation effort is needed to ensure that the evidence presented in research efforts can be Continue Reading...
Leadership Styles Among Male and Female Principal It is the intention of this research to study the leadership and cognitive styles of teachers and instructors of both genders within the educational system and their preference for types of leadershi Continue Reading...
Perceptual and attitudinal changes are needed to motivate readiness to learn. Self-directed education is key to adult learning and especially to continuing education in the health professions (McClaran et. al, 1999, p. 184). Studies show that nurse Continue Reading...
Nursing Concept Theoretical Background One of the complexities of 21st century medicine is the evolution of nursing care theories in combination with a changing need and expectation of the stakeholder population. Nurses must be advocates and commun Continue Reading...
Nursing Nurses have a direct personal responsibility to help, serve, and care for others. This is true especially for nurses working in underdeveloped nations or with underserved, politically disenfranchised, or vulnerable communities. Yet nurses mu Continue Reading...
Nursing Personal Improvement Plans Learning is an essential part of nursing in modern practice. As such, it is important even to keep learning while working within the professional field. Planning for particular stages in one's career and breaking d Continue Reading...
Nursing Informatics Career Viability Analysis Nursing Informatics Career Analysis As the concept of healthcare delivery systems continues a rapid evolutionary path in order to keep pace with technological advancement, the role of health information Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing Roles of the Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator, Nurse Informatics, and Nurse Administrator The Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator, Nurse Informatics, and Nurse Administrator provide health care services although Continue Reading...
Advanced Nursing Roles Sister Calista Roy - Adaptation theory Adaptation theory is one of the nursing theories that have had a significant impact in the general practice of nursing in the world. Nursing is one of the technical activities and undert Continue Reading...
Expert Interview: Certainly, in my interview with a professional nurse educator, I would gain further reinforcement for the findings outlined above. Specifically, the subject of my interview would state unequivocally that the difficulty of being a Continue Reading...
Higher Education in Nursing: Three Major Historical Events "Advanced practice nursing has evolved over the years to become recognized today as an important and growing trend among healthcare systems worldwide;" the evolution of advanced nursing is Continue Reading...
Nursing Education The objective of this work is to investigate an issue or trend that is going to impact nursing education significantly in the years to come. For the purpose of this work in writing the issue of distance education has been chosen. Continue Reading...
Nurses Ethical Leadership There are myriad valid definitions and descriptions of leadership in society, and in the healthcare field there are important leadership styles of substance. Nurses, a vitally important component of the healthcare field, mu Continue Reading...
(Feldman & Greenberg, 2005, p. 67) Staffing coordinators, often nurse leaders must seek to give priority to educational needs as a reason for adjusting and/or making schedules for staff, including offering incentives to staff not currently seeki Continue Reading...
Caring Nursing Concept Analysis: Caring Caring is a concept central to nursing theory. Indeed, an esteemed constellation of nurses throughout history, including Nightingale, Watson, Henderson, and Benner, have integrated the concept of care into t Continue Reading...
Introduction Although senior management and public policy are also integral to the creation and maintenance of a culture of safety in healthcare organizations, nursing leadership is the most critical component in promoting desired patient outcomes. T Continue Reading...
DNPs Are Effective Leaders The Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) prepares leaders for the fast changing health care industry and provides opportunity for candidates to integrate their quotidian practice skills with the knowledge gained in their st Continue Reading...
1. Nursing Theorist Overview Theory guides nursing practice and provides a framework for nurse leadership and healthcare management (McKenna, Pajnikar & Murphy, 2014). All prominent nursing theorists like the individuals covered in the multimedia Continue Reading...
