Depending on whether your interest is the Army, the Navy, or the Air Force, a military nursing career can offer the opportunity to gain valuable experience while receiving financial assistance. For example, in the Army ROTC the student will gain mi Continue Reading...
Vincent's Hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania. In American history, many of the first nurse anesthetists were nuns. (Evans, 2004) This connection between spirituality and the profession shows that a patient undergoing anesthesia must be physically safe, Continue Reading...
Nursing Nurse Practitioner Role: Current and Future Trends If one is looking for a bare-bones description of today's nurse practitioner, a description presented in quite simple terms, it is convenient to turn to The International Council of Nurses; Continue Reading...
Nursing means working one on one with individuals who may be bogged down will all manner of physical or mental pain and suffering or who may even be on the brink of death. Because nurses work so closely with the most delicate matters of human existe Continue Reading...
Nursing Letter of Introduction As an advance practice nurse, I intend to apply my education and professional experience to improving patient outcomes. A holistic nursing philosophy and commitment to caring are the crucial components of my professio Continue Reading...
Nursing Practice Act California Nursing Practice Act (NPA) The Nursing Practice Act (NPA) stands out as the framework of California legislation that requires the Board to put down the scope involving practice as well as obligations for Registered n Continue Reading...
Nursing A pattern of personal success begins with a plan. Planning is, in fact, one of the core principles of leadership in any field. In Principle-Centered Leadership, Stephen Covey (1992) states, "careful planning helps us maintain a sense of pers Continue Reading...
While it would have been unquestionably beneficial to the patient and indeed to this nurse to be able to engage in a more meaningful, enlightened, and research-based discussion of her condition and methods for addressing it, this nurse simply did no Continue Reading...
Nursing BA vs. Associates Nursing Competencies -- Associates vs. Baccalaureates The difference competencies between nurses prepared at the associate-degree level nursing vs. The baccalaureate-degree level are significantly different on many levels. Continue Reading...
Indeed, this multicultural state of the nursing profession can be very profitably incorporated into one of the key tools that I would use in developing, assessing, and evaluating curricula. The concept of different learning styles has made consider Continue Reading...
Nursing Mentor Scenario Introduction- Just as the theoretical and practical backgrounds of nursing have changed over the past several decades, so has the nursing education environment itself. . Students now entering the field are diverse in culture, Continue Reading...
Nursing Sills Grayce Sills and Nursing Leadership Brief Biography: Grayce Sills dedicated her life's work to improving conditions for psychiatric health patients, both through reforms in the area of psychiatric nursing and through education of fut Continue Reading...
Nursing is one of those professions that provides the opportunity not only to further oneself on a professional level, but also on a personal level. It provides the individual with the opportunity to connect with others by providing a platform of hea Continue Reading...
Nursing Fatigue and Compassion as Functions of Ethical Nursing The American Nursing Association's Scope and Standards of Practice are designed to provide a blueprint for preempting and addressing the various challenges, pitfalls and procedurals nor Continue Reading...
The care that a nurse provides to these individuals is part of the holistic care of the patient. By ensuring the peace, comfort, and education of those surrounding the patient, the nurse by extension helps contribute to the peace, comfort and educat Continue Reading...
The fact that the nurse only has a monetary motivation will mean that the nurse will lack the necessary patience and ability to give care to those who need it on a daily basis, as the nurse will not feel rewarded by the act of giving care. For thos Continue Reading...
The dependent variable in the study is the nursing rounds (which involves undertaking the prescribed protocols and actions to be taken as well as the frequency of rounds, i.e. one hour rounding and two hour rounding). The study aims to see the beha Continue Reading...
This study will look for a hospital which has a wide variation in terms of educational attainment of its nurses. The nursing population of this chosen hospital will then become the participants of this study. Only the currently-employed; full-time n Continue Reading...
Institutions may have to devote more resources to improving the workplace for nurses, and make cutbacks in other areas, so patient care is not compromised. Addressing the nursing deficit from the perspective of nursing schools, rather than simply o Continue Reading...
It is thus possible for the institution to retain nurses by strengthening the interpersonal leadership and management skills that lead to empowerment within the healthcare environment. This is especially supported by studies that found that despite Continue Reading...
The findings in this study suggest that understanding collective learning processes contributes to knowledge about technology adoption and organizational innovation, an area of research that has been conducted almost exclusively using an organizati Continue Reading...
While nurses might not make as much money or have as much time as they would like, there are many aspects of their job that are extremely rewarding to them. When I interviewed this Nurse Practitioner, she told me about a young patient in the oncolog Continue Reading...
In fact, its utilization led to the development of the Goal-Oriented Nursing Record (GONR), which is used as a procedural step that would guide the nurse throughout his/her conduct of care service provision and evaluation. Orlando's theory of funct Continue Reading...
The nursing coursework I have taken so far focuses in particular on the second and fifth competencies, regarding information and technology. Courses like anatomy and physiology are fundamental information-gathering classes that provide a firm found Continue Reading...
Nursing Jobs History Nursing has changed much since the time before 1945 to now. In the Middle Ages, nursing duties and hospital jobs were sponsored by the Catholic Church, which was popular throughout all Europe and which supported the building of Continue Reading...
Nursing Administration -- Controlling Nursing Admin-Controlling Situation analysis The FOCUS model requires the nursing administrator to find out what the main problem is, obtain information about this problem, communicate effectively with the nur Continue Reading...
Nursing: Personal Statement For my entire life, acting as a caregiver has been an integral part of my identity. I come from Cuba, and caring for the old and sick is considered to be a very important obligation. I was the child who took care of the n Continue Reading...
Nursing Research Problem Research in nursing A research problem in nursing is normally referred to as the discrepancy between the knowledge that one has and the knowledge that one ought to know in order to solve a given nursing problem. Nursing res Continue Reading...
Why do I want to go to Georgetown? The Nursing program at Georgetown strives to continue its tradition of preparing what Georgetown calls "…morally reflective health care leaders and scholars who strive to improve the health and well being o Continue Reading...
Nurses in advanced roles -- practitioners, educators, and administrators -- have a 'professional and moral imperative' to conduct and/or promote ethically- and culturally-sound nursing research. One of the challenges presented to nurses is how rese Continue Reading...
Nurse Staffing Shortage Issue Nursing Staffing Shortage One of the greatest challenges to the continued development of a high quality health care delivery system is the continued and frequently increasing shortage of qualified nurses active in the Continue Reading...
One of the invaluable experiences I had working with underserved communities was between the years 2007 and 2008, when I was fortunate enough to be involved as a volunteer conducting missionary work in Atotonilco, Mexico. As a community nurse for th Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership As a nurse supervisor develop a communication plan with your team, defining what and how will communicate, what communication modalities and behavior are acceptable, and what the consequences are if acceptable behaviors are not me Continue Reading...
Nursing Is there a limit to one's professional obligation to the patient? Is that the same as advocacy? Advocacy can be construed as a professional obligation to the patient, especially when advocacy is framed as an ethical obligation. There are th Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership: Two Paradigms In its earliest incarnation as a profession, nurses were often conceptualized as attendants and helpers to physicians and patients, not as leaders. However, nurses over the years have attempted to eke out a unique s Continue Reading...
Nursing Industry Nursing is one of the most important professions in the world today. It involves not only physical healing, but also healing on a deeper level, where the care giving extends to the patient's environment and relationships to speed th Continue Reading...
Nursing Elizabeth Kerr Porter Elizabeth Kerr Porter "was a leader in nursing education and an advocate for nurses' rights," (ANA 2011). Porter advocated for nurses' labor rights in terms of the right to collective bargaining and professional organi Continue Reading...
The WHNP is important because they can take the time to educate patients on health matters and establish a rapport that makes the patient feel comfortable and at ease. II. TRAINING and CERTIFICATION Women's Health Nurse Practitioners can work in v Continue Reading...
Though in theory these methods sound hokey the practice is actually relatively simple to see if one takes elements of application for the theory and divorces it from the ideological, such as equating the terminology laying of hands with the use of t Continue Reading...
In interacting, factors may also modify each other: nurse who might return to work for a higher salary might decide to do so only later when her children are older. The incentive of salary is therefore modified by the factor of young children. Th Continue Reading...
