Internationally, for example, most countries do not have protected titles and there is no agreement about the use of titles to distinguish APN roles. Role confusion arises when the same title, such a nurse specialist is applied to different roles wi Continue Reading...
ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING ROLES: NP vs. CNS Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Roles The United States is home to nearly a quarter of a million advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). Of these, the vast majority chose to pursue a Master of Sci Continue Reading...
Advanced Nurse Practitioner There are a number of differences explored by Hamric et al. (2013) throughout the chapter which helps differentiate the Advanced Nurse Practitioner from other nursing roles in healthcare. One that is important is the con Continue Reading...
Malpractice in Advanced Nursing Practice A CLOSER LOOK Legal/Ethical Principles When nurses pursued independent practice outside hospitals, the law supported their bid to breach traditional roles (Kjervik & Brous, 2013). This phenomenon was de Continue Reading...
Professional Development of Nursing Professionals: Impact of IOM Report on Nursing Education: One of the major contents of the IOM report on the future of nursing is the need for these professionals to attain higher levels of education and training Continue Reading...
Ethical-Legal Nursing Discussions - Part II Moral Distress and Moral Integrity Comment by Ileana: OverviewMoral Distress in Advanced Practice NursingThe meaning of moral distress has been changing in nursing. No definition fits all dilemmas. Moral d Continue Reading...
Masters in Nursing for Clinical Teaching The objective of this study is to examine the importance of a Masters in Nursing for the Nurse in Clinical Teaching endeavors. The work of Orton (2007) entitled "Nurses As Clinical Teachers" Variables Affec 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...
Personal practice framework: The family nurse practitioner. As viewed in this paradigm, the nurse practitioner is a teacher and a student of health: a nurse must teach patients about health-promoting practices, but also must learn from the patient Continue Reading...
Registered Nurse Does your work setting foster inter-disciplinary teamwork? Explain. The environment that I work in is encouraging teamwork. This is because the registered nurse serves a vital role in increasing the quality of care for everyone. In Continue Reading...
IOM Future Nursing Report a) Discuss the work of the Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine, that led to the IOM report, "Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health Continue Reading...
Professional Nursing Associations: Rationale A professional association refers to "an organization of practitioners who judge one another as professionally competent and who have banded together to perform social functions which they cannot perform Continue Reading...
Cultural Competency in Nursing The basic knowledge in nursing or medical studies needs substantial facilitation in order to be effective and appropriate towards addressing the needs and preferences of the patients. Watson notes the need to integrate Continue Reading...
Decision to Pursue a Nursing Degree and Future Career Goals This is an admission letter for acceptance into a Master Degree Program. New Career Like an increasing number of people, I have chosen to pursue a career in a new profession after years Continue Reading...
Advanced Nursing Development A "master's education is achieving notable goals, including the development of refined analytical skills, broad-based perspectives, enhanced abilities to articulate viewpoints and positions, clearer ability to connect th Continue Reading...
Admission to Nursing Training Thank you in advance for the opportunity to apply for admission to your program. I am a motivated, caring professional in the nursing field and I have powerful goals that push me forward towards a high level of compete Continue Reading...
Nursing, Where are We Headed?The future of nursing over the next 10-20 years is ready for some serious change. This change will likely be influenced by factors like technological advancements, globalization of healthcare, demographic shifts, and chan 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...
FIVE-Year PROFESSIONAL PROJECTION The objective of this study is to located evidence-based research articles in nursing peer-reviewed journals that relate specifically to five-year professional projection and to summarize the articles. Included will Continue Reading...
(Cole; Ramirez; Luna-Gonzales, 1999) The Nurse Practitioner -- NP is a registered nurse -- RN having additional education in health assessment, diagnosis and management of illnesses and injuries, inclusive of ordering tests and prescribing drugs. N Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing The starting point of all current-day nursing practices is a registered nurse. The current standards and policies with respect to education and legal regulations for attaining a basic first-level nursing standard w Continue Reading...
Nursing The objective of this study is to examine graduate level nursing. Towards this end, this study will review the literature relating to graduate level nursing. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing the present health-c Continue Reading...
Vital Role of Professional Nursing Organizations in Canada and British Columbia According to the society of Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia (RNABC), which will be renamed College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia (CRNBC), ef Continue Reading...
I have the patience level for and a "connection" with children. Another difficult situation arose while I was in college that gave me further insights into my interests. My younger sister, 16-years-old, was living in Florida when I was studying in Continue Reading...
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the Council on Graduate Education for Administration in Nursing (AACN, 1996; Dienemann & Aroian, 1995) operationally define the professional nurse as one who has been prepared with a min Continue Reading...
She was almost radical in her approach to healthcare and healing. By radical, I mean that she was the type of individual who aimed to solve matters by getting to the root of the problem. She was more interested in solving the problem and not the sy Continue Reading...
Professional Nurse, My Evolutionary Journey As my memory recalls the idea of becoming a nurse was with me when I was an 8-year-old and playing nursing in a makeshift hospital made of my toys. Nursing was being experienced at that time with caring o Continue Reading...
Jean Watson and in reality "belonging becomes an ethic in itself and guides how we sustain our being in the world." Dr. Watson emphasizes the fact that the practices of nursing have experienced evolution and this has allowed certain distortions in t Continue Reading...
diverse population nurses must attend to, the concept of 'transcultural' nursing is important to understand. Instead of viewing health as a universal concept, transcultural nursing attempts to understand the conceptual building blocks of the nursing Continue Reading...
Theory-Guided Practice A relationship exists between theories, research, practical application, and education. The latter three, in fact, ought to be directed by the former. Further, research works inform education as well as practical application th Continue Reading...
Nurses The nursing profession has always attempted to put forward a positive, clean and healthful image. Throughout history the nursing industry has tried to portray nurses as angels of mercy, and as ethically upstanding, helpful healthcare profess Continue Reading...
Management Experience and good performance can result in promotion to better positions. In management, nurses have the opportunity to become assistant head nurses or head nurses and, from there, to assistant directors, directors, and vice presiden Continue Reading...
Topic 1 DNP-prepared nurses are uniquely responsible for translating research into practice, creating the ideal environment in which evidence-based practice will flourish. However, resistance to change and perceptions of new clinical practice guideli Continue Reading...
Firstly, the professors in the nursing schools should use gender-neutral language, since addressing nurses as she sometimes makes the male students to doubt their career. Therefore, there should be gender-neutral image. It is also very significant t Continue Reading...
Nursing Ethics and ExpectationsNursing ethics, diversity, global health policy, and social justice are all essential components of the professional development of nurses. Nurses need to understand and integrate these aspects into their nursing practi Continue Reading...
This help in solving conflicts between patients in a hospital. In nursing practice, there are quite different in between clinical nursing specialist and nurse practitioner in the scope of operation. Therefore, a clinic nurse specialist works under Continue Reading...
Abstract Although the practice of nursing can be traced back thousands of years, the history of modern nursing as a profession begins with the integration of evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice has dramatically, profoundly, and irrevers Continue Reading...
As Bonsall (2012) points out, The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has defined specialty certification as “a process by which a nongovernmental agency validates, based upon predetermined standards, an individual nurse’s qu Continue Reading...
Future of Nursing Report: Leading Change, Advancing HealthToday, the nursing profession is faced with growing demand for health care services from an increasingly diverse and aging population as well as razor-thin operating budgets and staffing short Continue Reading...
