Past, present and future of Informatics and its relation to Nursing Education Not so long ago, nurses used to be trained apprenticeship model. Senior doctors and nurses used to provide on-job training to those who showed interest in the field of nurs Continue Reading...
Introduction On November 26, 2013, Marlise Muñoz suffered from a pulmonary embolism. Within two days, the patient was declared brain dead. Muñoz was 33 years old and 14 weeks pregnant. She also happened to reside in Texas. In Texas, a p Continue Reading...
Personal Philosophy of Nursing Education Andragogy Malcolm Knowles' theory of adult education, termed Andragogy undergirds my personal philosophy of nursing education. The term Andragogy is used to highlight the unique needs of adult learning from Continue Reading...
Nightingale Florence Nightingale and Environment Theory According to most nursing historians, Florence Nightingale is the leading figure in the development of modern nursing. As an early innovator in the field, Nightingale would pioneer many of the Continue Reading...
Violence MORE THAN A BRAWL A long-standing epidemic, which is recognized and addressed after 25 years, may be as serious as the diseases, which the healthcare industry has been zealously combating. It is called lateral violence or LV. It is hostil 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...
Staffing shortages in nursing are a consequence of poor nurse retention and nurse satisfaction. Being a nurse requires a lot of dedication, patience, and ability to keep updated in a constantly evolving world. When hospitals and other medical facilit Continue Reading...
Advanced Nursing Ethics and Values It is required that nurses understand their ethical responsibilities when it comes to providing care as well as when they are functioning within a diverse healthcare setting. The paper is based on a case study that Continue Reading...
Learning Theories: Implications for the Nurse Educator There are two specific learning theories that have to be addressed here. These are social cognitive and constructivist. By discussing both of these through the lens of the nurse educator, one i Continue Reading...
Introduction Patient-centered care is the goal of many healthcare organizations, but the ability of an organization to deliver patient-centered care is influenced by a number of factors both internal and external. Business practices, regulatory requ Continue Reading...
Roy's Nursing Model as a Tool for Addressing Nurse Burnout Abstract This paper examines the adaptation model of Sister Callista Roy by describing the theory at the heart of the model, explaining its purpose, and analyzing its strengths and weakne Continue Reading...
What are the goals of higher education: to prepare a person for success in a specific career path, or to cultivate virtues like critical thinking, good citizenship, and moral reasoning? Bok (2006) suggests that colleges and universities consider comb 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...
Management (Nursing) Area: Birmingham, AL Educational requirements of the position As in all states, the state of Alabama's requirements for certified case managers is that they work with ill and injured clients serving government agencies, healt Continue Reading...
Pender's is a theory of preventive medicine, for the healthy rather than the chronically ill. However, in an age where lifestyle-related disease are on the rise, it can provide an important function, particularly for nurses facing an epidemic of pre Continue Reading...
Interview with APRNAbstractThis paper discusses an introduction with an APRN at a health care organization under the Mercy Health umbrella. It begins by identifying the mission, vision and values of the organization and extrapolating its goals from t Continue Reading...
Role Development for the Nurse with Advanced Education in NursingToday, advanced practice nurses specialize in a number of fields, including midwifery, anesthetist, and family nurse practitioner. Moreover, these health care professionals earn far mor Continue Reading...
Nursing LeadershipIntroductionNursing leadership is a quality that is best illustrated by way of example. This paper looks at the life and career of Dr. Peter Buerhaus, a prominent nursing leader and healthcare economist, who is renowned for his infl Continue Reading...
Achieving Course Goals After review of the topics we shall be covering, relations between my nursing practice and course material became noticeable. The course topic that I felt related most to my current practice is, "grammar and punctuation" for t Continue Reading...
Community Site Orientation Activity: The activity for this day involved carrying out a community site orientation in order to familiarize myself with the site. Since I am doing rotation in a skill nursing facility, my first activity was an orientati Continue Reading...
nurse is difficult and tedious. It involves a lot more than a mere succession of skills and business activities. In fact, nursing is a part of the many processes, one of which is the process of socialization that is development and internalization o Continue Reading...
ReflectionIntroductionAt the end of my Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program, I now look to reflect on the course and what I have gained from it at this point in my life and career. I have been an RN for 20 years, and I have a great deal of Continue Reading...
1. In Dr. Pape’s video on Systems Theories, she discusses the fact that systems theories are a good way to approach the care of an individual or group in a complete or holistic way. This allows health care disciplines to work together for the g Continue Reading...
An Examination of Selected Nursing Education StrategiesToday, a nationwide nursing shortage has prompted calls for the development of innovative programs designed to enhance various teaching methods, critical thinking, and skill sets to prepare nursi Continue Reading...
difficult because I was being introduced to everything. I had no idea that being a nurse meant integrating information for so many diverse fields. When I finished the week I had learned and grown so much as an individual and as a nursing student. I Continue Reading...
Distracting a child while their parent is treated may lessen stress for a SAD child (Hillard, 2006). Nurses may also want to incorporate preventative methods into their routines, especially if they are pediatric nurses. Encouraging work in this are Continue Reading...
Steps were also taken to organize a stock market in Lahore (Burki, 1999, pp.127-128). Also organized during this period were the Pakistan Industrial and Credit Investment Corporation (PICIC) and the Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan (IDBP), b 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...
Health Care Theory The Modeling and Role Modeling Theory was developed by Helen Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, and Mary Anne P. Swain. It was first published in 1983 in their book Modeling and Role Modeling: A Theory and Paradigm for Nursing. This theo Continue Reading...
Health Nursing Healthcare Perspectives Deontology Deontology decides what one should and should not do based on what is fundamentally right and wrong. It basis ethical theory on what is morally required by duty, what is forbidden or wrong accordin 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...
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...
Figure 1 portrays three of the scenes 20/20 presented March 15, 2010. Figure 1: Heather, Rachel, and Unnamed Girl in 20/20 Program (adapted from Stossel, 2010). Statement of the Problem For any individual, the death of a family member, friend, pa Continue Reading...
The Foundation called specific attention to the prospect of institutional and policy-level strategies to increase the participation of under-represented minorities in the health professions. In response, the Institute Committee on Institutional and 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...
What are the most challenging issues in your current position?" think budget constraints are perhaps some of the biggest challenges I currently face in my position. The increasing rises in the cost of providing good health care, combined with decre Continue Reading...
