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The author quotes Gary Zukav as emphasizing that if a nurse perceives herself as powerless and her image as negative, the idea can sink to the subconscious level and realize itself. She will be drawn to those who will reinforce the idea. Practitione Continue Reading...
Social Media Impacts on Nursing
As technology advances in the medical profession have proven to have great benefit, this trend has also been seen in society in general. The interwoven aspects of human's ability to function and his or her ability inc Continue Reading...
Social Media PostsUpon reviewing my multiple social media accounts, I noticed several instances where I may have violated the professional standards of nursing. To start, there were numerous pictures from a recent birthday celebration where alcohol c Continue Reading...
Nurse Jackie
The Politics of Nurse Jackie
Kathleen McHugh's 2012 article entitled "Nurse Jackie and the Politics of Care" offers an analytical discussion on the portrayal of nurses and the nursing profession in popular culture. The discursive asses Continue Reading...
Nursing Informatics
NEW COMPETENCIES
Nursing informatics or NI is a field specialty that blends and integrates the nursing, computer and information sciences in managing and transferring information and insights in nursing (Anderson, 2008; Coleman Continue Reading...
Nursing in the Contemporary World
Nurses as the Most Highly Trusted Health Professional
Recent studies indicate that nurses are the most highly trusted health professional group.
Recent studies indicate that nurses are the most highly trusted heal Continue Reading...
Nursing Education
Does nursing have a unique body of knowledge or is it the application of various other fields of knowledge in a practice setting?
Nursing does have a unique body of knowledge as Moyer and Whittmann-Price (2008) state "it is nursin 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 in the Rural Area
A WELL-DESERVED SECOND LOOK
Rural nurses are particularly endangered by the current and worsening shortage in nurses. As it is, rural nursing is already beset with issues that range from a lack of professional practice sys Continue Reading...
Nursing Ethics
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, medical technology has advanced enough to provide certain measures to keep the body "alive," but not necessarily the brain or the cognitive functions that make up quality of life (O'Keefe-McC Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership
As nursing has moved toward professionalization, roles for nurses in leadership positions have been created. Historically, the roles of charge nurse, nurse manager, nurse educator, and nurse leader, have existed to coordinate and Continue Reading...
Nursing
Contemporary Nursing Stereotypes on Television
Author Carol J. Huston writes in a boldly honest narrative that the nursing industry must seek to be populated with "smart… bright…highly motivated" nurses who "want to make a diffe Continue Reading...
Technology-based teaching strategies can greatly accelerate the how both teaching and learning occur and therefore often reduce traditional issues and concerns faced by students and instructors. This approach changes the conventional way of thinking Continue Reading...
Nursing Dilemma
Research and Nursing Questions
Research is a complex and nuanced concept which means that one approach might not, in and of itself, answer the full scope of one's research questions. This is why it can sometimes be useful to combine Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory Analysis
Theory-based nursing is the phenomenon that has been researched much during the past two decades. Nursing theory has become the foundation for nursing practice with its own knowledge base. The current paper is an analysis of Continue Reading...
Alternatively, it may lead them to focusing on their economic stability first then to sharing their expertise and skills later when they are more financially secured.
However, this leads to another of Linda Allen's cited reasons, which are the incr Continue Reading...
The RN verifies comprehension with the nursing assistive personnel and that the assistant accepts the delegation and the responsibility that accompanies it;
7) Communication must be a two-way process. Nursing assistive personnel should have the opp 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...
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...
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...
I also feel that nurses should maintain impartiality through the build up of procedures, supervising benefits and the sustenance of source distribution to guarantee the fulfillment of the client requests (Cooper, 1991).
Confidentiality also believe 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 Administration Specialist
Dr. M's dilemma
Strengths
The hospital has a very strong reputation within the community and an over hundred-year history.
The hospital has just been purchased by a university hospital system with an equally stal Continue Reading...
In terms of underage drinking, a nurse can act in a public health manner that identifies circumstances and situations that make a population vulnerable, and take steps to either mitigate those circumstances or educate to prevent them in the first pl Continue Reading...
Though still worthwhile if it leads to an improvement in nursing or medical standards, whistle-blowing can be damaging to the profession (Fritko & Jackson 2005).
Whistle-bowing can also empower nurses, however, with successful instances of whis Continue Reading...
Tailoring employment approaches to this group is significant to their continued retention. A lot of the literature suggests that older, more knowledgeable nurses are more likely to expand their work life when the following conditions are present:
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Media Violence
The potential relationship between media violence and actual aggression comes to the forefront of public discussion, but unfortunately this discussion rarely takes into account the science related to the relationship between media vio Continue Reading...
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Media portrayals of nurses and the nursing profession influences public perceptions. In fact, many viewers will have spent more time watching fictionalized accounts than actual interactions with nurses. Media portrayals affect how nurses are treated, Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage
How can the facility recruit and retain sufficient nursing staff?
Nursing shortage is a global trend (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2012)
Ageing patient population
Long hours and stress mean high turnover
How the Continue Reading...
Moreover, recent legislation such as the Affordable Care Act is expected to create an even greater need for nurses who can take on more advanced responsibilities. As one nurse stated on National Public Radio: "…with the passage of the Affordab Continue Reading...
They can reveal how many overworked and under-trained nurses kill and injure thousands of patients every year because hospitals sacrifice safety for not tracking their own medical errors. Statistics showed that only 14 States track these errors and Continue Reading...
Nurse Patient Ratios and Quality of Care
This study reviews the broad level of issues that surround the nurse/patient ratio: a critical shortage of trained and experienced nurses; increased political and fiscal demands from all sectors of society; r Continue Reading...
The new nurse should not be left to muddle through alone.
Benner's work (cited in Messmer, Jones & Taylor, 2004) showed that nurses become more proficient and develop better cognitive skills and judgment when they are exposed to competent and p Continue Reading...
Essentially, given the extent and complexity that modernity has brought societal problems to the forefront of our attention, there is a real potential for the medical professional to be actively involved in the process of alleviating oppression and Continue Reading...
Nursing Community Assessment
It is moral responsibility of the Government and the nursing organizations to maintain the health standard in any country. However, it is not wholly in the hands of these organizations but other departments must also con Continue Reading...
Nurses are well positioned to identify clinical problems and use existing evidence to improve practice and make care more effective (Beyea, 2006). Evidence-based practices enables nurses to provide high quality care based on current evidence. The p Continue Reading...