room, and critical care, so as to equip the nurse with the required knowledge.
The student nurse intern will work under the close supervision of the registered nurse in providing care for the surgical patients. The program has a three-fold purpose as outlined below:
1. Create a realistic working environment for the student nurse intern
2. Help the student nurse intern to have a feeling of the actual health care setting.
3. Give the student nurse intern deeper insight into professional nursing. (Hemmerich et al., 2015)
It is believed that the student nurse intern will have acquired enough skills and ability to think critically by… Continue Reading...
the nurses that were surveyed. A research conducted among students in junior nursing illustrates that lateral violence incidents happens as soon as the first interaction between the student nurse and the experienced nurse they are meant to work under or with. Graduate nurses encounter LV, and reported a high absenteeism rate. Some of them even contemplated quitting the profession (Becher & Visovsky, 2012). It is also noted that LV extends to other staff within the healthcare settings. It may also involve doctors and staffing supervisors who were found to represent 49.1% and 26.9% respectively. Yet, it has also been found that lateral violence is not a preserve of lateral positioning. The vice has been noted to extend… Continue Reading...
grant money for scholarships to students who are from different cultural backgrounds so that a more diverse culture of student nurses can be achieved (VanTimmeren, 2017). As Bryan (2014) points out, culture is very important in this day and age because it informs people’s perspectives and values about what is good and bad regarding others in society. If people have a very narrow and poorly conceived viewpoint or perspective on other cultures, there is going to be tension in the field. To discourage this tension, the Bronson School of Nursing is looking to bring a wider diversity to its student body with the aim being that the more diverse… Continue Reading...
