This report is about writing in the nursing discipline and, because this is a broad topic to discuss, my sources are mainly focused on issues in the industry and nursing from international perspectives. These pieces of research create a vague understanding of the practice of nursing and provide information about multiple issues from both the past and the present.
In S. Williams’s (2010) article Global nursing: International outlook published in Nursing Management, a meeting organized by the International Council of Nursing (ICN) is discussed. This particular meeting was gathered in order to unite nurses from countries of all different income statuses to share and spread the knowledge each of them had acquired during their times spent as nurses. …show more content…
Moore’s (2015) article Time to heal the nursing issue: [Third edition] published by the Boston Globe discusses issues of high nursing demands. There is a growing issue with nurse shortages, and it is beginning to affect patient care. Currently, too many patients are being assigned to nurses each shift. This is overworking nurses, and they can not be in several places at once when multiple patients all need assistance. A debate is raging over what the maximum number of patients per nurse should be, and a bill is being created to increase the number of working nurses and create procedures for hospitals. This bill will also put a stronger emphasis on communication between hospital management and health care institutions. Another really wonderful aspect of this bill is that the state government will provide loan repayments and financial aid to nurses who go to work in their state. Hopefully, with a greater amount of nurses readily available, the patient care will be back up to standards as it should have always been. The information given in this article is important because it provides background details about problems that prospective nurses may not even know …show more content…
The American Nurses Association (ANA) came together in Baltimore, Maryland during the late summer of 2014 to help influence and set standards for ethics of nurses in the 21st century. They decided that the first step that needs to be taken is to globally change the working environments for nurses. The importance of this article is that it shows how nursing standards came to be and how they may be changed more in the future. Not only that, but how many are coming together all the time in order to improve the field as a
In S. Williams’s (2010) article Global nursing: International outlook published in Nursing Management, a meeting organized by the International Council of Nursing (ICN) is discussed. This particular meeting was gathered in order to unite nurses from countries of all different income statuses to share and spread the knowledge each of them had acquired during their times spent as nurses. …show more content…
Moore’s (2015) article Time to heal the nursing issue: [Third edition] published by the Boston Globe discusses issues of high nursing demands. There is a growing issue with nurse shortages, and it is beginning to affect patient care. Currently, too many patients are being assigned to nurses each shift. This is overworking nurses, and they can not be in several places at once when multiple patients all need assistance. A debate is raging over what the maximum number of patients per nurse should be, and a bill is being created to increase the number of working nurses and create procedures for hospitals. This bill will also put a stronger emphasis on communication between hospital management and health care institutions. Another really wonderful aspect of this bill is that the state government will provide loan repayments and financial aid to nurses who go to work in their state. Hopefully, with a greater amount of nurses readily available, the patient care will be back up to standards as it should have always been. The information given in this article is important because it provides background details about problems that prospective nurses may not even know …show more content…
The American Nurses Association (ANA) came together in Baltimore, Maryland during the late summer of 2014 to help influence and set standards for ethics of nurses in the 21st century. They decided that the first step that needs to be taken is to globally change the working environments for nurses. The importance of this article is that it shows how nursing standards came to be and how they may be changed more in the future. Not only that, but how many are coming together all the time in order to improve the field as a