To start I would like to explain how I arrived at the decision to pursue my Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree. Last year I graduated from Midway College with my Associates of Science in Nursing (ADN) degree. Afterwards I begin my nursing career at Saint Joseph East Hospital on the Telemetry floor and was told that I would have five years to obtain my BSN. I had always planned to go back to college and obtain my BSN, but I decided to take a year off from school to focus on building my nursing career first. In the future I plan to get my Nurse Practitioner degree (NP), but am unsure of which specialty to pursue. Therefore, until I decide which type of NP I want to become, getting my BSN buys me the time I would need to finalize my decision.
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Without understanding the structures the patient is in, holist-patient centered care cannot truly be accomplished. The aging community on the other hand presents the challenge of increased health costs and increased link of stay in hospitals. For example when an older patient falls they face an increased mortality rate and long-term reduction in quality of life. Therefore by “further implementation of falls prevention strategies is needed to control the burden of fall-related injuries in the aging population” (Hartholt et al, 2011, p. …show more content…
This affects nursing, as well as health care across many different situations. It relates directly to the first of the nine essentials, which focuses on developing a liberal education. Nurses can become more competent by developing a liberal education, which helps them to apply the cultural and social knowledge they acquire to the nursing practice. Cultural and social knowledge competency dose not directly relate to the BSN competencies provided. However, the assumption that caring is essential to promoting healing and curing dose apply to the BSN competence of human flourishing, but not to any of the nine essentials. Human flourishing focuses on integrating the skills and knowledge obtained in the program to help others in their progression. This could not be accomplished if the nurse did not care for the individual reaching the fulfillment of human capacities (AAC&U,
Without understanding the structures the patient is in, holist-patient centered care cannot truly be accomplished. The aging community on the other hand presents the challenge of increased health costs and increased link of stay in hospitals. For example when an older patient falls they face an increased mortality rate and long-term reduction in quality of life. Therefore by “further implementation of falls prevention strategies is needed to control the burden of fall-related injuries in the aging population” (Hartholt et al, 2011, p. …show more content…
This affects nursing, as well as health care across many different situations. It relates directly to the first of the nine essentials, which focuses on developing a liberal education. Nurses can become more competent by developing a liberal education, which helps them to apply the cultural and social knowledge they acquire to the nursing practice. Cultural and social knowledge competency dose not directly relate to the BSN competencies provided. However, the assumption that caring is essential to promoting healing and curing dose apply to the BSN competence of human flourishing, but not to any of the nine essentials. Human flourishing focuses on integrating the skills and knowledge obtained in the program to help others in their progression. This could not be accomplished if the nurse did not care for the individual reaching the fulfillment of human capacities (AAC&U,