Advanced practice nurse

identified as one of the eight essential elements of doctoral education for advanced nursing practice. It is a necessity for the safety and well-being of patients (DeCapua, n.d.).…

discern. Nurses can aid in the process of determining why through practices of nurses that are done every day with every patient. Nurses play a pivotal role in surveillance through their data collection or charting. Nurses assess patients, typically with a few broad questions about the patient and their health and then refine their questions to more in-depth issues related to patient complaints or abnormal findings. This information can be very helpful when collecting data,…

Nurses are the foundation of healthcare. It is the duty of the foundation to remain solid in order to maintain structure and balance within the system. Nursing competencies are one way to keep the structure solid. Collaboration, teamwork, and mastery level nursing practice are only a few competencies set forth by the American Association of the College of Nurses (AACN) and the Quality, Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN). Through research, theory, and evidenced based practice these two…

me. My mother who is a nurse would take me to her work and I recall her, comforting her clients, taking their vital signs, and giving them medication so they would feel better. From that day on, I knew that I wanted to become a Nurse. To become a Nurse is a calling and it is hard to describe it into words. One cannot say why an individual would want to choose Nursing as their occupation, but by hearing and seeing it with through my Mother, she tells me it is the…

nursing theory is a group of interrelated statements that present a systematic view about a nursing phenomenon and is useful for description, explanation, prediction or control (Walker & Avant, 2011). Nursing theory provides the foundation for nursing practice and helps to generate new knowledge which, then, validates and defines the boundaries of the discipline. Nursing theory critique is a rigorous exercise that assists in identification of the structural elements of a theory as well as its’…

Since 1854, nursing has been recognized as a profession. It could be said that nursing is as old as mankind since people have always needed nursing care when ill or wounded. The word nurse is derived from the Anglo-French nurice and the Latin nutrica, both of which mean nourish(nursingtheory.org). This is exactly what nurses have always done. Nursing has a very extensive history. With many misconceptions of what the field is, as well as how it started. In 1854 Florence Nightingale started the…

Becoming a nurse is a challenging task. However male nurses face other obstacles which make pursuing a nursing degree even more challenging. Men in nursing are often classified as “Murses” meaning male nurses and sometimes distinctively mentioned as the “male nurse” instead of a nurse. The idea that nurses are supposed to be women has established a significant gender gap and subsequently has extended the expected shortage of nurses that are expected by 2020. Several research findings support…

Nurses are drawn to Madeleine Leininger `theory of Transcultural Nursing, where she emphasizes that caring for a patient is a universal phenomenon and that caring is key to curing the patient. Cultural awareness provides mutual respect and strengthens the nurse-patient relationship. My personal philosophy in practice is to provide holistic care to my patients and their families. Including the whole family in the care plan is the best approach to returning the patient to their optimum state of…

entering primary care or pursuing careers in general internal medicine or family practice is steadily decreasing. One of the way this shortage car really be rescued is the integration of the nurse practitioners to filling the gap. Despite the physician shortage and the affecting aspect in the health care system in the US, still the NPs encounter many legislative issues which may cause a negative impact to the scope of practice of the NPs. One of the issue that is current in the health policy…

provided a proposal for transforming the nursing profession to improve health care and meet the needs of a diverse population. Nurses are the largest component in the United States (U.S.) health care workforce and play an essential role to overcoming the current challenges of health care. The campaign states that there isn’t enough practicing nurses nor enough nurses with advanced credentials and expertise. Few are able to work to their full potential or hold a leadership position (Eichelberger…