American Nurses Association

A Nurse leader is defined as nurse who is interested in the profession of nursing and interested in refining the ways to better and improve upon goals to make a better healthcare system. Nurse leaders are “essential to help shape and lead the future of a dynamic integrated patient-centric health care system” (Kennedy, M., Moen, A. (2017)), helping to maintain an overall healthy and functioning community. Nurse leaders need to ensure that they possess the necessary skills to provide “safe and…

As outlined in the Code of Ethics (American Nurses Association, 2015), nurses have an obligation to uphold ethical treatment of all, and to advance in the profession while guiding others. The following provisions can be referenced in relation to a practice change: Code 1.5: The nurse will develop therapeutic relationships with colleagues and others by assisting with the development, implementation, and teaching of the new purposeful rounding practice. Exemplifying the lead by example strategy…

“On January 1, 2013, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the American College of Nurse Practitioners came together to form the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). They are the largest full-service national professional membership organization for NPs of all specialties”, (Annual Report, AANP, 2016) “In 1985, a small group of visionaries convened under an apple tree in Pennsylvania to address the growing need for NPs of all specialties to have a unified voice. They…

Nursing is my field of study my current occupation as a unit technician at the hospital is the help I'm receiving to work towards my future in becoming a Register Nurse. Register nurses need all the support they can receive, because the percentage of death and stress on a nurse is high. There is many support from the Texas House Representative Donna Howard provides grants to prevent Violence in the Health Care Workplace and Set Up a Confidential System for tracking rape kits. In the health care…

preventable (American Lung Association, 2017). The disease process has been linked to smoking as an estimated 80% of people with COPD have a history of smoking, others impacted may have come in contact with secondhand smoke during their lifetime (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017). COPD has numerous impacts and includes physical, emotional, and financial hardship. This often results in frequent and costly hospitalizations. The following will…

Clinical Question To evaluate the essence of inpatient nurse to patient staffing ratio The initiative indicates that there should be a minimum of nurses to patients This is designed with the aim of addressing the growing concerns that there has been harm on patients through inadequate staffing, thereby paving way to increase in complexity and severity of the illness during the care (American Nurses Association, 2014) Search Criteria/Results Search Criteria The research conducted ensured that…

Professional Behavior A Nurse is an individual that can be described in multiple ways depending on the person. This is because a nurse impacts people on various levels. One word that describes all nurses, is a professional. Nurses have the responsibility of being professional. They are patient advocates, counselors, and educators. The purpose of this paper is to describe how nurses use important skills to practice as a professional and explain different ways a nurse can easily violate…

educational offerings for nurses. With the innovation of technology nursing practice has been improved. In 1909 the University of Minnesota started a three year diploma program within its medicine college. After World War II Dr.Mildred Montag in 1951 proposed a process of training nurses in community college because of nationwide shortage. The purpose of this program was to give immediate and safe practice for nurses. Within time nursing course became more advanced. Nurses obtained…

baccalaureate-prepared nurses in the workforce to 80% by 2020. In addition, the fifth recommendation by the IOM to increase by two the number of nurses with doctorate degree by the year 2020. Engaging in lifelong learning for nurses is a very important achievement because it will help nurses to be aware of the health care reform processes and changes in evidence based procedures. In the current world, health care is reforming and pushing to advancement in education especially with the nurse…

After watching the four Texas Nurses Association (TNA) videos, I felt that there are several necessities that need to be accomplished in order to become a professional level Nurse Practitioner. First, is joining a professional Association, second is becoming aware of health policy, and thirdly is getting involved in health policy. Without these three, the Nurse Practitioner is practicing on a basic level and is not able to truly succeed at the professional level. The first action is to join a…