American Nurses Association

professional nursing practice are well-organized frameworks, which reflect the students’ learning during the BSN nursing program. The essentials consist of the required competencies for all baccalaureate graduates. These essentials were created by the American Association of College of Nursing. Ensuring safe practice, high quality of patient care, patient safety, and leadership skills are important aspects of the essentials of baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice.…

involves the process of persuading someone to at least consider one’s point of view. The role of the nurse practitioner as an advocate in healthcare is not a new one. Historically, from the time of Florence Nightingale, the nurse has been the person who has identified patient needs and sought ways to have these needs met (Maryland & Gonzalez, 2012). I currently work as a Psychiatric Forensic Charge Nurse. Working with patients that have mental illness causes you to advocate for their care at all…

There are differences and similarities between the Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approachan academic resource, the American Association of colleges of Nursing (AACN) DNP Essentials and the advance practice registered nurse (APRN) consensus model. According to the conceptual idea of Hamaric (2014) “Advanced practice nursing is the patient-focused application of an expanded range of competencies to improve health outcomes for patients and populations in a specialized clinical area of…

Act was just reintroduced in early June. The Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act is a program that has been going for five decades. Tittle VIII programs help nurse education from entry-level through graduate study, and provide the largest source of federal funding supporting institutions that help educate nurses for practice in rural and medically underserved communities. Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development programs provide the largest source of federal funding for nursing…

My main goal in life is helping people and always helping people. My life time goal is to be a Registered Nurse. The health care profession of nursing contributes to society in many different ways from the care of families and communities by attaining, to the care of an individual maintaining, recovering from many different health reason and quality of life. Before choosing to become a nurse, you must first examine yourself and look to see if you have the right qualities for this particular job.…

Mission The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) guides Nurse Practitioners (NPs) to involve patients in decision-making. The AANP effort is to promote active participation of patient and their families in decision-making. Active patient and family participation enhances quality and safe care. Involving patients in healthcare decisions and viewing them as partners (AANP, n.d.a) Leadership The AANP is governed by an elected Board of…

Have you ever been a patient in the hospital and wondered what it would be like to be the doctor or a nurse? Doctors and nurses face many different challenges everyday. They are hard workers and they have dedicated their lives to save and improve other lives of many people. One type of a hard working nurse is a RN. RN stands for Registered Nurse. This type of nurse can work in many settings. What’s so great about RNs and what they do? RNs have and learn many skills. Not just medical skills, but…

risk the health and safety of the victim” (Murray 2009). Nurses are risk of bullying from co-workers, especially other nurses, family members, patients, people in management positions and physicians. Most nurses will experience bullying at some time in their career. According to O. Ovayolu, N. Ovayolu and Karadag (2014), nurses and other health care workers are bullied more often than any other profession especially young nurses. Nurses have always had a reputation for “eating their young.”…

Nursing is an honorable and ethical profession. As nurses, we have an obligation to our patients, as well as society. This is why I was interested in the the American Nurses Association (ANA) position statement on nurse's role in capital punishment. Nurses are bound to standards for ethical clinical practice, but as individuals and as a profession, we are also responsible to be promoting social justice and public health. The ANA position affirms “… nurses should strive for social changes which…

licenses in order to comply with state laws, and outlines the safety standards for each state (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2017). On the state level each board of nursing maintains the integrity of the nursing practice by enforcing the Nurse Practice Act and licensure requirements, approving nursing education programs, and developing nursing practice standards and regulations (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2017). While regulatory agencies dictate, whom is…