Clinical nurse leader

APN Leader Interview Project Advanced practice nurse is registered nurse who has advanced clinical roles in nursing such as assessing a patient, diagnosing, ordering labs and providing treatment. They also play a leading role in coordinating health promotion by educating patient about their health condition. Clinical competence helps the advance practice nurse to achieve advance skills for assessing and meeting needs of the patient but it also helps to create a safe and trusty relationship…

As a future nurse, I aspire to provide the best care possible. In order to do so, I must strive to attain all the attributes to give that care to all of my patients who want and need it. I want my legacy to be filled with love, diligence, leadership, and compassion. These roles will impact the nursing field when done with true passion. To be a nurse is to be an advocate and to have a special heart for others. To fully give of myself is something I strive to do. There are a plethora more of…

expectancy of the aging population and the emergence of complex diseases, patient safety and quality of care remains a priority across the health care settings; however, evidence reveals that nurses are not adequately prepared to meet the demands of clinical practice. According to Welding (2011) new nurses have difficulty performing practical skills and transitioning classroom knowledge into the new role. The purpose of this paper is to perform an organizational assessment of ECH Hospital, as…

Nursing Leadership Priorities Health care organizations and the way patient care is delivered is rapidly changing. The ability to manage, promote, and facilitate change is one of the most important skills that nursing leaders need to be successful. Influencing change requires effective communication skills, and the ability to help other see the vision (Curtis, De Vries, & Sheerin, 2011). This paper will discuss leading change and effective communication as nursing leadership priorities for St.…

examination of how nurse’s roles, responsibilities, and education should change to meet the needs of an aging, increasingly diverse population and to respond to a complex evolving health care system (Foundation, 2015).It emphasizes on the registered nurse using the full extent of their education, training, competencies, and collaboration with other medical staff to provide higher quality care, decrease errors, and increase safety. (Institution of medicine, 2010). While reviewing the report, I…

Integrative Clinical Practicum and Leadership Development course. I have been employed at The Queen's Medical Center (QMC) as a registered nurse since January 2004 and currently working in the Float Pool as a medical, surgical and telemetry nurse. Throughout my career as a nurse at the QMC, I have taken the role of a staff nurse, charge RN, resource nurse for other charge RNs, service recovery nurse, and clinical coach for new and experience nurses. In addition, as a former U.S. Army nurse in…

2016 I went back to acute care at Moses Cone. My job for the day was to be the Medication Nurse. So when we were getting report from the leaders, I was assigned 4 patients. Going into the clinical day, I was sort of nervous just because I did not know what the day was going to be like and also because I had not been in the hospital setting, let alone an acute floor, in three weeks. So I brushed up on how clinical and reminded myself of important things that I like to do throughout the day to…

requires an across-the-board involvement by different members in a hospital setting. The change squarely touches on all organizational units, including clinical and non-clinical, accentuating the need to attract stakeholders from all these areas as a way of fostering an overall change mood. These stakeholders will play a leading role as change leaders and champions within their respective areas of specialization. As such, choice of stakeholders is quite influential in determining the overall…

In this essay, I will reflect upon my experience which I had, during my clinical posting, using the Gibbs cycle of reflection (Gibbs, 1988) to help the reader to read this essay with ease. This particular model incorporates - description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and the action plan. Description of event: I am currently on my clinical posting at one of the public hospitals in New South Wales. My clinical postings started in the mid of the February in Haematology ward. I was…

characteristics of a clinical educator, I thought of what I would like to accomplish as an instructor, and about my clinical experience as a nursing student. Combining these aspects, I would describe the characteristics of an effective clinical educator as a leader, mentor, knowledgeable, articulate, creative, competent, dedicated, and fair. Although these characteristics describe traits that most professionals should possess, they are very important in the cultivation of future nurses. The…