Clinical nurse specialist

I am applying to become an Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse, specializing in Critical Care/Trauma as my next step to effect significant differences in the current and future generations of aging veterans’ healthcare administration. As a youngster, my mother said my “Auntie”, a special person, would not be with us much longer so I needed to treat her with extra special care. Soon, I became Auntie’s constant companion during countless hospitalizations and medical visits. I witnessed, from her…

The question “should nurses practice to the full extent of their education and training?” seems unreasonable and absurd like “why to learn how to fly if your wings will be cut off right after?” However, the answer is not so obvious because of the complexity of the medical system. This issue concerns advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) including nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, and nurse midwives, who have master’s or doctoral degrees and passed…

During the manager shadowing clinical, I had to observe a manager of inter-professional development clinical technology and nursing practice in order to become more aware of the role of a nursing manager. The purpose of this paper is to integrate concepts from class into the manager shadowing aspect of clinical. These concepts include leadership and/or management styles, communication style (nursing, interdisciplinary, conflict), staffing, financial/budget, and quality improvement/focus on…

nursing is a piece of cake but little does one know being a nurse comes with huge responsibility. It takes a special kind of person to become a registered nurse. A registered nurse must coordinate patient care, monitor patients’ self-management, take vital signs and keep track of patients’ medical information, and provide medication to patients and watch for side effects. In order to fulfill the requirements to become a registered nurse, first one has to attend an accredited nursing school. The…

profession is rich in these aspects, there are many options where a person can choose as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS). Most of the CNS areas where the NPs can specialize in can be noted like adult-gerontology acute care (AGPC), family advanced practice, pediatric advanced practice, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP), women's health advanced practice, and dual adult-gerontology women's health nurse practitioner (AG/WHNP). Among these areas, the most preferred area of…

The project management role generally may be assumed by Advanced Practice Nurses, such as a nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist. However, through careful observation of my duties as the Outpatient Diabetes Nurse Educator, I may safely assert that developed project management skills would also be utilized in my practice while having a patient education in view. Therefore, to initiate that task and to be successful in its completion one must understand the steps included in the…

1.3 Informatics skills Clinical experience and competence are skills to  Bridge the gap between clinical and technical world, informatics ably “speak both clinical and informatics language”  Also, to skillfully carry out both technological and clinical skills at the bedside to enhanced quality care Critical thinking, analytical and problem solving applications are unique values and experience in patient care. Technical functions used to critically analyze care based on the wealth of…

According to Kathleen M. Werner, quality management (QM) means: “assessment and improvement of work processes while focusing on what customers want and need” (p. 379). The following discussion is an example of how the Emory Healthcare, whose motto is “we’re all in this together”, tries to be a national leader in quality improvement and patient safety using ‘the cornerstones of QM: quality, scientific approach, and “all in one team” ‘(Werner, p. 379). Nosocomial infections are some of the very…

treatment of human reaction, and promotion being taken care of by people, families, gatherings, groups, and populations. The discoveries of this study recognize that understudies' translation of, and learning in the clinical setting is affected by: a relationship between the patient, registered nurse (RN) and the understudy's development of themselves as a medical attendant. Huge to the study and not already recognized is the way understudies enter the sensitive life-universe of the patient's…

NRSG 370 Clinical Speciality Elective – Peri-operative Care As the world population is aging, the requirement of surgical services continues to increase as well. At the same time, there have been nursing shortages internationally and nationally in Australia in recent years (Schluter, Seaton & Chaboyer, 2011). And every year, there is only a small percentage of all nurses choose to practice in the peri-operative arena. The global nurse shortage results in the peri-operative nurse shortage.…