Clinical nurse specialist

The Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) represents the terminal practice degree in the field of nursing. It prepares Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) as expert practitioners and leaders of transformation in health care. DNP APNs are able to work in any role from direct care to the executive level across the continuum of our increasingly complex healthcare environment. DNP prepared APNs are educated via the Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Practice Nursing (AACN, 2006) in…

the program. Generally, this option became available due to the lack of nurses on staff and employed in our nursing programs. It was clearly obvious that we suffered from a staffing shortage as the current nurses were very aggravated from the pressures of the added hours, strenuous work, lack or availability to take vacation days, and burnout. In addition, we started to implement opportunities for employees to refer nurses. With this aspect of improving understaffing, our company would pay…

invisibility of nursing is a phenomenon that describes how little people know about the value of nurses. Nursing image is a multidimensional concept that includes the public’s perception of nurses, nurses’ individual and collective image of the profession, nurses’ perception of the public’s image of nurses, and the image of nursing by the media (Rezaei-Adaryani, Salsali, & Mohammadi. 2012). Many people think that nurses are not very intelligent when compared to a doctor. Today, students are…

effective result for patients. The nurses should respond effectively and appropriately when working as part of a team member of a multidisciplinary team. As a team member, nurses can learn from each other’s reactions and responses in the course of teamwork and job satisfaction can be sought in this process as well. Utriainen & Kyngäs (2009)’s study about hospital nurse’s job satisfaction, Dunn et al. (2005) have discovered that interpersonal relationships with nurses and patient care and…

Preceptorship Curriculum for Critical Care Nurses This curriculum is designed for critical care units. The content of instruction will incorporate “materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives” ("Curriculum - Wikipedia," n.d.) set forth by the particular critical care unit the nurse is being precepted on. Prerequisite for the critical care class is at least two years of experience on a medical-surgical unit, and an Associate or Baccalaureate…

Medical assistant and clinical nurse specialist: Most people who come to college face some type of challenges such as family obligations or struggles, work obligations, personal medical struggles, or financial instability. The challenges I will face during my journey at ECPI are all the above. My parents are not in the greatest health, I’m working two jobs just to make ends meet and I struggle with Generalized Anxiety Disorder with panic attacks and Depression. My daddy struggling with…

Nursing in 2000. Ms. Jennifer Katarivas stated that she continued on to attend the University of Phoenix earning her Master’s degree in Nursing in 2007 and later receiving a Post Masters certificate as a clinical nurse specialist from the University of Detroit. She reported that she has worked as a nurse since then. She indicated that she is working at the Hospital for Special Surgery for five years, her hours are usually from 6:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. She reported that…

infancy up to adolescence. Some pediatricians and their pediatric nurses provide care for adolescents up to the age of twenty-one. In order to become a pediatric nurse, a person must have the required education, certification, and experience to get a job at a health facility that gives care to children and young adults. Universities colleges and some hospitals offer nursing diplomas and degrees. Anyone who desires to become a pediatric nurse must be able to learn all of the job…

Healthcare is an ever-changing system that requires adaptability to the most up-to-date patient care advancements and improvements. Informatics specialized nurses are dedicated to the advancement and improvement of nursing, information, computer and cognitive sciences that are vital to the enhancement of patient health. Informatics specialized nurses collect, manage and disseminate essential nursing “data, information, knowledge and wisdom” to provide superior and lucrative nursing care…

analysis of the role of the registered Nurse in managing and coordinating care to ensure safe and effective patient outcomes. There are four areas of competence that all nurses must demonstrate knowledge and competency in to register as a nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 2010). These areas are defined as: professional values; communication and interpersonal skills; nursing practice and decision making; and leadership, management and team working. District Nurses are the quintessential…