Diploma in Nursing

Nursing demands excellence, in all aspects, whether it relates to patient care, academics or even personal goals. This is a profession that demands a perfect balance of critical thinking, professional standards and advanced skill sets. Nursing bestows a sense of discipline, adhering to principles and morals, and a way of tackling challenges that will ultimately leave you wanting more. This is why advancing my career is one of the most pertinent goals for me. The ACNP program is a competitive and…

readers to join me take a short trip and trace the beginnings of my nursing career. I have been a nurse for more than 20 years, with nursing as my third profession. I was a schoolteacher and a consultant in training and development in my past life. As can be seen, my passion for teaching and education had been rooted in me long before becoming a nurse. When I got my diploma in nursing from Holy Name Hospital School of Nursing in Teaneck, New Jersey, I gave myself five years to link the three…

Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C., where she later received her diploma in 1934. She continued her nursing education at Catholic University of America earning her B.S. in Nursing Education in 1939, and a M.S. in Nursing Education in 1945. In 1958, Orem was one of the foremost nursing theorists, and began developing her theory for improvement of quality nursing care in hospitals which became published as, The Self-Care Deficit Theory in 1971. The Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory is…

In this assignment, I will use the Gibbs reflective cycle (1998) to reflect on the situation that taken place during my clinical placement to help me to improve and utilise my skills and knowledge from that experienced. • Describe what happened I was assigned in Surgical Ward at Westmead Hospital for two weeks. I was endorsed to one of the Registered Nurses to be my mentor. I was told by my mentor nurse to help her to shower one of her patients. When I took over the care of the patient the…

of school, the job market for new nurses was not particularly good. A lot of my classmates ended up going out of state to other job markets in order to get their first hospital gig. I ended up working at the nursing home where I once was a CNA, for a year and a half. While working at the nursing home, I met another nurse there who ended up paving the way for me to get an interview on the coronary care unit (CCU) of a local hospital. The particular nurse knew the manager of the CCU unit. When I…

more and build with the effort of the team (Marquis & Huston, 2012). To increase my power of the nursing profession, I would like to initiate a study on self-scheduling for nursing staff. This will be information which is evidence-based research to assist other facilities in the positives and negatives of self-scheduling. By implementing self-scheduling this is another way to empower the nursing staff in my…

dress wounds, and even administer Medication. Also, registered nurses operate in a wide range of settings, from schools to prisons, even homeless shelters. Learning a new skill set is not the easiest task, that’s why when I began looking into nursing I had a lot that I did not understand. One question I asked was, what do registered nurse 's do that licensed practical nurse 's can 't? A good friend of mine said “In a lot of situations licensed practical nurse 's get asked to just as many…

The databases that have been used were Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PubMed, and Science Direct. The search was done using the following key words: leadership, nursing, goals, goal-setting, setting goals, and influence. The importance of setting goals must be addressed from the very beginning of nursing graduate school. The transition to advanced practice nurse, such as nurse practitioner (NP), can be a stressful…

While most research has been conducted on the effects of excessive hospital noise on patients, the article by Ryherd, Waye and Ljungkyist (2008) examines the effect of these high noise levels on unit staff. Ninety one percent of nurses surveyed felt that noise negatively affected them in their daily work, and almost half admitted to adjusting alarm levels so that they would not hear them. The literature review conducted by Ryherd et al. revelaed that staff take no action for the majority of…

professional nurse is as accurate today as when written in 1893. This paper will explain the characteristics of professional nursing, why developing a professional demeanor…