system, policies, legislations, pre-operative pathways and scoring system for the early identification of emergency call. As reflected in the care provided to the health consumers, it is one of my experiences during my clinical placement and it is based on the principles of code of conduct. The relevant principle is providing a safe and competent care, documentation of the event and ask for advice and assistance from the registered nurse and the coordinator of the day. To enumerate my experience…
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 patient safety…
connects those who practice it with their inner selves and truth, is transformational. In regards to leadership and management, Burns (2003, cited in Marquis & Huston, 2009, p42) identified that there is two primary types of leaders in management. Both transactional and transformational. Sullivan & Garland (2010) suggest that transactional leadership is aimed at maintaining equilibrium,…
Nursing education and development of curriculum began in the external, higher education, and internal environment. Nursing educators must focus on sociopolitical and economic tendencies and initiate strategies to create curriculum to achieve similar global qualities. It is essential to comprehend the external issues such as; healthcare reform, global disasters and globalization, changing demographics, technology and the environment to globally promote the framework for nurses to acquire…
I am fully prepared to enter the Doctor of Nursing practice program, Family…
Introduction The admission process of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program includes a formal interview with a faculty member. During my formal interview, I learned students were required to choose a theme that would be incorporated throughout the DNP courses. As I drove away from Quinnipiac University, I started thinking about possible themes I could envision studying for the next three or more years. At this point, I only had four years of clinical nursing experience, much less than…
Evidence-based nursing research is the current trend in this field. In the next 10 years, I believe that nursing practice would still be based on the best research available, but higher caliber and more innovative. The pressure to achieve a cost-effective health care system is driven by research. In order to achieve an affordable high quality care and high-end patient safety, multidisciplinary team approach is necessary. According to Garson and Levin (2001), healthcare challenges in terms of…
Clinical Hand Washing Practices: Nursing Students Tell the Dirty Truth Proper hand hygiene has been proven to be the most important action a person can take to stop the spread of illness. This is especially true in healthcare settings where patients are already at a heightened risk of susceptibility and the exposure of added pathogens could mean the difference between life and death. Hand hygiene practices: nursing students’ perceptions discusses the importance of healthcare workers hand…
state, national, and international level. Research programs are used in nursing to guide practice and make changes in health and science policy. Different strategies and lessons are learned when moving research programs to health policy. Authors have identified five main issues that arises as research programs moves to health policy. (Hinshaw and Grady, 2011) The first issue is the influence on the levels of health policy. Nursing research influence health policy at the local, state and…
An FNP is involved in direct care activities such as advanced physical assessments, deciphering laboratory data, performing diagnostic procedures, and implementing pharmacological and holistic therapies which are a part of scientific practice competencies (The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties [NONPF], 2014, p. 3). Using these competencies, a FNP can derive new interventions and develop new scientific information that can help the profession advance. It is the duty…