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stages that a nurse progresses through in their career. Dr. Benner’s theory created a five stage model that provided a framework for professional development for nurses (Hawkins, 2013). The model delineates over time and skill acquisition necessary to achieve expert status, which is the ultimate goal. The five stages that nurses must proceed through are novice, advance beginner, competent, proficient, and expert. The novice is the beginner or nurse without experience. The new nurse must…

supports the best methodology to educate nurses on managing physiological alarms appropriately. This project was conducted to determine if one method of educating nurses to alarm fatigue was more effective over another. Alarm data was collected prior to any form of alarm management education and again after online education and once more after traditional face-to-face education. The number of alarms from each data point was compared to the others. Nurses are ethically obligated to provide…

practices was to implement small changes on the nursing floor during the times of medication administration in an effort to eliminate distractions and interruptions of the nurse. Some of the changes included having the nurse wear a bright colored sash to alert others that he or she was administering medications as well as the nurse to taking a moment before administering the meds to review the seven…

The application of evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing has created substantial impressions in science, education, and practice in the discipline. The field does not develop new nursing knowledge or validate existing data; rather, it enables medical practitioners to use tried and tested techniques to make clinical decisions. This paper review literature to reveal the way EBP incorporates patient values, preferences, and clinical experiences in nursing practice. The analysis section…

want to become a nurse. I can’t though, because this never happened to me. At age 15, when I decided to become a CNA, I was taking a leap of faith, knowing that not only would it not be easy, but it could end up being something I hated. Luckily, not only was this not the case, it was the best decision I have ever made in my life, and it has made me more determined than ever to become a professional nurse. There are a multitude of reasons why I hope to become a professional nurse in my future.…

All the nurses seemed genially concerned about each patient and was very attentive to all of their needs. The most difficult part of my clinical experience was watching the evening nurse trying to persuade my patient into taking her acetaminophen. I thought the nurse did an excellent job at standing her ground and not letting the patient get out of taking the medication, all while still…

I interviewed Ms. Stephanie Sims for my Nurse Interview. She is my colleague of two years but she has been a nurse for three and half years now. She is one of the good and knowledgeable nurses on the floor. If you ask patients, they will tell that she is one of the most caring nurse and always has a smile on her face. Stephanie is smart, caring, compassionate, flexible, hardworking, and a dependable nurse. When I asked about what made her choose nursing as a career, she gave me a long answer…

that we are taking care of and it is essential to keep this in mind when we start our nursing career. Issue The way we went about identifying the topic we wanted to further research, was first of all by observation. During clinical many of the nurses, we worked with would discuss the issue of not really knowing when and if swab caps were being…

Professionalism in Nursing When you think of a nurse, what do you think of? Do you picture the typical, traditional nurse – a woman dressed in monotone scrubs standing in a hospital? Now, try and add more detail to that image; add her nametag. Under her name, there is a big red label that clearly states R.N., registered nurse, in bold white letters. If you were to add even more detail, you might be able to see the small black print above the red label stating that this nurse has at the very…

of potential male nurse to even consider becoming a nurse. The American association for men in nursing (AAMN) is actually encouraging men to enroll in nursing school and plan to increase the male enrollment into nursing programs my twenty percent by 2020. When thinking of nurses most imagine a female; however, this is creating a gap of nursing positions that should be filled with males. The stereotypical image of all nurses being female 's has itself caused a shortage of nurses across…