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The Student Nurse Experience: Becoming a Nurse Introduction The process of transformation from a student nurse into a nurse could be challenging due to “blurring of the boundaries between professional nursing and a skilled healthcare work” (Holland, 1998, p. 229). In order to make it easier for a student nurse to identify her/his role this evolutionary process could be divided into three stages or “rites of passage”, including “rites of separation, transition and incorporation” (Holland, 1998,…

Medication administration errors are some of the most frequent types of errors that occur in the health care field ("Why Neither the “Five Rights” Nor Bar Code Medication Administration Alone Will Prevent Medication Errors," n.d). To prevent such errors there has been designed an approach to create a safer practice by following the "five right" rule that verifies the right patient, right medication, right time, right dose, and the right route. Nevertheless the lethal errors still occur on the…

In today’s society, we don’t realize the amount of stress we put upon each other. For those in the nursing career, the impact of this can lead to concerning issues. Although money was the number one reason most people experienced stress, the percentage of people who experience daily stress due to their work is 70%, (APA-Work Percentage, 2011). We don’t often think about the constant pressure that is placed on nurses. Consider, for a moment, a time when you were being cared for by a nurse. Now…

Patient Satisfaction and Nursing Visibility In order to review performance and improvement, data are compressed into an easily interpreted dashboard. A compiled dashboard highlights the variances, compares them to both historic institutional data, and benchmarks the facility against similar facilities. Organizations are able to focus on areas of needed change by interpreting the raw data and analyzing trends (Brown, Aydin, & Donaldson, 2008). The purpose of this assignment is to review a…

To me, being a nurse is more than a job or career. It is a continuous learning process that I am willing to take on each day, to embrace life changing events and miracles. Touching the lives of others whether the help is gratitude or remains unnoticed, the pride I hold in saying “I’m going to be a nurse” is unmeasurable. Nursing is more than a profession of integrity and compassion; it’s a privilege to be responsible for someone else. My pursue in nursing, first initiated when I was young and my…

Burnout in the Nursing Profession There are different views on what burnout in the nursing profession is, for example: Lang et al. (2010), states that burnout is a syndrome that encompasses emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment, while another study states, “burnout is a state of chronic exhaustion when caregivers’ perceived demands outweigh perceived resources” (Potter, Pion, & Gentry, 2015, p. 1). Similar to Lang et al.’s, (2010), research, another article…

In many nursing facilities, hospitals are challenged with inadequate staffing. According to Yonder-Wise (2015), staffing involves hiring and implementing capable employees to meet the needs of patient care. Staffing and scheduling are primarily the responsibility of the lead charge nurse and the unit director. Scheduling is the task of implementing the staffing plan by assigning employees to work specific hours and days. Adequate staffing is needed to assure timely identification of any change…

How would you define professionalism in your own words? What criteria must be present for nurses to be considered a professional body? Professionalism is the ability to use your skill that you have been trained in to effectively take care of a person. Rather it be the skill of therapeutic communication or a physical skill of inserting a catheter. Skills are also noticed by the character of the person. If there is a patient that is cussing out a nurse, it wouldn’t be very professional for…

The three values that are related to my career is will my career provide enough money, do I want to be in an office all day or be able to walk around and be active, and will my career make me happy. The first value, which is will my career provide my family and I enough money, is important to me because I want to be able to provide shelter and food for my family. I want to be able to provide the necessities in life without having to worry about getting two or more jobs so that the bills get…

Nursing Residency Program With the increase in life expectancy of the aging population and the emergence of complex diseases, patient safety and quality of care remains a priority across the health care settings; however, evidence reveals that nurses are not adequately prepared to meet the demands of clinical practice. According to Welding (2011) new nurses have difficulty performing practical skills and transitioning classroom knowledge into the new role. The purpose of this paper is to…