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Review the Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. Of the nine Essentials, identify which one is least familiar to you, and explain why. What are the aspects of that Essential that seem elusive to you, and why is it important to engage with these areas in your clinical practice? Give examples to demonstrate your perspective. Out of the nine essential, essential IX (Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice) is the least familiar one to me. The reason I say that…

Communication is an essential part of any job. It doesn’t matter if you are working behind the counter at McDonald’s or taking care of a critically ill patient, you need a basic form of communication. However, to be a professional nurse, it is imperative that you become a respectful team player by means of effective communication. (Kupperschmidt, Kientz, Ward, & Reinholz, 2010) Change of shift can be an extremely busy and stressful part of the day for any healthcare provider. The information…

Nursing is often referred as the art and science of person centered care, that's why Indiana University is the school that will help me meet my goals of being a Registered Nurse. With a bachelor's degree in nursing that will help me excel in critical thinking and use the skills I learned from Indiana University everyday in my line of work. I will be majoring in Nursing reason being that nursing is a special skill that you learn the overall concept from books and class, but it's not universal…

Being declared as a pre-nursing major, this counter argument is not something that should be even placed into the picture. A nurse is someone with a soft loving touch. They are the person who doesn’t care about getting all the credit of caring a patient or resident back to full health. Becoming a nurse is a dream for many people who are compassionate about healing, who could care less about the reward. A nurse’s reward is seeing a patient be able to walk again, or even being able to see Mrs.…

Current research findings will most likely become the basis for increase activities against hospitals and other health care organizations. The doctrines of corporate liability hold hospitals accountable for failures to ensure a safe and conducive environment for patient care. Serious injuries to patient represent a sequence of errors and may involve missteps by members of different disciplines. Expect to hear more concerns from physicians and other health care providers about how nurse staffing…

Ethics is a branch of philosophy that delineates the highest standard of human morality with the concept sense of right and wrong. The Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia guides the essential ethical standards and values of nursing practice that nurses are committed to in their profession. The code outlines the profession’s commitment to recognise, respect, protect and promote human rights of all people receiving and providing nursing health care. It is essential that nursing professions…

The first key recommendation of RWJF-IOM report describes how state laws determines the limitations of various types of nurses by creating a system in which nurses does not practice according to their education and training but rather by its own state regulation. IOM’s recommendation to nurses is to practice to the full extent of their education and training. This recommendation is important because it will provide patient-centered, accessible and affordable care now and in the future to…

My mother was a nurse. I’ve watched her leave at late hours in the night, early mornings, and afternoons. She ran herself to death by working to pay the bills in our house, organize amazing trips to take together , clean, and through all of that she had to find time to sleep. But, she choose to run herself because she was that compassionate about her job. She loved the feeling of helping others get better and not only did she love it, she was one of the best at it. She helped me learn that what…

Student ID: U3109568 Assessment name: Assessment 2 Word count: 2213 Possible challenges I am likely to experience when transitioning from a Student to a New Graduate Nurse. Introduction The transition from student to nurse has been the subject of discussion in the literature and among prospective graduates due to the stressors and challenges that comes with the process (Levett-Jones & FitzGerald, 2005). Accordingly, Chang and Daly (2015) has described the period of graduate nurse transition as…

When I was in the bachelor program at UAB, there were many techniques that were used in order to promote professional value. The value of being professional is taught from day one of nursing school. From admission interviews and email correspondence with professors, to interactions with patients and coworkers in the clinical setting. While we are taught the fundamentals of nursing at a early stage in the bachelor program, the test of growth and inheritance is practiced during clinical…