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The Competency of Nurse Practitioner in Health Practice Follows to Self- report, The Assessment by the Trainee Supervisor and the Client’ Perceptions on Nurse Practitioner Services Nurse practitioners (NP) provide the primary health care services to individuals, families, groups of clients, and communities. The purpose of this study was assessed the competency of Practitioners in health practice by self report, the assessment by the trainee supervisor, and the client’ perceptions of nurse…

Leaders have a unique opportunity to create a leadership style by combining multiple qualtiites. Becoming an effective leader can be a found in many combinations of vision, ability, enthusiasm, stability, concern for others, self-confidence, persistence, vitality, charisma, and intergrity (Manning & Curtis, 2015). The top three qualities that were considered most important in nursing leadership as resulted from “A survery of Current Valued Academic Leadership Qualities in Nursing” were noted to…

Public health nurse play a critical role in the mitigation phase. Mitigation is a preventive measure used to identify the risks from causing a disaster and reduce the severity or impact of a catastrophe (Harkness and DeMarco, 2016). Implementing mitigation requires the involvement of the whole community and emergency management members. As a public health nurse, one of their important responsibilities during mitigation phase is to help and protect the health and safety of communities by…

Values: this is what l consider as standards that give directions to my life and meanings. According to Masters (2014), values are principles and ideals that give meanings and direction to our social, personal, and professional lives. (Masters, 2014, p. 96). The values of nursing have been justice, integrity, autonomy, benevolence, all of which have been incorporated in they care we as nurses provide to the public. As l go to work each day, l am constantly reminded and re-evaluating my values…

Professional boundaries refer to the spaces between the patient’s vulnerability and the nurse’s power. As nurses use social networking sites and electronic forms of communication in health care setting, they can accidently blur the lines between their personal and professional lives. Making a comment about the patient on social networking site can breach the patient privacy and confidentiality, as well as violation of professional boundary (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2014).…

When I left the room, I was relieved. But the long train ride home gave me time to reflect on my behavior. I knew of the punishments to come, but was grateful that I was not going to be removed from the program. Since then, all I have done is think and attempt to heal the wounds that I have suffered. I realize that I was not removed from the program because within me is the potential to be an honest, ethical, and good nurse. I am destined for that. What has happened to me these past two years…

Leadership, management, and followership each have a distinct definition. Leadership is the ability of an individual to react to a new emergent event without a plan using knowledge and skills to overcome or create a plan to solve a problem. Management has a focus on procedures, and protocol. Management guides others and the environment based on evidenced based practice. Followership is the use of an individual skill or knowledge to participate in a situation and attribute to the team. An…

. There was no palliative care where treating symptoms is as important as pain management and providing psychological support. Vivian continues with the full-dose of treatment even though they fail to explain the full dose chemotherapy to her. The author is portraying how important it is for doctors and patient should agree about the course of the treatment and hence achieve a balance between honesty and autonomy. In the movie, you see Vivian realizing that the doctors treating her see her…

The article “Changing Views: Influencing How the Public Sees Nursing”, discusses the importance and multitude of aspects that encompasses the identity of being a nurse. Nurse and author Pam Dickenson delves into useful ways nurses can increase the respect for their profession by non-nursing members of society, and also tells of the critical reasons that nursing’s image must never be undermined by false identities or misconceptions. She repeatedly emphasizes the importance of maintaining…

As we are transitioning from LPN to now BSN, it is a journey we embark on with passion and dedication. We are bravely dedicating our lives to continuously taking care of people. As stated in Leadership in Nursing Practice book, “once a nurse, always a nurse! Nursing is a calling”. We touch and change people’s lives every day. Whether the help we provide is appreciated or remains unnoticed, we still feel happy and proud to always say “I’m a nurse”. Whether we were LPNs and now BSN, we remain the…