Nurse education

A Nurse Practitioner is an advanced practice registered nurse who has completed advanced coursework and clinical education beyond that required of the generalists registered nurse. Nurse practitioners treats both physical and mental conditions. Nurse Practitioners have just as much education and training to be able to practice and prescribe independently. Nurse Practitioners have just as much knowledge and most of the time in a hospital do more than doctor until it comes to prescribing medicine.…

My personal philosophy of nursing is that nurses are meant to be caring for the client. Client is defined as individual, family and community. Nurses are responsible for providing a holistic and professional nursing care to patients in different settings. Moreover, the nurses are responsible for the quality and safety of patients care. The theory that best relates to my philosophy is Watson’s Theory of Human Caring. This theory provides valuable concepts that help to promote nursing practice.…

Many of the senior nurses are comfortable in their site specific position and do not want to change that. Furthermore, the nurses that work primarily in LTC have concern starting to work in acute care and being familiar with emergency and acute care nursing. Both full-time RN’s that work in LTC are eligible to retire and may do so if shifts are multi-site because it be too much to get the LTC nurses to feel competent in an acute care setting. Furthermore, these nurses have expressed a wish to…

past decade (Linton & Prasun, 2013; Leung, Trevena & Waters, 2016). Every day, nurses need to make a huge amount of decisions about patients’ care and procedures. However, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) publishes the Registered nurse standards for practice 1.1, which requires the registered nurse to access, analyse and use the EBP for safe quality practice (NMBA, 2016). This essay will discuss that nurses are expected to be at the forefront of implementing EBP into clinical…

to flex staff according to patient care needs and continuous fluctuations in patient census. The challenge was to find a tool which accurately reflected patient acuity based on a defined patient population and apply that tool to determine a safe nurse to patient ratio. CHOC Children’s Hospital in Orange California utilizes a PCS. CHOC Children’s has utilized this tool since the…

correlation between work fatigue with the nurse performance in giving nursing care, showed very strong inverted relationship (p =-0807). Thus, it can be concluded that increased work fatigue can lead to decreased performance of nurses. According to the authors, work fatigue occurs due to excessive workload. It caused the increasing number of patients exceeds to total bed capacity, whereas the number of nurses is inadequate. On the other hand, the nurses are required to be able to work optimally…

caring about their well-being, emotionally and physically. When you have, this has the core value in nurses, along with knowledge, everything else comes simultaneously: kindness, compassion, patience. That is why I am in nursing. I believe I could have the capacity to really, genuinely care for every single patient that I get to encounter. Nurses make a difference not only in the lives of patients…

American Nurses Association (ANA) is professional organization that promotes and advances the nursing profession by setting high standards of nursing while promoting the rights of nurses around the world. In addition, their secondary purpose is to represent nursing industry by lobbying the Congress concerning any healthcare issues that impact the nursing industry. The nursing website that will be evaluated is the American Nursing Association(ANA) (2015, which is a professional nursing education…

outcome. The purpose of this post is to discuss the role that a nurse plays in a patient’s care. The American Nursing Association (2010) is an organization that has defined the nurse’s scope of practice, and holds nurses to the highest standards of practice; with these high expectations, they also encourage a safe, and healthy workplace. The Nursing scope of practice states that a nurse must practice within the limitations of their education, and training, although this may be expanded…

Implementing good effective shared governance can help to identify any poor practices quickly. Systems that encourage nurses to raise concerns and are willing to address these concerns raise healthcare performance across the board (Snow, 2012). Ott and Ross find that nurses most frequently raise concerns over patient care and safety. Shared governance councils improve nurses’ ownership of patient care which in turn increases the reporting care issues and safety concerns to unit-based groups.…