Nurse education

literature, and implications for clinical practice are of critical importance. Background Research Topic For many years, a deficiency in the number of nurses has been documented. Over time, this need, transferred down to the realm of nursing education, has played culprit to many problems. Specifically, this is exemplified in the number of nurse faculty members available to the field nursing academia and the shortage that…

still lingers. I would say, nurses could not able to be psychologically free and independent from physicians influence. For instance, Boland, Boland and Buus (2010) in their research article titled “Autonomy, evidence, and intuition: nurses and decision-making”, discussed this very issue that nurses have in clinical practice. According to the researchers, nurses still have a problem to be independent practitioner and the problem seems emanated from the nursing education and curriculum…

shortage and turnover to the aging nurse population, patient demographics, insufficient staffing, nursing school, and salaries. Starting off with aging, in 2004 the average age of a nurse was 46.8 and in 2008 it increased to 47 years (Cox, 2014). By 2008, 44.7% of nurses were over 50 years old and they mainly work in nursing homes, academic programs, and other home health areas. The older nurses tend to stay with the same employer longer when compared to younger nurses who often jump between…

among ICU nurses is negatively affecting patient outcomes, nurse satisfaction, and increasing stress. Therefore, the research question of this article is: would nurse education programs among ICU nurses decrease incivility in clinical practice, in turn increasing nurse retention and help patient outcomes, compared to no nurse education programs? P: ICU nurses I: nurse education programs C: no nurse education programs O: decrease incivility in clinical practice and increasing nurse retention…

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) are advanced nurses that work in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU), delivery rooms, emergency rooms, or specialty. They work with healthy, sick, and premature newborns. Neonatal Nurse Practitioner also deals with cases like low weight, heart abnormalities, congenital abnormalities, and other disorders. This is the career that I would love to become. In this essay I will talk about what NNP's job description, salary, education requirements, training,…

to Promote Safe, Quality Patient Care The purpose of this paper is to outline nursing education and explain how it applies to the promotion of safe, quality patient care. Liberal education, knowledge from a variety of disciplines, and the integration of ways of knowing and thinking in nursing influence scholarship and the ways in which students will be able to respond in real life situations. This is where nurses can take their scholarship and apply it in complex adaptive ways. Knowledge of a…

management, and education are also key nursing roles. Nurse as an angel: “She is dear one watch me when I was in womb of my mother. I saw her first when I opened my eyes; she cares in my stages of development and in distress and sickness, and present with me in my first and last breadth”. She is angel who can do more with less just like magic.…

Nurses are ideally suited in eliminating health disparities because of the profession itself: using holistic approach, most trusted healthcare professionals, have history of working with marginalized groups, ability to partner with communities and serve as advocates, and longstanding practice and research contribution in working with most vulnerable communities (Peragallo, n.d.). Nurses are the primary healthcare providers for disparities populations so they should not compare the patients in…

(IOM), The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Heath, is a thorough examination of how nurse’s roles, responsibilities, and education should change to meet the needs of an aging, increasingly diverse population and to respond to a complex evolving health care system (Foundation, 2015).It emphasizes on the registered nurse using the full extent of their education, training, competencies, and collaboration with other medical staff to provide higher quality care, decrease errors, and…

2016). In 2010, it produced “Future of Nursing: Leading change and advancing health care”. It recognized a nurses’ role as critical to the fulfillment of the purpose of the Affordable Care Act. It was noted that all states do not utilize APRNs to the fullest degree of their abilities and education and limit their practice. The recommendation of the Institute of Medicine was to allow nurses to practice to the full scope of their training for…