Nurse educator

Personal Objectives 1. I will be able to develop confidence in performing nursing/clinical tasks by receiving beneficial feedbacks from my preceptors and the staff in the pediatrics and NICU units. - I achieved this objective by having a lot of opportunities in this clinical practicum to improve my nursing skills and learn how to handle challenging situations. I was able to shadow a mother and baby RN. I was able to take newborn vitals, feed newborns, change diapers, learn how to give newborn a…

No two case scenarios are exactly the same in the nursing profession, it is important to develop the trait of critical thinking. This is a philosophy that is used and encouraged by the educators for teaching professions that are not stiff in their duties in the real world. The concept of critical thinking comes from the combination of two words “critical” and “thinking”. Critical in turn comes from the root word “critique” which means to judge objectively a particular case while thinking comes…

supports the best methodology to educate nurses on managing physiological alarms appropriately. This project was conducted to determine if one method of educating nurses to alarm fatigue was more effective over another. Alarm data was collected prior to any form of alarm management education and again after online education and once more after traditional face-to-face education. The number of alarms from each data point was compared to the others. Nurses are ethically obligated to provide…

“The nurse, in all roles and settings, advances the profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development, and the generation of both nursing and health policy.” This provision is primarily concerned with the nurse’s role in advancing the profession. In the past, nursing was traditionally seen either as a religious calling or as an occupation. The struggle to be recognized as a profession has prompted an exam of the role of the nurse in practice, as an educator,…

background between an associate degree in nursing and the Baccalaureate. A scenario to show the differences between an associate and Baccalaureate nurse will also be explained…

Advanced Practice Nurse Roles: A Reflection As I reflect on the role of the advanced practice nurse, an abundance of thoughts come to mind. In a way, these thoughts are enlightening and at the same time almost overwhelming. As I work closer to achieving this position in my career, I come to grasp the paradox that the more I know about advanced practice nursing, the less know about it. Even so, I feel that advanced practice nursing is more than just a career, it is a role that is becoming more…

skills and leadership skills among the BSN prepared nurses. Registered nurses today are the primary care givers and directly responsible for the coordination of care for their patients and work as part of an interdisciplinary team. Through formal education a BSN prepared nurse is prepared for community education and case management, these areas provide coordination of patient care within and outside the hospital setting. The ADN prepared nurse due to being technical/skill educated lacks…

Role of a nurse in today's health care environment and how I envision myself embodying those roles Caregiver, decision maker, communicator, manager of care, patient advocate, and teacher are just a few of the roles a nurse plays in healthcare. In today’s health care environment, a nurse has to juggle various roles and can be referred to as the heart of healthcare, and I envision myself embodying these roles because they are all equally important in delivering 100% patient satisfaction.…

ending up wetting her pants because no one would take her to the bathroom when she said she had to go. That was something that really frustrated me. It is important that CNA’s understand their role is vital to the residents health. It’s not just the nurses alone caring for residents, it takes a…

care of patients who are coming out of surgery and require extra care before they can go home or to a hospital room for overnight stay. As a nurse with an ASN degree my roll would be the same as most of the nurses on a hospital floor; although, in addition to the ASN I would need to obtain my critical care certificate to work in PACU. As a registered nurse with an ASN my roles in this healthcare setting would be to provide and manage quality care for patients, promote healthcare advancements of…