Nurse educator

their sample to reflect on their own nursing experiences and report when they felt like they had achieved a professional identity as a nurse. Professionalism in nursing students was defined for the purposes of this case study as the students expressing both competence and confidence in their skills, and beginning to believe for themselves that they are “real” nurses. After the ten students wrote their narratives for the study, a hermeneutic circular approach was taken to analyze their levels…

and life-threating challenges ahead of them in the neonatal intensive care unit. Families need a strong back bone of doctors and nurses to help them through the emotional experience, yet most doctors and nurses have nearly no education in handling these situations. In this article, Ross focuses on a study that researched the difference in neonatology doctors and nurses after an intensive communication training that educates the professionals in understanding and communicating with the families…

What three factors do you feel are most important to students in providing a positive learning environment? What factors do you feel are most important to educators? A primary role of the nurse educator is to create a positive learning environment in the clinical setting for all students and provide strategies to meet the student’s learning needs (Adeniran & Smith-Glasgow, 2010). According to Lukacs (2017), "Students learn most effectively in settings that provide encouragement and support,…

whether increasing in nurses with a bachelor’s degree and decreasing in nurses’ workload can reduce the likelihood of inpatient hospital deaths. I think that increasing in nurses’ workload can increase the likelihood of inpatient hospital death, and increasing in nurses with a bachelor’s degree can enhance the patients’ outcome. Based on the research was done by Ailen et al, they found that increasing 10% of nurses with bachelor’s degree could decrease 7% in mortality. Nurses spend the more…

What is it like to be a Registered Nurse? *flat line deeps* “CODE BLUE! CODE BLUE!” shrieks one of the by-passing nurses in the hallway as a cluster of medical staff rush through the patients’ door. Looking into the medical field not only are the doctors the “super heroes” of the hospital registered nurses also play a significant role in health care settings by assisting in providing quality care to any and all patients in the hospital and the community. While preparing for a successful future…

The decision to become a Registered Nurse was brought on by my past experiences which made me appreciate the field and merits of nursing. As a new nurse, I gave little thought to the physiology behind wounds themselves, often finding myself just carrying out care orders and trying to prevent complication. It was 8 years ago when I became a home care nurse and had some real life exposure to the effects of wounds/ostomy’s on a patient's overall health and self-conception. My goals after…

person’s individuality. For the educator to know which theory should be utilized with teaching, the educator needs to assess the following: How influential is the environment and the internal dynamics of the individual? Is the learner an active or passive learner? What is the task of the educator in the learning process? Are there any motivations for the learner to learn? And, what are the benefits and the negatives to each theory (Bastable, 2013)? After the educator has evaluated these…

role in my healthcare facility. I work as a nurse educator. Yet, I do very education in the traditional sense. I am more of a facilitator of training and education. My podium time is minimal and is only teaching simulation to the 68C military Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) students. I also facilitate the Mock Code Training for the hospital. Yet, most education is a refresher for skills already taught in nursing school. My project as a DNP prepared nurse will be to, implements a new training…

For instance, topics such as the challenges facing nursing educators/students, and fostering a culture of implementing EBP in nursing to enhance delivery of effective nursing care are inadequately covered in existing literature. Nursing curriculums ought to incorporate a wide variety of evidence into the practice…

injection._ Nurses can be taught about the Helfer Skin Tap Technique and it can be practiced in the clinical setting. _ As there is not much empirical evidence for the procedure of intra muscular injection findings can be merged into evidence based nursing practice. This technique minimizes pain during injection offer an advantage over other techniques because they can be easily incorporated into clinical practice without added cost or time. 2.…