Nurses

An expert nurse is someone highly skilled and knowledgeable gained from higher education and years of clinical experience. The expert nurse practices safely as underlined by governing bodies, skillfully, all while providing kind comforting care. These are some of the baseline characteristics of the expert nurse, and with experiences nurses relies more on intuition rather than policies or check lists. The expert nurse is able to anticipate the good and the bad as the patient clinically progress.…

for the future, like careers for example. The work environment for usual nurses is in hospitals, physician office's, home healthcare surfaces and nursing care facilities (. A registered nurse needs to have an associates degree, qualities like compassion and stability, and to know about the overall work environment. To become a registered nurse one needs an education, obviously. The entry level education to become a nurse is an associates degree (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.…

levels and address patient volume. Banning mandatory nurse overtime is assumed to be the answer to nurses’ burnout, job dissatisfaction and compromised staff or patient safety. However, Bae’s study (2012) finds that even if regulations on mandatory overtime is in place, there is no improvement in the nurses’ working conditions (p. 211). This is mainly because of the imbalance in patient and staff ratio of most health care facilities. Nurses are required to work past the end of their shift…

suffers from a shortage now but will be much worse in the future. There are several factors that I am aware of before research, and several I will learn. From what I already know, Nurses today are forced to work more with less resources resulting in mental and physical exhaustion and high turnover rates. Some nurses decided to leave the field all together. What needs to be done to elevate the shortage today and the stress from the current working conditions? If there is such a nursing shortage…

considers unit organizational factors such as nurse to bed ratio and skill mix/experience with patient access to support. Data analysis and results showed a positive association with staffing levels in effecting patient access to support. On the other hand, the accessibility of support declined when the number of emergency patients and the unit workload increased. Patient’s considered access to support was also associated with the number of hours worked by Nurses on the unit where the higher…

Have you ever been a patient in the hospital and wondered what it would be like to be the doctor or a nurse? Doctors and nurses face many different challenges everyday. They are hard workers and they have dedicated their lives to save and improve other lives of many people. One type of a hard working nurse is a RN. RN stands for Registered Nurse. This type of nurse can work in many settings. What’s so great about RNs and what they do? RNs have and learn many skills. Not just medical skills, but…

backbone are the nurses who work tirelessly to serve and comfort the patients who are in pain. The nurses make sure that the patients are taking the medications as advised by the doctor and also that they are feeling relaxed. Nurses face a number of problems too while doing their job. Sometimes the patients are aggressive or are unwilling to take the medicine that is given by the doctor and it is indeed their duty to take care of the patients who are unable to take care of themselves. Nurses…

Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) revealed that 24.1% of responding nurses reported being verbally abused by a nurse colleague or a nurse manager”(Luparell, 2011, p. 92) nurses experience bullying, verbal abuse, negative body language, and many more from their colleagues, this kind of abuse is consider lateral Violence. Many nurses had experience this kind of treatment in different extend. I have heard many stories about new graduated nurses being demeaned by experienced nurse and I…

health outcomes for the patient. To be able to communicate effectively: respect, trust, empathy, genuineness and confidentiality are crucial elements. This relates to communication between the nurse and the patient regarding treatments and emotions, and the communication between the nurse…

Multiple studies have shown that nurses are at higher risk of workplace violence and bullying. Lachman (2014) states that the majority of nurses enters the field with a strong interest in caring for patients and this can be demoralized by a hostile work environment. The article provided by Lachman (2014) states that 85% of nurses experience horizontal or lateral violence (p.56). Workplace violence or bullying can come from patients, families, fellow nurses, and management. There are countless…