Nursing practice

The Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) represents the terminal practice degree in the field of nursing. It prepares Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) as expert practitioners and leaders of transformation in health care. DNP APNs are able to work in any role from direct care to the executive level across the continuum of our increasingly complex healthcare environment. DNP prepared APNs are educated via the Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Practice Nursing (AACN, 2006) in…

1.The characteristics that intrigued me of the nursing practice was when I was a patient at Danbury Medical Center when I was 10 years old. As a patient, I began to see the care that the nurses had given me. They took their time to make sure I had the best care possible. Whenever I was in pain the nurses were there by my side. They had taken the time to make sure I was as content with my current status. I had never expected that going to the hospital from flying off a cliff on my skateboard…

Reflection is a practice of recalling and analysing an event that has already took place, and speculating about what has occurred and finding different and more appropriate approaches that will help improve your decisions in the future (Daly, Speedy & Jackson, 2014, p. 120). The main focus of this essay is to discuss my reasons for choosing nursing as a career, along with discussing the importance and benefits of reflective practice in nursing, and also how I might use reflective practice in my…

to promote respect, there are nursing actions that can be implemented. When considering culture, nurses can recognize their own prejudices and biases, they can use appropriate resources available and understand that there is great diversity in our society and it not necessary to learn everything about each culture but it is required to respect an individual’s values, beliefs and ways of life (Hart & Mareno, 2013). The first step to successful cultural nursing practices is to self-reflect on…

Practice Specific Concepts A concept is defined as “a symbolic representation of a phenomenon or a set of phenomena” (Peterson & Bredow, 2016, p. 1). “Theories are based on multiple concepts and were developed in an attempt to explain the reasoning behind the way something is perceived to happen” (Peterson & Bredow, 2016, p. 1). Theories ask complicated questions and seek various ways of thinking rather than to just answer a question outright (Butts & Rich, 2015, p. 79). While all nursing…

Nursing Jurisprudence is the department of law that collects all the different legal rules and the principles that affect the practice of nursing and includes: “the study, but also the interpretation of all these rules and principles and their application in the regulation of the practice of nursing” (Nursing Crib). The laws, which are also known as the nursing practice acts, are set up by each states board of nursing. The state board of nursing license nurses based on these NPAs, and holds…

this?” or “why does the body respond like this?”. A part of growing as a nurse and improving nurse practices, is by asking questions. For this discussion board, I will be defining research in nursing and evidence-based practice in nursing along with a brief example of each by providing a sample research question and a sample clinical question. LoBiondo-Wood and Haber (2013), defines research in nursing as the process of collecting systemic, rigorous, and logical information to answer a specific…

the scope of nursing practice. I will discuss the nurse’s scope of practice as defined by the American Nurse’s Association, Pennsylvania Nurse’s Association, and to explain a clinical scenario in which I have successfully applied the scope of practice in a clinical setting. As defined by the American Nurse’s Association, nursing is to improve the health of the public through prevention, diagnosis, treatment and advocacy (American Nurses Association, 2013). The nurse’s scope of practice is…

in the nursing practice. In further, the principles underlying health promotion supports person-centred care as it focuses on the determinants of the individual’s health (Crisp, Taylor, Douglas, Rebeiro, 2017, p.66). In that regard, when an individual’s health and well-being is being promoted, the focus is predominantly on the issues that are most relevant to the person’s life. This means that individual, lifestyle and environmental factors are taken into consideration and thus, the nursing…

Impaired Nursing Practice Audrey Aziz Crystal DeBeary Briah Lynch Dorian Issac Coppin State University The problem of impaired nursing practice has and continues to be a prevalent issue in the nursing world. Impaired nursing can be defined in various ways, however most definitions include that professional judgment is impaired due to the use of drugs or alcohol (or mental illness) and thus interferes with the ability of the health professional to provide quality, safe nursing care…