Nursing process

Use of Critical Thinking in Nursing Critical thinking is vital for nurses to perform their jobs effectively and appropriately. Critical thinking is the “intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing or evaluating information gathered from observation, experience…reasoning or communication as a guide to belief and action.”(CITE) Critical thinking is the active and continuous process of analyzing information to guide nurses to…

As nursing changes and evolves to keep up with changes in practice and technology. Nursing Informatics is a relatively new to the Advanced Practice Nursing field in comparison to a much older Certified Nurse Midwife specially. Both of these specialties have evolved over the last 30 years. Both are needed to help get the best possible outcomes for the populations they serve. The term specialist was coined at the turn of the twentieth century and was used to designate nurses who had completed…

In my journey of nursing career; first as a nursing student and then a professional working as an RN, I learned a lot of new things. It was a matter of time when some of the professional characteristics started becoming second nature to me. As a nursing student, I studied hard and always desired to earn higher grades in my studies. I was successful in keeping my GPA above 3.5 by managing my time effectively in study and turning my assignments and exams on time. I developed my communication…

Knowledge of nursing sensitive indicators is very critical to a successful nursing career (Sauls, 2013). These indicators create a framework, and has the most effects of nursing practice and patient care. The deployment of care is displayed by the caliber of nursing staff, the skill set and training of the staff. Events that are determined to be nursing sensitive have greatly altered nursing care (Montalvo, 2007). Many aspects displayed with Mr. J indicators could have aided the nurses in…

Nursing informatics is a growing field that involves technology to improve and advance the quality of care for patients. It includes a synthesis of information encompassing concepts of computer science and nursing science (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). The FierceHealthIT website allowed me to search current topics that impact nursing informatics. A topic that is current and trending on FierceHealthIT related to nursing informatics is The Electronic Health Record (EHR). This paper will discuss my…

Nurses are more vulnerable to making these errors because of the fat that they may have the most patient contact. Many of the errors made can be prevented with the nursing process. The nursing process is a series of five steps that a registered nurse takes to ensure the quality of patient care (ANA, 2016). The five steps of the nursing process are assessment, analysis and/or diagnosing, planning, implementation, and evaluation. • Assessment is the first step and involves the collection of data,…

Group Project: Introduction to Nursing Informatics Nursing Informatics has become its own nursing specialty and touches every field, making it a necessity to learn and become an integral part of nursing curricula. The ongoing contributions of Informatics, has been growing over the last number of decades and has maintained its momentum since initially being recognized. The field initially began to become standardized in the 1960’s, however Informatics itself began when computers could hold large…

Annotated Bibliography Bashayreh, I., Saifan, A., Batiha, A., Timmons, S., Nairn, S. (2015). Health professionals’ perceptions regarding family witnessed resuscitation in adult critical care settings. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(17), 2611-2619. doi: 10.1111/jocn.12875 In the study, Bashayreh, Saifan, Batiha, Timmons and Nairn attempt to provide an understanding, of the perceptions of health care professionals on family witnessed resuscitation CPR. Interviews were conducted of several…

There are 4 phases of the application which include submitting an application, submit written documentation to demonstrate excellence in nursing standards, participating in a site visit, and lastly a final review by the commission. When many hospitals apply for Magnet status it takes many years to achieve it because of the many steps. During the application process the hospitals must submit documentation that the hospital meets 88 standards throughout the five Magnet model components. If the…

Linking vulnerable population, theory and Research to Population Nurses go through different challenges as they transform research program into health policy. The research process brings changes to health policy at the local, community, state, national, and international level. Research programs are used in nursing to guide practice and make changes in health and science policy. Different strategies and lessons are learned when moving research programs to health policy. Authors have identified…