Nursing specialties

transcultural nursing practices allow nurses to deliver culturally competent care. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the reasons why transcultural nursing is necessary as a specialty, explain cultural diversity and how it is applied in nursing practice. Finally, I will provide examples on how I practice culturally sensitive care. Transcultural Nursing as a Necessary Specialty Madeline Leininger examined how the fields of nursing and anthropology were related. Transcultural nursing was…

Judy was my new show and I thought I wanted to be a lawyer. It was not until I accepted my first job as an in-home sitter that I knew I would spend the rest of my life building a nursing career. My future holds the spot of a Nurse Practitioner, with an uncertainty of specialty. I dream to experience different specialties and eventually opening my own practice. It is in my hopes, that after reading this paper you have a better understanding of what a Nurse Practitioner is, the education and…

Association in 1911 (American Nursing Association, 2015). “The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a professional organization representing the interests of the nation’s 3.4 million registered nurses through its constituent and state nurses associations and its organizational affiliates (American Nurse Association, 2015). They believe that every nurse has an obligation to uphold and adhere to the code of ethics. Three documents establish the foundation to all nursing practice. The…

students to graduate from a hospital-based nursing program. This will authorize them to become an RN at a lower level than an RN with a full bachelor’s degree. An Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN), prepares students for their certification in the shortest amount of school time and is the quickest way to start working and gaining experience. Earning an ADN will mean the student must complete an 18-24-month program at an accredited career college. This and the nursing diploma program are good…

3 is why I want to become a nurse so that I can do the same in my community. It is understands that nursing is one of the most stable and must secure jobs available. Nursing is said to be one of the most respected occupations in America. “As the baby boomer generation ages, the healthcare industry is predicted to add over 3.5 million jobs by the year 2020, about a third of which will be made up by nurses.” As a nurse I hoping to be able to find a job just about anywhere I relocate to in the…

physical assessment provides a starting point for the next nursing process step. Over the years physical assessments have become a major role in nursing practice. Although physical assessments are a new concept to the nursing profession, they plays a crucial role in the nursing process. According to Duff, Gardiner, and Barnes (2007), the need for nurses to perform accurate physical assessments is becoming more evident as the scope of nursing roles and clinical practice continues to change.…

a master’s or doctoral forensic nursing degree and use their advanced training to serve as expert clinicians, teachers, researchers, consultants and administrators in different forensic settings. They may work in emergency rooms, sexual assault examination programs, psychiatric forensic treatment units or death investigation teams. More often, forensic nurses work within medical facilities assisting patients who come into clinics and hospitals. Forensic nursing is a cross between a healthcare…

Stephanie is smart, caring, compassionate, flexible, hardworking, and a dependable nurse. When I asked about what made her choose nursing as a career, she gave me a long answer which I tried my best to put down in a short paragraph. She said that nursing has always been a passion of hers. Her path to nursing started as a young girl being raised by her mother. She went to nursing school because her mother inspired her to be a…

the EHR and it sets a standard for nursing practice to measure patient outcomes that will be interpreted for use in evidence-based practice. If I go into a EHR of a patient who has just transferred to my facility, I should be able to read it and know exactly what action was taken in regards to care of the patient. The continuity of care will not be interrupted if we all use a standardized language. If nursing languages are not standardized across every nursing practice a barrier may exist…

Act stated that when doing the exact same job in the same workplace, both men and women should be paid equally. The field of nursing seems to disregard this notion, because “Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, the male-female salary gap has narrowed in many occupations, but it persists in the nursing field” (Muenich). For the past few decades, the gender pay gap in nursing has been prominent. USA Today reported that the largest reported pay gap between male and female nurses is close to…