Profession

Within the next ten years, more than one million registered nurses in the United States will be eligible for retirement. This will potentially leave the nursing profession with the largest shortage in history. The need for health care is only growing due to the aging baby boomer population. “Nursing researchers have noted that the projected nursing shortage, if not rectified, is expected to affect health care cost, job satisfaction and quality patient care” (Lartey, 2014, p. 1027). Without an…

No organization, person or force externally help or make any change in order to benefit nurses, unless nurses themselves make a revolutionary series of changes. Nursing community and profession has become so far that make it impossible for society to deny their amazingly role in all level of society during different periods of times. Though times and best times of any individual, whom his/her soul has been touched by nurses, has a remarkable…

as any other profession the Environmentalists of the world are faced with issues daily, the most…

What are the step to be becoming a successful Pharmacy Technician? Having a high school diploma and on the job training are the requirements for most Pharmacy technician and most people can become one relatively quickly through a general school program or a program through their new employer with many retail drugstores. Pharmacy technicians assist licensed pharmacists by collecting, organizing, evaluating information, preparing and dispensing medication to patients or health care professionals.…

transition from being a novice nurse to being an expert, or even a competent staff nurse. This period is also characterized by adjustment or high stress, which are factors that determine whether an individual will quit or remain entirely in the nursing profession (Berman, Johnson & West, 2014). Most new graduate nursing students experience a feeling of shock, immediately after they face the reality of their expectations not being met (Gopan, 2015). In addition, many challenges…

(2014), “Men are still vastly underrepresented in the profession, consisting of about 9.6% of the overall numbers” (p. 1, para. 1). Although there are many debates regarding whether or not there is a shortage in nursing – it is believed that shortage is quite consistent throughout facilities. The provided literature provides insight into the world of men in nursing and their obstacles that they overcome or barriers they face within their profession. Purpose Creating a more gender-balanced…

There are many ways in which one can advocate for the counseling profession as well as clients. I noticed that counselors I have spoken to view the advocacy they perform to be the work they conduct with clients. Specifically, the community agency I interviewed, Family Resources, considered the work they conduct to ensure local families have appropriate resources and care as a critical aspect of their advocacy efforts in the field. The interview with the agency highlighted the importance…

Many social workers select this helping profession out of a humanitarian aspiration to help others. (DiNitto, 2008). Helping others improve their lives in a constant link to build stronger people for a happier nation. Humanitarian and social reformer Jane Addams is the most famous and decorated female social worker, who founded one of the world’s first settlement houses now recognized as the Hull House in Chicago. Although she was born into wealth and privilege she devoted herself to improving…

Responsibilities While working in the healthcare profession, the nurse is bound by certain ethical and legal requirements that dictate how the nurse should be conducting oneself. The nurse is guided by these requirements when caring for and relating to patients that may or may not have a different faith, ethnicity, gender, or worldview than one has. The nurse also has a professional responsibility to participate as a member of the practical nursing profession by volunteer work, instructing…

Caught in the Storm and Under the Cover of Kindness are books that both provide an introspective view of social work. Although, the viewpoints from which they are written are complete opposites. Caught in the Storm makes the profession of social work seem easy and highly idealistic, while Under the Cover of Kindness is a critical and at times harsh analysis of social work. The books share differences and similarities and ultimately raise the question of what is considered to be morally and…