Registered nurse

the world inflates, the number of nurses that care for the patients seem to be diminishing. Is it the fact that they get overworked too much? Is it because job morale just isn’t there anymore? Or maybe it is due to the fact that some nurse don’t get the proper training they require to have a higher survival rate of patients? No matter what reasons there are, in order to be able to take care of the population there needs to be a great number of properly trained nurses available. Imagine living in…

today. State-mandated safe staffing levels are necessary to ensure safety for both patients and nurses, and crucial to enhancing patient care and adequate outcomes. Staffing levels continue to intensify daily especially now that the baby boomers age and the demand for healthcare services grow. This paper will discuss the legal responsibilities of both nurses and hospital administration when poor nurse to patient ratios are cause for serious medication errors. Many ethical issues arise…

Competencies The Clinical Informatics Registered Nurse (CI) responsible for the implementation of the tele-psychiatry program should demonstrate Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) graduate-level competencies to assure a successful implementation that improves quality and safety. The QSEN graduate-level competencies were developed to assure graduate-level nurses are able to demonstrate the skills and attitudes required to improve quality and safety in their workplace. In 2012, the…

BSN Bachelor of Science in Nursing According to The Mosby 's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health professions (2012), the BSN is “an academic degree awarded on satisfactory completion of a 4-year course of study in a college or university”. Nurses with their baccalaureate degrees have the elementary knowledge of the processes of research and evidence-based practice. They are able to critically apprise research material and apply it in practice. They can also assist with research (American…

integumentary system problems. The intent of this paper is to discuss what it means to be a wounds care nurse and the roles responsibilities, and education that is required. To be a Wound care nurses there are several professional roles and responsibilities that have to be followed. In addition, there are specific educational requirements and certifications that have to obtain…

watch everything the nurses did to her as well as question them. The nurses noticed my interest in what they were doing, so the next visit my gran-mom had, the nurse said I am going to make a great nurse one day, and could soon care for m gran-mother the same way they are. The moments I spent in the hospital, helped me realize I belong in the medical field. Nurses at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Covington, TN as well as my mother and gran-mother encouraged me to aim to be a nurse. I want…

dream is to change the lives of newborn babies every day. On a national average 3.6 million babies are lost every year. For me, becoming a neonatal nurse, I can help decrease this number every year and improve the lives of others. When you are a neonatal nurse you are able to experience things that normal jobs don’t see on a daily basis. Neonatal Nurse Katie Jones states “The best part about my job would be I can give these little babies the best the start at life, seeing the baby progress more…

into great depth regarding patient safety and nurse to patient ratios. Although she is not in charge of making the assignments, she has been the one to train her charge nurses on how to make the patient care assignments. The state of California where I work is currently the only state to have a nurse to patient ratio laws with the standard being set for medical surgical units at five patients for one nurse, telemetry units have four patients for one nurse and intensive care units…

learning in the classroom with clinical training. Nurses that hold a BSN are eligible for many more nursing jobs than nurses with only a diploma or associate’s degree. Most qualify for 88% or more of the available nursing jobs; that falls to only 37% with an associates degree and 30% for a nurse with a diploma (Cronkite, n.d.). Although the normal time finishing a bachelor’s degree is 48 months, there are some programs available that allow experienced nurses with an associate’s degree or diploma…

you think a registered nurse has? RN’s have to perform physical exams, provide health promotion,…