Registered nurse

Journey to Becoming a NICU Nurse There are many fields in nursing that some with a RN license can pursue. There’s ambulatory care nurse, burn care nurse, certified nurse midwife, or cardiac cath lab nurse. With many nursing fields out there it is hard to choose one without knowing what is required to get there. I’ve decided that I am interested in pursuing a career in the NICU department caring for high risk newborn’s and their families. To determine whether this career path is right for me I…

Full Practice Authority of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in New York State: Vision for 2020. TAMARA MCFARLANE DANIEL OWUSU-ANSAH Lehman College NUR 723 Strategies for Advanced Nursing Practice December, 2016 Instructor: DR. BRIGITTE S. CYPRESS Executive Summary Introduction There are many barriers that prevent APRNs from functioning to their fullest potential during practice. One of these barriers is prescriptive authority. According to the article, APRN Prescribing Law: A State…

After thinking and doing research, I have finally narrowed it down to the career I would like to pursue, and that happens to be registered nursing. Nursing has so many benefits and it is something that I see myself doing. I love to take care of the elderly and the sick. Even though it will require hard work, when it comes to saving lives and giving smiles, it is very rewarding. When I was a child, I would always watch medical shows and play dress up with my mother’s work uniforms. I would also…

purpose of this paper is to explore nursing literature in order to familiarize ourselves with the different aspects of nursing and the scope of professional nursing practice. The topic that we have chosen to cover is how a treatment provider such as a nurse practitioner or medical assistant posted in the triage sector of an emergency department can be effective in reducing wait times and lowering the percentage of people who leave the emergency department before receiving treatment. We will…

predicted in 2012 a 19% increasing demand for nurses and an employment rate of 3,238,400 for Registered Nurses. Transitioning from an associate to a bachelor of nursing can be challenging. An associate…

I would like to become a Pediatric Nurse(PN) and do the best I can in order to achieve this goal. A Pediatric Nurse is a Nursing Professional that provides health and medical care for children from birth through their late teens. I believe that I have all the right skills in order to become a PN. Although, this career choice did not appear overnight, I have always had a passion for helping others and have always been good with children. This career has many pros and just like any job it comes…

same home as a nurse, my grandmother. She is more of a phlebotomist than a nurse but she still has a nursing degree. I remember going to the doctor’s office she worked at and I loved playing with the medical instruments. I have always had a big heart and I loved helping people, which is a big factor to being not just any nurse but a good one! When I was in high school, I was not quite sure what I wanted to do but I knew I wanted to be in the medical/healthcare…

medically; nevertheless, hospitals are still facing adversities. The aging population, rising healthcare, and nursing shortages have impacted current healthcare professionals. Nursing shortages impact not only nurses but also patients. Research has shown that nursing shortages on the units impact the nurses by the following: larger workloads, decreasing quality of patient care, occupational burnout, low retention rates, and high turnover rate. The purpose…

recent survey discovered that nurses are second to firefighters in a list of most trusted occupations (CNA, 2007). Moreover, nurses have the privilege of being in a self-regulated and self-governed profession. This means that the Canadian government believes that Ontario’s nursing regulatory body, College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO), is best qualified to appropriately define its own members’ norms of practice and boundaries (Schiller, 2014). It is incumbent upon nurses to continuously justify…

sick in the military and progressively got worse throughout his life, we always had home health care nurses in and out of the house 24 hours a day. My aunts and uncles were also nurses and paramedics, when I saw them I always had questions to ask. To me the medical field is something that is very fascinating and a good way to help give back to others. My mom was an LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) and she worked in multiple places, she worked in the hospital, nursing home and I would always…