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Self-Exploration When I was young, my mother was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. She was in a coma for three months and was then admitted into rehab after waking up. From the age of six years old, I started wondering how the human body worked. I always questioned, why people ended up with terrible diseases and what could be done to treat them. For my career, I have chosen Registered Nurse. Registered Nurses have always interested me because of their duty to help patients. Being a…

care volunteer work. One of my many goals includes being a part in some way of cancer research projects, blood donation drives, and organ donations. My education will not end at this point because I am going to go on to pursue future degrees and certifications. I realize that the health care field is ever changing and new technologies are continuously advancing and I must keep pace. As a Registered Nurse, my life will become more stable. I plan on investing in a home in the Fair Lawn, NJ area…

Exploring the World of Nursing The world is full of many different occupations and each job has its perks either good or bad. Just like Art Williams once said, “I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy. I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it”. In an area of the medical field, being a registered nurse is worth it. A registered nurse has the task to help people every day to become healthy, happy and strong. They use their own time meaning they really want to take part of someone’s lives. A…

Describe the relationship between leadership and management in your preceptorship setting. In my preceptorship setting, I have noticed that management is not necessarily seen on a day to day basis although the managers have quite an impact on day to day operations. Whether or not the managers realizes it, their ability to manage and lead staff efficiently determines the staff’s morale and willingness to follow. I also noticed several nurses with strong leadership skills. All of the charge…

with the families of the children they care for; to address their concerns, fears, problems, and options. What all exactly a Pediatric nurse varies depending on their work setting. But a few of the most important tasks according to the National Certification Board of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Nurses (NCBPNP/N) are: act as a child’s advocate...which means to speak out on what would be best for the child’s interests, provide supportive care to dying children, and to identify the changes in…

employed by a private practice of an independent living community. She is a typical nurse in the sense that “most NPs choose a specialty area such as adult, family, or pediatric health care” (Black, 2014, p. 18). Also, her certification was through ANCC, the largest certification body among nurses (p. 145). Karen Paker is a 41 year-old Cardiovascular Critical Care Nurse in San Diego. According to Munro and Savel (2015), “specializing in one of the most sought after nursing specialties” (p. 372)…

I am interested in pursuing a career in nursing. I plan to get my BSN and possibly continue on to get my Masters and become a nurse practitioner. Some of the daily duties of a registered nurse entail gathering health histories, preforming physical exams, dressing wounds, making informed and critical decisions that best suit the needs of patients, directing and teaching nursing aids, promoting health through education and counseling, administering drugs and medications, researching ways to…

A significant problem for many hospitals is the high rate of turnover for first year graduate nurses. According to Hillman and Foster, the lowest retention rates are those of graduate nurses. Several factors contribute to this number, from a lack of applied knowledge by the graduate nurse to a lack of support from senior staff. Having a high turnover rate, especially for first years, is typically anything but cost effective. Several hospitals around the country have begun implementing nurse…

. Nurses take an oath to provide the best care possible for all patients and to do no harm. The first question that is raised is how does a nurse manage a 1:5 or 1:6+ ratio while maintaining the ethical standards of a nurse? In the first opened question of the survey, nurses were asked, to explain their feelings from a previous closed question that asked if they felt overwhelmed with current patient-nurse ratios. To recall and summarize the data, out of the respondents, 3 quarters of…

In the VHA Workforce and Succession Strategic Plan of 2016, VISN aggregated data cites Registered Nurse as the 2nd highest Mission Critical Occupation in FY 2016 through 2022. VHA projects 39,256 RN losses from attrition over that six year span. Turnover is expected to be high because of early career quit rates, staffing shortages, voluntary retirement, staff satisfaction issues, and from the overall high mission critical nature of the RN position within VHA. On top of nurse attrition, the VHA…