Specialty

The demand for specialty medications will significantly increase. By 2020, 9.1 percent of healthcare spending will be for using specialty medications. After the Orphan Drug Act was enacted into law in 1983, more and more biological products and new medications have been developing to treat rare and critical diseases. Also, the Affordable Care Act ensures that patients cannot be denied coverage for pre-existing or high-cost conditions, which may require specialty medications. These laws create…

understand that each nurse has a completely different specialty. The two types of nursing jobs have different tasks that need to be completed, different education requirements, different annual pay rates, and different benefits that come with the job, but each nursing job has similarities, including these two specialties. Nurses have the hardest jobs in the medical field and hopefully after learning about these two completely different nursing specialties people will have a better understanding…

My Personal Nursing Philosophy An enhanced understanding of patients develops from personal discovery and being self-aware (Durgahee, 1996). I believe that it is of utmost importance for nurses to understand themselves as well as the patients they are providing care to. When caring for others, nurses should be sensitive to their needs, desires, and especially their cultural beliefs and practices. My personal philosophy of nursing is established from three tenants: caring, competency, and…

Career Interest and Assessment The result from the career cluster survey says that I am social and enterprising. I disagree with me being social because I don’t like teaching people. I agree with me being enterprising because I like to figure out problems mentally rather than to persuade or lead people. My career cruising results are Visual and Auditory learning, I agree with both of these results because I have trouble with math so if the teacher is using pictures to explain a certain problem…

Psychology has many different layers and avenues that can be explored, learned and taught. The two specialties that interest me personally the most would Psychology has many different layers and avenues that can be explored, learned and taught. The two specialties that interest me personally the most would be health psychology and social and psychological. Why, because I myself am a very complexed individual with different emotions and feelings as well as a different approach to behavior…

Nurse Practitioner Competencies Seynor Massalee Kennedy South University An Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) is a direct/indirect care individual who cares for patients and manages individuals and the community, nursing and health care organizations, administration, and the growth and application of health policy by using various forms of nursing interventions to change the outcome of health care (AACN, 2006). APN has a patient-focused range of competencies that improve health…

A Nurse’s Role in Healthcare Today A nurse has many roles in the healthcare field today, and those roles can differ due to the variety of nursing specialties. Nurse Anesthetists, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Midwives, and Perioperative Nurses all have very specific duties and specialized knowledge in their respective fields which separate them. Even though some roles are limited to the classification of each nurse, there is a core set of skills and knowledge that every nurse must obtain in order…

Pediatric nurses (aka Ped nurses) provide health and medical care for children, from birth all the way through their late teens. Ped. nurses are supposed to provide excellent quality care to the children that are in their care, and to also work 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…

Being a nurse is a very important job.nurses are faced with many obstacles the majority of the day,we often take the nursing field for granted by not giving nurses enough credit .being a nurse isn 't just being passionate and kind you have to put in the work and be committed to the job.you have to be emotionally strong for this job field and dedicated to your work .not only do nurses help save lives, but nurses are also the backbone of the hospital. Registered Nurses give and organize…

Nurses are medical professionals who advocate to protect the interests of their patients. Nurses are very important in the healthcare field because like doctors they improve and save lives every day. Some responsibilities of nurses are monitoring their patients so they will have the ability to determine the best approach in caring for them. Nurses also educate their patients on upcoming procedures and treatments. For an example, Nurses may show them how to redress a wound or teach a family a…