Also, just to keep you updated, I haven’t heard from Mr Slover or Ms Gaynor.
Also, just to keep you updated, I haven’t heard from Mr Slover or Ms Gaynor.
Hello Dr. DeVoe and classmates, currently working on a surgical intensive care unit (SICU) for the past 7 years, before that worked on an open heart ICU for 16 years. I have been a nurse for over 30 years and started as an LPN and achieved my BSN in the year 2000. Have been a preceptor for many years but have no experience in curriculum development, so this will be a new journey for me. Live in Queens in NYC, care for my mother who has Alzheimer's disease. Have only one son and have an 18 year old granddaughter who is attending college, with a goal to be a nurse. Looking forward to learning from this class and…
Reviewing the notes that were made during our sessions is key because I may have missed something important that still needs to be addressed with her. Checking to see if she is on track for the goals that she has set up for herself, and that we are sticking to our contract. Evaluating if any new strength has came to sight or weakness. Fredyia seems to be staying right on track with her goals she has stayed clean, kept her job and is gaining custody of her children again very soon. Freydia now has to decide when and how to go about getting her real estate license.…
The Ethical Dilemma I was tasked with the following case from a charge nurse as part of an ethics consult. A 68 year old man was admitted to the medicine unit from Denver International Airport for altered mental status and aggressive behavior. The patient, from this point forward to be called Mr. Johnson, was found to be acutely infected from a septic wrist joint, but was also found to have frontotemporal dementia. Once the infection cleared, it was hoped that Mr. Johnson’s mental status would improve, but he remained aggressive and lacking in capacity. After much investigating, outside hospital records were found on Mr. Johnson but neither the providers nor case managers were able to find any family or interested parties, and Mr. Johnson…
My goal for this week was to learn about leadership and management from the charge nurse’s perspective. I wanted to know what leadership skills she felt were important and its impact on the unit. My goal was achieved by having a conversation with the charge nurse on the unit about leadership. She was very informative and answered all my questions.…
As advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), it is vital that one must know how to properly document in electronic records. Concise documentation is deemed necessary for two reasons: 1) to provide adequate quality of care for patients, and 2) to receive prompt payments on furnished services (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [CMS], 2014). If information is not documented, then you typically will not get paid for it. Furthermore, recording the patient’s story, objective findings, assessment, and treatment plan for the patient all serve as a legal record for the future (Phillips, 2013). This paper will discuss the purpose of evaluation and management (E/M) codes, while summarizing three components of E/M documentation…
The San Jacinto College Central Campus Department of Associated Degree Nursing (ADN) will provide an educational environment of the highest standards, to prepare graduates committed to excellence in nursing practice as registered nurses in a dynamic health care arena.…
First and foremost, I need to effectively complete the ADN program at CCCC; then register for and pass the NCLEX to be able to practice as a registered nurse. In an effort to accomplish these objectives I have successfully completed 61 of the required 73 credit hours for the Associate Degree Nursing curriculum. I am currently enrolled in NUR 233 and NUR 235; successful completion of the remaining 12 credit hours will…
According to the BVNPT (Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians) in order to be a Vocational Nurse in the state of California, a person must complete 1530 total hours of training. Five hundred and seventy six of those hours are Theory, while Clinical is nine hundred and fifty four hours. Theory includes Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, Normal Growth and Development, Rehab Nursing, Maternity Nursing, Nursing Fundamentals, Pediatric Nursing, Med Surg Nursing, Gerontological Nursing, Leadership, Supervising, and Communicable Disease including HIV. Program lengths can vary if you go full time training may take 12-14 months, and if you are going part time training is 18-20 months. If you are a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) you can challenge the BVNPT to become a LVN if you have at least 51 months of paid bedside nursing experience, of this 48 months should be general medical-surgical experience, 6 weeks of maternity or genitourinary nursing, and six weeks of pediatric nursing. The 51 months of experience should have been within the last 10 years and at least half of it within the last 5 years, also you must complete 54 hours of Pharmacology. However if you are a CNA and you challenge the Board your licenses would only be active in California. Another option is completing education and experience as a corpsman in the U.S. Military. This includes 12 months active duty providing direct bedside patient care, completion of basic course in nursing in a branch of the armed forces, and general honorable discharge from the military.…
In NUR/590A (3 weeks long), you will write a practicum learning agreement. This agreement will serve as the plan for what you will be doing to complete your practicum project and meet the 60 required practicum hours. The learning agreement outlines how you will accomplish the project’s goal and objectives and what you will turn in as evidence that you accomplished the project. You will also list your practicum mentor on the agreement. You begin the project only after you earn a passing grade in NUR/590A and your faculty member approves your learning agreement.…
It is a widely known fact that the United States is facing a critical shortage of Registered Nurses (RN’s), and that over the next several years the need for nurses is going to increase significantly due to the ageing baby boomer generation. It is expected that by 2020 the United States will face a shortage of over one million nurses (Buerhaus, Auerback, & Staiger, 2009) and this fact has drawn a great deal of public attention; however, there is also a growing shortage of nurse educators which must be addressed. This paper will discuss the article “The Nursing Shortage Continues as Faculty Shortage Grows,” how the faculty shortage will effect patient care, and propose possible solutions to the shortage.…
There is a diverse range of aspects related to nursing staffing in health care organizations. Staffing levels in hospitals are likely to have a bearing on the assurance in the delivery of safe and reliable care. However, nursing staffing challenges have remained perennial prompting prolonged attention on the allocation of nurse staffing resources to facilitate patient safety (Weston et al., 2012). Nevertheless, focus on staffing levels has particularly increased with the prevailing shortage of nurses (Rochefort, et al., 2015). Furthermore, there have been changes in the manner nursing is approached. Traditionally, it would be assumed that well-trained practitioners were not prone to errors. Such was consistent with the traditional tendency…
As a nurse promoting educational information is very important if not vital in the career of nursing. Prevention is better than cure and by promoting such fruitful information there will be an increase in practice of illness prevention. For example: flu shot, mammogram, etc.…
Clarke, S. (2003). Patient safety series, part 2 of 2: Balancing staffing and safety. Nursing…
The nursing profession has experienced shortages many times in the past. This pattern was cyclical, with periods of high vacancy rates followed by layoffs and an oversupply of registered nurses. Today, we are experiencing another drought for nursing, but due to many factors, this shortage is different from anything the profession has witnessed in previous years. There are many that feel this shortage is severe and prolonged because the solution is complicated, and not simply a matter of a decrease in the number of registered nurses in the United States.…
Associate degree Nurse (ADN) nurses has 2 years training and diploma in nursing has 3 years of training .whereas Baccalaureate degree in Nursing has 4 years of training .The passing rate for NCLEX exam and basic clinical skills are the same example of I/V insertion, administering medicine and wound care. BSN training means Bachelor of Science in nursing are more focused in critical thinking skills, decision making skills, dealing with legal and ethical decision in evidence based practice and research based…