Registered Nurse with extensive experience in the healthcare field. Goals direct. Exceptional leadership ability and good professional judgment. Strong patient advocacy.…
RN’s are greatly needed solely for the reason is that they provide the greatest level of care for many patients. An RN not only provides all types of care, but they also gives advice and helps coordinate other health services for their patients. An RN may be in charge of other nursing personnel such as interns, volunteers and techs. They may be also responsible for a patient’s overall case management, working together in conjunction with everyone from the patient to the primary care physician, as well as other…
The shortage of physicians has opened up abundant opportunities for advanced practice nurses (APNs). As barriers continue to be broken for APNs, they will continue to magnify their role in providing both primary and specialized care to patients. The purpose of this paper is to explore defining concepts of the advanced practice nurse, such as the roles of scholarship, the APN consensus model and certification requirements, ways of knowing, and the empiricism paradigm. It will discuss personal interest in the role of psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and describe how these defining concepts contribute to refining patient care and the nursing profession.…
This article discusses the difficulties and steps to reaching success that the Registered Nurse has to take into consideration in the transition from RN to BSN. There is an increasing focus for nurses to be BSN prepared by 2020 with the goal being 80% of the practicing nurses. This encourages nurses to get their BSN and advance their education in order to be able to survive the nursing challenges, and be aligned to compete for job security and advancements. The transition from RN to BSN does not come without challenges however the achievement is worth it.…
I am submitting my resume for consideration towards the Registered Nurse position in LTC at Essentia Health St. Mary’s-Oak Crossing. After visiting with you, I enjoyed feeling your passion for promoting nurse professionalism and teamwork in LTC. I feel that would be an ideal candidate for this position.…
Pursuing a career in the field of nursing can be very rewarding. Schreiber and MacDonald (2010) describe a theory that involves how a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) practices nursing to connect with patients “while keeping vigil over them” during surgery. A common misconception about being a nurse anesthetist is that very little patient to provider interaction occurs. People assume that CRNAs must not enjoy interacting with patients, since the patient is under general anesthesia during the procedure. According to Schreiber & MacDonald (2010), CRNAs speak of engaging as a vital component to their work. Furthermore, CRNAs use three key strategies of building intimacy, keeping in touch, and spiritually engaging as part of their…
I had the opportunity to interview a registered nurse who has worked in this profession for over ten years. She has had the opportunity to travel all over the United States to work as a Registered nurse at many well known hospitals and institutions. The experiences she shared with me where amazing. Her name is Dawn Pope and she is currently employed as a Registered Nurse at Duke University in the intensive care department.…
Nurse Practitioners are required to do many duties in the field of health care in which they work in. Those duties include take and record patients’ medical history and symptoms, perform physical exams and observe patients, create plans for a patient care or contribute to making plans, and to perform and order diagnostic test. Also, they are required to operate and monitor medical equipment, diagnose medical health problems, give patients medicines and treatments, and evaluate a patients’ response to medicines and treatments. Analyzing test, consulting with doctors, counseling, and conducting research are also important things that they do or should be done in their work field. APRN’s can work alone or alongside with a physician. Most states…
Like working with people? Interested in working with doctors or surgeons at hospitals, schools, or in the military? Then consider registered nursing being an ideal job. The career cluster for registered nursing is called health science.…
Nursing is a profession within the healthcare field that focuses on caring for the sick and unable. Nurses differentiate themselves from other healthcare professionals by having alternate methods of care, educational requirements, and different scopes of practice. The word nursing is very broad because there are various titles one can go by when providing nursing care. Although there are many different roles in nursing, they all correlate to one another to provide the best care possible for an individual patient and their families.…
I am a mother of two kids, a four and a seven year old. I also love caring for people. I am a registered nurse by profession and I have being in the medical field for about nine years. I started my career in the healthcare field as a home health aide which I did for a couple year and decided it was time for me to move on to the next level. I enrolled in a community college, where I took my pre-nursing classes while awaiting to be placed into the nursing program. I was accepted into the Licensed Vocational Nursing program. It lasted for about a year and half. After graduating, my quest for becoming a Registered Nurse never stopped. After working as an LVN for about a year, I was accepted into the LVN to RN program at a community college where…
Becoming a Registered Nurse has been something that I want to become in the future, since I was twelve years old. At that time I experienced having my niece hospitalized when being a month old from pneumonia. Those moments are hard experiences that no one would like to experience but it is part of life. Therefore since that time I want to make a difference on the people who have to be hospitalized, helping them to recover. Although I would like to specialize with infants and children because they have a lower immune system and those are the most fundamental years of their lives.…
After I graduate Goldthwaite High School, I plan on accomplishing my dreams of becoming a Registered Nurse. I believe I will be a successful Registered Nurse because I am loving, caring, organized, and a hard working person. I know how to set a goal and follow through until it is achieved. Helping and making people feel better is something I love to do. In the direction of achieving my dreams, I have applied to several different schools for nursing.…
I am working for one of the best hospitals in downtown Chicago, Illinois as a Registered Nurse. My duties include providing hands-on care to patients by administering medications, observing and monitoring patients' conditions, managing intravenous lines, communicating with doctors and maintaining records. In addition, I am responsible for educating patients and their families on disease prevention and post-hospital treatment. Also, provide emotional support to the patient and family members.…
Researchers routinely choose an ◊-level of 0.05 for testing their hypotheses. What are some experiments for which you might want a lower ◊-level (e.g., 0.01)? What are some situations in which you might accept a higher level (e.g., 0.1)?…