Summary: The Grand Canyon College Of Nursing Philosophy

“The Grand Canyon University College of Nursing Philosophy” describes the education of nurses of Christian nurse scholars. It’s goal is to provide nurses with theory driven education that focuses on concepts of health, environment, person, and nursing. “Baccalaureate nursing incorporates the roles of assessing, critical thinking, communicating, providing care, teaching and leading.” (Grand Canyon University, 2011, p. 2)
One of the biggest differences in nursing education may be that the Bachelors in Science and Nursing (BSN) receives more in depth education on management and leadership. According to Schank and Stollenwerk (1988) journal (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2012) article there seems to be differing opinions on whether
I read an interesting article by Masters and Masters (1989) on the risk taking propensity of Nurses. My theory was nurses with a BSN would be more inclined to take risks because of higher level of education thus having a better understanding of the risk they are taking. According to the journal article they are no more likely to take risks than the nursed educated with only an ADN regardless of years of experience with either degree. (Marcia L. Masters & Robert J. Masters, 1989, p. 395) But why are nurses with their Bachelors degree in science and nursing more competent and desired by hospitals? In our module two lecture notes “Nursing History, Theories, and Conceptual Models” an example of selecting the right key in order to get a desired outcome is given. Pushing the right key will give the desired outcome but a more educated person will understand why. Both Associates Degree and a Bachelors degree educated nurse will get a desired outcome by making the right decision or performing the correct duty, but the nurse with their Bachelors Degree will better understand why they are doing it and how to better modify their actions to get the desired
Most nurses in our unit do this because it is in our policy and we are told by management to do so. However, the more educated nurses realize why we are doing this. We do it not just for bonding but because it has been shown to foster weight gain in premature infants and contribute to successful breastfeeding attempts (Lee, Martin-Anderson, & Dudley, 2012). They may realize that if it is not done the infant may not gain weight as well and may have more difficulties breastfeeding. A BSN may even go a step further and teach the parents why we are encouraging skin to skin. On the flip side, a less educated nurse may not encourage parents to do skin to skin and unknowingly deprive that infant the benefits of skin to skin. This example shows how higher education can improve patient