Currently today there are many different types of specialties and certificates a Registered Nurse can obtain. Whether you work within a long term care facility‚ a school‚ a hospital‚ or home care there should always be an option for Registered Nurses to specialize within their department. There are close to twenty-five specialties a Registered Nurse can obtain. These include; Ambulatory care nursing‚ Advanced practice registered nursing (APRN)‚ Cardiac nursing‚ Case manager nursing‚ Critical care nursing
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Theory Nursing cannot exist without theory‚ and the concepts that define those principles. Every intervention a nurse organizes is based off of theory‚ and revolves directly around the patient. The current practice used as a Registered Nurse in the emergency room setting is similar‚ but less complicated than that of an Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner. Emergency room nurses firstly ask the patient what their chief complaint is upon arrival. The chief complaint labels the patient‚ and gives
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Career Paths Career Information Career Path Option 1Nurse Practitioner Career Category Medical Career Path Option 2Nurse Midwife Career Category Medical Career Path Option 1 Job Description: Nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists are advanced practice registered nurses who have received special courses and training. Duties often include: Taking detailed medical histories and performing complete physical exams. Providing diagnoses and recommending treatment plans.
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mission as a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) provider is to lead through providing compassionate‚ comprehensive quality care while focusing on the unique needs of pediatric patients‚ their families and community‚ regardless of race‚ sex‚ sexual preference‚ social status‚ or religion. As a nurse educator I am committed to promoting students’ critical thinking and technical skills while cultivating in them a desire for life-long learning and safe‚ responsible practice. Vision Statement: My vision
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Advanced nursing Practice The aim of this essay is to demonstrate the development of existing skills in health assessment and critically utilise outcomes of advancing health assessment as the basis for expert decision making in stroke patient care. This assignment will compare four cases describing my journey through the development of health assessment skills using the medical model of assessment‚ ‘history‚ examination
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Advanced Practice Nurses play an important role in leading health care change. This role is instrumental to the improvement of both patient safety and quality of outcomes. The American Association of the Colleges of Nursing [AACN‚ 2006]‚ developed core competencies for all advanced practice nurses called the DNP Essentials (AACN‚ DNP Essentials‚ 2006). The DNP Essential Two (AACN‚ DNP Essential II‚ 2006) clearly states‚ “advanced practice includes an organizational and systems leadership component
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1.Discuss the significance of Amira’s laboratory findings. The patient‚ Amira’s lab values is as follows; Hematology: hemoglobin 10.1 g/dL; hematocrit 25%; platelets 50‚000/mm3; white blood cell count 2‚000/mm3; differential: neutrophils 20%. The chemotherapy treatment‚ causes a variety of side effects. One of the adverse effect is called as myelosuppression‚ where the bone marrow activity is decreased resulting in fewer red blood cells‚ white blood cells‚ and platelets (National Cancer
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Issues and Trends 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
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significant roles of advanced practice that perform and provide a great amount of care to the population beyond the status of Registered Nurse (RN). The four Advanced Practice Registered Nurses are Nurse Practitioners (NP)‚ Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS)‚ Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA)‚ and Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNM). “Advanced practice RNs represent about 8 percent of the nursing workforce‚” (Kurtzman & Naylor‚ 2010) and about 70 to 80 percent of advanced practice RNs work in primary
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The Advanced Practice Nurse will play a crucial role in advancement of the healthcare system in the United States. There are several factors affecting today’s healthcare system which will influenced the future development of the Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) role. Some of the major factors include the evolving federal and states laws‚ rapidly growing and aging population‚ increasing rates of chronic diseases in children and adults‚ and the cost of healthcare. These challenges require
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