Define CPD and analyse its role in professional updating and improvement of practice with particular reference to your own approach to CPD Continuous professional development (CPD) is a framework of learning and development that ensures a professional’s competency‚ effectiveness‚ knowledge‚ skills and practice are continually kept up to date through ‘lifelong learning’ strategies and activities. There is not a fixed CPD standard or structure and a ‘one size fits all’ process would not work
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Nursing as a profession In New Zealand‚ Nursing is increasingly being considered a desirable profession to be part of‚ but what makes nursing a profession? Among several other characteristics required to make an occupation a profession‚ Autonomy allows a regulating body to control the activity of its members by setting standards and implementing guidelines for its members to adhere to‚ and disciplinary procedures for when these standards are not met. A Code of Ethics is also required for the
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longer‚ but is qualified for management level positions. When I think of a professional nurse‚ I think of one’s who continues to educate themselves to provide the optimum service‚ in the area of their choosing. I consider myself to be a professional nurse in training. I love learning about this field of nursing. Continuing my education in order to move from a technical nurse to a professional nurse is my present goal. Once a nurse has begun their quest for more knowledge
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30th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE The concept of nursing* Virginia Henderson RN AM DLaw DSc Research Associate Emeritus‚ Yale University School of Nursing‚ Connecticut‚ USA Accepted for publication 4 November 1977 Correspondence: Virginia Henderson‚ Yale University School of Nursing‚ Connecticut‚ USA. HENDERSON V. (1978) HENDERSON V. (2006) Journal of Advanced Nursing 3‚ 113–130 Journal of Advanced Nursing 53(1)‚ 21–34 The concept of nursing The author contends that with the acceptance
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Nursing career is one of the few fastest growing fields in the health care industry‚ not only in the United States‚ but also in the world. Nurse practice has drastically changed in the last decade and as a result the need for changes in nursing practice is becoming more and more important. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) will place many demands on health professionals and offer them many opportunities to create a system that is more patient centered. The legislation has begun the long process
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Over the years‚ nursing has evolved not only as a profession but also a hands-on discipline. Nursing is a theory-based practice that evolves and grows continuously through research. Fawcett (1984) defined nursing’s metaparadigm as the overall overview of nursing which consists the concepts of person‚ environment‚ health and nursing. Nursing practice began to evolve in the early 18th century. I will be exploring the different major influences that have altered the practice of nursing to what it is today
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Academic and Professional Goals Walden’s Vision and Mission According to Walden’s University the mission statement states: “Walden University provides a diverse community of career professionals with the opportunity to transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so that they can effect positive social change”. (Laureate‚ 2013) According to Walden’s University the vision statement states: “Walden University envisions a distinctively different 21st-century
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Future of Nursing The future of nursing refers to the concept of examining and enabling the roles and responsibilities of nurses today to blend with the changing health care system. Also‚ it involves assessing how the nursing profession education should undergo changes to meet the dynamic health care systems as well as the diverse population demographics (American Nurses Association (ANA)‚ 2016). The Institute of Medicine (IOM) was tasked with identifying the necessary changes to make in nursing to achieve
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The Shortage of Nurses: Nursing and a Nurse is one of the most important components of the health care hierarchy in that they see to the moment to moment care needs of patients after the doctor has performed his diagnosis and or services. Their responsibilities broach a wide spectrum of services with one of the most important being the administration of acute care. This type of care is one rung below critical care‚ however it is just as important in the recovery of a patient. The shortage of nurses
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What is the purpose of nursing theories? Nursing theories are guidelines for everyday nursing actions and helps nurse understand the purpose of their actions. Nursing theories based everyday nursing actions are analyzing a patient data‚ determining an outcome and nursing interventions for the patient‚ and evaluating the outcomes set for the patient. Nursing theories also guide research. 2. What is meant by the statement: "Nursing is both an art and a science?" Nursing is a science because nurses
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