During the time of my career working as an LPN‚ I decided to work on a Sub-Acute unit in a nursing home. The unit consisted of 30 beds and each nurse assigned 15 patients. One night during the evening shift‚ I noticed the other nurse administering medications in the hallway to a patient in a wheelchair. I approached the nurse and questioned if it is appropriate to dispense medications in the hallway related to the policy of the company. I further elaborated on during orientation‚ the preceptor
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Abstract Nursing has become one of the most respected professions in the world. Nursing has combined science and technology with people skills like: communication‚ problem solving‚ teaching‚ and compassion. I has found lots of benefits of professional nursing like personal satisfaction‚ career mobility‚ job security‚ scheduling flexibility and competitive salaries. The variety of opportunities for nurses is endless. A nurse can work in a different fields like hospitals‚ corporations‚ research
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Scarce Resources Article Nursing is a continuously evolving profession. However‚ like every other vocation‚ it has its issues. One of the major problems in nursing today is the shortage of nurses‚ especially nursing faculty. The shortage of nursing faculty directly affects the nursing shortage: educational programs are needed to produce more nurses‚ but lack of nursing faculty results in less students enrolling and graduating (Cowen & Moorehead‚ 2011). This global issue is serious and can impact
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Scarce Resources Erica Badillo NUR/531 May 12‚ 2014 Gregory Friesz Scarce Resources There are numerous reasons for the nursing shortage nationwide. Perhaps one of the most influential reasons is related to the scarcity of resources that include nursing faculty. A decreased nursing force can be directly correlated with the declining number of nursing faculty available. Multiple factors including lack of interest in becoming nursing faculty‚ lack of funding‚ noncompetitive salaries‚ aging faculty‚
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Leadership Development SMART goal setting Lauren Vadola Chamberlain School of Nursing Professor Clayton NR 447 Collaborative Healthcare Introduction As nurses we have numerous responsibilities and tasks we must complete‚ although 12 hour shifts seem like enough‚ it is often not! If is crucial for nurses to build time management and develop aims for their day to day‚ hour to hour‚ minute to minute duties. By setting an aim for their day it not only benefits the nurse but‚ the patient and the rest
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I see nursing informatics as a specialty title to health care informatics. Informatics is dealing with information‚ computerized information and telecommunications. Nursing informatics deals with these also but how they impact patient care. Nurses in to days world are almost all familiar with some sort of nursing informatics such as a computerized medication system or charting systems as well as discharge instructions or patient education. Every nurse at my facility uses the computer‚ internet
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Annotated Bibliography Topic: Nursing Role in Political Activism Name: Devika RijalCourse: NURS 1011 Due Date: October 15‚ 2014 Summited To: Shauna Figler Devika RijalNursing 1011 October 15‚ 2014 Annotated Bibliography The aim of this annotated bibliography is to enable nurses‚ patients‚ and others people with an interest in issues of nursing political activities and full and effective participation inclusion in society. The responsibility of nurses is to provide services designed to
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Unit 5 Staffing Jennifer Sabo Kaplan University Unit 5 Staffing As the new head nurse of this unit‚ I propose to reduce attrition by increasing nurse retention. I have been reviewing the exit interviews of the nurses that have come to this unit seeking experience just to move to another unit once they have completed the one year on this floor. I have developed a new plan for orientation which I would like to implement and analyze the results. I would like the outcome to produce a more loyal
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My Philosophy of Nursing Ever since I can remember‚ I have always wanted to ensure that everyone around me was "ok" and were being "helped and taken care of‚" including family members‚ friends and acquaintances. I feel like I have always had a natural "caring" gene which I probably inherited from my mother. I ’m so happy I chose my career in nursing. I truly love what I do and I feel like I always get a sense of reward‚ in one way or another‚ every shift that I work‚ which gives me the drive and
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The Nursing Shortage: The Need for Nurse Educators “The American Nurses Association (ANA) states nursing is the protection‚ promotion‚ and optimization of health and abilities‚ prevention of illness and injury‚ alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response‚ and advocacy in the care of individuals‚ families‚ communities‚ and populations‚” (ANA‚ 2012). However‚ what happens when there are not enough nurses to care for humanity? For many years now there has been
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