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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Legislative Issue Faced by Nursing http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Media/shortageresource.htm The web site I found that discusses this critical issue is by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (AACN). This is an outstanding website that discusses the current and projected issues regarding the nursing shortage. The article identifies sobering figures of projected shortages up to the year 2020. By 2010‚ the nursing shortage is projected to be 12%‚ by 2015 to be 20% and by 2020 a frightening
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associate degree level vs. the BSN Associate degree Nurse (ADN) nurses has 2 years training and diploma in nursing has 3 years of training .whereas Baccalaureate degree in Nursing has 4 years of training .The passing rate for NCLEX exam and basic clinical skills are the same example of I/V insertion‚ administering medicine and wound care. BSN training means Bachelor of Science in nursing are more focused in critical thinking skills‚ decision making skills‚ dealing with legal and ethical decision
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Philosophy of Professional Nursing Each person may have an individual perspective about nursing. For professional nurses‚ interactions within their careers lead to the development of different philosophies and theories of nursing. As they build experience‚ knowledge may reshape these theories based on different situations they have encountered. The responsibility of a nurse is not limited to simply attending to patients at the bedside. Nurses not only provide comfort care‚ but must educate‚ communicate
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Nature of nursing a discussion about how using Carper’s way of knowing model contributed to the aspect of care participated in. The aspect of nursing chosen for the purpose of this assignment is nursing assessment and the impact it has on deciding what care is needed for the patient. It will also look at how the use of (Carper’s 1978) fundamental ways of knowing theory enabled the author to assist in carrying out a successful assessment with her mentor In accordance with the
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Is Nursing a Profession? As I have begun the pursuit to further my education I have been faced with the question of whether Nursing is a true profession. During the 19 years that I have been a nurse I have thought nursing was a profession but as I have learned in my reading not everyone feels this way. For example‚ World Book (1999) states that there are two main groups of nurses‚ the professional nurses and the technique nurses. They define the professional nurses as graduates of four-year or
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_ethicsThe nature of nursing means that nursing ethics tends to examine the ethics of caring rather than ’curing’ by exploring the relationship between the nurse and the person in care.[1]Early work to define ethics in nursing focused more on the virtues that would make a good nurse‚ rather than looking at what conduct is necessary to respect the person in the nurse’s care. However‚ recently‚ the ethics of nursing has also shifted more towards the nurse’s obligation
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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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The Education of Nursing Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V Healthcare is an ever evolving machine‚ zealously seeking to cure those sickness and diseases that plague the human race. It is a machine with many essential parts that‚ without them‚ could not adequately function to fulfill its ultimate purpose. The field of nursing is one of those essential parts‚ and while its identity and importance in the healthcare field are ever becoming singularly more evident‚ entry into
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Nursing: Pediatric Nursing Denean Kitchings Everest University Strategies for Success Pediatric Nursing “Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.” (Author‚ 2012) This quote said by an unknown author is true in so many ways. Nursing is a very hard but rewarding career. Nurses have a number of responsibilities on the job that include obtaining vital signs‚ taking blood‚ and preparing patients for different procedures. In the world of pediatric nursing‚ it is an even better job. In pediatric
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