Nursing Competencies GCU Nursing Competencies The first school of nursing in the United States was the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing‚ founded in 1873. The Bellevue offered a Baccalaureate degree in Nursing with principles of nursing established by Florence Nightingale. In later years‚ the Associate-degree in nursing was formed by Mildred Montag‚ to help with the nursing shortages in WWII. “In the mid 1900’s an Associate-degree level nurse was thought of as a “technical nurse”
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Can Companies Use Mentoring To Increase Employee Retention? All businesses‚ from an entrepreneurial start up to an established company‚ need mentoring. The entrepreneurs of those companies require mentoring as well. A mentor can help a fellow peer develop important business skills‚ support them in making important career and life decisions and put them in touch with needed network contacts. The purpose of my report is to analyze the results of putting a mentoring program in place in a company and
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current theory and literature to illustrate how I have developed as a mentor and educator in practice. For the purpose of this assignment‚ the key aspect I will be focusing on will be standard 4 – creating an environment for learning‚ from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008) Standards to support learning and assessment in practice: mentors. Throughout this assignment‚ I will incorporate the principles of Gibb’s (1988) reflective cycle to help guide me through this process. I will also be referring
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The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Nursing I am going to discuss the book I read‚ Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves. I am going to talk about the history‚ definitions‚ and major concepts of emotional intelligence. I am going to discuss functions in nursing and how emotional intelligence is applicable. I am going to talk about how I will use emotional intelligence in my own practice and my personal growth after reading the book. History and Concepts of Emotional
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I chose nursing as my profession because I truly believe that the desire to help people through nursing is calling. Nursing is an honorable career which I don’t treat as just a job to earn a paycheck. Nursing is a discipline of knowledge acquired through formal education and life experiences. The combination of these continues to alter and refine my nursing. My roles outside of nursing enhance my personal knowledge which I bring to my professional life. These life experiences expose me to many
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NURSING AS A DISCIPLINE. Is nursing a discipline or just a profession? The term discipline describes the practise of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour‚ so can nursing be placed under this classification? The term profession described as a paid occupation or a body of people engaged in a particular profession‚ so can nursing be placed under this classification? Yes nursing is a paid occupation‚ thus allowing it to be placed under the classification of nursing as a profession. However
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Abstract This paper reports on my individual views of what professionalism in nursing means to me and how professionalism is important to nursing as a profession. Professionalism in nursing provides a framework for the development and advances in the profession of nursing. Factors that influenced me to become a nurse are explained in detail with orientation to higher education and pursuing a profession. Reasons are given why I have returned to school to achieve my goal of obtaining a BSN while
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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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History of Nursing Many people believe that Nursing started with Florence Nightingale‚ however nursing itself dates back to the beginnings of motherhood when nurses were traditionally female. In fact‚ nursing and medicine have been closely intertwined throughout the ages. The history of nursing has its origins in the care of infants and children‚ so all mothers were in fact nurses. Gradually an evolution started developing into dedicated caregivers who practiced the art. In fact‚ nursing has been
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Definition of Nursing “Nursing is the protection‚ promotion‚ and optimization of health and abilities‚ prevention of illness and injury‚ alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human responses‚ and advocacy in the care of individuals‚ families‚ communities‚ and populations‚” defines the American Nurses Association (ANA‚ 2003‚ p. 6). The six main features of nursing are: provision of caring relationship to promote health; the different human experiences and responses to health
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