Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope
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Personal and Professional Challenges Mojgan Soltani NURS 391 March 18‚ 2013 Sharon Thompson Personal and Professional Challenges Challenge is often viewed as a negative and rejecting word. In reality life would not move forward without unfavorable factors. Life is a series of pleasant and unpleasant elements and events combined together to take us to our desired destination. Obstacles help us to learn and grow in our physical‚ mental‚ emotional‚ and spiritual aspects during our lifespan
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Abstract Nursing is one of the oldest careers in history. It has grown tremendously since the beginning of the profession and strives forward in hopes to attain more advancement in the medical field. Along the years‚ there have been several controversies regarding nursing as a profession. In this paper we will discuss what nursing professionalism is and why we as nurses need to remain a professional icon in the occupation. This paper will also summarize two nursing articles regarding nursing professionalism
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One of the barriers I have encountered to become a professional nurse was a multicultural issue. In nursing school‚ I learned how to respect the rights and dignity of all patients. Here in Miami‚ a cosmopolitan city‚ I had the opportunity to interact with family and patients from other cultures. In my personal case‚ I have learned that I do not need to understand all beliefs completely‚ but I do need to respect them. For example‚ some manifestations of this barrier were: discrimination‚ racism‚ prejudice
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Taking a Stand Taking a Stand Nursing profession is constantly changing with the development of new technologies that lead to a new level of responsibility. The new level of responsibility challenges nurses torespond to different and difficultsituations in the health care industry‚ especially in protecting the human right‚ dignity of patients and their safety. Nurses hold adistinctive position as patient advocates‚ regardless of their respective areas of practice; either in a home health‚ clinic
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Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Amanda L. Miklus Grand Canyon University The Professional Development of Nursing Professionals The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report focusing on the future of nursing: innovative change and advancing healthcare (The Institute of Medicine‚ 2011). This IOM report created a great impact upon the nursing profession by talking about education‚ advancement in practice‚ and presenting nurses as leaders in the medical profession (The Institute
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References: Creasia‚ J.L‚ Friberg. (2011).Conceptual foundations:The bridge to professional nursing practice. 5th edition. Barbara K. Timby. (1996). Fundamental Skills and concepts in Patient Care. Lippincott. 6th edition. http://www.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/FAQs.aspx http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Media/FactSheets/ImpactEdNP.htm
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Evolving Practice of Nursing and Patient Care Delivery Models Amanda Decker Grand Canyon University NRS 440-V Trends and Issues in Health Care December 5‚ 2014 Nursing is a career that presents those in it with many opportunities. There are a variety of nurses and the field in which they choose to practice is just as varied. There are oncology nurses‚ school nurses‚ home health nurses‚ trauma nurses and nurse practitioners. They work in clinics‚ hospitals‚ schools‚ prisons‚ mental health hospitals
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A Critical Analysis of Advanced Professional Practice Roles In Changing Health Services There has been a growing concern that health sector needs a huge attention today‚ not only from government‚ citizen‚ but also from many discipline of health care practices. In the recent year‚ in the United States which is a superpower country‚ the delivery of human services is still to be a constant puzzle for policy makers‚ practitioners‚ and academics (Mayhew‚ 2012). Health care delivery (including
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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering
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