profession a person’s own perceptions and life experiences shape how they perform and function at that job. Nurses find this to be true more so than other professions‚ especially when it comes to treating someone with a terminal illness. Cancer has affected many people in my life‚ I lost my grandmother and a close friend. But I have also dealt with end stage cancer first hand as a hospice nurse. In the case of my family‚ I watched my grandmother battle aggressive brain tumors called glioblastomas
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Advanced Practice Nurses as Primary Care Providers Advanced Practice Nurses are Registered Nurses who hold a masters or doctoral degree with a specialization from area of advanced nursing and they have supervised practice during graduate education‚ and have ongoing clinical experiences. Therefore advanced practice in nursing brings an enhanced level of accountability. There are four major advanced practice nursing roles in United States. They are Nurse Anesthetists‚ Nurse Midwife‚ Clinical
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Nurse Practitioners have crusaded through the years paving a way of professionalism for the future Nurse Practitioners. Early Nurse Practitioner’s fought adversity within our own profession despite the benefits and potential benefits of Nurse Practitioners. Kurt Lewin’s theory of change is uncannily supported when reflecting back on the evolution of Nurse Practitioner profession: 1. Unfreezing: Challenging the status quo to gain support that a change is needed. 2. Freezing: Making a change 3. Refreezing:
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Advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs) require highly developed and extensive knowledge in “diagnostics‚ therapeutics‚ the biological‚ social and epidemiological sciences and pharmacology‚ and their enhanced skills in areas such as consultation and clinical decision-making” (Duke‚ 2012‚ p.1027). As such‚ it is imperative that nurses assuming an advance practice role are equipped and capable of applying intricate logic‚ critical thinking‚ deliberation‚ and analysis in their work‚ evaluations‚ clinical
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settings. Nurses of today have stressful work loads‚ combined with low wages and low social status. Two groups of nurses were chosen in this study‚ one nursed children and the other elderly. Does taking care of elderly cause more mental stress than taking care of children‚ since old people may need more social contact with the busy nurses and since elderly have a higher risk of dying compared to children. On the other hand experiencing the death of a child could be overwhelming. Nurses have
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that I would like to accomplish first. I would like to accomplish becoming a Neonatal Nurse. Being a neonatal nurse has always been something I’ve been wanting to become since I was little. There are many reasons why I would like to accomplish this‚ but here are just a few. The first reason is I have always loved being around babies since I was little. When I was little I would always pretend to be a neonatal nurse with my baby dolls. Also‚ I love volunteering at the hospital with my mum and we help
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the issues surrounding nurses ’ accountability in relation to the scenario discussed‚ and to Adult nursing. From the group sessions and further reading I have broaden my understanding of what being an accountable practitioner involves. Nurses are highly responsible for their own actions and care they provide. Consequently they are professionally accountable to the Nursing and Midwifery Council‚ (NMC) as well as their employer‚ public‚ patient‚ families and to themselves. Nurses have to justify why specific
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a certified registered nurse‚ I discovered my aspiration to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. I feel that the time has come to take a step towards reaching my goals in the field of Family Nurse Practice. I believe that when I become enrolled in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program of UIC I will have the best learning experiences to equip me for my future as a family nurse practitioner. My short term goal is to finish the said program and become a certified family nurse practitioner. To accomplish
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This course has provided a better understanding of a nurse practitioner’s important role in providing care for patients and therefore measuring the impact of care or outcomes is necessary to evaluate performance (Kapu‚ & Kleinpell‚ 2013). When a patient comes in due to a health problem‚ it is expected that they be provided with the necessary care needed. With the utilization of the SOAP note prioritizing and recognizing problems have become straightforward with incidental health findings also taken
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who works in a place with the word “pediatric” attached‚ you may automatically know that this type of job works with children or those under 18. A pediatric nurse practitioner is someone who provides nursing care to children‚ adolescents‚ and infants (study.com‚ pg.1). This type of nurse has a Master’s Degree in nursing with a pediatric nurse practitioner focus meaning that this is what their specialty is. As a PNP‚ you won’t do the working on your own all the time. They can work closely with a physician
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