Review The professional setting is a public healthcare facility that has licensed for 1‚395 beds and budgeted to staff 745 bed. This facility provides emergency‚ inpatient‚ and outpatient services with 714 full-time physicians and 900 registered nurses (RNs). The hospital is also a teaching hospital that trains many medical professionals daily. The hospital has several units like children center‚ maternity ward‚ medical surgical floor‚ trauma/emergency department‚ Intensive care unit‚ psychiatric
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The nurse administrator role is one that I was curious in learning about‚ because I will finish up my Masters of Health Care Administration this year. Nursing administrators career choices range from nurse managers to Chief Nursing Officers (CNO). Two other career choices in this role are nurse supervisor and health information nurse specialists. The main objective of the nurse administrator is to assure that the best possible care is being administered to all the patients being seen in an area
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Not Enough Nurses Historically‚ the need for nurses evolved from the dire need of innovative and vigilant care during the War. Because of its nature to serve and give‚ the demand increases as the health care needs get complicated. Although nurses comprise the majority of the health workforce‚ the physical and psychological challenges entailed in nursing exhaust aging nurses who will soon reach their retiring age. As the nation realizes the diminishing supply of nurses‚ it is important to understand
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than another person. This fact is still true today about much of America’s history‚ and the eye of the beholder when reading different accounts of history. Natalie Zemon Davis retells the history of Martin Guerre and his imposture in her book The Return of Martin Guerre. One historian named Robert Finlay questions Davis’ account of the Martin Guerre story where he explains Davis’ weaknesses in his article‚ “The Refashioning of Martin Guerre.” To clear up Finlay’s misunderstandings‚ Davis writes
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What is a nurse leader? The profession of nursing is one of leadership by its very nature. Nurses are looked to as leaders across the health care continuum‚ regardless of their role or practice settings. Throughout nursing school I have been taught that I will be a part of care teams‚ associate with colleagues from other disciplines‚ and be held accountable for patient care outcomes. A nurse leader does not mean nurse manger. Not every nurse manger is a good leader‚ and those with strong leadership
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Certified Nurse Anesthetists are crucial to the healthcare system. A certified nurse anesthetist holds an advanced degree and practices anesthesia under licensed physicians. They perform in almost every service and are crucial to many if not all surgical services. This role is unique to the professional nursing practice in that the degree requirements are different as is the job performance (Wickenhagen‚ 2015). It varies from other sorts of nursing due to the nature of patient-nurse interaction and
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Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with additional education that allows them to provide high-quality‚ cost-effective and individualized care for patients‚ families‚ and communities. Nurse practitioners are authorized to treat‚ and provide health promotion‚ maintenance‚ and sick care services to those in need. In addition‚ nurse practitioners have privileges to prescribe medications. Family nurse practitioners provide direct health care services to newborns‚ infants‚ children‚ adolescents
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One thing that is important to remember is that scope of practice can be determined by numerous ways. Depending on the profession‚ depends on how the scope of practice is defined. “Scope of practice can be defined as all the accepted services provided by a particular profession” (Jirak‚ 2004). For example the scope of practice was created so the physicians work would not be confused with the assistants work because they are different types of jobs and duties. The assistants get things ready for the
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INDEPENDENT NURSE PRACTITIONER (INP) Introduction: A independent Nurse Practitioner (INP) is a registered nurse who has completed specific advanced nursing education (generally a master’s degree or doctoral degree‚ B.sc. or GNM) and training in the diagnosis and management of common as well as complex medical conditions. Nurse Practitioners provide a broad range of health care services. & independent nurse practitioners function independently without physician involvement. Definition : INDEPENDENT
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Nurses leading changeRunning head: Nurses Leading Change NURSES LEADING CHANGE LISA THOMPSON GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL DYNAMICS 430V MICHAEL JONES JULY 3‚ 2012 The Institute of Medicine report asks and answers the nation’s most important health care questions. They produced a report with recommendations for future of nursing and healthcare. It states that high-quality; patient-centered health care will require a transformation of the health care delivery system (IOM‚ October
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