A Pediatric Nurse or a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner are two careesr that caught my attention. According to the website Nurse Practitioner Schools‚ pediatric nurse practitioners provide high quality care to children from birth up to the age of 21. Nurse Practitioners are specialized nurses that usually complete advanced training in pediatrics and work closely with physicians and other health care providers that specialize in children’s health. Nurse Practitioners work in a variety of places‚ including
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Paramedics and nurses have many similarities as well as many differences. Often in an ER setting paramedics and nurses must work together to accomplish things quicker since there are many patients to take care of. I will be discussing some of the differences of these two similar professions including how to become a RN and a paramedic‚ what is required in order to work in an ER‚ how orders are given‚ pay scale differences‚ and how paramedics and nurses interact with each other. An RN‚ or registered
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Chapter 58 Practice Questions page 755 (652-674) (652) 1. An emergency department nurse is assessing a client who has sustained a blunt injury to the chest wall. Which of these signs would indicate the presence of a pneumothorax in this client? * Diminished breath sounds Rationale: This client has sustained a blunt or a closed chest injury. Basic symptoms of a closed pneumothorax are shortness of breath and chest pain. A larger pneumothorax may cause tachypnea‚ cyanosis‚ diminished breath
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Role Transition to BSN A well-educated nurse is a major benefit for their patients and the healthcare facility that employs them. The importance of a baccalaureate of nursing degree comes with a greater knowledge and understanding of patient care‚ leadership‚ teamwork‚ technology and evidence-based practice which all contributes to better patient outcomes (Trossman‚ 2012). A baccalaureate of nursing degree also prepares the nurse for more opportunities‚ quality of care‚ and abilities in overall
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The Leadership Quarterly 21 (2010) 422–438 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect The Leadership Quarterly j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / l e a q u a Leadership competencies for implementing planned organizational change Julie Battilana a‚⁎‚ Mattia Gilmartin b‚1‚ Metin Sengul c‚2‚ Anne-Claire Pache d‚3‚ Jeffrey A. Alexander e‚4 a b c d e Harvard Business School‚ Soldiers Field Road‚ Boston‚ MA 02163‚ USA Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing‚ 425 East
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about ways to assist the new graduate nurse with transition-into practice issues. Preparing student nurses for the role transition from student to nurse who can responsibly provide high-quality and safe patient care is a difficult job. Nursing students usually don’t have the opportunity to take a full patient assignment before transitioning into practice; therefore‚ the job of transferring clinical knowledge to student nurses is often the responsibility of a nurse preceptor. A new graduate preceptorship
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School Nurse Spending two days shadowing a school nurse was a wonderful experience. I had the pleasure of doing my school nurse rotation at Fox Creek Junior High School. I never realized how difficult and overwhelming it could be to be a school nurse. Ms. Bodauine was the nurse I got to shadow. She spent her day doing paperwork‚ helping the sick and injured‚ and doing vision and hearing screenings. There were several kids who came in throughout the day‚ approximately twenty-one per day that
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IDENTIFYING CORE COMPETENCIES FOR ELECTRONIC RESOURCES LIBRARIANS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LIBRARY A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE TEXAS WOMAN‘S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION BY SARAH W. SUTTON‚ M.L.S. DENTON‚ TEXAS MAY 2011 TEXAS WOMAN‘S UNIVERSITY DENTON‚ TEXAS December 3‚ 2010 To the Dean of the Graduate School: I am submitting herewith a dissertation written
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PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY 2011‚ 64‚ 225.262 DOING COMPETENCIES WELL: BEST PRACTICES IN COMPETENCY MODELING MICHAEL A. CAMPION Purdue University ALEXIS A. FINK Microsoft Corporation BRIAN J. RUGGEBERG Aon Consulting LINDA CARR Sun Microsystems GENEVA M. PHILLIPS RONALD B. ODMAN Boeing Company The purpose of this article is to present a set of best practices for competency modeling based on the experiences and lessons learned from the major perspectives on this topic (including applied
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Competency of Associate and the Baccalaureate Degree Nurse A demand for nursing was seen in our nation at the conclusion of World War II. Upon the return of servicemen the United States entered the baby boom era‚ where 78 million children were born between 1946 and 1964. (Creasia & Friberg‚ 2011‚ p. 14) To meet this demand‚ in 1951 Mildren Montag proposed a new program to prepare nurse technicians in two year associate degree programs which allowed a quicker entry into the workforce. Also‚
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