The Metamorphosis of the Practical Nurse October 23‚ 2006 The Metamorphosis of the Practical Nurse It takes a great deal of courage to let go of what is known‚ familiar‚ and comfortable. Change is a driving force in everyone. Like a butterfly‚ individuals in the nursing field may go through similar stages of metamorphosis‚ which is a process of growth‚ change‚ and development. (Wikipedia Foundation‚ 2006) Nurses have a vast amount of opportunity for growth and change in the healthcare
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The issue of new graduate nurse retention remains a challenge in many healthcare facilities. More than 50% of new graduate nurses leave their first employment in less than a year (North‚ Johnson‚ Knotts & Whelan 2006). Because new recruits are often faced with a variety of stressors in their beginning practice it is clear that a structured mentoring program could be of immense value. Such a program would provide technical and emotional support to nurses and so ease their transition into the
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This is Tammy Ngo‚ and I know that you are very busy and have a lot of things on your plate but I have been inquiring about my badge for the last one and a half week without result. I had tried to attend to this matter in a timely matter in order to reduce the trouble it might cause everyone. I do admit that it was initially my fault in losing the badge and missing my shift on 1/16 (the day after I lost my badge and found it missing). I had tried my best to reach you through emails and phone calls
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1 Competencies for registered nurses Te whakarite i nga mahi tapuhi kia tiakina ai te haumaru a-iwi Regulating nursing practice to protect public safety December 2007 December 2007 2 Competencies for registered nurses Nursing Council of New Zealand PO Box 9644‚ Wellington 6011 www.nursingcouncil.org.nz Reprint May 2012 © Nursing Council of New Zealand 2012 ISBN 978-0-908662-22-7 3 Registered nurse scope of practice Registered nurses utilise nursing knowledge and complex nursing judgment
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Family Values Family Values The concept of family as the client has become an integral part of nursing. Research has shown that personal illness affects the family unit and not just the individual‚ plus‚ effectiveness of health care is improved when emphasis is placed on family (Harmon Hansen‚ 2001). Nursing theorists have touched on family nursing; however‚ there is no complete theoretical framework for family nursing. Friedman‚ Bowden & Jones (2003) address the lack of a complete family nursing
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How Values Affect Decisions in Personal and Professional Life Shaundrea Sager University of Phoenix Abstract Many people have a set of core values‚ either personal‚ organizational‚ or cultural‚ that help guide his or her life‚ and that assist him or her in making decisions in their everyday existence. Most of my decisions are based on how they will affect my family‚ me‚ and my career. My family is the key factor in any decision I make. I have to consider what influence my
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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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Family Values NUR/542 Family systems nursing‚ while considered a relatively new specialty has‚ in reality been around for a long time. The involvement of the family in caring for an ill family member has long been recognized as therapeutic. True‚ the primary focus of nursing seems concentrated on the patient‚ but the family and the home are “where health is learned‚ lived‚ and experienced” along with being “the niche where multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across
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Veridian: Putting a Value on Values 1. What is Veridian’s strategy for making money for its shareholders? Veridian is a defense information technology company that has always remained consistent in its focus of values-based leadership to create a long term strategy of meeting the needs of customers‚ employees‚ suppliers‚ as well as shareholders. Because of the broad intention and focus of the leadership‚ the corporate culture attracts the highest-skilled employees who are able to deliver outstanding
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VALUE ANALYSIS & VALUE ENGINEERING Value Analysis is an effective tool for cost reduction and the results accomplished are far greater. It improves the effectiveness of work that has been conventionally performed as it questions and probes into the very purpose‚ design‚ method of manufacture‚ etc.‚ of the product with a view to pinpointing unnecessary costs‚ obvious and hidden which can be eliminated without adversely affecting quality‚ efficiency‚ safety and other customer features. VALUE AND
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