Kelly’s Professional Criteria Kelly’s Professional Criteria Nursing has emerged throughout history from being task oriented to what it is today‚ where education and research lay the foundation of our profession. There has been ongoing controversy on whether nursing is in fact a profession or an occupation‚ even among nursing organizations. Lucie Kelly has spent most of her career exploring the dimensions of professional nursing. She is a registered nurse (RN) herself and also is a Doctor
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Professional Development Plan As the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for a small rural forty bed Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital (IRF)‚ the professional development plan of the staff is very near and dear to my heart. Poorly prepared of nurses who have not engaged actively in personal and professional growth are less than optimal for either the patients or the facility. Years past I have worked for companies that was not invested in professional growth nor spending the necessary funding for staff education
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fingerprint processing d. Allow 8-10 weeks receipt of a complete application to process licensure decision. 2. Explore elements of professional accountability and responsibility. a. Professional accountability and responsibility is extremely important in nursing. Becoming a nurse‚ you gain a sense of responsibility in the lives you care for. Accountability is at the heart of nursing. We are accountable for our actions‚ words‚ medical care performed‚ and behavior towards coworkers‚ families‚ and patients
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Nursing as a professional discipline places the greatest demands specific to the development and refinement of the caring concept for nursing. By exploring the caring concept‚ within the boundaries of professional nursing practice‚ both the capabilities and constraints of caring relative to nursing‚ can be identified (Kaur‚ Sambasivan‚ Kumar‚ 2015). For nurses‚ caring behaviors enhance feelings of self-accomplishment and well-being and enable them to better know their patients’ perceptions and thus
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giving patients the care and attention that they deserve. If I were explaining exemplary professional practice to others I would say that it involves staff that are willing to do whatever it takes to give their patients and family members excellent service. Exemplary professional practice does not occur over night‚ it takes time and dedication from all staff members involved. Luzinski (2012) states that professional practice that is exemplary not only requires time to develop‚ but time to improve designs
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My career goals would include: 1-continuing to work as an advanced practice psychiatric nurse‚ 2-working on obtaining a doctorate in nursing‚ and 3- using my education to become a nurse leader while maintaining an advanced clinical practice. Because I am already an advanced practice psychiatric nurse‚ obtaining a doctorate would only further my knowledge and training base and help further my career by giving me more options from which to choose in the work world. I would like to attend
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the Professional Nurse Leader Leadership is a key skill for nurses at all levels.A professional nurse leader can come in many different forms. They can be a manager‚ charge nurse‚ a floor nurse‚ or a new nurse. A professional may be in a manager role or may not be in a management role. Some of the management roles would include nurse manager‚ nurse administrator‚ nursing supervisor‚ director of nursing‚ vice president of nursing and chief nursing officer. The key is to have successful nursing leadership
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community college while the other one is the Baccalaureate degree nurse‚ having studied at a university. Another distinction is that an associate degree nurse would normally be having two to three years of nursing training while a baccalaureate nurse will have between four to five years of nursing training (Friberg‚ 2011). However‚ for both sets of nurses‚ one has to sit and pass the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) in order to become a registered nurse (RN). It is largely presumed
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Goals meant different meanings to me every time I set one. Now that I’m attending college it has a new meaning and it will remain this meaning for as long as I live. Goals to me mean an aim‚ and purpose of an action. So as I sit here and write this goals paper I realize that the goals I set must have a purpose and be manageable. Graduating with an bachelor’s at the age of 23 is my long-term goal. This goal is very important to me meanly because after graduating college I plan on going in as
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Professional Moral Compass Kelly Ross Grand Canyon University: NRS437V-O103 Ethical Decision Making in Healthcare June 15‚ 2014 Professional Moral Compass A moral compass is defined as: “anything which serves to guide a person’s decisions based on morals or virtues” (moral compass‚ n.d.). In this paper‚ the writer will examine what defines her nursing moral compass by taking the reader through her personal nursing ethic‚ how her personal‚ cultural and spiritual values
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