The American Academy of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has developed a curriculum of content and expected competencies of graduates from baccalaureate nursing program. These “Nine Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice” were established in 2008 and serves as the guidelines for all AACN approved colleges and universities. These essentials are 1. Liberal education for baccalaureate generalist nursing practice. 2. Basic organizational and systems leadership for quality care
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Personal Philosophy of Nursing Nursing is not just a job‚ but much more than that. Nursing requires compassion‚ trust‚ empathy‚ honesty‚ knowledge‚ and commitment. According to the American Nurses Association (2010) nursing is defined as‚ “the pivotal health care profession‚ highly valued for its specialized knowledge‚ skill‚ and caring in improving the health status of the public and ensuring safe‚ effective‚ quality care”. I believe nursing is a profession that builds relationships with the
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patient’s family centered. AACN expect their nurses to make large contribution in the healthcare of their patients by providing quality care‚ backed by deeper understanding of subject matter. As per AACN critical care and acute care nursing is a specialty in nursing that covers human responses to life threatening health condition acute or chronic. Mission: AACN wants to provide quality education‚ resources and knowledge to the critical care nurses‚ so that these nurses can assist the patient
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Introduction It is important for a professional counselor to study theories to develop competency in organizing and understanding counseling approaches and develop a well rounded theory based philosophy in their counseling practice. It is also important to study counseling theories to provide the best due care for clients based on proven methodology‚ individualization of techniques and a personal yet professional innovative approach that is effective. Because theories give counselors a “road map”
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Professional Negligence In relation to professional negligence the concept of the reasonable man becomes that of the reasonable professional. The reasonable man will normally lack the skill and expertise acquired by the professional. These professional men and women are not only required to take reasonable care but also to measure up to the standard of competency that can be expected from such professionals-that is the standard of‚ for example the reasonable nurse or the reasonable solicitor
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According to Black (2014)‚ professional boundaries are the areas between the power of a nurse and the vulnerability of their patient. The nurse’s power comes from the extent of confidential information that the nurse knows about the patient. Patient confidentiality is also a major boundary of the nurse-client relationship. These boundaries must be maintained in the nurse-client relationship in order to allow for beneficence‚ autonomy‚ and nonmalefience of the
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Krautscheid (2014) suggests that professional nursing accountability is an aspect that underpins professional nursing practice and is frequently described by professional nursing organisations however it can be difficult to describe and define with no consistent language or definition available in the literature. Kozier (2012) suggests it is the ability and willingness to assume responsibility for your actions and accepting consequences of your behaviour. The development of the role of the clinical
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Q2 The areas in which professional institutions operate extend beyond simply representing their members. Discuss briefly two examples of this. The BCS (British Computer Society) has over 56‚000 members of whom around 10‚000 are students. BCS is committed to both its own internal activities and represents the members of their community outside the organization. This activity is well perceived by the government‚ industry and the labour market. Now have membership of the BCS as part of their criteria
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coordinate the delivery of numerous patient services‚ and administer high costly healthcare programmes (Weld and Garmon Bibb 2009). Due to the rapid expansion in the scope of nursing care and knowledge‚ nursing staff face greater responsibilities and require increasingly more skills; such is the importance of nursing law and ethics. The pace of change of law in this area is considerable as the role of the nurse is becoming more diverse. The pressure to keep up to date not
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Ethical Issues for Nurses Alexis Bushay HCA 322 Health Care Ethics & Medical Law Instructor: Jennine Kinsey August 18‚ 2012 Ethical Issues for Nurses Ethical issues have always affected the role of the professional nurse. Efforts to enact this standard may cause conflict in health care settings in which the traditional roles of the nurse are delineated within a bureaucratic structure. Nurses have more direct contact with patients than one can even imagine‚ which plays a huge role in protecting
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