Nursing Competencies GCU Nursing Competencies The first school of nursing in the United States was the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing‚ founded in 1873. The Bellevue offered a Baccalaureate degree in Nursing with principles of nursing established by Florence Nightingale. In later years‚ the Associate-degree in nursing was formed by Mildred Montag‚ to help with the nursing shortages in WWII. “In the mid 1900’s an Associate-degree level nurse was thought of as a “technical nurse”
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EBOLA OUTRAGE‚ BY: JAYLA FRANKLIN Two US humanitarian workers who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia have been released from Emory University hospital in Atlanta after receiving an experimental drug treatment which has yet to go through full clinical and human trials. Dr. Kent Brantly of Texas and Nancy Writebol‚ a missionary from North Carolina‚ contracted Ebola while responding to the outbreak in Liberia. Brantly and Writebol were both treated in the hospital’s containment
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Sulotte Valcin Amilcar RN-BC‚ MSNed My Nursing Philosophy When I was growing up in Haiti‚ I have always had the desire to help‚ care‚ and advocate for others‚ but I never quite had the opportunity to do that until I moved to the United States and I become a nurse. My intuition to become a nurse began in 1992 when my daughter who was born with sickle cell anemia became very ill to the point that she was put on a voluntary comma for about a month. I remember renting the little mermaid movie
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For my final exam question my choice was: Discuss research utilization in nursing practice versus evidenced based practice of nursing. Are the definitions interchangeable? The reference chapter used was chapter 17 in the text book titled Using Research Findings in Practice Settings. I would like to start off by defining Research Utilization and Evidence Based Practice. Research utilization refers to using research knowledge to change an existing clinical practice or profession situation
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Katherina‚ Human error in nursing is usually unavoidable‚ unpredictable and unintentional. Further‚ some risks include language barriers‚ neglecting to follow the policy‚ in a hurry to complete the task. As a supervisor‚ I encountered a nurse who gave a patient the wrong medications. The error occurred when the patient answered to the wrong name‚ and the nurse failed to check the patient’s identification bracelet. Other errors can include carelessness on the behalf of the staff as well as not taking
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Is the United States of America in STEM workers shortage? The United States attracts many young people whose ultimate aspiration is to access the higher education provided by United States educational institutions‚ for once educated‚ they can go back to the homeland and fix issues. This immigration requires a lot of adaptive skills and may lead to an acculturation. However‚ after graduating‚ some of these temporary immigrants are willing to stay in the United States in order to make a living
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that normally lines the inside of your uterus‚ the endometrium‚ grows outside your uterus. Endometriosis most commonly involves your ovaries‚ bowel or the tissue lining your pelvis. Rarely‚ endometrial tissue may spread beyond your pelvic region (Staff‚ 2010). They can also be found in the vagina‚ cervix‚ and bladder‚ although less commonly than other locations in the pelvis. Rarely‚ endometriosis implants can occur outside the pelvis‚ on the liver‚ in old surgery scars‚ and even in or around the
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Introduction Tele-nursing is the use of telecommunications technology such as videos‚ computers and tele-monitoring technologies to provide nursing care and advice at a distance. This growing technology offers many advantages in the delivery of healthcare information‚ disease monitoring‚ health promotion and disease prevention services‚ as well as nursing diagnosis‚ treatment and education to patient at home from a centralized location. Tele-nursing can be instrumental in helping patients
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more workers to this field. Interestingly‚ for nurses this has not been the case. An analysis of this situation found in a report entitled "Solving the Nursing Shortage through Higher Wages" indicates: • Over the late 1990s and into 2000‚ nurses’ pay did not increase at all‚ although some hospitals had already begun worrying about a nurse shortage in 1997. • When wages finally began to rise‚ nurses responded promptly—hospitals added 186‚500 nurses between 2001 and 2003. • Instead of competing
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less likely to discriminate them because of these things. Effective ways of challanging discriminatory practice Ensure all staff‚ new staff read and check that the policies and procedures in their workplace do not discriminate‚ new staff may recognise bad practice as they are new too the situations. Any bad practice should be discussed in staff meetings so that all staff can recognise
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