Nursing Leader Interview The nurse manager of the cardiac rehabilitation unit has been a formal nurse leader for the past five years. The conversation began with a discussion about her personal leadership style and how it evolved from a knee jerk style to her current democratic style. Being a nurse leader requires adaptation and flexibility. Administration‚ Medicare‚ and certifying organizations require changes to be made frequently to improve patient care. These changes are often tied to service
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A Summary of Benner’s Findings Regarding Nurses’ Skill Acquisition In 1984‚ Patricia E. Benner published the finding from a study aimed at identifying what nurses do and how they develop. She went to the clinical setting and asked practicing nurses to describe specific cases or situations they had encountered which stood out in their memories. These experiences were called exemplars or paradigm cases because they changed the perceptions of the nurse. In comparing the reported exemplar’s‚ Benner
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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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saline using a push and pause technique. Remember these lines can not be use if there is no blood return and the potency checked. For this protocol to be effective‚ education and training was mandated for the register nurses‚ that is a one -on -one bedside training. The register nurses are the once using this line on a daily bases so training them on the use of this line were a major past in the infection control
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ability of physicians‚ nurses‚ clinical technicians‚ and others to readily access and use the right information about their patients to Improve care. Studies have shown that better technologies leads to better care. Nursing Information Specialist is a nurse who integrates nursing science‚ computer science‚ and information science to manage and communicate data‚ information‚ knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice. Nursing Informatics Specialist supports consumers‚ patients‚ nurses ‚ and other providers
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the population ages‚ so does the number of chronic illness and the need for specialized end-of-life care. With the current shortage of trained hospice care providers‚ the push for utilization of nurse practitioners in this area of medicine is being looked at as a possible solution. Efficacy of a nurse practitioner led model of care has been demonstrated in the limited amount of studies done in recent years and shows promise of a solution to the shortage. The hospice model of care focuses on improving
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Impact the Nurse-patient ratio has on workloads Betty Jo Ayers Fayetteville State University Dr. D. Jefferys Nursing 300- Group 1 Project Introduction: The nurse-patient ratio has been a debatable problem for many years. It has been found that it is key in ensuring patient safety‚ protecting the nurses and ensuring overall quality of health care service. Background Information: There are four main reasons nurses are experiencing higher workloads
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profession a person’s own perceptions and life experiences shape how they perform and function at that job. Nurses find this to be true more so than other professions‚ especially when it comes to treating someone with a terminal illness. Cancer has affected many people in my life‚ I lost my grandmother and a close friend. But I have also dealt with end stage cancer first hand as a hospice nurse. In the case of my family‚ I watched my grandmother battle aggressive brain tumors called glioblastomas
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Nurse Practitioners have crusaded through the years paving a way of professionalism for the future Nurse Practitioners. Early Nurse Practitioner’s fought adversity within our own profession despite the benefits and potential benefits of Nurse Practitioners. Kurt Lewin’s theory of change is uncannily supported when reflecting back on the evolution of Nurse Practitioner profession: 1. Unfreezing: Challenging the status quo to gain support that a change is needed. 2. Freezing: Making a change 3. Refreezing:
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Advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs) require highly developed and extensive knowledge in “diagnostics‚ therapeutics‚ the biological‚ social and epidemiological sciences and pharmacology‚ and their enhanced skills in areas such as consultation and clinical decision-making” (Duke‚ 2012‚ p.1027). As such‚ it is imperative that nurses assuming an advance practice role are equipped and capable of applying intricate logic‚ critical thinking‚ deliberation‚ and analysis in their work‚ evaluations‚ clinical
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