...Educational Preparation An associate’s degree in nursing can be an attractive alternative due to condensed program time and a decrease in tuition rates and I, use to believe becoming an RN would be the end of my college education. During the past eight months of my registered nurse (RN) career I have come to know that there are so many more opportunities to having a bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN). A nurse who has completed the BSN program is capable of assessing a situation and using critical thinking skills to give the patient a better outcome verses an RN assessment. Nurses with a BSN are able to adjust the plan of care in situations when the patient’s condition changes and this significantly shows fewer mortality rates even after a patient is discharged from the hospital. Many nursing jobs usually require a BSN degree at the least, such as pediatric nursing, an OR nurse, and nurse practitioners. Having a higher level of education in nursing allows a nurse to educate patients or the public on disease processes as well as becoming a school nurse. With a BSN degree, doors will open to many more exciting and demanding roles. In the BSN program, nurses are taught through theory to enhance critical thinking skills through connections with instructors and professionals. Throughout a nurse’s career, they continue to develop critical thinking skills in the type of job selected. Having a BSN, you are more qualified to watch over a patients hospital stay, whether is...
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...Vark Analysis paper Introduction Individual learning styles vary from student to student. Each student brings different experiences, culture, level of preparedness and learning style to class room environment. To understand your individual learning style Neil Fleming as a questionnaire for understanding learning styles. The VARK-Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic questionnaire was developed to be used as tool to better understand learning styles and how to apply to learning. VARK focuses on the sensory modality dimension of learning; the way that information is taken And processed by the leaner: visual, aural, read/write, or kinesthetic (Sinclaire, Spring 2012). Visual learners favor information presented in diagrams, illustration, powerpoints and handouts. Also the visual learner is more likely to take additional notes during lectures. Learning by seeing the information being presented. Aural learners learn through listening. During Aural learning the student learns best hearing lectures, tutorials and discussions. Autditory learners understand the underlying meaning of speech through active listening. Read/Write learners favor printed information. They learn best through reading and writing. Read/Write learners comprehend information being displayed as words. Kinesthetic learners learn through touching, moving and doing. The hand on approach works well for kinesthetic learners. The kinesthetic learners needs to...
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...1. The ability for a doctor to communicate with their patients can calm their fears. People go to the doctor because they are afraid something is wrong and a good communicator can inform a patient that there is nothing to fear and it goes with the saying “he has a good bedside manner”. Physicians who communicate well are less likely to be sued for malpractice than poor communicators, says Dr. Greg Schneider, assistant professor of family practice and community medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas(Good Bedside Manners Make a Difference, Internet Article, Megan Malugani). 2. What are the ramifications of teacher misbehaviors on education? Teachers are pivotal to student perceptions of learning (West, 1994). Some of the educational outcomes of teacher misbehavior are it demotivates the student from learning, it causes a higher negative effect toward course material and it also negatively effects the learning development of low achieving students. Reference: Causes and effects of teacher conflict-inducing attitudes towards pupils: a path analysis model, Florin A. Sava, 12 December 2001 3. Which management communication style would be most useful in the fast food industry? Why? The most effective communication style for the fast food industry to me would be Tell style because in a face paced industry like the fast food industry a manager should be making the decisions while the employee does the labor. I also think that the level of a fast food employee is...
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...instruction utilized in healthcare today. The role of human patient simulation has been expanding throughout the last 10 years. As students moved from the confines of a hospital program and graduated to a college or university setting, the opportunities to experience a hospital environment often does not occur until the second or third year of a nursing program. Yet, the opportunity to practice in a safe and structured environment those skills necessary to become a competent bedside nurse is limited. Nursing instructors are very aware that students do not have ready access to the variety of clinical experiences necessary to all appropriate application of knowledge to skill. Clinical nursing programs must compete with hospital and clinical sites for student placement and many must work extended hours in order to “share” patients. Other negative outcomes come from a hospital patient experience. Some students have the privilege to experience a complex dressing change or a unique patient education opportunity, yet all students do not have an equal or standardized opportunity for this experience. There are a variety of simulation experiences that students can experience, depending on the objectives of the instructor. Initial human patient simulation utilized skills trainer units, such as an intravenous...
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...student, gaining insight into the interplay among education, career path, and opportunities by interviewing an already masters prepared nurse, in the field of nursing education, can be used as a guidance into the experiences that may lie ahead in a promising and rewarding career in nursing education. This interview with a mastered prepared registered nurse, helped identify specific competencies that the MSN-prepared nurse gains after completing such a program. The interview was conducted on October 22, 2014 with the Clinical Nurse Educator for Woman and Infant Services, at Banner Gateway Medical Center. She was accommodating for this interview, although she states her days are quite busy, in her clinical role. Questions and Career Overview The Nurse Educator was first asked what her role was as the Clinical Nurse Educator for this medical center. She was quick to state that nurse educators in the Banner Health System not only have education for their specific units, but also have responsibilities to educate system wide. A day in the life of a Nurse Educator sometimes goes globally with her knowledge; to teach beyond his/her assigned unit. She continued to explain that there are a variety of functions that her position encompasses, however, she limited the list to the top three: onboarding/new employee orientation, teaching in the academy or specific clinical area/unit, and then providing the required competency education for staff. As she continued, she said, “A large...
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...Essay of your Choice A portrait of Julia Child leans precariously on my bedside table competing for space with sticky notes, pennies, and a plastic alarm clock. Julia has been my role model ever since I spent an hour at the Smithsonian American History Museum watching cooking show after cooking show. As she dropped eggs, burnt soufflés, and prepared a whole pig, she never took herself too seriously and with her goofy smile and accompanying laugh. And yet, she was as successful in her field as anyone could ever be. Her passion completely guided her career. She taught me that it does not matter what I choose to do, it only matters that I do it with my whole self; zealously and humorously. Unlike Julia, I do not aspire to be a chef. Brownies out of a box may just be the highlight of my baking career. Something I have been passionate about for my whole life, however, is teaching. The first traces of my excitement came from a summer camp that I founded when I was seven years old. Motivated by too many imperfect summer camp experiences, I established my ideal summer camp, one in which campers could choose their activities, from banana split tutorials to wacky hat-making. So that year it began, with seven five-year-old campers in my backyard. For six consecutive years, I ran my summer camp, each year tweaking and improving from the years before. Chebeague Island, Maine, established a preschool in the spring of 2012, run out of a trailer by a recent college graduate. I volunteered...
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...Within a year after graduating from the BSN program, I will begin to study for the CPAN certification. While obtaining a RN license is essential, a nursing specialty certification is an optional course (Colabuono, Bennett-Carey, & Murauski, 2013). “CPAN/CAPA certification illustrates a mastery of knowledge and skills that defines perioperative specialization” (Colabuono et al., 2013, p. e35). A perioperative nurse is required to have at least 1,800 hours of direct clinical experience within two years before applying for certification. Direct care is defined as being involved with the patient at the bedside and engaging in the patient knowledge. A BSN degree is not mandated for a CPAN certification (American Board of Perianesthesia Nursing Certification,...
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...Today’s nurse come from different level of education background. We have three different programs in which nurses are able to graduate and become registered nurses. Despite which education program a nurse choose to attend they all must sit for the NCLEX-RN examination. The NCLEX examination test for the minimum technical competency for safe entry into basic nursing practice (AACN, fact sheet). The first formal nursing educational program was the diploma program. The diploma program required a student attend class for fourth month in a hospital based setting when it was first introduced. Today a diploma program are two to three year programs which allows the graduate to sit for the NCLEX (Friberg, Creasia, 6th ed.). The Associate Degree nurses program are 2-3 year programs that can be obtained and a community college or some universities. Many students choose the ADN, because it is cost effective and shorter in length and yields the same jobs as a 4 year degree program. The ADN programs have produced some very competent nurses that work in many different settings. Nurses in an associate degree program are trained more at the bedside that in a classroom setting. These nurses are also trained to assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate. With the many debates today about which nurses are more qualified and more hospitals seeking magnet status more nurses have been advancing their educational status and seeking their BSN. The baccalaureate nursing program is the...
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...stay current and all the education and required competencies are taking us away from our patient’s bedside. The sheer amount of required education has more than doubled for me in the last 25 years. With that said, how do we do it? Upon researching this topic I found a lot of questions surface as to what it is to be competent and having competency. These are not the same, as stated by McConnell, (1998). “Competence is the potential ability, a capability to function in a given situation” and “Competency focuses on your actual performance in a situation”. Competency starts first with your college or basic level of education. This marks the beginning of a lifelong learning journey. The most appropriate method depends on what needs to be learned. According to McConnell, (1998), “your competence makes you capable of fulfilling your job responsibilities. Competency means, however, that you fulfill your job as expected”. There are many methods or types of instruction. Multi sensory stimulation: hands on learning as an example, is best for increasing skill and retention. The more senses you involve the more likely you will retain this information. I like the statement, See one, Do one, Teach one. An example of this type of learning is annual CPR training. In the ICU at CCHMC, we just finished one of our annual competencies. We were educated on the glucometer machine. We were updated on how to do a blood sugar test, by reading a short blackboard education and then tested on our knowledge...
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...exist as yes-no entities but within a continua which the mind blends into the manner in which it responds to and learns from the external environment and instructional stimuli. Conceptually, this suggests a framework for a multimodal instructional design that relies on a variety of pedagogical techniques, deliveries, and media (Picciano, 2009, p. 11). “ According to the VARK assessment I have a multimodal learning strategy, and I completely agree! I adjust to the learning style that best suits the topic. I “go with the flow” or “roll with the punches” and redesign my learning strategy to that what is expected or requested of me at that time. As a result of a multitude of educators, teachers, instructors, and just as many topics of education, I have morphed and molded my learning styles (which includes all types of styles, aural, read/write, visual and kinesthetic) to adapt to the particular type of learning that the present topic requires. While my natural learning style seems to fall in the read/write/aural category, out of habit, pattern, repeated experiences, I am able to use all types of learning strategies to process and learn the information required from me! Learning for me comes in a variety of avenues! I feel the learning strategy I use is largely determined by the type of material I plan on learning at the time. For example, if I was just learning how to start an IV, I feel the best strategy for this task would be aural (listening to the instructor tell me the...
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...For my community leadership project I participated in the Mariner Health of Wilmington Safety Fair. Mariner health is a nursing home that provides various levels of care from short term rehab to hospice care. Their staff includes medical director, registered dietician, social workers, activities director, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, RNs, LPNs, CNAs, financial counselor, and administrative staff. My responsibilities included talking with all staff about proper back mechanics and have them complete a quick test on the information. Then I had those staff members who were required to participate in a hands on demonstration where they were to transfer a patient from supine to edge of bed to a bedside chair using proper body mechanics and transfer techniques that conserved energy and work expenditure. Goals of the Program: The annual safety tour is the method that Mariner Health uses to educate staff on many areas required by OSHA. These areas include: Tuberculosis, infections control, resident safety equipment, wander guards, back mechanics, fire safety, bioterrorism, evacuation, hoyer lift, sit to stand lift, worker’s compensation, abuse and neglect, sharps, electrical safety, slips, trips, and falls, hazard communication, and MSDS. The goals of the safety fair were to have all staff complete a test on all the above topics and participate in hand on demonstrations for back safety and the hoyer lift. Analysis of program: I feel...
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...VARK Analysis Paper VARK Analysis Paper The VARK (visual, aural, reading/writing, and kinesthetic) questionnaire was designed in 1987 by Mr. Neil D. Fleming, educator, Christchurch, New Zealand, to help students, educator and business professionals understand the different learning preferences and receive feedback and provide strategies to accommodate the difference learning preferences. The learning preferences are broken down into four different preference types, visual, aural, reading/writing, kinesthetic. Two additional learning styles are multimodal type 1 and multimodal type 2, which are different combinations or more than one learning preference. People who are visual learners use diagrams, maps, charts, and graphs. Aural learners are able to grasp better understanding of material being taught by hearing and listening, and would prefer lectures, group discussions, email and radio. Reading/writing learners prefer text based modalities such as text books, internet reading, manuals, reports and writing assignments. Kinesthetic learner’s find that they prefer hands-on experiences, demonstrations, simulations and instructional videos. Multimodal type 1 learners have more than one type of preference to engage in learning and base their learning on the situation, whereas type 2 need to learn from all four preferences and take time to learn information, although have broader and deeper understanding of the subject matter. (Fleming, 2009) Multimodal learners...
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...Higher Education In Nurses Panella Steiner Grand Canyon University Higher Education In Nurses “Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.” Florence Nightingale. Nurses prepared at a baccalaureate degree level are more competent in critical thinking, communication skills and leadership than nurses prepared at an associate degree level. Currently nurses spend the greatest amount of time at the bedside of the patient yet they have the least time spent being educated about the increasingly complex issues their patients face. Ancillary personal, such as social services and physical therapists are required to have graduate level educations, yet nurses do not. Why not? The ADN program was developed during the World War II as a way to produce more nurses to meet the rising shortage of nurses. The associate degree nursing programs are 2 years of education. They are taught fundamentals and basic nursing with a heavy focus on skills. It is task orientated through clinical training. It was designed to be a short time solution. The baccalaureate degree nursing programs are 4 years. The studies include all the ADN education study, but also include social science, nursing research, nursing management, quality and patient safety, and professional values. BSN students are offered a comprehensive understanding of the nursing profession. At the completion of both studies, successful students are eligible to...
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...prepared nurse and a bachelor prepared nurse making decisions during this emergency demonstrated key differences. The ADN nurse went through a mental checklist, reviewing the fetal monitoring strip, narrowing down the causes of the incident, reassuring the patient while preparing for the stat C-section. The BSN nurse also performed these tasks, but involved the patient’s family/support system in the educational process and collaborated with the provider for the optimal outcome. Florence Nightingale was passionate about providing educated and skilled nurses to care for patients and paved the way to starting nursing schools. Nightingale was not only influential in nursing, but also developed the first models of nursing focusing on increased education for the outcome of better trained nurses (Creasia & Friberg, 2010). Nursing, along with healthcare in general has come a long way. The 2008 National...
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...CLARA BARTON: Leading the Way Clara Barton: Leading the Way for Disaster Relief Raelene Bagge Bristol Community College 2 CLARA BARTON Early Life Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford Massachusetts. At a young age, she knew her niche in life was to help people. She tended to her brother David after an accident and went on to become a teacher, work in the US patent office, work as a nurse and found the Red Cross. As a teacher, she recognized the need for education and even when the funds were not available, she opened a free public school in New Jersey. Tensions were high as slavery became a hotbed issue and as a teacher she was fired for publicly displaying her stance on antislavery. After this, she moved to...
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