...I am doing my research on travel nursing. The reason I picked this topic is because all of my life I have Wanted to be a nurse. My biggest question I had on this was, What is life like as a travel nurse? When I researched it I found that As a travel nurse, you get to experience the excitement of exploring a new place and the amazing chance to expose yourself in the culture of a new hospital. They say that it offers great places to explore. Travel nurses can choose the places they want to go and even the hospital. While you are getting a chance to explore exotic places you are also making great money while doing So. Travel nurses starting salary is 101,288 dollars a year. Another question you may ask is Do travel nursing companies offer...
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...Career Research Paper I have designed this assignment as a step by step guide to walk my students through the research process. Of course, you may adjust it as you feel is necessary according to the level of students you are working with. This project explains in detail everything they need to research, as well as, giving them real world insight into what to expect in a career in terms of education, job duties and responsibilities and income. I begin by having them take a reality check quiz on the Jump Start Coalition website. This little quiz helps them determine how much money they will need to earn in order to live the lifestyle they would like to have. This income amount in turn helps open their eyes to the type of job necessary to achieve that income and what amount of education is involved. It was a real wake up call for many of my students. In this package I have also included a grading rubric for the project and a list of possible career choices for their assignment. Student Instructions You will be writing a research paper on a career chosen from the attached list. Think carefully about which career you chose to research. Read through these directions and the requirements for this assignment BEFORE making your choice. Materials needed for this project - ---note cards (preferably 3x5 lined) ---folder with pockets to keep all research materials in ---access to internet and reference books A. Take reality check quiz at http://www.jumpstartcoalition...
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...Michelle Valentine D. Scarlett 4th block Research Paper 20110317 Word count: 1,411 Number of pages: 7 I want my future career to be a registered nurse (RN). I have wanted to be a registered nurse since I was the age of ten. The main reason I wanted to be a registered nurse is because I want to help and serve others in my community. There are many different types of environments in which a registered nurse can work. A registered nurse, regardless of their work setting, treat patients, educate patients and the public about various medical conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and family members…record patients’ medical histories and symptoms, help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operate medical machinery, and help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation.(www.bls/oco/ocos083.htm) Some may work to help promote general health. They may also run general screenings and immunization clinics, blood drives, and public seminars on various conditions. Some may even provide direction to licensed practical nurses (LPN) and nursing aids regarding patient care. (www.bls/oco/ocos083.htm) Their specific work various from one registered nurse to another. There are generally four ways to specialize as a registered nurse. One way to specialize is they may work in a particular setting or type of treatment. Others may specialize in specific health conditions. A...
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...of how they apply to the labor market for nurses. Research the labor market for any state to determine how nursing wages are calculated. Use the Internet for this research. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper, in which you complete the following: o Cite the state and the URL of the Web site used in your research. o Address which factors may influence the supply and demand for nurses. o Discuss how a nurse’s pay is determined and how the salary is structured. Discuss what your chosen state can do to increase the supply of nurses. Include at least one appropriately cited and documented quotation to support a point. Include at least one appropriately cited and documented paraphrase to support a point. ANSWER For many years now, the state of California has seen a significant growth in population. California has become a center of work and play. Millions of people have come to live in sunny California, attracted by its weather, coastline, mountains, and the many jobs in high tech and the entertainment industry, among others. California is the most populous state in the country, with 36 million residents, many of them retirees. With the growth in population, there has been a continuing growth in demand for services, including healthcare. One of the economic sectors in which there has been more demand is nursing. It is estimated that during the next 12 years, California will need an additional 75,000 registered nurses in order to keep a proper ratio between patients...
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...Communication and Information Technology HCS 320 Tarah Wells Even though when we keep anything electronically we are taking a risk that someone can access that information. Another disadvantage is that if the system happens to crash then you have no access to that information. Communication and information technology is surely advancing. Health care presents more advance ways to perform duties efficient and promptly. The information is updated with frequency, and can include sounds, photos and videos that travel around the world in minutes. Many businesses have benefit from this technology and healthcare is one of them. The medical records are more easily accessible among other clinics and organizations. There are many ways that new technology is improving communication. It is affecting communication in health care tremendously. One of the ways that it is affecting health care is electronic medical records. Health care communication technology and information are applications that are used between the patients, caregivers, and health care workers. These applications can include a text messages that are sent out or a web page that is designed to provide database of patients information. It also include effective communication opportunities. Awareness is something that should be in practice along with the new technology. The new technology like electronic medical records can make diagnosis and medical decisions easier to make. For example if someone was traveling...
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...Influences of Health Care Research HCS/465 February 22nd, 2016 Dawn Bricker Influences of Health Care Research In this paper we will discuss an innovation that has been developed in the last 20 years that has influenced the health care industry. That innovation is telemedicine. Telemedicine What is telemedicine? According to the American Telemedicine Association, “Formally defined, telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient’s clinical health status. Telemedicine includes a growing variety of applications and services using two-way video, email, smart phones, wireless tools and other forms of telecommunications technology.” They continue, ” Starting out over 40 years ago with demonstrations of hospitals extending care to patients in remote areas, the use of telemedicine has spread rapidly and is now becoming integrated into the ongoing operations of hospitals, specialty departments, home health agencies, private physician offices as well as consumer’s homes and workplaces.” This innovation has lasted 40 years and has continued to gain traction and popularity in recent years due to the advances in technology. There are many benefits for telemedicine. Improved access is very important, given the provider shortages throughout the world, in both rural and urban areas; telemedicine has a unique capacity to increase service to millions of new patients. Reducing or containing...
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...Bartholomew October 9th 2015 This paper is intended to discuss the differences in competencies between nursing at the associates-degree level versus the baccalaureate-degree level. Over the years this has been a controversial and complex issue within the nursing workforce. With both academic options to choose from, education preparation standards are changing in hospitals, making way for a stronger and more diverse nursing staff. The pressure to meet the challenge to raise the educational training of diploma and associate degree prepared RNs to the baccalaureate degree level has resulted in advanced RN-to-BSN programs delivered in fast-tracked programs using both online and class options. It will also be my goal to incorporate a patient care situation that describes a difference in nursing care approaches as it relates to the educational preparation of BSN versus a diploma or ADN degree nurse. I will attempt to give an example of a patient care situation in which nursing care approaches differs between that of an ADN versus BSN nurse based on their educational preparation. ADN Program The American Nurses Association defines a competency as “an expected level of performance that integrates knowledge skills, ability and judgment”. When the question is raised about the competency difference between that of an ADN and BSN nurse, it seems to come down to length of time, amount of credits and scope of practice preparation. The ADN curriculum prepares the nurse for the basics and fundamentals...
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...80-OL August 30, 2015 Intended Major Profile Paper As of my senior year in high school, I plan to major in anesthesia and minor in psychology. Anesthesiologists or Nurse Anesthetists are one of the top paid healthcare professionals in the world as of 2015. With majoring in anesthesia comes a tremendous amount of responsibility. If the anesthesiologists gives the patient too high of a dosage, it could kill the patient, which would cause a lawsuit. From researching other occupations that intrigue me, I believe I want to focus on becoming an anesthesiologist for the emergency room. I like the idea of having a buildup of adrenaline running through my body, while putting someone under anesthesia for an emergency surgery. From all the research I have conducted, there are several schools in North Carolina that offer an anesthesia program in their graduate school. I also have concluded that many of these schools are expensive, but offer a remarkable amount of scholarships and grants for those who are less fortunate. Many schools in North Carolina offer a program focusing on anesthesia. A few schools have stuck out in my research. UNC Charlotte offers a program for Nurse Anesthetists through the Carolinas Medical Center they are partnered with. UNCG also offers an anesthesia program through the Raleigh School of Anesthesia. Lastly, Western Carolina University offers a twenty-eight month Nurse Anesthetist program. Out of all my research that I have conducted on schools that offer...
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...social work, and health administration. By working together as a team throughout this simulation, we were able to implement interventions related to the case of a young, pre-diabetic college student in order to provide her with optimal healthcare. A few of the key interventions that took place were assessments performed by the nursing students within our scope of practice, creation of a care plan and healthcare goals, involvement from social work students to assist the patient in obtaining a bus pass to travel to the grocery store, and scheduling an appointment with the athletic training student to implement an appropriate exercise regimen. Through this experience, not only was I able to contribute to the professional development of my peers through interacting and sharing my knowledge, but I also learned a tremendous amount about working with other disciplines in providing optimal healthcare. Along with collegiality, a critical element of nursing practice is collaboration. As a nurse, I will be collaborating with the patient, their family, and healthcare professionals in order to come together as a team for a common goal. I experienced collaboration through my oral care simulation. Through this assignment, one of my clinical group members and I collaborated as a team to perform an oral assessment on an edentulous acute care patient. We completed the assessment, worked together to compile the case study, identified oral disease risk factors, and created a list of questions which we...
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... religion, education, anthropology, social services, and psychology. History of Nursing In the 18th and 19th century modern nursing began to take shape. The Catholic’s recruited congregation females committed to the care of the sick within religious group. The Lutherans followed and trained women to facilitate care to the unhealthy, and in 1863 the Red Cross Society, founded in Geneva, Switzerland, devoted a program goal of educating nurses to care for the wounded during the war (s). This program was a success and therefore was the beginning of the formal education process for professional nursing. These first program trained nurses were known as civil nurses there responsibility was to provide care to soldiers (Potter, 2009). Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) began her career in nursing after completing an educational program in Kaiserwerth, Germany at the age of 31. During this time war and disease was devastating the British Army. She was called upon by the government and volunteered her services as well as the services of 38 nurses to care for wounded and suffering soldiers in Turkey. Nightingale found the conditions in the army hospital appalling as well as the rate of death associated with disease and infection. She opposed the conditions and was met with opposition but continued to validate her claims of a cleaner environment. Her strategy was successful when given the...
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...or all humankind. Health represents a state of well-being as defined by the individual or mutually decided on by a individual and a nurse. Environment represents the person’s physical surroundings, the community, or the universe and all it contains. Nursing is the practice of the science and art of the discipline (George, 2011). Metaparadigm pertains to the core concepts of a particular discipline. Until the 1990's there was general agreement in the literature that the metaparadigm of the discipline of nursing consisted of four major concepts: person, health, environment, and nursing (George, 2011). Concepts are thoughts believed to be true. Concepts can either be concrete or abstract in nature and can be observed or experienced through one’s reality. Concepts are the elements used to generate theories. Chinn and Kramer (2004) define a theory as “a creative and rigorous structuring of ideas that projects a tentative, purposeful, and systematic view of phenomena” (p.58). Theories are not a fact or a scientific law which produce the same results 100% percent of the time. Theories can provide possible and temporary explanations to phenomena that are ever changing as new evidence emerges. Simply stated, the theory suggests a direction in how to view facts and events (George, 2011). The degree of predictability surrounding a theory is the research that is gathered by using different techniques of scientific methodology. Chinn and Kramer (2004) state that a theory may be characterized...
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...A. Increase in Quality of Care Electronic Medical Records (EMR) can increase quality of care in many ways. Unlike paper records, EMR is available to multiple members of the healthcare team in different locations, all at the same time. EMR makes it easy for caregivers to have all of a new patient’s previous visit information at their fingertips, which can help with obtaining a more accurate history upon admission. An accurate history will help caregivers make better decisions when planning a patient’s care. Because records are stored in a database instead of on paper, they are safe from natural disasters, forgery, loss, or damage. Many, many years of records can be stored in a relatively small space, which will negate the need for rows and rows of filing cabinets, and microfiche. This makes them easier to manage and retrieve. Less paper also means neater workspaces and better organization in the workplace, and because records are available on the database from multiple locations, the need for faxing or mailing records is decreased, increasing security. EMR can also be used to collect data for Quality Improvement processes, and an EMR system can have pop-up alerts built in to notify caregivers of best practices, allergies, and drug interactions. EMR’s that also have a medication bar code scanning system built in will help to reduce med errors by alerting nurses to wrong patient/wrong dose/ wrong time errors. Electronic Medical Records can reduce patient’s wait times, because...
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...Communicable Diseases: Influenza Jena M. Gilbert Grand Canyon University: NRS-427V February 10, 2016 Communicable Diseases: Influenza This paper will discuss the communicable disease process of Influenza or otherwise known as Flu in common terms. Herein will discuss what Influenza is, in what ways Influenza effects the infected and what we as heath care workers can do when dealing with this virus. Influenza otherwise known as the flu is a respiratory illness, contrary to the misconception of the flu being a stomach bug. The flu is caused by a virus and when contracted can show a wide range of symptoms mild to severe and has even been known to cause death. There are three types of Influenza viruses, A, B and C. In humans, influenza A and B viruses are what commonly effects people and is known to cause seasonal epidemics, while Influenza C is generally known to cause much milder respiratory symptoms and not known to become as widespread. Both Influenza A and B have numerous varying strains that cause the Influenza infection. (“Types of Influenza Viruses|Seasonal Influenza(Flu) | CDC,” 2014). Influenza can infect and cause a disease process in any and all age groups. Typically Influenza is more commonly seen at higher rates in children, particularly school aged children. Severe illness and death related to influenza is more commonly seen in ages two and under, sixty five years of age and older or in individuals with primary medical conditions as well as immunocompromised...
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...Bisht et al. Globalization and Health 2012, 8:32 http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/8/1/32 REVIEW Open Access Understanding India, globalisation and health care systems: a mapping of research in the social sciences Ramila Bisht1*, Emma Pitchforth2 and Susan F Murray3 Abstract National and transnational health care systems are rapidly evolving with current processes of globalisation. What is the contribution of the social sciences to an understanding of this field? A structured scoping exercise was conducted to identify relevant literature using the lens of India – a ‘rising power’ with a rapidly expanding healthcare economy. A five step search and analysis method was employed in order to capture as wide a range of material as possible. Documents published in English that met criteria for a social science contribution were included for review. Via electronic bibliographic databases, websites and hand searches conducted in India, 113 relevant articles, books and reports were identified. These were classified according to topic area, publication date, disciplinary perspective, genre, and theoretical and methodological approaches. Topic areas were identified initially through an inductive approach, then rationalised into seven broad themes. Transnational consumption of health services; the transnational healthcare workforce; the production, consumption and trade in specific health-related commodities, and transnational diffusion of ideas and knowledge...
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...something to do with technology whether it is the automatic door that let you in or if it is the machine that made your coffee. Technology plays an important role in everyday life but at the same time, can cost us in the long run. The beginnings of technology started several years back. Judy Coils, a Nurse Practitioner in Columbus, Indiana, stated, “Nursing from the 1850’s to 1900’s was more focused on providing care to physical needs of patients and maintaining a hygienic environment” (Coils Interview). Judy went on to day that the inventions that came out during that time period, again, went along with helping maintain a hygienic environment. Some examples she gave were bedpans, bandages, surgical splints, nursing bottles, hospital beds, portable tubs, syringes, the safety pin and diapers. “Nursing technology was just getting started,” Coils said (Coils Interview). In the 1950’s, technological advancements involving new medicines and IV therapy became available followed by dialysis and cardiac monitors in the late 60’s. Coils also noted that Hospice started in 1967 with their first patient (Coils Interview). “Whether or not they thought of them as technology, nurses have necessarily always used a variety of tools, instruments and machines” (Sandelowski). Advancements from the 1980’s on kind of took more of an...
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