HEALTH PROFESSIONALS COMPETENCY ASSURANCE ACT The Act was passed by Parliament on 11 September 2003 and received the Royal assent on 18 September 2003. The Health Practitioners Assurance Act came fully into force on 18 September 2004. Not all the Health Care professions are regulated under this Act. And the profession that is not being regulated under this act does not mean that profession lacks the professional standards. Some of the professionals are not regulated under this act because
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Degree of Applied Science in Nursing, I thought I had reached the pinnacle of my formal education. After all, the rest was ‘on the job’ training. The opinion I held of Bachelor degree nurses was, quite frankly, that they were more educated in research and theory than they were in actual patient care. In my eyes, only nurses who wanted to pursue administrative roles were interested in furthering their degree. Pursing a greater nursing experience, I sought out any and all continuing education opportunities
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Issues Around Abuse Within the Healthcare System Abuse within the healthcare system is prevalent in numerous areas including examples of abuse toward healthcare professionals, abuse of patients, substance abuse, financial abuse to name a few. Awareness of violence or abuse within the healthcare system is rapidly growing. The significance of abuse results in the negative impact on the health of individuals and the health consequences that they can encounter in their own mental, financial, and physical
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Frances Regional Hospital President 321 N Main St Telephone Eugene Aubrey Frances General Springs, PA 55555 828-555-4321 Employment Opportunity Announcement Posting Date: January 15, 2013 Job Title/Classification: Registered Nurse Position Available: Immediately Last Date for Application Submission: March 15, 2013 Essential Duties: Nursing Process 1. Assessment Performs systematic assessment and data collection focusing on the physiological, cultural, psychological
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Pacific University NURS/310 August 27, 2012 Brenda Laing, R.N., M.S.N., F.N.P. Abstract “Nursing theories are the creative products of nurses who seek (or sought) to thoughtfully describe the many aspects of nursing in ways that could be studied, evaluated, and used by other nurses. Theories provide structure and order for guiding and improving professional practice, teaching and learning activities, and research.” (Sitzman, 2011) In this paper I will explore nursing theories. I will examine
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values and philosophy about the practices of the profession, many nurses take care of their patients according to their medical knowledge, norms, and ethics. In this essay, I will discuss the history and culture of nursing as well as the beliefs, values, and behaviors of nurses and how they are viewed in society. The history of professional nursing began with
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Demand Versus Supply Of Registered Nurses Health Care Economics HCS/552 May 22, 2011 Pattie Skjerve Demand Versus Supply Of Registered Nurses The writer will discuss the circumstances that play a part in the insufficiency in the supply of nurses, basically, the absence of instructors that are needed in these nursing programs, along with various issues in recruitment and retention of nurses. This paper will also provide detailed statistics that will explain and demonstrate
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and composed, as an experienced nurse does on a daily basis. What many do not know is that this smooth performance is driven by the nursing attributes, skills, and concepts that are necessary components integrated in the nursing profession of great nurses today. I believe the values of critical thinking, flexibility, strong communication skills, emotional stability, interpersonal communication and advocacy are the hallmark ingredients that distinguish the great nurses from the rest. Nursing is about
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Greenville Health System is a Level I Trauma Center located in the upstate region of South Carolina. The health system consists of many entities and is the largest non for profit healthcare system in South Carolina offering a variety of services (http://www.ghs.org, 2015). As a system GHS is rapidly growing and expanding its services to more and more communities in the region (http://www.ghs.org, 2015). While the system has always had a focus on providing excellent care the advent of Value Based
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that can be used to furnish decisive evidence of information. As nurses, we deal with lots of legal matters since we are handling lives. Our documentation will save us from litigation. If we cannot present evidence of an event or activity then everything we say will just be speculations, which are not accepted in the court. I believe this is the most important reason why we need to document. In nursing practice, College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) states that “documentation—whether paper, electronic
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