thinkers, effective communicators, and responsible leaders by providing an academically challenging, values-based curriculum from the context of our Christian heritage. The College of Nursing and Health Care Professions faculty believes in educating nurses within a dedicated and supportive community of Christian values. Curriculum: The curriculum at GCU is designed to prepare students with the skills and knowledge needed in the contemporary job market. Students are challenged to develop these tools
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My Professional Moral Compass Having a proper understanding and adapting an acceptable code of ethics is essential to nursing profession and offers a principles that can be used as guide for producing ethical culture. Code of ethics helps nurse to direct practice with compassion and respect for human dignity, responsibility, accountability, confidentiality and protect patient safety (ANA Code of ethics, 2014). Codes of ethics also act as a guide for to develop and to perform
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Chapter 33. Professional Communication and Team Collaboration Michelle O’Daniel, Alan H. Rosenstein Background In today’s health care system, delivery processes involve numerous interfaces and patient handoffs among multiple health care practitioners with varying levels of educational and occupational training. During the course of a 4-day hospital stay, a patient may interact with 50 different employees, including physicians, nurses, technicians, and others. Effective clinical practice thus
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Comparing the Competencies of BSN vs ADN C.M. Grand Canyon University August 17, 2014 Why are Baccalaureate nurses more desirable to employers than Associate degree nurses? Both BSN and ADN programs teach the fundamentals of nursing, to include health assessment, medication administration and care planning. Both must pass the NCLEX exam to qualify for entry level practice. But a BSN is a 4 year degree while and ADN is 2 years. BSN programs put more focus on the science of nursing, integrating
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responsible healthcare organizations. A key element of an ACO is that some portion of its reimbursement is tied to accountability. An ACO is accountable not only to the patients but also to the third party payers for the quality, cost and efficiency of
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banking, and the legal system. Healthcare professionals working in clinical practice, education, research, and administration are not immune to these unethical behaviors. They face ethical dilemmas on a regular basis. Shortages in the numbers of clinicians to deliver patient care, inadequate staffing levels, cost containment measures, consolidation of healthcare organizations and ineffective leadership have resulted in the escalation of ethical dilemmas nurses face today in healthcare environments.
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wanted for my assignment! Take a look at this assignment, but remember it is still alien to me the research thing! In this assignment the author will critique a published research study about palliative care for patients with cancer: District nurses experiences. A description of research will be given and the importance of research in nursing will be discussed, following which the research process will be examined. Polit & Beck (2004) describe nursing research as a scientific, systematic
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The global nursing shortage has prompted health care systems to seek new strategies to attract and retain nurses. The growing evidence points to the shared governance model of management are as a possible strategy to improve productivity, nurse job satisfaction and nurse retention. There are different models of shared governance, but a clear relationship exists between nurse practice environment and higher retention rates. Research found long hours, and unsupportive practice environments
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attached to HIV – even for those who are in the health profession. A nurse who has been in this vocation for twenty years will probably be able to tell you of a nurse who refused to take care of an HIV patient. Nursing has come a long way since the 1980s, when HIV became known. However, there are still issues that a nurse may face today. One of these issues is when a newly diagnosed HIV patient has a significant other. Should a nurse, knowing the potential devastating consequences of HIV, tell a patient’s
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1 Introduction Te Kaunihera Tapuhi o Aotearoa/The Nursing Council of New Zealand (‘the Council’) under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (‘the Act’) is the responsible authority that governs the practice of nurses. The principle purpose of the Act is to protect the health and safety of members of the public by providing mechanisms to ensure health practitioners are competent and fit to practise their professions. The Council sets and monitors standards in the interests
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