Attending a 4 year college, which is a university, earns you a bachelors degree in nursing. Nurses with their associate’s degree are limited in finding a job; they are getting what is considered entry level jobs. For example, jobs at a long term care facility, due to the difficulty for them of getting a job at a hospital. Most hospitals want to hire nurses with their bachelors degree, as opposed to a nurse with their associates degree. Nurses with their associate’s degree do not have the same
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CC Sherry is a 43-year-old female here today to follow up from her extended hospitalization in April. HPI The patient was actually seen just a few days prior to going to the emergency room. Please see the note from April 20th for complete details. She was thought to have a sinus infection and was treated with antibiotics. She continued to not feel well and went to the emergency room on April 25th. She says that she woke up with some spots on her fingers and toes, as well as some numbness in
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Children with SCD and stroke are proven to have disabilities, such as paralysis, aphasia and difficulties in learning and cognition. If left untreated, these patients have 67% risk of a second stroke over 9 years (Scothorn et al, 2002). A case analysis done in 1976 by a man named Lusher, reported that recurrent strokes in children with SCD could be prevented by treatment with monthly blood transfusions. Subsequent
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present day diversity of nursing practice in social, cultural, economic and political arenas. The higher level of nursing education has been associated with increased patient safety, stronger communication skills, improved quality of care, elevated problem solving skills, stronger leadership skills, and decreased mortality rates in the acute setting. The baccalaureate level of education has also been shown to develop a higher proficiency in the ability to make nursing diagnoses and also to evaluate nursing
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conducted during July to September 2009 to determine tuberculosis (TB) prevention activities, problems, and support needed of Thai hospitals. Ninety-seven percent of hospitals established TB isolation policy, 96.3% provided guidelines for caring of TB patients, 95% and 91.8% provided prevention of TB transmission and environmental management guideline, and 92.6% established screening system for TB in the outpatient department (OPD). A half of hospitals had problems with isolation rooms and difficulties
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Health systems around the world suffer from a critical shortage of qualified nurses along with alarming turnover rates, thus impacting on patient outcomes, nursing workforce and performance of healthcare services (Tourangeau & Cranley, 2006; El-Jardali, Dimassi, Dumit, Jamal & Mouro, 2009). High employee turnover is generally associated with negative consequences for health organizations that generate a significant financial cost due to the loss of qualified personnel and the cost of attracting and
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nursing in the US. According to the report it is crucial for nurses to obtain higher levels of education and training. You can depend on the IOM to be a fair and reputable organization. The IOM works with national academies and has a large number of professionals and volunteers. Their time is spent trying to come up with ideas to improve and support health. In order to manage the increasing responsibilities that come with the rapidly growing health care, nurses have to increase their level
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licensure in safeguarding the public and developing educational and clinical nursing standards. • Discuss the development of advanced clinical practice nursing from the 1960s through the present. PROFILE IN PRACTICE Laura J. Robinson Adult Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Student, University of Connecticut School of Nursing Nursing history is important to me because it has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill my goal to advance my career as a nurse practitioner, a role that was not existent
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The n e w e ng l a n d j o u r na l of m e dic i n e clinical practice Rotator-Cuff Failure Frederick A. Matsen III, M.D. This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they exist. The article ends with the author’s clinical recommendations. A 63-year-old woman presents with a 2-year history of progressive weakness and discomfort in
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IOM report and future of Nursing Sunu Saju Grand Canyon University NRS 430V April 07, 2013 IOM report and future of Nursing IOM (Institute of Medicine), in partnership with RWJF (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), developed the report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing health on October 5, 2010.This detailed study focus on the significant connection between the health needs of various, varying populations and the actions of the nursing staff. The health care delivery system
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