License Practical Nursing Introduction (paragraph 1)--License Practical Nursing is a career field that I always had an interest in, but I just never put a title to the interest. I have been working in this career path for 8 years now as a personal care aide for a home care agency. I have had the pleasure of being on the physical, side working directly with the patient, and administrative side, maintaining the office and clerical information. Paragraph 2-- When I first started into this career
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Bill 1058 was put into effect on 09/01/13. This bill allows nursing programs to develop a system (much like the FBI) that obtains a criminal history record and finger prints for all students accepted for enrollment into a nursing program. What does this mean for students? Before 09/01/13 nursing schools only ran background checks and drug screens before allowing a person to be formally accepted into a nursing education program. Nursing programs only ran a criminal history record and fingerprinting
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Nursing’s Public Image How does the public view nursing? From its earliest beginnings, the profession of nursing has revolved around human needs. One of the greatest strengths of nursing is the extensive range of opportunities and options that it has to offer. There are many different levels of practice, specialties, and there are always opportunities to advance in the nursing profession. With nurses playing a major role in designing the new healthcare system in the United States, now there is
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With this background I found most nursing theories to be less than satisfying. I liked different theorists for different situations in nursing. I could not totally agree with everything from each theorist I explored. Now, with my deeper understanding of nursing theories, I understand theories are to be a guide for nurses to follow and make the theory their own (Friberg & Creasia, 2016). Probably due to my experiences described above, Jean Watson’s theory of nursing based on the philosophy and science
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Research Critique, Part 1: Nursing Attrition Grand Canyon University: Nursing 433V 11/22/2015 The Problem Statement This study seeks to know the reasons why nurses are leaving clinical nursing. The current and future nursing shortage is a huge concern. This study was done because the author feels that there is very little research pertaining to nursing attrition. And this is important to know and understand. Because knowledge and change can occur when it becomes known what the factors are
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case for me. Since I was a child, my parents constantly told me I should be a nurse. Of course, I considered every other profession except nursing, but nothing caught my attention. I eventually applied to nursing school where I ended up on a wait list for three years plus an estimated two years remaining. Frustrated, I enrolled into a Licensed Vocational Nursing program. I was slightly jealous hearing everyone’s life long dream of becoming a nurse. My reason? During that time, I didn't have a real
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all patients. The scope of work done by the medical nursing association is majorly controlled by two bodies: regulatory agencies and professional organizations. Regulatory agencies serve to protect the public by ensuring that safe and competent practices are provided by well-trained people. This is achieved by setting the nursing care standards and issuance of nursing certificates to deserving people (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, NCSBN, 2015). Nurses’ professional bodies serve to
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Professional Nursing Organization, PNO, and a Regulatory Agency, such as the Board of Nursing, B.O.N., give two examples of how provisions from a nursing code of ethics influence my practice, discuss four traits from the ANA’s code of ethics that will be brought to an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals. I will identify a nursing theory and explain how it has influenced my professional practice as well as discuss the contributions of one historical nursing figure has impacted my nursing practice
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Philosophy of Nursing Jasmine R. McLendon University of North Carolina at Charlotte As one enters into the profession of nursing, it is important for them to identify and understand their own personal values and principles that will guide them throughout their nursing career. Nursing is the compassionate care provided to an individual by someone who understands their disease process and who is able to construct an effective plan of care for that individual. Apart from knowledge of medicine
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Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process Paper Nursing practice now requires that nurses be involved in strategic planning process. Strategic planning is a process by “which the guiding members of an organization envisions its future and develop the necessary procedure and operations to achieve that future (pg242).” This paper compares the strategic planning process with the nursing process. Strategic planning there is a process used to keep you on track determines a position and develops a strategy
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