Challenges Facing Nurse Practitioners Over the last decade, the changing demands in health care have resulted in a significant demand for Nurse Practitioners. A nurse practitioner (NP) is a nurse with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing. The NP has completed a nurse practitioner program in primary health care and has advanced knowledge and clinical expertise in assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and health care management. The nurse practitioner provides wide-ranging and constant care
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supervise licensed practical nurses (LPNs), nursing aides, and orderlies (Bureau of Labor Statistics). The RN also performs comprehensive nursing assessment of the health status of patients that addresses changes to the patient conditions, develop a plan of nursing care that establishes nursing diagnoses, setting goals to meet identified health care needs, and determine nursing interventions and implementation of nursing care through the execution of nursing strategies and regimens ordered by doctors
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Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V: Professional Dynamics March 17, 2013 The United States today faces drastic changes and has called for health care reforms. In March of 2010 legislation was passed that indicates insurance coverage for 32 million more Americans and is known as The Affordable Care Act (ACA) (" The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011.) The (ACA) produces a
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Professional Development of Nursing Professionals In 2010 the United States Government passed into law the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Passage of this act enacted broad sweeping changes across the health care system focusing on expanded coverage, control of health care costs and improvement in the health care delivery system (Kaiser Family Foundation [KFF], 2013). This represents the largest change to the nation’s health care system since 1965 with the creation of Medicare and Medicaid programs
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Nursing is a fast growing profession. A registered nurse is required to be capable enough to adapt to the modern techniques, equipments, and knowledge based procedure. According to the Institute of Medicine nursing is one of the biggest workforces in healthcare. By starting a transformation in the nursing field, there can be change in the healthcare industry (Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson foundation 2011). The Institute of Medicine, on October 5, 2010, released their research based report
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Three Specific Ways, In Which the Nursing Conceptual Model of, Martha Rogers can be used to Improve Nursing Practice. Lilian Iberosi Grand Canyon University Three Specific Ways, in which the Nursing Conceptual Model of, Martha Rogers can be used to Improve Nursing. Martha E. Rogers’ nursing theory of “Science of Unitary Human Being” consists of eight concepts namely: energy field, openness, pattern, pan-dimensionality, homeodynamic principles, resonance, helicy, and integrality. Understanding
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In 2008, the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (RWJF) partnered with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to launch a two-year initiative to “assess and transform the nursing profession”. A report titled “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” was produced that is to serve as a “blue-print” for nursing’s future. Through this committee, four key messages were developed to structure the recommendations of the report. Three of these messages will be discussed here. (The future,
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impact of the 2010 IOM report on nursing: Health care industry is a rapidly expanding field with new findings in research and innovation. The career of nursing stands out among all other fields not only in United States of America but in all parts of the world. The 2010 report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) addressed many aspects in nursing. The impact of this report on nursing practice will be discussed below
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The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V July 27, 2014 The Institute of Medicine (IOM), established in 1970 was created to inform the nation on healthcare issues. The reports and findings of this group assist the divisions of healthcare in making knowledgeable decisions. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation together with the IOM issued a special report called “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” There are four key
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Governors University Evidence Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research The nursing topic of interest is bedside handover, which is the concept of conducting shift handover at the patient’s bed instead of doing it at the front desk. Part A The article being analysed is: Tobiano, G., Chaboyer, W. & Murray, A. (2012). Family Members’ Perceptions of the Nursing Bedside Handover. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 22, 192-200. The analysis of the primary research
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