Kristen Sabin Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics November 1st, 2015 The Importance of Continued Nursing Education The Institute of Medicine has set forth a motion that the rate of Baccalaureate Nurses increases to 80% by the year 2020. The reasoning for this is that healthcare is ever changing and the need for lifelong learning in nurses to adapt to these changes if critical. (IOM, 2010, pg. 48). It is also estimated that the with baby boomer population entering into retirement
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EBT1 Task 1 Critique of a Nursing Research Article A1. Article Ford, Y. , Heyman, A., Chapman, Y. (2014). Patients’ perceptions of bedside handoff; the need for a culture of always. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 29(4), 371-378. A2. Graphic Background Information | The purpose of this article was to identify patient perceptions of bedside handover through directly asking patients about their
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How might nursing practice change as a result of evolving nursing theory? The evolution of nursing theory has begun to revolutionize how nurses train, apply, and practice their profession. The nursing profession has moved from dependence upon total medical direction providing basic care into an independent practice modality with its own nursing theory practice, nursing models, and distinct nursing interventions. If nurses are to be as effective as possible in helping to provide high quality
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and Nurses Affect the Roles of Nursing Lisa A. Turner University of Alabama Birmingham Transitions into Professional Nursing Practice, NUR 474 How Society and Nurses Affect the Roles of Nursing Introduction A nurse has many roles and parts to play in the daily routine of caring for patients. By examining the different roles of a nurse; health promoter, care provider; learner and teacher, we will see how nursing has evolved and how the philosophy of nursing changes. How these roles tie into society
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Reducing the Nursing Shortage Reducing the Nursing Shortage In America today the nursing shortage has affected health care in many ways. The article “Nurse-Staffing Levels and the Quality of Care in Hospitals” written by Needleman, Buerhaus, Mattke, Stewart, Zelevinsky (2002), describes the effects the nursing shortage has on the quality of care provided to patients in the hospital setting. The authors of the article present the methods used to obtain data, background information causing
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Preparation The concept of nursing itself started in 300 BC, but the evolution of nursing continues now and in the future. Through the change of times, preparations for the expectations of tomorrows nursing persist. Currently there is a large population of associate-degree (ADN) nurses and a smaller amount of baccalaureate-degree (BSN) nurses, but with the change of times the trends of nursing are changing. Education is becoming a requirement from ADN to BSN levels of nursing. What is causing this
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Professional Development of Nursing Professionals The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report of 2010, bestowing to our country has the aptitude to renovate the health care system in order to provide sensible quality care that is available to anyone, leading to improve health outcomes (Institute of Medicine [2010]. A major renovation of the nursing profession is needed to accomplish the upgraded health care system through nursing education, practice, and leadership. Overall, the main objective is to
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Jill Gomez NRS-430V January 10, 2016 The Impact on Nursing of the 2010 IOM report on the Future of Nursing According to an initiative to assess and reform the nursing profession, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine came together to address the complex nursing needs of the world. The Institute of Medicine is an American, not-for-profit, non-governmental, unaffiliated, organization created in order to make better informed health care decisions. There are
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Running head: NURSING ROLE Nursing Role in the Healthcare Delivery System Transition to Professional Practice Abstract This paper will discuss the thoughts and feelings of a clinical nurse specialist and how she feels the role of nursing has changed over the years. Nursing Role in the Healthcare Delivery System The role of nursing is a dynamic one. It continues to change day by day, year by year since the days Florence Nightingale when nursing was “invented,” if you
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The Florence Nightingale Theory In Nursing Today Anna Blestel Garnder Webb University Abstract The Nightingale theory states that the environment plays a major role in the health of the patient. Nightingale isolated four essential components: environment, person, health, and nursing. The components of the Nightingale theory still apply today in the field of nursing. Nursess use nursing interventions that incorporate each
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