Education Preparation: Associate Versus Bachelor degree in Nursing Chandani Garg Grand Canyon University: NRS 430V Professional Dynamics September 16, 2015 Education Preparation: Associate versus Bachelor’s in Nursing The Art of nursing is here since the Biblical times but the modern nursing emerged after the time of Florence Nightingale. In 1873 nursing education was started formally as 4-month hospital training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Nursing has been growing
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Dorett Clarke-Clay Sandra White 2015 Educational Preparation Despite the fact that the preparation for the Associate Degree in nursing slightly differs from the preparation for the Baccalaureate degree they both hold the title of Registered Nurses. A 3- year associate degree usually offered at a community college; and the 4- year baccalaureate degree offered at a senior college
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staffing ratios. This paper will discuss the change that occurred in a teaching hospital, in the Los Angeles area. That change took place in the 2008. CNA’s, traditionally, take the patient’s ‘vital signs’ which include temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, respirations, oxygen saturation percentage and the pain level. The CNA’s relays the information to the RNs, who use the results
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primary areas of concern in the health care system which are quality, access and value. There has been a shift in the health challenges facing the health care system. There is a increase in disease processes conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, mental health which affects almost ever 2 Americans(CDC,2010a). These conditions are expected to continue (DeVol etal., 2007) with contributing factors such as diabetes. The aging population has seen a rise in the extensiveness of chronic
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information on recent skills and technology. The health challenges that the nation is facing has shifted drastically. Today, most health care relates to chronic conditions such as mental health, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, diabetes, congestive heart failure, and hypertension, due to an increase in the aging population. The education, and the manner in which nurses were educated years ago is no longer very effective and adequate for patient care in this century. To respond to the increase need
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Women and Heart Disease Coppin State University Abstract Heart disease is a leading cause of death for women and men worldwide. Women are more vulnerable to myocardial infarction because of the size of their coronary arteries. They have unique risk factors such as a high level of cholesterol, hypertension, and smoking that cause heart disease, which leads to the high mortality rate. To reduce the high mortality rate among women, nurses must play their roles as educators because they interact
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CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is an abnormal functioning of the heart or blood vessels. Heart disease (HD) is a general term for a variety of heart conditions. The most common form of HD is coronary heart disease (CHD), also called coronary artery disease (CAD) because it involves the coronary arteries. Other types of CVD include hypertension, congestive heart failure, stroke, congenital cardiovascular defects, hardening or narrowing (atherosclerosis) of the blood vessels
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Associate Degree v. Bachelors Degree Nurses Sean C. Martinez Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics NRS-430V 27 September 2015 Associate Degree v. Bachelors Degree Nurses Education has become a driving force in today’s professional arena with many jobs requiring, at minimum, certification to get an entry level position. Nursing has lead the professional pack in that an entry level nurse now carries, at minimum, an associate’s degree. The associate degree nurse still has many more
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Differences in competencies between nurses prepared at the associate-degree level versus the baccalaureate degree level in nursing. Grand Canyon University: NRS-430 March 9, 2014 The art of nursing arose in a primitive time when one person cared for another who was sick. The goal of nursing is to incorporate theoretical and experimental nursing from the sciences and technology. The aim to promote high quality, safe nursing care, to prevent illness and facilitate coping. To accomplish
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Are you suffering from severe pain in your big toe joint? If so, you may be one of the millions of Americans stricken with gout. This form of arthritis sets in as uric acid deposits crystalize within the joints. Find out more about this disease and what you can do to reduce gout’s painful flares and additional joint damage. Causes and Risk Factors of Gout Gout is characterized by hyperuricemia, which is a condition in which there is an abnormally high level of uric acid in the blood. The excess
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