individuals. Nurses are also accountable for the health promotion and maintenance of families, communities, populations, and the treatment of life-threatening emergencies in a wide range of health care settings. Nurses perform a range of clinical and non-clinical functions necessary to the delivery of health care and may also be involved in medical and nursing research. This paper will reflect the differences in the necessary competencies for nurses prepared at the associate degree (ADN) and baccalaureate of
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An emergency occurs when a urgent situation takes place that can be detrimental to a person’s life. Emergencies are not a common occurrence; however do arise on occasion. The response and outcome of emergencies can be positively amplified with an organized plan or preparedness technique. In “The Neighborhood” community, there was an emergency, forest fires, which left the residents to experience unfortunate residual respiratory effects. The many that suffered include patients and staff in the hospital
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Strategic Planning and Nursing Process Every decision-making process requires the basic steps of problem identification, intervention and evaluation. In healthcare, both the nursing process and strategic planning involve proper identification of a problem, gathering of data, formulating a plan, and deciding which intervention is the best to implement. After the intervention, evaluation is necessary. Strategic planning and the nursing process both are essential when developing medical informatics
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acute care, long term care patients. Objective Statement – Join a medical center that offers me a constructive and challenging work environment to contribute to the center‘s reaching optimal healthcare standards and performance and to enhance my nursing skills. Key skills and qualities: * Team player | Tolerance | Adaptability | Kindness | Compassion * Effective interpersonal and communication skills * Active organizational skills and good analytical skills * Can work under stressful
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Johnson Foundation embarked on a two-year research to produce a report that would assess nursing as a profession and make recommendation about the future of nursing. The report was completed and released in October 5, 2010 by the Institute of Medicine. The impact of this report has changed to the view and approach to nursing as a profession to meet these recommendations. Among these recommendations, nursing education was a top priority. According to the IOM, "nurses should achieve higher levels
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Differences Between ADN and BSN There wasn’t always training for nurses, sick and ill individuals were taken care of by "sinners, saints, or mothers". Those nursing the sick were either prostitutes, women of ill repute, or members of religious orders. Women typically took care of the sick in their families.(Hood&Leddy, publication date) Schooling for nurses traditionally took place in a hospital setting. Now there are diversified college programs producing todays nurses. One can become a Registered
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine collaborated to put together a report with recommendations on how to improve the nursing profession. One of the recommendations provided was the idea to implement nurse residency programs. This is specifically, a “planned, comprehensive periods of time during which nursing graduates can acquire the knowledge and skills to deliver safe, quality care that meets defined (organization or professional society) standards of practice”
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2012 As more people immigrate to this country, the need for culturally competent nursing care becomes more important. Hospitals, clinics, and doctors offices are now emphasizing the need for nurses to be aware of the diverse needs of many differing cultures. Learning and understanding Leininger’s transcultural nursing theory can assist the nurse in incorprating culturally competent care into their practice. Nursing standards regarding cultural commpetence are changing as more immigrants are entering
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level versus BSN Deborah Rhoton Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS-430V Lisa Zamudio June 6, 2015 Competency differences in nurses prepared at the ADN level versus BSN Introduction to Nursing The American Nurses Association’s (ANA) definition of nursing is “Nursing is the protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of
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Nurse Practitioners Need Supervision? Advanced Practice Nursing: A New Age in Health Care. (n.d.). American Nursing Association Backgrounder, 1-7. From www.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/MediaBackgrounders-/APRN-A-New-Age-in-Health-Care.pdf This article talks about how to get patients quicker access to health care. Advanced practice registered nurses is also mentioned because they are nurses that receive a master’s degree in nursing. They believe the higher degree the higher responsibilities
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