two years of schooling focusing on general studies and clinical nursing in a community college setting. Upon graduation the student is qualified to take a national licensure exam to become a registered nurse (RN). In 1952 Mildred Montag created the ADN program due to the rising demand of nurses after the war. This program was offered to increase nurses in the workplace. The programs’ success was determined by satisfactory clinical nursing skills and passing a national exam (Creasia & Friberg, 2010,
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Nursing is a profession which requires a lots of knowledge to treat patients in an efficient and creative method. Studies and personal skills have shown that nurses with baccalaureate level has smaller amount of errors, enhanced organization, critical thinking, increase in clinical skill and lower death rates than with nurses who have an associate degree level. Nursing practice mainly concentrates on the health promotion, disease prevention, early detection of changes in the health , timely
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While it is GCU’s mission “to prepare you to become a critical thinker”, as it challenges the student to seek more knowledge through evidence-based projects and classroom discussion, the AACN states “each graduate masters’ nursing education program must possess strong critical thinking and decision making skills” through research. The wording may be different but the end goal of both is the same: producing a well equipped individual possessing good critical thinking skills which utilizes research
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PROFESSIONAL POWER Walden University August 12, 2012 Professional Power The promotion of professional conduct and standards among members of a profession is fundamental in defining the value of the profession to society. This is especially true given that the individual rights remain a potential risk to the rights of others in society, hence the need for imposing responsibilities on individual rights (Brous, 2010). The purpose of this paper is to identify and examine the regulations
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Associates Degree in Nursing vs Baccalaureates Degree in Nursing There are several differences between the associates’ degree (ADN) and the baccalaureates degree (BSN) in nursing of which in the following I will be exploring. According to the CGU College of Nursing Philosophy (2011) “In the baccalaureate program, clients are considered to be individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.” Baccalaureate nursing practice incorporates the roles of assessing, critical thinking
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Education Preparation Nursing still lies in the middle of evolution. When we look back from the foundation of nursing, this powerful waves move continuously from a small nursing skills class several decades ago up to the philosophy’s degree in nursing practice today. Since nursing is the holistic care of a human being, as caregivers, we must continue to invest time and effort into providing more advanced nursing to our holistic beings for their better health. According to the Institute
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Concept Comparison and Analysis across Theories “Nursing theory is the term given to the body of knowledge applied to support nursing practice. Nursing theory is a framework designed to organize knowledge and explain phenomena in nursing, at a more concrete and specific level. A nursing theory is a set of concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions or propositions derived from nursing models or from other disciplines and project a purposive, systematic view of phenomena by designing
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patient safety, productivity, and performance, quality of care, and commitment to the profession. This paper is to identify why job satisfaction is low due to low pay, no opportunity, lack of fair rewards, and stress. By improving on these four sources would improve on the job satisfaction. Autumn care began in April of 1979 by two gentlemen, Gerald Cox and J.R. Garrett, with the futuristic vision or Nursing Home Care for the elderly. Autumn Care is 24 facilities strong in the 21st Century and continues
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DIFFERENCES IN COMPETENCIES ADN vs. BSN Nursing is a dynamic and complex discipline that needs increased knowledge and skills. Today’s world expect from a nurse more than just carrying out MD’s orders or just give medication. A nurse must be able to take critical decisions sometimes, which need wide based education and exposure to many people. Both associate degree–prepared and baccalaureate-prepared nurses lead to same RN position at the beginning of their career, but there are some differences
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Grand Theory Nursing theory is determined by a combination of ideas, explanations, relationships, and premise developed by nurses to describe nursing care and practices (Application Theory, 2012). Nursing theories provide knowledge and direction towards the guidelines of how to improve and perfect nursing care (Application Theory, 2012). There are three categories of nursing theories: grand theories, middle-range theories and situation-specific theories (Meleis, 2012). Grand theories focus
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