Nursing is a dynamic profession and life long learning is essential for nurses to stay current with the increased complexity of the healthcare needs of today and into the future. In other words, the needs of our patients are changing, as we must change in order to be prepared to better serve that need. Nursing has a long history of formal education which moved out of hospitals and into colleges and universities early last century. The associate degree level of nursing was developed
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Advanced Nursing Leadership South University November 17, 2012 Advanced Nursing Leadership Leadership in the Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) role is of great importance. APN leadership can impact something as basic as everyday patient care, to implementing new nursing policies and advocating for change within the nursing spectrum (Hamric, Spross, & Hanson, 2009). The role of a leader and APN go hand and hand; with a common goal to influence others, create change, and advocate for patients
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baccalaureates degree associated to hands on nursing care and approaches to decision-making. Nursing Education National Council of State Boards of Nursing and The Forum of State Nursing Workforce Center has performed a study which presented 61 percentage of RNs working in the United States have obtained a BSN degree. Such high number displays a move towards an extremely high educated nursing workforce. 1988 a study was published in Research in Nursing and Health displayed that RNs with baccalaureates
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public serving as a professional resource to the public as well as the medical profession, aiding and providing consensus reports and research to improve the nation’s health. The IOM also provides objective conclusions to questions of national health importance. The IOM is a committee that bases their decisions off of
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in the dust. Digital technology has taken over the film industry, iPods have replace CD’s, satellite radio has become the mainstream, and DVD’s have taken the place of VHS tapes, just to name a few. Cell phone technology has made a huge cultural impact and mobile cellular phones have become an integral part of everyday life. Imagine for one minute, a day without a cell phone because it was broken or lost. In the event of an emergency, it would be almost impossible to locate a phone booth. “ The
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technical nurse and the baccalaureate-degree level nurse which begins with education. The two year associate and the baccalaureate nurse are trained with the same basic education core requirements such as history, anatomy, etc., and fundamental bedside nursing skills. Although the baccalaureate degree nurse has more in depth education at the university level in the physiological, psychosocial, and other holistic teachings. Both the two year and four year trained nurse are able to take the same RN NCLEX
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Advanced Information Management Western Governors University February 21, 2016 Regulation placed upon the healthcare system only seek to improve safety and security of the patients we care for. The enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and the enactment of Meaningful Use Act the United States government has set strict regulations on the security of health information and has allotted for stricter penalties for non-compliance. The advancement of electronic
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Rising health care costs and limited health care resources has produced a need of utilization of data. Moreover data management and monitoring is essential in order to ensure that implementations are being made to change and improve nursing practice and patient care and outcomes. One specific way that this was employed was when the health care system was transformed from a system that was based on the number of admissions to the quality of care (Sewell & Thede, 2013). This was made more
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Education for Nurses Marina Oliynyk Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V-O500 August 14, 2015 Essentials of Higher Education for Nurses The profession of nursing in its modern form exists for more than 200 years, and certainly it did experience a lot of changes. Over 150 years ago, Florence Nightingale defined nursing as “the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery,” and till this day this simple rule applies (Berman & Snyder, 2012, p. 13). Nowadays
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Canyon University 21 June 2015 Competencies. The difference in nursing program options, diploma, ADN and BSN has been an on- going debate and discussion for years. The areas of community nursing, broader scientific research, as well as patient education and leadership skills are focused upon in the BSN program while only minimally in the Diploma or ADN curriculum. In addition, courses in the BSN nursing major focus on nursing science, communication, and decision making, all of these areas promote
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