THE FUTURE OF NURSING Future of Nursing Future of Nursing The education that was taught to nurses up and well into the 20th century is no longer valid for dealing with all the health care issues in the 21st century. The American population is growing older and more diverse with cultural, social-economics, race, ethnicity, and religions. There is a larger shift in the nation’s health care needs for the 21st century. Health care issues today have many chronic conditions such as, arthritis
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The Future of Healthcare for the APN Rosetta Vaughn Grantham University Foundation of Advance Practice Nursing NUR506 Aimee Kirkendol RN, DNP, FNP-BC May 21, 2014 The Future of Healthcare for the APN According to the IOM report addresses nursing in all practice levels, with the greatest emphasis on advance practice. The report identifies barriers, describes new structures and opportunities, and provides overall specific vision regarding the vital contribution of advanced practice nurses
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many different levels of registered nurses in United State of America, it usually based on their level of education. From diploma nurses, technical nurses (ADN), professional (BSN) up to the master degree nurses and PhD nurses. All of above level of nursing are graduates and trained to work in hospital setting after successful completion of National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). BSN is a four-year degree program offered by accredited universities while ADN is a two to three year by Community
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chronic health conditions, and technological innovations. Educating nurses within the 21st century requires a creative integration of knowledge, skill set, and caring within an increasingly complex healthcare system (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2010). Nursing education is heavily laden with continuous content increases to be covered within the curriculum (Devereaux-Melillo, Dowling, Abdallah, Findeisen, & Knight, 2013). The need to examine curricular transformation is imperative in order to manage
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The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Future of Nursing report set a goal that eighty percent of the practicing nurses have a baccalaureate degree to meet the changes in the healthcare system by 2020. Over the last two classes my PICOT question has continued to develop, from a broad view to a more narrowed question of the use of simulation in addition to traditional lecture and clinical time. This writer is a nursing instructor of an Associate Degree Nursing program. Other than teaching in various
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technical aspects of nursing care and teach only the basics of leadership (Moore, 2009). Nurses that obtain a BSN degree are more prepared to face today’s challenges in health care and provide patients with the level of care they need. America’s population is becoming older and more diverse. With an aging population of patients, health care will be faced with more chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and mental health conditions (IOM, 2011). Nurses
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Health Reform Project, Part One Learning Team C HCS 440 Economics: The Financing of Health Care Medical Care for an Aging Population Countries around the world are encountering a growing number of the elder demographic. The aging population has created situations that the world’s economy and health care that have never encountered. The elders leaving the workforce and entering retirement has created new challenges in an already fragile global economy and health care system, and it is
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undergoing many and various changes, and since nursing represents the largest healthcare profession, with more than 2.8 million registered nurses (HRSA, 2013), it has become accepted that this sector will face significant transformation as well. Some of the current trends that are driving these changes in our healthcare system consist of the aging of the population, particularly the baby boomers, which will create a greater demand for nurses in the very near future, accelerated by the large number of nurses
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Why a BSN is the future over ADN Jeffrey Parker Grand Canyon University NRS-430V-O104 August 31, 2013 Associate -Degree Versus the Baccalaureate - degree level in nursing My theory is that the more education a nurse has the better he/she can be at their job of taking care of patient as a whole and on a complex level. To obtain a Nursing Degree one can start at the LVN or go all the way to a PHD in nursing. This paper will focus on the abilities or competencies of a prepared Associate Degree
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Forbes website states, Cigna, in 2015 has two thousand nurses, this has increased from year 2005 when it only had three hundred nurses ("Forbes Welcome", 2017). Cigna is committed to hiring more nurses in the near future to keep up with the needs of the public, globally. Healthcare organization needs to meet the demands of its consumers by employing more nurses to accommodate and coordinate care to the increasing age population, more comorbidities and emphasis on
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