Challenges and Strategies for Success Twenty one years ago I started my nursing profession, which I do not regret any minute of it. Today I found myself back to college embarking a new journey pursuing MSN degree with much excitement and many challenges. In order to be successful in graduate study, I have to come up with strategies to overcome the anticipated challenges. The three main obstacles I face that would affect my study are writing, time management, and stress. Reason Health care industry
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Introduction The person I selected as my interviewee for the Manager Interview Project is one who has inspired me to get an education in the healthcare field. I have been working with her for the past two years, and she continually motivates me in everything I do. She is my role model because she explicitly exercises good work ethic and is very charismatic about her job. Thus, getting to know more about her and the importance of her job will help me in the near future as a healthcare administrator
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Introduction and Case Study Creswell (2002) defines the interview as a method of qualitative research that seeks to describe central themes and meanings of various human phenomena and experience. A web dictionary defines the word “generative” as having the ability to originate, produce, or procreate. This implies that a generative family is a family which is able to multiply by producing new offspring. A family is a system or unit which is defined as a group of individuals who are bound by strong
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same cultural group” (Edelman & Mandle, 2006) In examining a patient’s heritage, it can provide an opportunity for better understanding in providing the best care possible for a patient. Madeleine Leininger is the founder of the transcultural nursing theory, but many have followed in her footsteps and built on that initial idea. The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Model is another tool that can be used. The model encompasses six cultural phenomena to be assessed: 1) Communication, which encompasses
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within my nurse training, particularly within my third and final year. The reflective model selected is Gibbs (1998) (appendix 1) which incorporates description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and an action plan which is divided into sections for ease of reading. All names have been changed in accordance with the NMC (2008a) guidelines regarding confidentiality. This piece includes reflections on my own learning using the NMC proficiency, managing care. As this covers a vast array my focus
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14, 2013 Goals My objective to obtaining my professional and personal goals is to increase my knowledge through education and work experience and steps that I will need to take to obtain my goals. In this paper I will discuss skills that I need to obtain and milestones I need to achieve, barriers I need to overcome, and time management strategies that I will need to work on. By obtaining my Bachelor’s degree I will not only fulfill my long-term personal goal but also my short-term professional
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three leadership styles chosen for this evaluation are: Transformational leadership, servant leadership, and situational leadership. The paper will also describe my current leadership style, then compare it to the transformational model, and finally outline the changes I need to implement in order to incorporate its key characteristics into my own style. Research Summaries In the first article titled “Knowledge Management as a Mediator for the Efficacy of Transformational Leadership and Quality Management
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C304 Professional Roles and Values The face of nursing has evolved and changed since it’s inception. Today’s nurse is faced with cultural, ethical and technological issues that didn’t exist even twenty years ago. As such, nurses have had to continuously evolve to continue to provide the quality, selfless care that patients have always relied on them for, and expected, since the very beginning of nursing. From pediatrics to gerontology, nurses are serving a culturally, religiously and financially
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role model to my children along with others that will be under my care and myself as we enter the classroom each day we as teachers we get the chance to inspire some if not all of the children we teach each day the basics of life and every day learning, as a teacher most of our children only get the opportunity to be love and inspire by some teachers. My goal is to obtain my associate degree in early childhood education by 2015, as I push forward to my goal I will study hard to do my best and get
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a two year nursing institute. I had been hired to work in an Intensive Care Unit. Of course I was excited and could not wait to begin my new career. I was told that orientation was going to be six months long and that the first three months would only be class room training. I was a little disheartened because I thought I was ready to work as a professional nurse in an extremely busy unit. In retrospect, I was wrong I definitely needed that orientation. The first day on the unit with my preceptor
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