PRACTICE ROLE INDEPENDENT STUDY NU 499: Nursing Capstone Carmen Ragusa February 4, 2010 The Nurse as Educator Abstract This paper explores the nurse educator as a profession. It delineates the responsibilities of the educator as a gatekeeper for the nursing profession and emphasizes its paramount role in the academic world of nursing education and health care delivery. There is an exciting perspective to the educator’s role in nursing and the opportunity to mentor the next generation
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Professional Development Plan Professional Nursing Practice November 28th, 2009 Nursing philosophy is a theoretical foundation that serves as a frame of reference to provide guidance and direction for the clinician. Many nursing scholars including Patricia Benner have contributed to the nursing philosophical base. My personal nursing philosophy is shaped by the early pioneers in nursing to promote health and achieve optimal state of wellness for the patients. An individual value
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Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions a person has to make in their life. It is so important because that is what we will have to do to support ourselves throughout life. Imagine being stuck in a dead end job and having to go to work every morning and dreading it. Life is too short to work 35 years and be unhappy with it. If a person likes their job, then it is not work, because finding satisfaction out of a job can bring great happiness. That information has enabled me to make
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Theoretical Foundations for Nursing Roles and Practice NUR-502 Dr. Jayme Ambrose December 4, 2014 Master's-Prepared Nurse Interview A nurse prepared with a master’s education is well equipped with the knowledge to take on many roles and function in a wide variety of areas, such as hospitals, community based agencies, research, educational institutions, corporate business, executive settings, governmental and international health organizations. Mastered prepared level nursing professionals should
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can and reach my goals, I plan to take it one step at a time. After I complete the RN program at Hibbing Community College, I will transfer to Concordia St. Paul to earn my bachelors in nursing (BSN) degree. After this experience, I would like to find a nice steady job in my community which would help me get some valuable knowledge on nursing and set my life up for more opportunities. I will move on to the University of Minnesota medical school, so I can further myself in the nursing profession and
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Nursing in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Proposal For many years I have known that I wanted to pursue a career in nursing, however, it was not until late 2008 I decided I wanted to be a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) nurse. After delivering my daughter, my family and I became intimately familiar with what the PICU was. The PICU staff was dedicated to my daughter and our family. We were part of a PICU family for three months while my daughter’s heart condition was being treated. Those
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English IV, Period 2 17 Oct. 2012 Career Path “If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.” ~Author Unknown. I want to be part of something in my life, to feel like I helped plan a big role in peoples' life. Helping the ill and wounded is the best feeling in the world to me. My path way to my career will start with a CNA program and work my way up to an RN. In a nut shell a CNA helps the elderly
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difference in one’s life by providing the respect and well career advancement for their future. People often call uneducated person illiterate; without an education a person waste his whole life. Education is a form of learning, usually transferred from one generation to other. It is provided through teaching, training, or research. One chooses his or her career to earn what they want. Every career is different, and they are different in their competencies. Nursing education is another career people choose
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one interviews another about their career path, one learns many things about a person. This paper will be an interview with a person to be referred as Michelle Smith for writing purposes. While interviewing Smith, I realized that my nursing experience has mirrored hers in many ways. Various universities have similar missions and viewpoints. Nursing is truly a lifelong learning process; age does not determine when nurses stop learning. Summary of Nursing Career Smith is currently a master’s prepared
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Career Pathway Assessment For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to become a nurse. When I think back I am not sure why. I do remembered my auntie always caring for elderly people and for children. She had brought two houses in Philadelphia that was located next to each other. The first house was where she and some of the children that she cared for had lived and the house next door was where the elderly people had lived. Every summer I would stay with my auntie and I remembered
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