Professional Dynamics Details This course is a bridge course for the RN who is returning to formal education for the baccalaureate degree in nursing. The course focuses on differentiated nursing practice competencies, nursing conceptual models, professional accountability, integrating spirituality into practice, group dynamics, and critical thinking. Emphasis is also placed on writing and oral presentation skills. 3.0 None None Additional Material Textbook Conceptual Foundations: The Bridge to Professional
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Number 7/8, pp 340-349 Copyright B 2009 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins THE JOURNAL OF NURSING ADMINISTRATION Violence Against Nurses Working in US Emergency Departments Jessica Gacki-Smith, MPH Altair M. Juarez, MPH Lara Boyett, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC, CEN Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate emergency nurses’ experiences and perceptions of violence from patients and visitors in US emergency departments (EDs). Background: The ED is a particularly vulnerable
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between the community and the larger society. It emphasizes the process dimension and also includes the dimensions of status and structure (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008). The approach of looking at the care of the client in all dimension guides the nurse to think upstream and identify risks that could be prevented. The author’s subjective perspective is that it is easier said than done, one being that there is a popular misconception that by providing health care makes a healthy population in my opinion
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mentor preparation course) and who facilitates learning, supervises and assesses students in a practice setting” (NMC, 2008a). The role of a clinical nurse mentor is described as someone who supervises, teaches and assesses student nurses in a practice setting (Jokelainen et al, 2011, Ousey, 2009), although the role is more complex in that a clinical nurse mentor needs to process the ability to select and support learning opportunities, they have a responsibility to manage diversity and equality, be
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for the United States is effective communication. The American leaders and the Vietnamese leaders both were unwilling to come together and negotiation on a clear solution to put an end to the war. Their unwillingness to discuss any solutions caused the deaths of millions of people. The war that took place in Vietnam was avoidable and should not have happened, Once the war was stated there were several opportunities for the leaders of both sides to discuss negotiations, however they waited extremely
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Chairperson of a Nursing Organization In recent years, teen pregnancies have been on the rise. Circumstances of low infants’ birth weight have been ubiquitous in the Bronx Community. According to assessment data gathered by the Montefiore Medical Center, the Bronx population is responsible for 442 births at Montefiore Hospital, representing 38% of the Hospital total birth. Moreover, research has shown that Bronx County continues to experience a steady growth in cases of Neisseria Gonorrhea. Of medical
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geriatric unit in the hospital where I work has an average census of 36. On this unit patient falls are the most prominent problem. According to the hospital data in the past six months, there has been an average of two falls a day and twenty injuries related to falls. The number of patient falls has increased by 35 percent in the past six months. The goal of the fall prevention program is to reduce falls percentage by 30 percent (three falls a week) for the next three months and maintain it at a maximum
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effectiveness of an outcome” (Blackwood, 2006). Over the past centuries, Nursing as an independent science has emerged as a rich culture of theoretical perspectives and frame-works that have impacted the profession positively. Until the mid-1800s the act of nursing was performed by spiritual leaders, nuns, and lay women. Nursing was not a respectable job, and respectable women unless they were nuns were not supposed or allowed to become nurses, then enters Florence Nightingale. Born in 1820, an English
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used by healthcare organizations to describe the care they provide, their facility, and customer service and that word is excellent. Gone are the days of surveys that include choices of “very poor”, “poor”, “average”, “good”, “very good.” In the past few years “excellent” has been added to surveys. Hospitals rely on excellent ratings to promote their services as the absolute best in the area. Current marketing strategies bombard possible consumers with this thought
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RETENTION STRATEGIES “Employee wellness programs are growing in popularity, as health system leaders look for ways to boost their employees’ health--and in doing so, boost their abilities to do their jobs well. This can improve the hospitals’ and health systems’ bottom lines, by increasing employee productivity and satisfaction, which in turn lowers staff turnover rates and the associated costs”.- Jennifer Larson( February 2013). The cost associated with replacing an employee who leaves is considerable
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