June 9, 2014 The United States has experienced shortage of nurses in the past and then there was a surplus of nurses. However, the present shortage of nurses has been totally different from what has been experienced in the past. The present problem of nurse shortage is due to the declining enrollment, the new requirements that are asked from medical aids to qualify for enrollment in nursing schools, also the aging of Registered Nurses (RN) in the workforce, and the restricted supply of vacancies
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Introduction The core objective of health care is to provide high-quality care to all patients to guarantee positive health outcomes. This principle is a major driver for the commitment of nurses and other care providers. Care providers are required to work in collaboration and include patients in the process of care. Nurses form the core of health care delivery in all facilities. The role they play in the coordination of care is essential for the professionalism of care providers. In the process of care
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Introduction The aim of this piece of work will be to describe, analyse and evaluate what role the staff nurse holds in the effective management of the care of the bereaved person. Throughout the author will relate this to the bereavement of a family following the death of a loved one in a care of the elderly setting. In relation to this assignment and because the focus of this assignment is on the staff nurse effectively managing the care of the bereaved person the author will focus on the issue of the
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effect that gives validity to the information. The purpose of evidence based practice is ensuring that patients receive the best quality care and keep nurses, nursing care, and knowledge up to date. The American Nurses Association (ANA) recognizes the importance of evidence based practice (EBP), and that it incorporates the registered nurse to integrate, participate in the formulation, and contribute to the knowledge of research to improve healthcare outcomes (ANA, 2010). Evidence based research
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Introduction The core objective of health care is to provide high-quality care to all patients to guarantee positive health outcomes. This principle is a major driver for the commitment of nurses and other care providers. Care providers are required to work in collaboration and include patients in the process of care. Nurses form the core of health care delivery in all facilities. The role they play in the coordination of care is essential for the professionalism of care providers. In the process of care
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Professional Nurse The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines professionalism first as the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person and secondly as the following of a profession for gain or livelihood. According to this definition, a nurse is a professional. In general, nurses follow a code of ethics, they aim to provide safe, quality patient care, and they chose the nursing profession to provide for their own livelihood. Professional nurses are role
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Tanner Medical Center's ICU Organizational Assessment Scott Willard Franklin The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing NUR 522: Organizational Assessments for Clinical Nurse Leaders Fall, 2010 Tanner Medical Center's ICU Organizational Assessment Tanner Health System is a nonprofit regional health system serving a nine county area of West Georgia and East Alabama. Tanner facilities include: a 202-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, a 40-bed acute care Tanner Medical
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is your greatest fear? How can you overcome it? Write about one specific educational experience from your past where you addressed a fear and overcame it and how you succeeded in this process. I certainly look forward to completing the RN to BSN program on schedule. As an experienced and competent RN of 12 years, my management has given me an opportunity to serve as an intermittent Charge Nurse and a Preceptor on a 24-bed surgical unit. I serve as a Charge RN to my colleagues as well as a preceptor
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report (Future of Nursing Campaign for Action, n.d.). The goal of most healthcare organizations is to improve nursing practice by hiring more educated nurses, as stated in the IOM’s report. This paper will discuss the impact of the IOM’s report about advancing nurse education and the role of leadership. IOM’s Report Impact on Nursing Education “Nurses should achieve high levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression” (IOM, 2011).
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department. Healthy people 2020 stated that for a successful workplace violence prevention program (WPVPP) to be successful, the leaders must be able to incorporate practices that are valuables in making the work place violence free; prevention plan must be valuable and appropriate. A survey on the emergency department nurses Nationwide was done in 2009, by the Emergency Nurses
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