Educational Preparation Danielle Thompson Grand Canyon University With three million Registered Nurses in the United States, there are more nurses in the healthcare profession than any other medical occupation. Nurses can be employed in a variety of settings from hospitals and private practices, to nursing homes and the military, just to name a few. The career has a high level of projected job growth and demand, which means jobs will always be available for those who wish to pursue a career
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Difference Between Associate- Degree Level Nurses and Bachelor- Degree Nurses There is always a question about which program is better; Is it the associate’s degree in nursing program provided by community colleges or the baccalaureate of science in nursing program provided by colleges and universities? One similarity is for sure that nurses from both programs can take the NCLEX-RN exam. Before I started college I was debating whether I should go to school for an Associate Degree in Nursing or
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a Lawyer All jobs require alertness and to be constantly on watch while working. One job that requires these qualities more than most jobs would be nursing. Neonatal nursing, specifically, has had more and more cases rise daily revolving around nurses not being alert or focused while working. In general, no matter what the job is there will always be expectations that should be reached and exceeded while working, therefore not being alert can result in serious altercations involving the employee
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While the Registered Nurse, be it ADN or BSN, provides similar care as regards skill level, medicine administration, and composition of care plans, the LVN is more limited in scope. The LVN is not permitted to hang or push IV medications, perform admission assessments, write nursing care plans, or flush PICC/Central lines. Differences between ADN and BSN are often more subtle as regards both learning and application. Bachelor level nurses typically demonstrate a higher level of competency when
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their goals and to reach professionalism Therefore, to accomplish these goals is to have a different and useful ways to study. Moreover, by training more and more that will help students learn from their mistakes and to avoid failing in the future. Nurses should be professional due helps people. This assignment will discuss the Incentives that support the student to get to success. In addition, how can they set their goals and motivates by developing their abilities which will encourage them to improve
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Personal Goals Tammy L. Lindsey HCS/301 December 10, 2012 Lynda White Personal Goals Lately, with a look into the mirror, slight lines or creases in my face have begun to appear. Not sure what to think about this, I have decided lovingly to call them my battle scars. Then I think, if these are battle scars, there must have been a battle. One can suppose life delivers tiny personal battles to each of us in a way. I have recently begun a journey that will give these little reminders more
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Regulation and Criminal Liability Nurse practitioners should be professional with patients and show patients respect. If a nurse does not show respectful behavior and there is misconduct or incompetence a complaint will have to be filed and the situation will be investigated (APA, 2012). Nurse practitioners are competent and care for patients in a professional caring manner. Patients sometimes experience non-tolerable performance that is not acceptable from a professional nurse (APA, 2012). Filing a complaint
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Although the American Nurses Association decided that the BSN is the “entry point into professional nursing practice” (Cresia & Friberg, 2011) in 1965, there are still 3 “equal” ways of becoming a nurse. The three ways of becoming a registered nurse today are associate degree programs, diploma programs, and baccalaureate programs. Upon completion of all of these programs, the nurse will sit for the licensure exam, NCLEX. They all lead to the same path, a registered nurse. The first nursing program
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that nurse holds in the organization. For example, I am not a nurse manager in the NICU so it would be out of my scope to make decisions reserved for the nurse manager. As the bedside or staff nurse, my domain includes direct patient care, collaborating with the medical team to continue the plan of care for a patient and assessing for signs and symptoms of improvement or decline. The nurse manager may assume my role but I have not been authorized to assume theirs. When nurses stray
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results of a Qualitative Analysis of Central and Midline care in Medical/Surgical setting. The key words for the study are central line bloodstream, infection, medical-surgical, phenomenology and qualitative. The study identified medical-surgical nurses having a limited understanding of the complexities involved in the prevention of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs). The study was conducted to thoroughly look at the phenomenon of central line care to develop an understanding
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