Project Topic with a Primary Prevention Focus Note: You may not log any work on your field project until you are enrolled in Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Field Experience/Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Clinical and have selected your topic. What is a Primary Prevention? The Community Health Nursing practicum requires a field project. The project focuses on primary prevention. Primary prevention is the prevention of disease, injury, disability or premature death
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Project Topic with a Primary Prevention Focus Note: You may not log any work on your field project until you are enrolled in Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Field Experience/Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Clinical and have selected your topic. What is a Primary Prevention? The Community Health Nursing practicum requires a field project. The project focuses on primary prevention. Primary prevention is the prevention of disease, injury, disability or premature death
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Introduction Workplace violence is any form of cruelty against workers and it can take place either inside the organization or on the outside. Employees or workers usually refer to their workplace as the permanent or temporary site where they carry out any of their job-related responsibilities. Workplace violence can extend from verbal abuse to physical abuse and could even lead to homicide. How do workplace violence incidents affect the productivity of the organization? An organization and/or business
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Communication is a major component of the nursing profession. A problem that is common in the facility where I work is ineffective communication in the workplace. Ineffective communication in the nursing profession could potentially have a negative effect on nurses as well as the patients that are cared for on a daily basis. One example of ineffective communication that often comes to mind is in giving report from one unit to another. It is imperative to give a clear, concise report on your patient
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New Graduate Nurses, Transition Shock Rachel Gable Grand Canyon University NUR 433V November 25, 2012 New Graduate Nurses, Transition Shock Nursing is by nature a stressful occupation. Making that even more stressful, newly licensed nurses are being thrown into the profession more and more without the proper orientation and training. Although newly licensed nurses have achieved the legal and professional requirements of minimal competence to enter practice, studies indicate that
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My Nursing Career Queen Mumuney American Sentinel University My Nursing Career American Nurse Association describes nursing as the protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human response and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities and population (www.ana.org). Nursing is not a field for everyone. A good nurse must have ninety-five percent if not
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The 10 Most Common Worker's Compensation Injuries Workplace injuries run a continuum from minor to deadly, and the circumstances that give rise to workplace injuries are as varied as the individuals who experience such injuries. Some injuries are simply more common than others, though, and knowing which injuries are the most common can help you take safety precautions that help you avoid injury and having to sit in a lawyer's office and explain your that injury. Here are the top 10 injuries, in
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FINAL PROJECT Develop a paper that is a comprehensive overview of the topic and its relationship to nursing leadership and or management (any of the topics reviewed in the course can be used). Critically evaluate the current impact of the topic upon nursing practice and the evolving health care system. Include recommendations for the future of nursing and nursing leaders. The paper is to be eight to ten (8-10) typed pages excluding the reference page and the title page. Use APA format including
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"Six Die In Workplace Shooting In Mississippi", "Seven Killed in Boston Area Office Shooting", "Gunman kills 1, wounds 3 in Seattle shipyard shooting", "Gunman kills 7 in Honolulu office", "Gunman in Atlanta rampage kills himself; 12 dead, 12 injured"(Reh, 2009) More and more we see this on our television screens and read this in our newspapers. What is triggering this kind of behavior in the workplace? What are the signs? Who commits these acts of violence? The Bureau for Labor and Statistics (BLS)
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Workplace issues impacts productivity, increases turnover, decrease job satisfaction, and increase sick time. Nursing leaders play an important role in communicating that bullying behavior will be replaced with respect. The Nurse Practice Act (NPA) sets forth the requirements for licensure and defines the scope of nursing practice. Licensure benefits both the public and the individual nurse by assuring the safe practice of nursing. BONs were established to protect
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