Professional Development Plan Tracie Johnson NUR/391 July 26, 2010 Andrea M. Abt My Professional Development Plan My professional development plan is to grow as a nurse by obtaining knowledge through school and daily life and work experiences. In five to 10 years, I will be able care for patients and their families as a nurse practitioner. Setting short-term and long-term goals will help guide through the journey to transition into the role of professional nursing and provide new opportunities
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Family Health Nursing Nur 464 – Concepts of Family Nursing Theory October 6, 2005 Family Health Nursing Nursing has been an integral part of patient care forever, though not considered as a part of medical profession in the early days. Nursing care has evolved from the time of nursing pioneers like Florence Nightingale and Dorothea Orem to today’s health care environment where, health care system has become more complex and fragmented with specializations. The growth
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Associate Degree Nursing Versus Baccalaureate Nursing Associate Degree in Nursing Competencies Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) is usually at a two year community college and it sometimes can be found at a college that only specializes in only nursing degrees. The nursing only colleges are usually a fast paced curriculum and can be achieved in one year to eighteen months to get a degree. “An Associate Degree in Nursing is an economical way of becoming a registered nurse in a short period
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VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF NURSING 10 Human Genome Project completed the initial mapping and sequencing of a composite set of human genes in 2003” (p. 392). This is an area of nursing practice that nurses will question their own morals and ethics. With technology on the rise, there will be new ethical dilemmas and nurses will be more active in exploring ethical aspects of patient care. Nurses’ ethical perspective will be respected by other professionals and as a result, nurses in larger numbers will
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Education Today’s health care environment is undergoing significant changes due to complex patient’s needs, chronic health conditions, and technological innovations. Educating nurses within the 21st century requires a creative integration of knowledge, skill set, and caring within an increasingly complex healthcare system (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2010). Nursing education is heavily laden with continuous content increases to be covered within the curriculum (Devereaux-Melillo, Dowling, Abdallah
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increasing inability to cope at home and recent suicide attempt, they have decided to refer her to Golden Living Centre (GLC) for respite. GLC is a nursing home where I did my 8-week specialist placement. The CMHT from the POA unit visits Serena on a weekly basis ensuring continuity of care. The community mental health nurse (CMHN) comes in to the nursing
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Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process Paper Brandon A Hazlett, RN HCS/482 June 1, 2015 Billy Kesserwani Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process Paper Strategic planning and the nursing process are both essential when one is developing medical informatics. The use of the nursing process is an exceptional demonstration of how the elements utilized within the process can be applied to strategic planning. The reason for this is the basis that both processes use the same elements to
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A. Root Cause Analysis A root cause analysis (RCA) is a “systematic approach to understanding the causes of an adverse event and identifying system flaws that can be corrected to prevent the error from happening again” (Huber & Ogrinc, 2010). The root cause analysis is used to determine why the problem occurred in the first place and to identify the cause of a problem using a specific set of steps (Mind Tools, n.d.). The RCA team which consists of interprofessionals who are knowledgeable of the
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to Understand: A Career as a Nursing Assistant Have you ever asked the question who takes care of my grandparents or parents while they’re in a nursing home or hospital? Do you have an interest in making someone’s life easier by helping them with simple life tasks? If you have ever been interested in helping someone, then becoming a nursing assistant is the right job for you. The definition of a nursing assistant is “A person who has completed a brief health care training program and who provides
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with a cancer and describe an appropriate nursing care plan based on the patient’s values. Personal Perceptions Personal perceptions about quality of life and health promotion can greatly influence an individual nurse when attempting to create a plan of care for a patient with a lingering illness. I have worked in home health care setting as a visiting nurse and have experienced this scenario firsthand. I believe that one of the hardest parts of nursing is being able to put personal perceptions
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