Moreover, when striving to achieve optimum overall outcomes and enhance the quality of care the nurse must be able to put knowledge into action. Therefore, all evidence-based nursing practices first began as theories. Nevertheless, Taylor (2007) explains nursing professors often find it difficult to translate didactic lecturing knowledge into clinical practice for the students (Chan et al., 2011, p. 1139). Nurses work in a complex setting and the scenarios are fluid at times. Moreover, the clinical
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(2012). The nursing student may complete his or her education over two to four years. The first, a hospital based program, requires three years to complete. Graduates receive a diploma, not a degree. “Approximately 54 diploma programs remain, in the United States” (Creasia & Friberg, 2011). The second, a community college based program, requires two to three years to complete. Graduates receive either an associate of science in nursing degree (ADN) or an associate of arts in nursing degree (AAN)
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an associate degree in nursing versus the baccalaureate degree. Some questions that arise are what is the difference in schooling, training, bedside care, critical thinking and much more! Florence Nightingale is a very important figure in nursing who led women in 1854 to care for wounded soldiers. She made crucial observations on the spread of infection that has influenced the care of patients to this day. After the war, Nightingale pushed for education in the health care setting as well as in classrooms
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Family Nursing Diagnoses NUR/405 Family Nursing Diagnoses Community Nursing The community health nurse has a primary role to assess the relationship of variables in the community with how they relate to patients and health. Cultural, religious, ethnic, and personal upbringings are variables that are considered to gain a basic understanding of the community framework. The purpose of this paper is to discuss three nursing diagnoses related to AL and his family living in a suburban community
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for the health promotion and maintenance of patients, families, communities, and the entire population at large in a wide range of healthcare settings. They also constitute the surveillance system for early detection of complications and problems in care and in the best position to initiate actions that will minimize negative outcome for patients.(Aiken et al 2003). For one to become a registered nurse there are three pathways to follow and these are Diploma- a 3year hospital based program, Associate
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more important role in nursing practice. With the increased utilization of nursing research comes a need for a form of communication that classifies diagnosis, applies interventions, and expected patient outcomes. In order to unify nursing communication and support nursing practice, standardized terminology has been developed. This paper will introduce three forms of standardized terminologies in nursing which are the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA), Nursing Outcome Classification
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Addressing the Nursing Workforce Shortage After researching the current and future state of the nursing workforce, there are many issues regarding the nursing workforce that should be addressed at the upcoming retreat. To begin, the reason for emphasis on the nursing workforce is that nurses constitute the largest group among the health service providers (Barton, 2010), as you very well may be aware. Without considering implications that affect the largest group of the workforce, the organization
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nurses caring for patients with tracheostomy require an appreciation of the breadth of knowledge needed to provide individual and safe care. A tracheostomy may be performed as: • An emergency procedure - if someone is unable to breathe following an injury or accident. • A planned procedure - to assist someone who is unable to breath as part of treatment in intensive care, or due to a long-term condition such as laryngeal cancer etc.
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Policy Issue Analysis: The Affordable Care Act and Nursing April 7, 2013 Policy Issue Analysis: The Affordable Care Act and Nursing Problem Identification Healthcare costs are soaring in the United States today. More people than ever before are uninsured or underinsured. In 2006-07, there were 46 million people uninsured (Gulley, Rasch, & Chan, 2011), and 9 million children also did not have health insurance (Coddington & Sands, 2008). A change in how healthcare is managed
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nurse patient event I have had in Obstetrics it will analyze major theory assumptions related to person, health, nursing and environment in the context of this caring moment, along with a personal reflection of this caring moment. Born in West Virginia theorist Jean Watson has had a very distinguished career, as a nurse educator and researcher in the area of “human caring and loss” (Nursing Theories, 2012, p.1). Beginning her education with a BSN from University of Colorado in 1964, she then acquired
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