Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Health care is advancing and changing every single day, every hour, and every minute. Nurses are caring for more critical patients, which require expert knowledge and skill. In order to deliver safe quality care change is needed. According to the IOM, nurses must be prepared to meet the diverse patients’ needs by practicing to the full range of their education, function as leaders, and improve the education system so that it promotes a smooth
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that is the main reason that I wanted to enter the medical field. The nursing school at Louisiana Tech has been named the number one undergraduate program for two years in a row. It takes an immeasurable about of hard work and dedication to be accepted and to be accepted has been my greatest accomplishment. Saying I am in nursing school brings a tremendous joy to my heart and I couldn’t be happier with my chosen major. Nursing has been defined by the American Nurses Association as, “the protection
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relation to your development in the Nursing field, one will have to define these two terminologies. Personal development means to include activities that improve awareness, can develop potential that will ultimately enhance the quality of life. Medical colleges advocate personal development plans as a basis for continuing professional development. Whereas, reflective reasoning is where a nurse can apply learning and insights of others into their own work. In nursing courses students learn through lecture
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care assignment I have chosen a department manager at a Community hospital. Miss Rosemary Fiore is a Master’s Degree prepared nurse, currently work as a Nurse Manager with an extensive background in health care. She is someone I consider a strong leader, and mentor .She is very positive and genuinely enjoys her job. In my interview with her we discuss her responsibilities, her customers and how she interacts with others in her environment. In addition, she describes her educational back ground
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Prior to taking the Nurse Manager Skills Inventory assessment, I thought I was prepared and ready to be a nursing leader for my hospital. However, the inventory assessment threw me in a completely new direction on things that I need to learn, things I have to improve upon, and things that I have to start thinking about before becoming a nurse leader. I plan on having a new positon as soon as I am done with my next class and I graduate, and with the new positon I had been planning on taking an initiative
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affecting the collaboration nurses-physicians. How can the nursing and medical staff collaborate more effectively to improve patient outcomes and at the same time increase nursing job satisfaction? The author highlights the steps required to initiate a change toward a collaborative workplace through the use of an attentive communication style. Once background research is done, the decision about the need of the change has been reached, informal leaders support gained, and plan of action drawn, the model
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personal values are not compromised by the employer. Compromise may hinder independent comparison of one’s personal values and those of NSW Health. This work will analyze the influence of these values on health teams and demonstrate how NSW Health leaders may use these values to impact effectively on patient’s healthcare. An independent evaluator needs to follow the criteria that ensure professional practice. I adopted my values in a collage characterized by strong family bondage and commitment
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The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V July 27, 2014 The Institute of Medicine (IOM), established in 1970 was created to inform the nation on healthcare issues. The reports and findings of this group assist the divisions of healthcare in making knowledgeable decisions. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation together with the IOM issued a special report called “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” There are four key
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Leadership in Nursing Lisa Starnes University of Mount Olive Leadership in Nursing Leadership has many different types of theories associated with it. In the article, Authentic Leadership, Empowerment and Burnout: A Comparison in New Graduates and Experienced Nurses, Laschinger, Wong, and Grau (2013) “examine the effect of authentic leadership and structural empowerment on the emotional exhaustion and cynicism of new graduates and experienced acute-care nurses” (p. 541). Retaining nurses
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The Future of Nursing In 2010 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJK), a subsidiary of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), issued a report on nursing called, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, (http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/The-Future-of-Nursig-Leadership-Change-Advancing-Health.aspx). According to the IOM official website, (http://www.iom.edu/), “…the IOM provides independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policy makers, health professional, the private sector
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