please e-mail reprints@ons.org or to request permission to reproduce multiple copies, please e-mail pubpermissions@ons.org. FEATURE ARTICLE Building Comfort With Ambiguity in Nursing Practice Kalli Stilos, RN, MScN, CHCPN(C), Shari L. Moura, RN, MN, CONC(C), CHCPN(C), and Frances Flint, RN, MN Current nursing literature recognizes the need to honor the concept of ambiguity. Nurses experience uncertainty with handling or honoring complexity and ambiguity when confronted with times of struggle
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laboratory, I am leading a team of five nursing staffs. I acquire a mentorship skill which helps me to teach my nursing staff about the importance of the revascularization in a patient who has suffered a heart attack. For example, I have been teaching my subordinates about the Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) procedure in which stents and balloons are used to open the occluded coronary arteries with the help of the PowerPoint presentations and videos. As a leader, quality care and patient’s safety
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Greenville Health System is a Level I Trauma Center located in the upstate region of South Carolina. The health system consists of many entities and is the largest non for profit healthcare system in South Carolina offering a variety of services (http://www.ghs.org, 2015). As a system GHS is rapidly growing and expanding its services to more and more communities in the region (http://www.ghs.org, 2015). While the system has always had a focus on providing excellent care the advent of Value Based
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article aim to explain what relationship training and education have on the nurse leader or the aspiring nurse leader. The growing demand for qualified nurse leaders is explained along with the profound effect that leadership has not only on the direct care staff but also on the patients and their loved ones. A main theme throughout the article is that education and training is effective but in what way should nurse leaders receive the supplementation; should education come through graduate programs or
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the care team. Particularly the care team is devised of a nurse practitioner, physical therapist, director of nursing, social workers, case managers, registered nurse assessment coordinators, unit administrators, and at times the administrator of Canterbury Place. The care team has morning
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Knowing the history or origin of things is important regardless the subject matter. We all want to know how things came about; this applies to nursing as well. It’s important to study the history of nursing because it certainly influences current nursing practice. It’s humbling to know how far nursing has evolved and the men and women who made that evolution possible. It’s important to celebrate these men and women and never forget their contribution to this wonderful profession. Can you imagine
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Strategic Planning and Nursing Process Every decision-making process requires the basic steps of problem identification, intervention and evaluation. In healthcare, both the nursing process and strategic planning involve proper identification of a problem, gathering of data, formulating a plan, and deciding which intervention is the best to implement. After the intervention, evaluation is necessary. Strategic planning and the nursing process both are essential when developing medical informatics
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Johnson Foundation embarked on a two-year research to produce a report that would assess nursing as a profession and make recommendation about the future of nursing. The report was completed and released in October 5, 2010 by the Institute of Medicine. The impact of this report has changed to the view and approach to nursing as a profession to meet these recommendations. Among these recommendations, nursing education was a top priority. According to the IOM, "nurses should achieve higher levels
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Home Page» Science Importance of Mentoring in Nursing In: Science Importance of Mentoring in Nursing Importance of Mentoring In Nursing Cynthia B. Harris Chamberlain College of Nursing NR504 Leadership & Nursing Practice Spring A March 20th, 2011 Professor Schoenly Importance of Mentoring In Nursing My Vision for nursing is for nurses to become more proactive in mentoring nursing staff both new and old. The role of the nurse mentor is often referred to as preceptorship
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The relationship between nursing and society The profession of nursing has had a unique and enduring relationship with society over time. In 830 CE, the first account of nursing in the Muslim world was noted at the Qayrawan Hospital in Tunisia (Syed, 1993). For most people, Florence Nightingale is known as the first person truly recognized worldwide as a nurse. She based her belief in nursing as the act of placing the human body in the best condition possible to heal and be nurtured. She saw caring
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