Professionalism: The Nursing Profession Villanova University- NUR 1102 Professionalism: The Nursing Profession Professionalism is a quality that is practiced on a daily basis by individuals in many adverse fields of employment. Atsede Fantahun (2014) said, “professionalism is defined as the conceptualization of obligations, attributes, interactions, attitudes, and role behaviors required of professionals in relationship to individual clients and to society as a whole”
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nurses become more educated, because it is proven that the higher qualified or educated the nurse is the lower mortality rates are in their patients. A nursing school in South Korea and the University of Pennsylvania did research and found a 10 % increase in baccalaureate-prepared nurses decreased patient deaths by 9% (2014, International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2). Also, if a nurse is more educated about medications she or he are less likely to not make med errors when giving the medications. Associate-degree
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Professional Development of Nursing Professionals: The Impact of the IOM Report, Nursing a Change for the Future Dina Gibson Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V February 10, 2013 Professional Development of Nurses: The Impact of the IOM Report, Nursing a Change for the Future The health care field is always growing and changing. With this advancement in technologies, it is important for the members of the professional health care field to grow with it. According to Robert Wood Johnson (2010), “With
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acutely and chronically ill. There are three different ways in which one could obtain a degree in nursing and become a Registered Nurse. An Associate’s degree of nursing (ADN) which is a 2 yr. degree, a diploma nurse which is a 3 yr. program completed in a hospital based setting and the Baccalaureate degree of nursing (BSN) which is a 4 year degree and considered to some the entry level into nursing. Completion of any of these three programs qualifies a nurse to take the National Council Licensure
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proving they are the better choice than the hospital down the street. To do this many hospitals are looking at how nurses are prepared whether it be Associate degree in nursing (ADN) or Bachelor degree in nursing (BSN) and how this affects patient outcomes. According to Hood, L. J., & Leddy, S. K. (2006) the ADN degree in nursing is a concentrated study of clinical skills at the community college level, while the BSN degree is completed at the 4-year institution, where education is focused on not
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Professional Development of the Nursing Professional Chandlar Coolie Grand Canyon University: NSR 430v September 23, 2012 Abstract The 2010 report of the IOM is focusing on the transformation taking place in nursing and what part the RN will have in its evolution. For the acknowledgement of the RN stepping forth and picking up the invite of steering
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The Future of Nursing Wendy DeHerrera Grande Canyon University Nursing History, Theories, and Conceptual Model Nur-430V March 14, 2015 The Future of Nursing In 2008 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) met with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to discuss the need to transform the nursing profession in order to keep up with challenges of a reforming health care system and meeting the nations’ growing health care needs (Institute of Medicine, 2010). A committee was formed and a 2-year
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Image of Nursing Chinedu Remigius Udu ITT Technical Institute Course Number (NU100) 09/21/2015 According to the authors Rezaei-Adaryani, Salsali, Mohammadi (2012) one of the many challenges contemporary nurses would have had to overcome is the concept of the image of nursing. According to the findings of the research that was conducted in the past based on the review of retrieved integrative Internet English Literature published from 1980 – 2011, it was shown that Nursing Image is a multi-
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plan is a diploma nursing degree, which is a 3 year program that focuses on nursing tasks in a hospital setting. It is noted that the diploma nursing program provides the most clock hours of clinical instruction (Hood, 2010, pg. 15). The second degree plan is the associate degree in nursing; this degree focuses on a combination of didactic and clinical skills over a 2 year period. The last degree is the baccalaureate degree in nursing which is a higher level of education in nursing; this includes additional
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How the IOM report: “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” Impacts Nursing Kylie Kuehl Grand Canyon University: NRS 430V March 7, 2016 How the IOM Report: “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” Impacts Nursing In 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a nursing report titled “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” The report stressed the importance of developing a more highly educated nursing workforce, providing nurses more leadership
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