Professional Development of Nursing Professionals According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report (2010), the nursing profession has become the nation’s largest health care workforce with more than three million active licensed members. Registered nurses (RNs) usually work in hospitals, physician inpatient or outpatient offices, home healthcare, nursing care facilities, correctional facilities, government offices, schools or public health offices, and within the military. There primary role
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question 1 Nursing has had many changes since it first evolved, and is no longer considered and inferior occupation. Nurses were considered to be like housekeepers and spent much of there day boiling equipment and following direct orders from the physician whether they believed the order to be right or wrong. Facilities and hospitals these days now have things called “standing orders”, which allows nurses to begin treating patients without having to go to the physician each time. Current nursing also uses
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Watson's Theory of Human Caring Dr. Jean Watson, a native of West Virginia, began her career in 1961 where she graduated from the Lewis Gale School of Nursing in Roanoke, Virginia. She then moved to Colorado, where she now lives, to further her education. She attended the University of Colorado and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1964, then further pursued her Master’s degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing in 1966 and then on to obtain her Ph.D. in educational psychology and
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1. How does knowledge of the foundations and history of nursing provide a context in which to understand current practice? Identify at least three trends in nursing practice demonstrated by the interactive timeline, located within the multimedia folder in Canyon connect. How have these trends influenced your perspective of nursing practice? Prior to the 1800’s, nursing practice was disorganized, non-sterile, high rate of infection and was given by women who had no other options. The women were
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Professional Ethics Beverly Beauchamp HCS/478 11/19/12 Ann-Marie Peckham Professional Ethics Describe the relationship between legal and ethical issues: a relationship exists between law and ethics and sometimes both concepts overlap. On one hand, behaviors and issues that are not ethical are also not legal. On the other hand, they are two separate parallel lines, for instance what is illegal maybe considered ethical and in another instance, what is considered legal might be unethical. Legal
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stated, that the baccalaureate degree should be the minimum level of education for entry into nursing practice (ANA, 1965). Taylor (2008) acknowledged that “by taking this initiative, the ANA was attempting to move nursing education away from hospital based, diploma programs of the day into colleges and universities, thus changing the education of nurses for an apprenticeship to science-based practice”. (p. 611) Currently there are several paths to becoming a registered nurse. Associate Degree
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According to the American Nurses Association, an impaired nurse is unable to meet the requirements of the code of ethics and standards of practice of the profession. This nurse has cognitive, interpersonal or psychomotor skills affected by psychiatric illness and/or drug or alcohol abuse of addiction (American Nurses Association, 2010). Not only do these nurses create a potential threat to their clients, but they have also neglected to care for themselves. A survey has been recorded about the
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There are varied avenues of academic development that prospective nursing students can select from when contemplating entering into the field. The two most frequently achieved pathways in nursing education for an entrance position, is an associate’s degree or a bachelor’s degree in nursing. A survey organized by the Health Resources and Services Administration in 2008, demonstrated that fifty percent of nurses retained a bachelors degree or higher and that at least thirty-six percent received an
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COMPETENCY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ADN AND BSN LEVEL OF NURSING Competency difference between ADN and BSN level of Nursing Presented to Professor Mandy Sheriff By Marlene Holmes Grand Canyon University: NRS-430-102 November 4, 2012 Competency difference between ADN and BSN level of Nursing This paper will look at the competencies between the Associate Degree of Nursing (ADN), and the Bachelors of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) as it relates to the educational requirements
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Nightingale There have been many nursing theorists throughout history; however there is one who set the foundation for nursing theory as it exists today. Florence Nightingale played an instrumental role in the development of nursing theory. Nightingale believed that “person” was the whole person who included physical, social, psychological, and spiritual. Health was “to be well” but also have control of any power we possess. Both of these concepts as well as environment and nursing are part of her defined
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