factors significant to the successful pursuit of improved healthcare.” (Neuman et al., 2000) A leader within the nursing community has the ability to influence their team members to provide optimal care to their patients. A leader will guide others to accomplish common goals while stimulating young nurses to excel. “For positive socialization such as mentoring to flourish, and for the nursing profession to reach its greatest potential, RNs [Registered Nurses] need to be proactive and find ways to facilitate
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Magnet status is an award given by the American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC), to hospitals that meet a certain set of criteria. This criteria is designed to measure both strength and quality of their nursing care. A Magnet hospital should be one that delivers excellent patient outcomes, where nurses have job satisfaction, and where there is a low staff nurse turnover rate. Magnet status also indicates nursing involvement in data collection and decision in areas that affect patient care.
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can be person’s aims, ambitions, purposes, and targets. Specific goals can take a person a long way. Once a person set up goals for his or her life, it is easy for that person to work toward reaching those goals .The first step is to have a clear vision of what that person wants to achieve. There are two groups of goals such as
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is an essential component of the nurse patient relationship. 2. COMPETENCE: Competence is acquiring and using evidence-based scientific and humanistic knowledge and skill in the application of therapeutic interventions in the current practice of nursing. Competence is reflected in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains of learning. It is the knowledge of the role of the nurse in the health care delivery systems of the hospital and the community. 3. CONSCIENCE: Conscience directs moral,
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~ PAST ~ Lavinia Lloyd Dock (1858-1956) Lavinia Lloyd Dock is a nursing pioneer who was committed to fighting for equality for women. Lavinia Lloyd Dock was a nurse, feminist, pioneer in nursing education, and an author. She was born into a rich family on February 26, 1858 in Harrisburg, PA. Her parents wanted their children to study, which was unusual for women at that time. Lavinia was inspired to pursue nursing after reading a magazine article. Lavinia graduated from Bellevue Training
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Medicine produced The Future of Nursing report in response to the United States Congress passing health care reform legislation, and the enactment of the Affordable Healthcare Act (AHA). The passing of these laws provides a platform in which the United States can forever change the health care system. The numerous goals of the IOM report are focused on the role of nursing in this transformation of care. “By virtue of its numbers and adaptive capacity, the nursing profession has the potential to effect
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Promotion NRS-429V Melanie Gray MSN October 19, 2014 Family Health Assessment Gordon's Functional Health Patterns provide a useful structural guideline that help nurse or any health care provider to assess any family’s health status and develop a nursing diagnosis according to their need to improve their quality of life. Through each of these eleven patterns of health assessment, nurse can create a systemic approach and gather information which help them to understand a family values from each prospect
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A. The boards of nursing and professional nursing organizations are an important part in the field of nursing. The board of nursing is a regulatory agency within each state charged with the responsibility to administer the nurse practice act of that state. In the state of Florida, the Florida Board of Nursing is a regulatory agency made up of 13 members. Their mission is to license, monitor, discipline, educate, and rehabilitate its licensees to assure their fitness and competence in providing health
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When comparisons made between the Grand Canyon University (GCU) mission and Domains/College of Nursing (CON) Mission and Program Competencies with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials for Master Education for Advanced Practice Nursing, both parties have a common goal to create successful, skilled, and expert professionals in the advanced nursing
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Strategic Planning and Nursing Process Your name HCS/482 January 12, 2015 instructor Strategic Planning and Nursing Process Strategic planning and the nursing process have many similarities, however strategic planning has the potential to affect how nurses perform in profound ways. As the integration of technology and informatics, takes hold in healthcare settings nurses can help use their knowledge of the nursing process to develop a strategic plan to best incorporate this emerging technology
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