Professional Roles & Values Project Mirella Calderon Western Governors University June 4, 2015 Professional Roles & Values Project I’ll be discussing the functional dissimilarities concerning Board of nursing and the professional nursing establishments from my years of experience as a Registered Nurse. I will also be addressing nursing code of ethics and the professional traits, nursing theory, contributions and scenarios. A. Functional Differences The dissimilarities among
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Professional Roles & Values Project By: Dana Agovino WGU A. Explain the difference between a regulatory agency and a professional nursing organization as it pertains to your professional nursing practice. A regulatory agency would best be described using the example of the State Board of Nursing, which regulates the standards of nursing practice by providing policies or laws to ensure safe practice within a scope. The State Board of Nursing provides and enforces these policies to protect
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Application of Nursing Theory Nurses have to make numerous decisions on a day to day basis. Some are simple decisions and other issues are more complex and require guidance to make decisions. Nursing theory is one way for nurses to make decisions based on problems or situations they face. As Cody (2003) states, “one learns to practice nursing by studying nursing theories” (pg. 226). This statement can be applied to problem solving and decision making. By using theory, nurses can apply concepts
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Historical Development of Nursing Timeline Person may represent an individual, a family, a community or all humankind. Health represents a state of well-being as defined by the individual or mutually decided on by a individual and a nurse. Environment represents the person’s physical surroundings, the community, or the universe and all it contains. Nursing is the practice of the science and art of the discipline (George, 2011). Metaparadigm pertains to the core concepts of a particular discipline
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Professional Roles & Values Project Western Governors University A. Functional Difference Professional nursing organizations such as the Wisconsin Nurses Association (WNA) function as an advocate for registered nurses at the state level. The Wisconsin Nurses Assocation “works to protect, promote, and enhance the practice of professional nursing.” (“WISCONSINNURSES.ORG,” n.d.) The WNA encourages members to follow the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics
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Vision for the future of nursing Currently, health care in the US has been made accessible and affordable to everyone, as evidenced by the increase in the number of patients in the health care system. The nursing profession is already facing numerous challenges to deliver good quality and safe patient care. Therefore, there is a need for growth in remodeling the nursing profession to meet the high demand of an aging population with more complex needs. The nurses have to quickly adapt to a new
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Nursing has been struggling to be recognized as an academic discipline ever since the 1960s, when the American Nurses Association published a position paper that supported baccalaureate education as the entry level to practice (McCance & McKenna 1999). Previously, most nursing education took place in hospital schools (diploma programs), and the profession was very much under the control of medicine. Now, there's a lot to be said in favor of diploma programs, mostly the fact that diploma graduates
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Professional Roles and Values Assessment Western Governors University Introduction Nursing has certainly changed over the 25 years that I have practicing. However, there are some basic concepts that have guided me throughout my career that have not changed. I will discuss those to provide a clear view of what my mission as a nurse is. First I will discuss the functional differences between a regulatory agency and a professional nursing organization. Next I will discuss two examples of how provisions
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PROFESSIONAL ROLES AND VALUES Eleni Seyfu Student ID # 000356790 Western Governors University September 22, 2015 Professional Roles and values This project discusses the differences among board of nursing and a
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