Tourville and Ingalls (2003) visually depict nursing theories, Florence Nightingale and the four metaparadigms in The Living Tree of Nursing Theories. Nurse, person, environment, and health, referred to as the four metaparadigms, are the roots of the tree. Florence Nightingale is depicted as the trunk of the tree because she is viewed as the original nurse theorist and the branches symbolize the interactive, systems and developmental theories (Tourville & Ingalls, 2003). The following essay incorporates
1. Introduction Evidence-based practice has been commonly used for providing finest nursing cares in healthcare service. In this passage, both facilitators and barriers encountered while developing evidence-based practice and related examples would be illustrated respectively. Definition of Evidence-based practice (EBP) In endless of literatures, there is a variety of definition of evidence-based practices. Generally, The major three components of evidence-based practice are research-based information
The Connecticut Nurse Practice Act defines advance nursing practice as the " performance of advanced level nursing practice activists that, by virtue of post basic specialized education and experience, are appropriate to and may be performed by an APRN". This act describes the role of an APRN as one that "performs acts of diagnosis and treatment of alternations in health status" including collaborating under a physician to prescribe, dispense, and administer therapeutic and corrective medical interventions
Nursing hasn’t always been the first option for me but reality made it my option, I was cut out to be a doctor from the start because I was always inspired to be in the health fields. Along the line, I had the opportunity to have nursing education during which I saw a nurse perform deliveries without the doctor. This really changed my mindset and made me see nursing from a different perspective. I saw it as a professional course that had so many skills making it unique to other professional programs
Chain of Command in Nursing Practice Natalie Stewart Lipscomb School of Nursing The chain of command is a universally recognized and applied principle of authority de-scribed as "A series of command, control, executive, or management positions in hierarchical order of authority"(Judith, 2013. p. 544). The chain is used in hospital settings as a line of re-sponsibility to provide appropriate patient care, as well as results from perceived impact and ap-propriateness of care (Patient
Future Trends in Nursing Practice Nursing practice experiences constant and rapid evolution due to the implementation of new coming trends related to the demographic changes, nursing research, and technology. Being the closest to patients’ caregivers, nurses are considered as major contributors to healthcare organizations. Nurses are obliged to have an evidence-based understanding of the significant influence that can be made through health promotion interventions and deliver this understanding to
As outlined by the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), interprofessional collaboration is “…critical for improving access to client-centered health care in Canada” (CNA, 2011, p. 1). The CNA also believes as part of their five principles of Primary Health Care (PHC), that interprofessional collaboration is necessary in establishing health goals, healthy public policy and the planning and evaluation of health services (CNA, 2000). Throughout
to do about the problem. Taking back the information I gathered and sharing their perspectives with the nurse leaders was also interesting and a good learning experience. This experience increased my knowledge of the CNS role in administration, collaboration, and clinical practice. The experience definitely made me see what a vital role CNS’ play in making changes on clinical policies and guidelines to be followed by bedside nurses and how acknowledging the RNs concerns can ultimately lead to better
The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree program is designed to prepare nurse leaders to adapt, commit and respond to the globally changing health care system. In the completion of the program, nurse leaders are expected to be alble to integrate knowledge, theories, and concepts from the biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, and organization sciences to develop ethical health care systems and new frontiers for nursing practice that addresses health care disparities. Evaluate research methods
The APRN must first perform with the basic standards of professional performance for the RN, and then one must further one’s practice with the standards of advanced nursing practice. These standards of professional performance are the following: ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence based practice and research, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health. There are no