Nurse Is nursing a profession? Nursing has made advances through the years to classify itself as a profession. Looking at the different organizations that have helped this process, one stands out above the rest. The ANA (American Nursing Association) has given the nursing a professional identity and voice. The following essay will look at the ANA’s aims, activities, how the organization supports the EBP (evidence based practice), and the concepts of professional nursing. ANA (American Nursing Association)
Richardson identified the increasing emphasis on evidence based practice, stating that nurses must be prudent and diligent when making decisions for nursing care by using only the most up to date and accurate information to base their clinical decisions upon. More recently, decision making models have been brought to the forefront as excellent tools nursing students and novice nurses can use when transferring evidence into useable knowledge for practice. The decision making models highlight the importance
Acquiring an advanced practice degree in nursing (APRN) has always been my goal. It is the next step of providing nursing care with autonomy and substantial clinical judgement. In order to choose the right APRN specialty, I needed to expose myself to different facets of nursing. With opportunity, hard work and dedication I progressed from telemetry/ICU stepdown and Medical ICU to Cardio thoracic ICU (see CV). Each unit provided me with the knowledge and skill sets necessary to be a proficient nurse
The nursing profession is known for the compassion of helping others; however, the process of helping others can easier be said than done. Teaching those who want to pursue a profession in nursing is a complicated process since the anatomy and the physiology of the human body can be very complex. Also, pressure has increased on nursing education programs to increase the knowledge and critical thinking of their nursing students which should then decrease patient mortality in the future. Over the years
Nursing care can be defined as the professional health care rendered to an individual, his family and community in order to recover, maintain, or achieve, optimal health and quality of life. In the past, nursing care was solely based on opinions and personal philosophies but recently the approach to nursing care has changed and keeps changing over time as new research and scientific evidence unfolds. This article will discuss why nursing care of patients is less dependent on opinion and ritual but
Importance of Nursing Informatics Nursing informatics is a specialty field of nursing that merges the science of healthcare with information management. This field takes medical decision making to a whole new level by not only supporting nurses but the entire healthcare team to help achieve the best outcome for the patient (Mitchell, 2011). The process of nursing informatics is accomplished by the use of information structures and technology. As the technology advances it provides better ways
Nursing 3312: Health Assessment Nursing 3312 was an introduction on the process of assessing the body in terms of illness and wellness. The instructors in this course were knowledgeable and experts in their field which enabled them to teach the basic skills needed to assess different systems of the bodies during time of health or infirmity. This course gave me the tools to increase my assessment and interviewing skills in order to have more confidence when assessing patients in the healthcare environment
My BSN Role Model In my 14 years of nursing I have worked with many BSNs. They all have been great nurses. But only one person shines the brightest in my mind as my role model. That person is Lysha Moyo-Cook RN, BSN. I worked with Lysha on post-open heart unit for nine years. During that time Lysha became my role model. The reason Lysha is my ideal role model is due to her attributes and her beliefs that she uses in her role as a nurse. ATTRIBUTES Lysha has many great attributes that not only
Introduction Nurses havea wide variety of roles such as providing nursing care, support, and health education to the patients and families. Evidence has a major constitution in the delivery of advanced and safe healthcare (Mitchell, 2013). Globally, the body of nursing knowledge acknowledged the incorporation of evidence into nursing practice, which improve healthcare outcomes, promote high quality care, increase personal productivity and decrease healthcare costs (Hall, 2006). Raycroft-Malone (2004)
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, clinicians’ expertise and patient