Exploring Nursing Roles: Nurse Lobbyists Nurses have many professional responsibilities. They can vary from being a patient advocate to continuing their education throughout their career. One interesting professional role nurses take on are being nurse lobbyists. Lobbyists are defined as formal groups of people who collectively work to influence government decisions relating to a particular issue or topic (“Lobby,” n.d.). Therefore, nurse lobbyists work together to influence the government
Concept 05: Ethical Principles: This concept is taken from the Ethical Issues in Nursing Practices Block 1, module 03 entitles as “Ethical principles”. Ethical principles are integrated goals that every individual tries to follow all these principles to attain a successful existence in life. These goals include autonomy, confidentiality, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, veracity, fidelity and justice. The principle of beneficence guides the ethical theory to do what is good. The ethical principles
The position of the Washington State Nurses Association’s (WSNA) position paper on continuing competence in nursing is that assurance of nursing competency must be a collaborative process that includes regulatory agencies, individual nurses, employers, educators, professional organizations, credentialing and certification agencies. Another WSNA position is that individual nurses are responsible for the maintenance of their own continuing competency, and that it is imperative that nurses from all
work environment, scope of practice, education, and numbers of America’s nurses” (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2011, p. 4). In the U.S., nurses constitute the largest sector of health care professionals (IOM, 2011). With such large numbers, the nursing profession is positioned to affect how the health care system is able to meet the growing demand for safe, high-quality, and effective health care services. +++++++++++++ Historical The role of nurse practitioner has expanded dramatically since
recognized as an independent nursing function because nurses as education are trained on how best to ensure that patients are giving needed education on how to prevent illnesses and diseases and how best to manage it. To further establish the usefulness of this concept, international council of Nurses (ICN) endorses health education as an essential component of nursing care delivery state nurse practice acts have universally includes teaching with the scope of nursing
Introduction “Taking a patient history: the role of the nurse” is an article written by Tonks Fawcett and Sarah Rhynas in Nursing Standard Journal in the February 2012 issue. They emphasized the importance of history taking during a patient assessment. She also explained the different skills that a nurse should utilize to capture all the information needed to better help the patients. Summary of the Article More and more nurses are taking the role of history taking. “The focus of history taking
to facilitate the various transitions. This paper will discuss the CSU (Clayton State University) Conceptual Model addressing the three types of transitions and their relationship to the curriculum concepts. It will also describe the author’s own nursing philosophy as it pertains to the CSU outcomes and will give a conclusion. The CSU Conceptual Model is an adaptation from Schumacher& Meleis 1994 Transitions: A central
think that nursing is all about bedside care then you are wrong. A Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is a problem solver and leader. Their work responsibility focuses on five major areas : Clinical practice, research, teaching, consulting and management. It is the job of a CNS to manage health care services in such a way that it will be money saving as well as can provide optimal health outcomes to patients. As a CNS you can work in the specialized areas of health care such as acute care nursing or geriatric
Professional Profile I am a person with skills of Self-motivation and empathetic approach which brought me into the field of service. People who seeks ‘help and motivation’ made me to choose Nursing as my profession, and the environment of service providing settings as Hospitals, Care homes and people who take care of needful inspired me to come to the field of DSW. So I am currently pursuing my DSW program at Fanshawe College.After joining the DSW program I got a chance to work for people with
Critical Care Nursing Critical care nursing is a specialty within nursing that deals specifically with human responses to life-threatening problems. A critical care nurse is a licensed professional nurse who is responsible for ensuring that acutely and critically ill patients receive optimal care. There have always been very ill and severely injured patients but the concept of critical care is fairly modern. There have been advances in both medicine and technology, thus causing patient care to become