...Title: The Difference in competencies between Nurses prepared at the Associate Degree level versus the Baccalaureate Degree level. Name: Jason Nordstrom Grand Canyon University, Phoenix Arizona: NRS-430V-0500 November 07th, 2012 Introduction: Recent studies have shown that nursing practices and quality of overall patient care, have a direct link to the quality and level of nursing education. Today’s nursing education must be able to meet the demands, challenges and needs of a modern healthcare. According to the (AACN) Facts Sheets: It approaches today’s nursing workforce with researches, relating education to outcomes, and also outline the capacity and preparedness of four year college, as means of improving the level of education in the United States. The definition, history and competencies of BSN and ADN degrees are discussed below: Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN): An associate degree in nursing, on average requires from two to three years of formal education. ADN predominately prepares nurses for bedside patient care, in a healthcare facilities such as hospitals and long-term care. It is usually offered by community and junior colleges, and some nursing schools. Students with an ADN, meet academic requirement for NCLEX-RN exam, and are eligible for license as R.N. The ADN was started by Dr. Mildred Montag in 1951, as WWII was ending. This was an important and necessary step, in order...
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...use of technology for patient and client management will be explored. An analysis of the impact of technology on healthcare and health status will be investigated. Systems and Informatics Theories Systems are “a group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole” (Systems, n.d., Definition). Systems describe healthcare, schools, computers, and a person. The systems are either open or closed. Closed systems are inoperable to function with others third party products and open systems are designed to allow third party products to plug in or interoperate with the system. Neither system interacts with the environment. Open systems consist of three characteristics; purpose, functions, and structure (Englebardt and Nelson, 2002). Systems can have more than one purpose based on the needs of the user. Functions that the system will need to carry out need to be identified for the system to achieve its purpose. The “systems are structured in ways that allow them to perform their functions” (Englebardt & Nelson, 2002, p.6). The two types of models used to conceptualize the structure of a system; hierarchical and web (Englebardt & Nelson, 2002). Some examples of system applications are; institution wide, specialty support, documentation, administrations, operations, expert, stand alone information, and decision support. The study of healthcare informatics incorporates theories from...
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...Nurse Leader? Leadership Challenges in Building Healthcare Organizations The Business Review, Cambridge 6. 2 (Dec 2006): 296-297. Critical Summary of the editorial Authors Michael William and Jenn Gordan’s article about nurse leadership challenges in building healthcare organizations speak about nursing leadership as more an art than a science. They speak about building a healthcare organization, and how it requires well-honed leadership knowledge, competencies, and skills to develop and enable a successful and sustainable healthcare organization. There are many times in healthcare organizations where the support staff is not concerned or interested in growing the healthcare organization. A leader’s professional dream may be inhibited by the uncommitted support staff that is uninterested or unengaged. The authors speak about the 5 exemplary practices of leader ship as presented by James Kouzes and Barry Posner in their seminal work The Leadership Challenge is about how leaders get extraordinary things done in organizations. The study asks the question; how can nurse managers address and minimize the potentially harmful effects of limited staff interest in the growing healthcare industry? The authors indicate the solution is to simply; implement proven, research-based leadership practices that can stimulate staff interest, excitement, and commitment in building a sustainable healthcare organization. The 5 Exemplary Practices of Leadership...
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...U.S. suffer from at least one chronic illness such asdiabetes, asthma and a range of disabling neurological conditions (Haddad &Chetty, 2012, p. 285), and about 70% of the deaths in the U.S. can be account of chronic diseases (CDC, 2012).Because of the shortage medical staff at hospitals and clinics, and the long term care requirement of chronic disease patients, home health care is regardedas the best option to manage patients’ health. A home healthcare system typically consists of patients, medical contact centers and medical staff. Medical Contact Centers (MCCs) perform as the communication link between medical staff and patients with chronic diseases where patients upload their medical history, scheduled measurements. The MCCs may give instantaneous response by the system’s recommendations or pass on to the medical staff who can interpret the imported information and decide on what kind of actions to take on in order to resolve patients’ problems (Maglaveras, Chouvarda, &Koutkias, 2005, p.354-355) Home healthcare systems...
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...How Theory Affects Education: A Microscope Perspective Elizabeth Wiedman Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 501: Theoretical Basis of Advanced Nursing Practice Summer Semester 2011 How Theory Affects Education: A Microscope Perspective Nursing is a topic that covers a great deal of ground. It takes years to gain experience in nursing. The study of nursing theories helps one to take advantage of the experiences of others. The best way to examine something is under a microscope because it focuses one closely on the topic at hand. It can also show smaller parts of the whole. The microscope perspective is used to describe how theory functions in the nursing profession and in nursing education. It will also explain how nursing theory describes the nursing profession using this perspective. This perspective is important because it can help one to take a closer look at smaller parts of nursing. Examples are provided of how the Self- Care Deficit Theory views education from this perspective. The Self-Care Deficit Theory was chosen because it good framework for nursing school curriculum and helps to guide the author’s present nursing practice. Theory as a Microscope of Nursing Nursing theories contain concepts that take a closer look at the features of nursing related to nurses and clients. The relationships between and among the concepts form the structure of the theory. Theories are formed after concepts are named and validation occurs. Theory takes a closer look at the...
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...based upon their age. Sexism and racism are related to ageism include being adverse customs concerning people of various ages Cherry, K. (n.d.). Aging unavoidably includes increased need for health-care assistance at any level also at any position for almost all grown Americans. A summary of the current status of older- healthcare rings with hard info. For example, based on the ILC’s 2006 statement on ageism in America, 90% of elderly Americans nevermore get regular screening examinations for prostate or colon cancer, bone density, or glaucoma—every disease state can advance with age. Sixty percent of elder grown-ups do not get regular preventive health assistance,...
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...industry in Sweden: an empirical and theoretical longitudinal study. International Archives of Occupation and Environmental Health, 86(6), 709–716. doi:10.1007/s00420-012-0813-1 While recent studies show that workplace bullying is considered to be one of the leading causes of depression (Takaki et al. 2010), there has been very little research to show that by standing to bullying behavior has cause symptoms of depression. In this study, researchers used data in 2001 (T1) and 2003 (T2) to examine the risks factors associated with symptoms of depression among bystanders to bullying behavior...
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...nursing domains of person, health, and environment. My goal is to communicate the importance of nursing as a knowledge-based career, depending not only on the nurse fulfilling her role but also on the patient’s compliance. A patient must learn to provide self-care at home in the same capacity as the nurse would provide care in the clinical setting. I discuss various subjects within nursing. I explain why I want to be a nurse, what I believe a nurse’s role is, the different domains of nursing, and where I believe nursing will be in the future. My philosophy demonstrates the interdependence of the nursing domains. You cannot fully evaluate a person without evaluating their health, nor can you contemplate an environment without encompassing the person. Likewise, health cannot exclude the influence of the environment. These factors build upon the concept of nursing and elaborate on what nursing really is. Keywords: nursing, philosophy, health, person, environment, beliefs, nursing domains Philosophy of Nursing My name is Quyen Thi Napiontek, and I am 24 years old. I have a husband and beautiful 2-year-old daughter. I was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, and I have spent most of my life here. I have an innate curiosity about people and science, and I like to combine that curiosity with assisting others. I feel a nursing career would provide the perfect platform to do this. I aim to make a difference in the lives of others while at the same time pushing myself intellectually. I am currently...
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...Read the following passage and then write down your answers to the questions that follow it. “Burnout in the Healthcare Sector” Pattie Malone Introduction Stress is a part of everyday life and, to a certain degree, is healthy for an individual. Chronic stress, however, is not healthy for an individual, and chronic stress results in burnout. Burnout is defined in lay terms as physical or emotional exhaustion, especially as a result of long-term stress. Researchers have commonly found that individuals in the human services professions, such as health care, are more susceptible to burnout than individuals in other professions (Maslach, 1982; Pines and Aronson, 1988; Patrick, 1984; Weber, 1991). Today, the economic, political, and regulatory pressures in the healthcare industry have made an already stressful environment even more so (Dubnicki, 1991). The purpose of this study is to determine what burnout is, why it is so prevalent in the healthcare sector, and what human resources management can do to prevent burnout. Burnout Defined Pines and Aronson (1988) define burnout as a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by long-term involvement in emotionally demanding situations. Physical exhaustion comes in the form of low energy, chronic fatigue, and weakness. Emotional exhaustion is characterized by the development of negative attitudes toward oneself, work, and life itself. Maslach (1982) defines burnout as a syndrome of emotional...
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... | |Kundan Iqbal | |Newcastle University | |“…every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease…’TOLSTOY | The importance of holism The term ‘holism’ was coined by philosopher Jan Smuts in 1926, derived from the Greek hólos, meaning ‘whole’[1]. Aristotle captured the essence of holism in his Metaphysics when he stated ‘the whole is more than the sum of its parts’. Applied to healthcare, holism is the art and science of caring for a person in a way which considers all aspects of their body, mind, spirituality and emotional state in relation to “[other] individuals, the environment, or populations, either separately or in various combinations”[2]. In the traditional biomedical model, health is simply viewed as absence of pathology alongside normal function. Treatment or cure involves drugs, procedures and surgeries, prescribed by a knowledgeable physician. Essentially arising as a reaction against biomedical reductionism, a model of medicine in which patients are arguably viewed...
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...PROJECT ON NANO TECHNOLOGY CONTENT * INTRODUCTION * WHAT IS NANO SCIENCE? * IS THERE A NANO TECHNOLOGY? * NATIONAL NANO TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE * CHEMISTRY’S ROLE IN NANO SCIENCE AND NANO TECHNOLOGY * NANO FABRICATION * NANO MEDICINE * RISKS OF NANO TECHNOLOGY * NANO TECHNOLOGY GOALS * SOCIETAL IMPLICATIONS * CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION There have been many influences and drivers for the development of technologies that allow functional components to be constructed at smaller and smaller scale. The semiconductor revolution in the second half of the 20th century was driven by cost, speed, novel function,and power consumption. Semiconductor science and its child, large-scale integration of electronic circuitry, have been responsible for an unprecedented paradigm change in almost every aspect of human life. The change is arguably even more profound than that which resulted from the industrial revolution. As we shall see later in this paper, although the fundamental limits of Moore’s Law have not yet been reached, this and the increasing energy consumption of these paradigm-breaking technologies will necessitate another paradigm shift in the near future.In terms of the influence of individuals, the development of what we now call functional nanoscience clearly owes much to several outstanding scientists, all of whom were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work. Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain’s discovery of the transistor,Kilby’s...
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...Jean Watson’s Caring Theory Nurses’ responsibilities to their patients are continually changing with the times. Jean Watson formed the “caring theory” to convey the significance and emphasize nursing as a diverse health profession. Using the Jean Watson’s caring theory enables nurses to maintain their perspective on caring for patients when overwhelmed with increased acuity, responsibility and workload. With the increase of patients and their needs, nurses often replace the caring attitude with an attitude of arrogance and hurried tasks, leaving patients and family members with belief that nurses believe they are here just to perform a job. By applying the Watson caring theory in caring for patients, “it allows nurses to practice the art of caring, to provide compassion to ease patients’ and families’ suffering, and to promote their healing and dignity but it can also contribute to expand the nurse’s own actualization” (Cara, 2003, p 2). Watson believes it is crucial that nurses apply caring values to their practice because it is essentially a byproduct in discovering the meaning of the nursing profession (Theory of Human Caring, n.d.). The foundation of this paper is to expound on the caring theory Jean Watson designed “to bring meaning and focus to nursing as a distinct health profession” (Cara, 2003, p 2). Description of the Theorist In the 1940’s, Jean Watson was born in West Virginia in a small town in the Appalachian Mountains. In 1961, graduated from the Lewis Gale...
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...2010 Edition Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice Second Edition [pic] American Nurses Association Silver Spring, Maryland 2010 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a national professional association. This ANA publication ( Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice) reflects the thinking of the nursing profession on various issues and should be reviewed in conjunction with state board of nursing policies and practices. State law, rules, and regulations govern the practice of nursing, while Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice guides nurses in the application of their professional skills and responsibilities. Published by Nursesbooks.org The Publishing Program of ANA http://www.Nursesbooks.org/ American Nurses Association 8515 Georgia Avenue, Suite 400 Silver Spring, MD 20910-3492 1-800-274-4ANA http://www.NursingWorld.org Design: Typesetting: Printing: Editorial services: © 2010 American Nurses Association. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Contents Contributors Overview of Content Foundational Documents of Professional Nursing Audience for This Publication Scope of Nursing Practice Definition of Nursing ...
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...2010 Edition Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice Second Edition [pic] American Nurses Association Silver Spring, Maryland 2010 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a national professional association. This ANA publication ( Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice) reflects the thinking of the nursing profession on various issues and should be reviewed in conjunction with state board of nursing policies and practices. State law, rules, and regulations govern the practice of nursing, while Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice guides nurses in the application of their professional skills and responsibilities. Published by Nursesbooks.org The Publishing Program of ANA http://www.Nursesbooks.org/ American Nurses Association 8515 Georgia Avenue, Suite 400 Silver Spring, MD 20910-3492 1-800-274-4ANA http://www.NursingWorld.org Design: Typesetting: Printing: Editorial services: © 2010 American Nurses Association. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Contents Contributors Overview of Content Foundational Documents of Professional Nursing Audience for This Publication Scope of Nursing Practice Definition of Nursing ...
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...hospitals and clinics across the U.S. adopted the use of limited EMR technology (Carter, 2001) In the early 1990s, heeding recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) landmark study, the U.S. government set an ambitious goal for all physicians to computerize patient records by the year 2000 (Dick, R.S., Steen, E.B., & Detmer, D.E. 1997) Due to patients’ privacy issues, less streamlined and often conflicting software technologies, and multiple other barriers in EMR technology adoption, this goal could not be achieved. The adoption of EMR technology started to gather some momentum since 2004 when President George Bush outlined detailed plan to ensure access of electronic health records by all Americans by 2014 (Bush, Executive Order 13335) To achieve this goal, President George Bush created a new, sub-cabinet level National Health Information Technology Coordinator position at the Department of Health and Human Services to implement health IT infrastructure nationwide. The biggest push targeted towards promoting the adoption of EMR technology came with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) 2009 by the U.S. Congress which appropriated $19 billion dollars government assistance to jump start the adoption of EMR technology by physicians, clinics, and hospitals. The healthcare reforms highlighted in the ARRA include an investment of $50 billion in health information technology (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (AARA), 2009). There is the new federal...
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