...Introduction Nursing is a call to serve the humanity. Present day healthcare system focused on preventive care and wellness has become highly advanced which makes every nurse responsible to achieve maximum level of education, skills and power of knowledge to meet the challenges. Continuous research in nursing and the evidence obtained from the research serves to support the nursing care. Continuing education helps nurses to keep track of all the developments taking place in the field, trace advances in technology and care, have a better understanding of all current rules and regulations, beware of all ethical and legal aspects of nursing as envisaged by various boards of nursing and other authorities in the field of healthcare. In this paper, I would like to explain the position statement of career development in nursing. It is only through proper and continued education that nurses can provide patients better care, assess and report what is best for the patient and always seek ways to improve patient outcome. In order to achieve the best results, nurses need to identify the core knowledge, scientific principles, skills and attitudes of nursing practice to improve healthcare system (International Council of Nurses, 2007). Therefore career development must be achieved by integrating care through our scholastic system, giving nurses opportunity to learn, grow and move up the ladder, making them capable of leading from the forefront. Career Development in Nursing Ever changing...
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...Employee Training and Career Development Paper FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT HRM/300 Employee Training and Career Development Paper Training and development of the employees are important to an organizations success. The human resources management team’s role in the employee training and development, and organizational development is to provide the tools and information needed to be successful. Employee development methods are beneficial to the organization and employees because it ensures that changes are met within the organization. The importance of the human resource management’s involvement in the process is to develop and make sure that programs are available to meet the needs of the organization. Role of Training in an Organization’s Development The role of training in an organizations development is to develop employee’s skills, and knowledge to help the employees to perform his or her job more effectively. DeCenzo and Robbins (2007) defines employee training as “present-oriented training that focuses on individual’s current jobs” (p. 209). An organizations development depends on how well an employee can do his or her current job. Training provides employee’s an opportunity to develop his or her skills, knowledge, attitude, and behavior. An organization profits from training employee’s because the organization needs to have workers who are well-adjusted, have training, and experience to perform the job requirements. Organizations invest in employee...
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...Career Development Plan Part 2 My interest started in nursing when I was nine years old and my mom got in an accident, she broke her right arm and got a cast. I saw nurses and doctors helping my mom heal and it was like a miracle for me. I decided to pursue this career of miracles and care and became a nurse. Life happened and twelve years passed, I looked back and realized that I need a career plan for future. I finished my BSN in 2013 and wanted to become a nurse practitioner but there I was with gaps in my knowledge and work skills. “Given the ever-changing nature of the healthcare industry, career plans should be updated frequently and be adaptable to effectively accommodate unexpected circumstances” (Broscio, 2014, p. 395). In this part two of my career development plan, I will evaluate my gaps and make a plan to fill the gaps in my knowledge, skills and accomplishments that are needed to achieve my goals stated in part one of the career development plan which is to become a nurse practitioner. Identification of the gaps in knowledge, skills and accomplishments According to Broscio (2014) “having a career plan involves taking advantage of learning opportunities and addressing any weaknesses in preparation for one's best next position” (p-395). As mentioned in my career development plan part one, I lack in various aspects of new developments and advancements in the nursing profession. Nursing profession has changed in past twelve years. First gap that I feel is, in my...
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...Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Kaylene Ross Grand Canyon University November 30, 2014 Professional Development of Nursing Professionals The Institute of Medicine ( IOM) report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health was published in 2010. This report looked at the most trusted profession in the United States, nursing, to recommend practice and insure safe quality care to citizens in the coming years. Through its deliberations, the committee developed four key messages: Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training, nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression, nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States and effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and information infrastructure.("Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," 2013) This paper will focus on the impact of the IOM report on nursing education, nursing practice and the role of nurses. Impact of the IOM Report on Nursing Education As centuries pass by, the technology and education needs for members of the healthcare team increase and become more complex. 100 years ago nurse education consisted of 2-3 years of training in a hospital setting ending up with a diploma. In 2010, the IOM report suggested that by 2020...
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...foundations and history of nursing provide a way to show just how important change and evolving something for the better can be. Nursing has come a long way and change is important to better the career and the outcomes for patients. The dynamics of the workplace and nursing staff have since evolved from the foundation. The education involved in nursing has made major changes. The treatments, equipment, and technology used from the beginning to present day has also changed and improved. This is why we research and learn ways to better nursing education, treatments, equipment, and technology. We should shrive to better nursing as nurses ourselves. We all benefit from moving forward with change. Nurses began as one of the lowest status in society. This was a job for those who could find income in no other way. Those commonly referred to as “undesirables” working as nurses were the beginning of a lengthy timeline to end with a career that now holds respect of many. Now the career of nursing includes females as well as males and from all ethnicities and races. The education process in these early nursing times did not exist. It evolved with the help of several nursing leaders. Most commonly know is Florence Nightingale. She worked to change the sanitary conditions of hospital and advance education for nursing. Today there is several levels of education of nursing. Nursing degrees include associate and baccalaureate degrees where one can advance to nursing doctoral degrees. Treatments...
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...2009 Nursing Turnover: Costs, Causes, & Solutions Steven T. Hunt, Ph.D., SPHR Director of Business Transformation SuccessFactors Inc. (www.successfactors.com) E-mail: shunt@successfactors.com Copyright © 2009 SuccessFactors, Inc. Invest in People …. Drive Business Results SuccessFactors Healthcare Executive Summary Nursing turnover is a major issue impacting the performance and profitability of healthcare organizations. Healthcare organizations require a stable, highly trained and fully engaged nursing staff to provide effective levels of patient care. The financial cost of losing a single nurse has been calculated to equal about twice the nurse’s annual salaryi. The average hospital is estimated to lose about $300,000 per year for each percentage increase in annual nurse turnoverii. Losing these critical employees negatively impacts the bottom line of healthcare organizations in a variety of ways including: Decreased quality of patient care Increased contingent staff costs Increased staffing costs Loss of patients Increased nurse and medical staff turnover Increased accident and absenteeism rates The primary causes of nurse turnover can be analyzed by I) understanding why nurses choose to work for an organization and ensuring this ‘employee value proposition’ is met; and II) identifying things that occur after nurses are hired that lead them to quit even though their initial job expectations were met. I. Primary factors that influence...
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...Running head: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NURSING PHILOSOPHY The Early Development of a Professional Nursing Philosophy: The Art of Caring University of Texas at Arlington In partial fulfillment of the requirements of N3645 Professional Nursing Mary Alice Wise, RN, MSN/Ed November 16, 2013 Online RN-BSN The Early Development of a Nursing Philosophy: The Art of Caring “A philosophy is a set of beliefs about the nature of how things work and how the world should be viewed” (Chitty & Black, 2007, p. 329). Chitty & Black also state that the most vital nursing knowledge is based on person, environment, health, and nursing. These are the foundation on what the theories of nursing were built off of. My personal philosophy builds on the foundation and encompasses Virginia Henderson’s philosophy. I believe a nurse should be someone who is caring, shows compassion, advocates for the patient, shows empathy, knowledgeable, and does whatever it takes to improve patient care/outcomes. Choice of Nursing Unlike most people, when I was only five years old I already knew what I wanted as a career later on in life. My grandparents were always in and out of the hospital for various different health problems, and my parents would usually take me to visit them. I enjoyed being involved in my grandparents care and was always asking questions to the nurses’ and wanting to help with anything I was able to. My grandfather was battling cancer, and when we were...
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...Leadership and Nursing Turnover Emergence of new healthcare policy, changed vision in healthcare based on prevention and wellness and the attempt to add entire population under the shield of care, demand greater nursing care to meet the challenges. Good leaders can create expert nurses capable of undertaking future challenges and keep them in the facility, creating better patient satisfaction and outcome. Research article by Furtado, Batista, & Silva (2011) explores the leadership role in nursing turnover and career abandonment intention. This article is relevant today as many nurses abandon facilities for career growth, seek better work environment or change career altogether. The Issue of Nurse Turnover in Present Day Healthcare Nursing turnover is a huge problem affecting healthcare industry today. Literature review from the above mentioned research article shows that while economy is growing and unemployment rate is low, there shall be high nurse turnover but when job availability decreases and economic growth slows down, nurses are forced to stick to the same position whether they are satisfied or not. Also, some frustrated nurses are likely to abandon the career and seek job elsewhere. Healthcare organizations require highly trained, stable and fully engaged nurses to provide effective care and the financial cost of losing a single nurse is more than twice a nurse’s annual salary (Hunt, 2009). Financial burden of nurse leaving the facility, cost of hiring and training...
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...Running head: MENTORING IN NURSING: A CONCEPT ANALYSIS Mentoring In Nursing: A Concept Analysis Leslie R. Dick The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Introduction Mentoring can be dated as far back as the Ancient Greeks. Young athletes were trained by their more experienced superiors. Homer is most famous for our initial understanding a mentor when he tells of Odysseus leaving his infant son with a companion, Mentor, when he left on his Odyssey (Gentry, Weber, & Sadri, 2008). Mentoring is a relationship between two people which lasts over an extended period of time. One of the people, the mentor, is more experienced and considered senior to the mentee and is trusted by the mentee. The mentee is less experienced, although not necessarily younger, than the mentor. Mentors can play an important role in our lives. They share knowledge, experience, and wisdom, and they critique us and give honest feedback. Positive, competent mentors develop relationships with their mentees and are focused on their growth. They are also generous and professional in their collaborations. The benefits of mentoring relationships include increased self-confidence and retention, strengthened professional relationships and increased skill levels. These consequences of mentoring improve the health environment for all. Through this concept analysis, I hope to show the attributes associated with mentoring as well as provide related terms that will provide a further understanding...
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...Waynesburg University NUR 518 I began my journey to become a nurse in 2006 when I graduated high school and entered a nursing school in Akron, Ohio. Thankfully, upon graduation in 2010 from Robert Morris University I was able to quickly find a job that would lead me to wanting to advance my career further and get my masters degree in nursing. Without the many programs made available because of willing nurses to become educators, a lot of us would not be where we are today, myself included. Many people think about the nursing shortage when it comes to bedside nursing and nurses in hospitals. Few rarely think that in order for a person to become a nurse they actually need other nurses that are willing to teach them. As the baby boomer generation gets older, we have to keep in mind that this is also a lot of our nurses in the field right now. According to the Administration on Aging by 2030 there will be 72.1 million people in the United States age 65 and older, which will be about 19% of the population. This number is compared to just 12.4% of the population in the year 2000. Again, not only do these numbers show the advancing age of our population, it shows that a lot of the nurses that we have in the work force right now are going to be retiring within the next 10-15 years. According to the National League for Nursing, in 2007, one out of five nurse educators planned to retire within 3 to 5 years. Unfortunately, projected retirements are expected to...
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...one’s life by providing the respect and well career advancement for their future. People often call uneducated person illiterate; without an education a person waste his whole life. Education is a form of learning, usually transferred from one generation to other. It is provided through teaching, training, or research. One chooses his or her career to earn what they want. Every career is different, and they are different in their competencies. Nursing education is another career people choose to go for; they also have different competencies. Licensed vocational nurse has different competencies than associate degree nursing; and Baccalaureate degree different than associate degree nursing. In this paper, we are going to discuss the differences in competencies between nurses prepared at the associate-degree level versus the baccalaureate-degree level in nursing. Competencies Differences The associate program is usually 2-3 years long and it is usually offered at the community colleges. The associate degree nursing students usually learn the knowledge, and skills. These skills are required to care for individuals and families during illness and recovery after medical treatment. ADN nurses practice a more restricted level of nursing care such as skilled nursing and long term care facilities, corrections and clinics. The associate nurse teaching is more focused on direct hands such as hospitals and community care. “The associate degree nursing programs have fewer such as 72-80 units of...
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...History states that nursing is career that mainly involves in physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of an individual with all ages and cultural backgrounds. As literatures states the essential focus of this profession collaborates all sciences to recover the health of human beings within their environments. So it is very important that a well-trained professional nurse should learn about physical science, social science, biological science, and technology. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) states “education has a significant impact on the knowledge and competencies of nurses.” In United States, based on the education, the nursing degrees range from diploma to doctoral level. Associate degrees in Nursing (ADN) and Bachelor of Science in nursing (BSN) are the most common degree programs in United States. A community college or university can provide an Associate degree in nursing (ADN) with license to practice in health care settings (American Association of Community Colleges, 2003). On other hand, Bachelor of Science in nursing (BSN) are offered by senior colleges and universities that require different basics and prerequisites, and in BSN program, training will be provided to improve leadership skills in addition to clinical nursing skills. Fairleigh Dickinson University started first ADN degree in 1952. In United States this entry level nursing degree is awarded by community colleges or technical colleges. Associate degrees will train the students...
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...Prepared Nurse Interview Eduardo Mariano Grand Canyon University Theoretical Foundations for Nursing Roles and Practice NUR502 July 31, 2013 Master's Prepared Nurse Interview Interview This is an interview of a Master’s- prepared nurse who has recently assumed an Assistant Director of Nursing position. The aim of the interview is to show how a graduate of a Master of Science in Nursing would adequately prepare a nurse to assume a higher role in the field of nursing practice, education or administration. This achievement offers the individual with many opportunities for growth and opens the door to different career possibilities. I chose to interview B.A., a fellow instructor at the Anaheim nursing school where we teach. Aside from knowing that she is optimally qualified to fill her post, I am also awed by how she rose from the ranks, and how she values education as the tool to reach for her dreams. Overview of Career B.A. started her career after graduating as a Medical Assistant at Everest College (formerly Bryman College), La Palma in 1991. She worked from 1991 – 1993 at a surgical group practice clinic in Cypress, and was responsible for the back room. She gained clinical experience while assessing patients, taking vital signs, assisting doctors and performing venipunctures and injections. Not content with her work, she continued with her studies and became a Certified Nursing Assistant from Long Beach City College in 1993. She worked at the Skylight Convalescent Home...
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...Institute of Medicine Report Impact on Nursing Education Grand Canyon University February 2012 I agree that nursing education is the key factor for career advancement and by “providing a strong foundation for the development of a nursing work force” (Institute of Medicine, 2010) we can meet the current and future patient needs. With the nursing shortage, we can provide higher leveled trained nurse into the work field once the number of graduates increases. Learning is part of growing; this career gives us the opportunity to evolve in specialty areas that are of high demand. However, it can also add stress to nurses when pressured to do more than just bedside nursing. It takes time, knowledge, perseverance and maturity to do this. We forget that nurses are mothers/fathers/caregivers and have responsibilities to their family needs, which brings me to this, even though we get the support to advance our career with the tuition assistance and scholarships, we don't necessarily get the support while working and going to school. At my work scheduling is a challenge to me because I have children and have to work full time. I don't have the flexibility to change my schedule to meet the needs of my family, school, and personal life. I think we need to consider these things. Nurses do not want to be burden with additional stress. “The health care system does not provide sufficient incentives for nurses to pursue higher degrees and additional training” (Institute...
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...Running head: Professional Development Plan Professional Development Plan Jeff S. University of Phoenix Course Number Nur/391 Mr. November 18, 20 Professional Development Introduction The field of nursing attracted me for several reasons. The first being, that a nurse is the frontline person caring for others living or dyeing. Nurses many times will discover patients who need immediate attention before physician will and it’s up to the nurse to respond accordingly within the scope of their practice to take care of that patient. That attracted me because years ago I thought of going to medical school after high school but lack of money prevented that, nursing was not introduced to me till later while attending a ACLS class at a local collage in which the instructor was a R.N., she thought I was a person whom would be good at nursing. I then searched and found out what nursing had to offer, which seemed to be along the lines of a M.D. but without the length of schooling and residency. I have been able to find a job in different areas of nursing and now working in a perioperative setting which presently meets my carrier goals. Working in an enviroment that has high technology and being self motivated, working with different disciplines and a 12 hour work days three days a week keeps me attracted. The philosophy of nursing goes beyond culture, religious beliefs, geographic location; it sometimes becomes a part of us and who we are. Though...
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