...Competencies Between Adn and Bsn Running head: COMPETENCIES BETWEEN ADN AND BSN Competencies Between Associate Degree Nursing and Bachelor Degree Nursing Socorro L. Lufsey Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics NRS 430v February 12, 2012 Competencies Between Associate Degree Nursing and Bachelor Degree Nursing This paper will touch upon the educational requirements for the profession of nursing between Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) and Bachelor Degree Nursing (BSN). It will also explore the competency differences between the ADN and BSN over the educational time frame for each degree. Also discussed will be a patient care scenario where both disciplines provide nursing care and how the care would differ. Education The profession of nursing began with Florence Nightingale in the 1800’s where she established the Nightingale School for Nursing in 1860 in London (Creasia & Friberg, 2010, p. 4). Since then the profession of nursing has grown immensely across the United States and abroad. In the United States of America the ADN requires two years of formal education covering general courses (Orsolini-Hain & Waters, 2009, p. 267) while the BSN requires four years of formal education covering “a more in-depth treatment of the physical and social sciences, nursing research, public and community health, nursing management, and the humanities” (Rosseter, 2011, ¶ 4). Despite the educational level of registered nurses, all are required to take and pass...
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... Difference in competencies between Associate Degree versus Baccalaureate Degree It is a difficult question to answer. Which one is good? One or other day all has to face this sometime. I believe both degrees make better nurse, but still there are difference in the programs that makes them unique. Associate Degree Nursing Associate Degree Nursing otherwise known as ‘entry level tertiary education nursing degree’ was started in 1952 at Fairleigh Dickson University. This type of degree is awarded by community colleges or hospital based nursing schools in US. To graduate as ADN nurse, one has to study 2 years and earn 72 credit hours. The core curriculum based on adult health, community health, maternal, newborn, pediatric and geriatric nursing. After completing the course, to work as Registered Nurse (RN), one has to pass basic requirements such as NCLEX RN test and other continuing education depending upon the nursing board. There are some advantages of ADN programs, that is, they are less expensive, low time consuming and easy way to entry level nursing jobs. ADN degree is based on practical bed side nursing like patient teaching, communicating, provider of care and manager of care. But scope of ADN nurses are limited to certifications. Baccalaureate Degree Nursing Baccalaureate Degree Nursing also known as Bachelor of Nursing or Bachelor of Science in other countries. It is an academic degree in the science and principles of nursing, awarded by an accredited tertiary...
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...Cultural Competency in Nursing Care Dorcas Jacobs Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V Family Centered Health Promotion September 29, 2013 Cultural Competency in Nursing Care As the United States becomes more and more culturally diverse one cannot help but be exposed to various cultures and worldviews. America has long been called the melting pot, and that term has never been truer than it is today. According to Green and Reinckens (2013) the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that by the year 2041 the U.S. population will be a majority minority. In other words, less than half of the population will be non-Hispanic, single race Caucasian. This growing diversity makes cultural competence in healthcare a necessary requirement for effective communication and delivery of patient centered care. In fact, cultural competency is so necessary that The Joint Commission has produced a number of items addressing this issue, and states that organizations and their personnel must do the following in order to provide culturally competent care: (1) value diversity; (2) assess themselves; (3) manage the dynamics of difference; (4) acquire and institutionalize cultural knowledge; and (5) adapt to diversity and the cultural contexts of individuals and communities served. (The Joint Commission, 2010) This paper will explore the value of understanding one’s own heritage when evaluating the needs of others. Comparison will also be made between health traditions of three families of differing cultural...
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...1 Differentiating Nursing Competencies by Educational Preparation Rebecca B. Roe Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V Professional Dynamics February 15, 2013 EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION Differentiating Nursing Competencies by Educational Preparation Significant efforts are currently being designed to form partnerships between executives, 2 academia, and professional organizations to ensure nursing curricula and core competencies meet the needs of the complex and constantly changing health-care system, and those efforts will support a seamless path to advanced nursing degrees (AONE, 2005). The common goal for nursing is the promotion of academic progression between all entry levels, and support a more diverse and well educated nursing workforce that will adequately reflect and care for our changing demographic (AACN, 2012). The recently published NLN Education Competency Model (2010) provides a comprehensive overview of core nursing competencies at all levels of nursing education, listing expected proficiencies in each level attained. While debate continues for the BSN to be the accepted entry to practice, the shortage of nurses and lack of nursing instructors will dictate the need for the provision of trained nurses who can meet the needs of a more complex health-care system, and will continue a path of lifelong learning to fill important advanced nursing roles. The 2010 Affordable Care Act provides exciting and challenging opportunities for the nursing profession to seriously...
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...Competencies of Associate and Baccalaureate Nursing Education Jessica Key Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V August 16, 2014 Competencies of Associate and Baccalaureate Nursing Education The differences in competencies between associate-degree nurses and baccalaureate-degree nurses can be looked at many different ways. These can include statistics, patient experiences and correlating hospital scores or by evidence based articles researching the differences in how the diverse education levels handle certain situations (for example, cardiac arrests, a difficult patient situation, death, etc). To understand each degree level, we must first understand exactly what they do to prepare nurses to enter this profession. This paper will look deeply into where the associate and baccalaureate degrees came from and exactly what they concentrate on while a student is in the program. What is Nursing? According to the American Nurses Association, nursing can be defined as “the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations” ("American Nurses Association," 2014, section 3). To acquire the label of “Registered Nurse”, one must go through one or more nursing programs to attain the knowledge to take the standardized licensure exam. The two most common programs are associate-level...
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...The role of regulatory agencies related to nursing Marina Chandy San Jacinto College- LVN program According to Calzone (2014), “As science, advances, new competencies must be integrated into nursing practice to ensure the provision of safe, responsible and accountable care.” The purpose of the Board of Nursing is to protect and promote the welfare of the people by ensuring that each person holding a license as a nurse is competent to practice safely(Board of Nursing [BON], 2014). Regulatory agencies have been around for many years, but the regulation of nursing actually began as a registry process to protect the public and nurses. A regulatory agency is authorized to create and enforce rules or regulations that carry the full force of the law(Flook, 2003). A wide range of regulatory agencies apply in different ways in the health care field. Health care regulations are developed and enforced by all levels of...
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...Differences in Nursing Competencies: ADN vs. BSN Sheri Lancaster August 23, 2014 Differences in Nursing Competencies: ADN vs. BSN There has been much discussion recently about the need to require a minimum of a baccalaureate degree for entry-level nurses. Many hospitals have moved to this ideology and have already began to give a hiring preference to those nurses who hold a baccalaureate degree and many have hired Associate degreed nurses with the requirement that they will obtain their baccalaureate degree within so many years of employment date. This paper will discuss the differences between a nurse holding an associates degree and a baccalaureate degree, as well as, present a patient care situation describing how patient care decisions difference based upon the nurse’s educational level. History of ADN and BSN Programs It was during the post World War II years that Mildred Montage developed an associate degree level of nursing education in response to the shortage of nursing (Creasia & Friberg, 2011). She developed the associate degree-nursing program with the intent that these nurses would work under the supervision of baccalaureate level nurses who were at the time considered professional nurses. The Associate program is a two-year program that focuses on the fundamentals of nursing and teaching bedside clinical skills. The baccalaureate degree program has been in existence since 1909 and was developed as a five-year program (Creasia & Friberg, 2011). It...
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...To become a registered nurse, you must go through a stringent of nursing educational process. There are two entry educational levels: Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing (BSN), and the Associate degree of nursing, ADN, ( Lane & Kohlenberg, 2010). Completion of any of these programs allows one to take the licensing exam, National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses, NCLEX-RN. The ADN is a two year program established earlier on as a quick fix to address nursing shortage in 1958. Its focus is more on application of the basic nursing skills to achieve patient care. This program is usually in community colleges. BSN is a four year college education whose program is more extensive and expansive of the fundamentals of the ADN program to include “physical and social sciences, nursing research, public and community health, nursing management, and the humanities” (American Association of Colleges of Nursing., 2012). Both BSN and ADN educated nurses have to take the NCLEX exam for initial licensure and so, one may wonder why spend more time and money in school to achieve the same result. This paper is therefore going to show the competency differences between the BSN and ADN as applied to nursing practices. It goes without saying that the BSN being a four year program will definitely mean more education, knowledge, skill and, with knowledge and skill comes confidence. BSN will...
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...Nursing Competencies; ADN versus BSN All nurses are caring educated individuals that are trained to provide safe and efficient care to their patients. They are the eyes and ears for the doctor when they are unable to be present and they are the patients advocate when they are unable to be their own. It is the knowledge and education of the nurse that aids them in assessing a patient and leads them to ask the right questions so a safe clinical decision is made. (McHugh & Lake, 2010) Any person who graduates for a nursing program, weather it is a diploma, associate degree or a baccalaureate degree is eligible is sit for the licensing exam (NCLEX-RN) to become a Registered Nurse. The NCLEX test for minimum technical competency. An Associate degree in nursing (ADN) program is a two year degree that focuses more on the clinical skills of the nurse and less on the science and theory that is nursing. Many people choose to pursue this degree due to the fact it often takes less time to obtain and the cost is usually less. While associate degree prepared nurses can be great bedside nurses they tend to be task oriented and lack the education and critical thinking skills needed to be leaders in the nursing field. A Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree is a four year degree that is based on research and theory. They are trained to treat the whole patient, not only their current issues but everything that the patient encompasses. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing...
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...Running Head: COMPETENCY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ADN AND BSN LEVEL OF NURSING Competency difference between ADN and BSN level of Nursing Presented to Professor Mandy Sheriff By Marlene Holmes Grand Canyon University: NRS-430-102 November 4, 2012 Competency difference between ADN and BSN level of Nursing This paper will look at the competencies between the Associate Degree of Nursing (ADN), and the Bachelors of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) as it relates to the educational requirements for both programs. It will also discuss a patient care scenario where both nursing disciplines provide nursing care or the approach in the decision making process based on educational preparation of the nurse. When we speak of where the nursing profession is heading in the future, we must take a look at our past in order to fully understand current practices. Originally, nursing was not seen as a “profession” it was a job for the undesirables (Friberg & Creasia, 2010). The undesirable were men and woman who would help the sick, poor and abandoned individual and nurse the sick back to health. It was not until the 1800’s when Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, helped to change the way things were being done in military hospital as it relates to taking care of the sick. She fought for sanitary changes in the hospitals as well as educational advancement for nursing practices (Friberg & Creasia , 2010). In the 1860’s Nightingale established...
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...Differences in Competencies Between Associate and Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Babrin Guisha Grand Canyon University: NRS 430 October 7, 2012 From the beginning, nursing has been the way of caring for sick individual, who are unable to care for themselves. The concept has not changed till today, but event surrounding it has changed tremendously in regards to civilization, modernization and technological advancement. This knowledge of nursing profession evolved around education, community health nursing, and research. Today, more is required from the nurses before you can practice as a professional nurse to the benefits of the patient, family and community at large. Therefore this has force many nurses to go back to school to attain more knowledge in other to fit into today’s world of nursing and to be able to give excellent and qualitative care to their patient, family and society. According to the American Association of College of Nursing (AACN), “Quality patient care hinges on having a well educated nursing workforce” (2011). There are two types of nursing degrees, an Associate Nursing Degree and a Baccalaureate degree level in nursing. The ADN is a two year program that is task and skill oriented. This type of education received does not prepare them for nursing research and this degree has limited interaction with community health and minimal knowledge of patho-physiology of disease. On the other hand, BSN is a four...
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...NURSING DIAGNOSIS *Risk for Dysfunctional Gastrointestinal Motility r/t colon resection a/e/b lack of bowel sounds Goal: Patient will pass flatus and have normal bowel sounds by POD 3 Nursing Interventions: 1. Maintain NPO status until bowel sounds return and patient begins to pass flatus 2. Administer antibiotics, analgesics and antipyretics as prescribed 3. Assess pain – intensity, location, quality 4. Encourage use of Incentive Spirometer 5. Assist OOB to chair and with early ambulation to help with peristalsis 6. Observe for dumping syndrome 7. Monitor bowel sounds and abdomen distention 8. Consult with dietician for nutritional counseling when diet can be resumed 9. Monitor daily lab values ensuring glucose levels are done and evaluated (elevated blood glucose levels can cause delayed gastric emptying) 10. Maintain bowel regime as prescribed to minimize risk for constipation. 11. Educate patient for signs and symptoms of constipation and obstruction and notify provider if no BM within 3 to 5 days of discharge. *Acute Pain r/t postoperative surgical procedure a/e/b numeric pain 8/10 Goal: Patient will verbalize adequate relief of pain within 1 to 2 hours of administration of analgesic Nursing Interventions: 1. Encourage use of Incentive Spirometer 2. Acknowledge and convey acceptance of the patient’s pain experience 3. Assess pain routinely asking patient to identify intensity, location, duration and quality...
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...move forward in our day to day activities. More education brings more opportunity. The more educational experience you have, the more doors are open for you, just like many doors are open to nurses with a BSN, than nurses with a diploma or an associate degree. An associate degree nurse is a nurse with three years nursing training which are usually offered at community/junior colleges. After graduating from the program the associate nurse is qualified to take the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX) to become a registered nurse (RN). The program was offered to reduce the nursing shortages at hospital. Associate degree nurse program was formed by Mildred Montag (a nurse educator) in 1956 due to severe shortage of nurses after World War 11. Baccalaureate degree nurses are nurses with four years of nursing training that are offered at summer colleges and universities. The graduates of this program are qualified to take the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX) and become a Registered Nurse. The BSN program includes all the courses taught in an associate or diploma degree program, but the courses go more in depth in physical sciences, social sciences, and nursing management. The educational background a nurse receives from the Baccalaureate degree while in school helps the nurse to understand religious, cultural and social matters related to patient care and safety. The degree also helps to better understand social-cultural, economic and potential concerns that may have emotional...
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...The Differences in Competencies between Nurses Prepared at the Associate-Degree level versus the Baccalaureate Degree level in Nursing Grand Canyon University NRS-430V Professional dynamics 125 January 11, 2012 The Differences in Competencies between Nurses prepared at the Associate-Degree level versus the Baccalaureate Degree level in Nursing In modern society human being, encompass extensively sophisticated requisites provoking advanced techniques of acquisition directly correlating to health care industry. The health care is intensifying in complexity and observing beneficial amendments. The longevity and expectations have heightened thus nurses are obligate to become educated in higher echelon, the professional baccalaureate level, to comprehensively achieve composite necessities. The professional nurse who graduates with a baccalaureate is primed for broader role in numerous facet of health care in addition to global knowledge of functionality of medical system and diverse methods of application. Enabling the application in daily patient care ,the delegation of tasks ,independent decision making ,secure patient discharge , and numerous other aspects provoking an improvement in quality of care . Research has shown that lower mortality rates, fewer medication errors, and positive outcomes are all linked to nurses prepared at the baccalaureate and graduate degree levels. (AACN, 2011). Education...
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...The Core Competency of Leadership in Nursing James Dunn Chamberlain College of Nursing Course Number: NR351 December 2015 The Core Competency of Leadership in Nursing Leadership in nursing is a fundamental core competency that is important to the growth and development of all nurses. The success of nursing is directly related to the effectiveness of the leadership in which they receive. By providing a good example, it will help to influence those around them and inspire others to want to lead as well. Leadership is important to nursing because it promotes a positive environment for current and future nurses and can develop standards and goals for nurses to continually strive for. Good leadership can be passed down thus providing a nurturing environment for those entering the profession. Effective Leadership According to Schwartz, Spencer, Wilson, and Wood (2011), “Success in the workplace often is contingent on a leader’s ability to effect positive change and inspire others to higher levels of achievement” (p.737). Leadership is a position that is not usually appointed however it instead emerges from those who have the ability to influence others, inspire others, and have character traits that are both admired and respected (Hood, 2014). Effective leaders have the power to make change and it’s important to recognize different leadership styles and the traits that an effective leader usually displays. Leadership Styles The type of leadership style used can greatly...
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