...shifts worth wile. The job requirements for being a registered nurse range from a diploma to a bachelor's degree. Associates degrees in nursing are offered at community colleges and take two to three years to complete. Bachelor's degrees in nursing are offered at colleges and universities which take four years to complete. Collegequest.com states graduates of nursing education...
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...Health Care Interview The person I chose for my interview is Marlene Jones-Wallace. She is 42 years old and she is a LPN or in other words a Licensed Practical Nurse. Marlene has been a LPN for 7 years at Montefiore Medical Center. She works within the Emergency field. I have gained information about what is takes to become a LPN, What do they do? And other information I felt that we should know. A licensed practical nurse or LPN works under the direction of registered nurses and doctors. They care for patients who are sick, injured, recovering or disabled. A licensed practical nurse is also known as a licensed vocational nurse or LVN. The job involves a variety of daily tasks ranging from dressing wounds to feeding infants. On the job, Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses perform a variety of functions. These functions can be maintaining records of patients' histories, provide dressing or bathing assistance, update doctors and registered nurses on a patient's status, measure vital signs, assist doctors and registered nurses with tests and procedures, caring for and feeding infants, assemble and or use and clean certain medical equipment, start IV drips or give medication, and monitor medication and a patient's response. Most LPNs are trained to work in all aspects of health care, but there are some who specialize in certain areas. LPN’s or LVN’s can be found in all kinds of medical settings like hospitals, clinics, physicians' offices, nursing homes and even in...
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...Debra Sawyer AUI Credentialing for physicians and nurses and other non medical providers Physicians Credentials The role of a physician is to diagnose and treat the illnesses of their patients. When a physician sees a patient who has an injury or is ill, the physician must first identify the problem or diagnosis the illness. A physician’s credential is a personal qualification of achievement and trustworthiness that can be used to substantiate and verify competence and licensure. These documents represent evidence of a provider’s training, licensure, expertise and experience. Why credential providers? • To protect patients. • To verify that doctors meet accreditation and state licensing standards. • To verify that doctors are who they represent themselves to be. • To confirm clinical competence. Non-Physician Credentials by state law, must complete an accredited, formal education program. The majority holds a bachelor’s degree. Although they are employable with an Associates. Are licensure requirements different form state to state In each state, the State Board of Nursing specifies what educational, clinical, and licensure requirements are necessary to practice in the state. Nurse Practice Act (state legislation that sets out the requirements for nurse licensure in the state) contains the states requirements for the practice. All 50 states require that nurses remain licensed in order to practice and it varies from state to state. (Austin...
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...Exploring Registered Nursing September 26, 2010 Exploring Registered Nursing I am the oldest of my mother’s six children: five girls and a boy. There is a 2 ½ years gap between me and my first sibling, 10 years between me and the third child and 14, (almost 15), years between me and the last child. I can remember how excited I was when I first felt my second sister kick in my mother’s tummy. I couldn’t believe there was a whole human inside of her stomach! I remember looking at my mother, and every other pregnant woman I met after that, with amazement. I was simply in love and amazed with the process of child-bearing. From that day forward I knew that I wanted to know everything there was to know about the women’s body and the reproduction process. I wanted other women and men to see just how beautiful, amazing and unique the woman’s body was. As I got older, I learned there was another side to the story. I learned there were some women who could not bear children. I wanted to know why. I wanted to find ways to help them. I decided that I would go into the gynecology field of medicine as a nurse practitioner. I wanted to be an educator of women. I wanted to teach women about their bodies, I wanted to help them learn how to care for themselves so that they could be healthy; I wanted to help them deal when they weren’t healthy. As I learned more about registered nursing, I found that there are various types of registered nurses, various educational paths to nursing...
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...English IV, Period 2 17 Oct. 2012 Career Path “If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.” ~Author Unknown. I want to be part of something in my life, to feel like I helped plan a big role in peoples' life. Helping the ill and wounded is the best feeling in the world to me. My path way to my career will start with a CNA program and work my way up to an RN. In a nut shell a CNA helps the elderly people and the RN helps anyone in a hospital, local or private, physician's office, and nursing care facilities. I enjoy helping people and being there for the needy; therefore, a CNA and RN will greatly be in my career path. Looking forward to my future career as a CNA to start out with at North Idaho College, then going to Lewis and Clark State College be become an RN. I am going to go to school to become a Certified Nurse Assistant at North Idaho College. I am interested in the health and wellness of people. I would love to help people get better and stay healthy. Our elders need our help, and I am willing to help them to the best of my abilities. The three main skills needed are assistance, procedural and safety skills. Assistance skills help with patients that have memory loss, confusion and trouble understanding aspects of care. Procedural skills are about the body, foods and charting. Safety skills help with the handling, washing, cleaning, and disasters (“CNA Certification”)...
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...context, having consideration for the target audience and purpose of presenting the portfolio to them (Andre, 2010). The NRSG137 unit of study includes a requirement to develop a portfolio that I will continue add to as I progress through the Bachelor of Nursing (BN) program. In this context, I will be presenting my portfolio to university lecturers for the purpose of assessing my performance against defined learning outcomes which in turn are mapped to the university’s graduate attributes. The BN program is accredited by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council, which means that the curricula and student assessment criteria comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) competency standards for the registered nurse (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, 2013). My portfolio will therefore contain artefacts that demonstrate my learning progress towards competence in the provision of nursing care (Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council...
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...follows: Registered Nurse and Certified Nurse Anesthetist. In order for a person to become an RN, you must first graduate high school with either a high school diploma or a GED. This is the first step to becoming an RN. The prerequisites will vary based the program and degree you decide upon. To get a prompt start in the necessary training for an RN degree, it is best to take as many Science, Math, English and Foreign Language classes as possible while still in high school. By taking this step the advancement in to college will be much smoother and the additional skills will help immensely with the progression of nursing studies. Once high school has been completed, the second step is to move on to a state-accredited nursing school. There are three different degrees obtainable in RN programs such as an Associate of Science Degree in Nursing (ASN), a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN), and a Master of Science Degree in Nursing (MSN). Each degree varies in the amount of time required...
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...competent, proficient, and expert .The new graduate RN enters at novice or advanced beginner depending on clinical exposure during entry level preparation (Orsini et al, 2005). The uneven transition for new graduates for professional RNs includes novice and advanced beginners with their clinical decision-making. Nurses should provide a comfortable space and a non-threatening environment. Asking questions acknowledges the gap from nursing theory in academia to practice as the professional nurse at the bedside making the transition stressful and difficult (Casey et al, 2004).Nursing retention is a challenge for the nursing profession as a result the new graduates stay jobless .New graduates might change their job within their first year of work due to lack of senior or expert nurses make it challenging to support the transition for the new graduate RN. New graduate RNs who leave their job within a year, highlights the issue of ineffective transition. describe new graduate RN’s who experience a lack of supportive culture and horizontal violence, this may result to shortage of full-time nurses New graduate RN’s need knowledge concerning issues that affect transition to be able to speak to them in upcoming interviews and job opportunities. Criteria for on obtaining RN license Workplacefor the new graduate, where they are involved in their own progression through the transition, which has led to a more loyal and committed nurse (Orsini et al, 2005). The most popular programme here...
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...The debate of mandating of Associate Degree Nurses (ADN) to obtain their Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) in three years Hospitals are currently preferring to hiring those with a BSN's as opposed to those that have ADN's. Future Nurses and nursing students are on the forefront of the proposed legislation that mandates RN's to receive a Bachelor's degree within 3 years of licensure. Nursing schools that offer ADN may see a decrease in enrollment due to those pursuing a career in nursing will apply to a school that offers a BSN program. Nursing Schools will be affected and may have to offer accelerated RN-BSN programs, which may or all together eliminate the ADN program. Hospitals and Healthcare facilities will be directly affected because; they might have to terminate employees that are non-compliant to the new mandated law of having a BSN in three years. Stakeholders The stakeholders of this topic that are affected by this proposal are current and future nurses, nursing students, nursing schools, hospitals and healthcare facilities. " Stakeholders at the federal and state levels have an opportunity to address the nursing shortage by moving to enact legislation and launch programs to increase nursing education and provide funding" (Raines C. and Tagllireni 2008). Governments Role and Legislative Substantiation The government’s role will be to approve and implement the legislation of mandating a BSN within three years of licensure. The government could receive...
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...In order to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, you must first be in college, take some health and science classes and try to get into the Nursing program as a Registered Nurse. The RN programs are very selective, so they usually prefer those with a GPA of 3.0 or higher to be accepted into the nursing program. Once you are into the nursing program, and completed the courses, you will then need to take the State Board Nursing exam as a Registered Nurse. Upon completion of the courses and passing the State Board Nursing exam, you will be licensed as a Registered Nurse. As an RN prior to becoming a CRNA, you will need to work in hospital facility in the Emergency Department, Surgery room, and in the Intensive Care Unit to gain experience and be expose to the atmosphere. By gaining experience in those departments, it will enhance the knowledge and skills to become an exceptional Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist. While working in the hospital, you should enroll in the Bachelor’s Nursing program. After completing the Bachelor’s Nursing program and obtaining a BSN degree, you can then enroll in the CRNA program for your Master’s; and once you complete the CRNA program and obtained the Master’s degree in CRNA, you can work as an Intern in hospitals, small or large facilities that offers internships in CRNA. Upon working as an intern, you will also begin to gain more knowledge and skills in working as a CRNA, and once you’ve mastered those skills and have the potentials...
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...idea of the salary range of a registered nurse, I went to a site called CareerOneStop (http://www.careeronestop.org/SalariesBenefits/Sal_default.aspx). I consider this a reliable site because it is sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration of the US Department of Labor. While the site does not specifically address the type of writing I hope to do, it does have information that provides me with some ballpark figures. Under the heading for writers and authors, it includes high, median, and low salaries. High: $90,000 Median: $62,500 Low: $43,900 (US Department of Labor, 2011) Although I aspire to do better than the low end of this scale, I am comfortable with the median and high end. Library Search While searching the online library, I struck gold! I found something called Nurse Journal social community for nurses world wide. Earning a nursing degree is undoubtedly one of the best educational investments that you can make today. The strong demand for nursing professionals throughout the US is a compelling indicator that nursing will remain a strong career path for many years to come. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the demand for all nursing jobs will skyrocket 19% by 2022. What is driving this demand? Several factors are, but one of the biggest is just that Americans are getting older and living longer. As people are aging and living more active lives, there are more health care workers and nurses being employed. For example, there...
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...You have been asked to investigate a new procedure that physicians would like nurses to adopt in the hospital. Discuss the process you would apply to determine whether the procedure falls within the RN scope of practice and how you would go about introducing the new procedure with physicians and fellow nurses First, I would inform my direct supervisor about the request from the physician to implement a new procedure. If the request is approved by the nursing supervisor, I would further investigate the procedure in which the physician wants the nurses to adopt in the hospital, as it is imperative to determine whether the procedure is within the nursing scope of practice before deciding to adopt or implement it. I would do this by referring to my state board of nursing decision making flow chart. | 1. Is the function commonly recognized as nursing practice? NO YES ⇒ S.P. not required ⇓ | 2. Is it the standard of practice in the community that RNs perform this function in the clinical area for which it is being considered? NO YES ⇒ S.P. not required ⇓ | 3. Does the function require the nurse to: Diagnose disease, Prescribe medicine or treatment, or Penetrate or sever tissue? NO YES ⇒ S.P. required ⇓ | 4. Does safe performance of the function require judgment based on medical knowledge beyond that usually possessed by the competent RN in the area for which it is being considered? NO YES ⇒ S.P. required ⇓ S.P. not required | If the procedure...
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...Learning the differences in competency of ADN vs BSN trained Nurses Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V Professional Dynamics Sunday, April 13, 2014 Learning the differences in competency of ADN vs BSN trained Nurses The Florida Board of Nursing will provide a Registered Nursing license to a Graduate nurse with at least a 2 years Associates Degree of Nursing but up to a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing or Master’s of Science in Nursing. Regardless of degree level each graduate nurse will have to pass the same NCLEX-RN test administered by Pearson Vue. BSN trained nurses also do not receive a higher salary but will have better results for advancement within companies and more job opportunities. BSNs are also better trained for positions outside of the acute care setting. So why are so many hospitals requiring that their current registered nurses obtain their BSN to maintain employment? Or why now are hospitals hiring only new registered nurses with their BSN? Because even though we hold same licensure, the knowledge and leadership skills to provide the best possible patient care are different. Even the research and statistics show the higher the degree level, the better the patient outcomes. I started my career as a Licensed Practical Nurse, where I was trained to provide hands on care for patients. I was taught how to perform nursing skills such as wound care, IM/SQ injections, check vital signs and administered medications. The only nursing tasks I could not...
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...underpaid, stressful, but yet rewarding career. When someone thinks of a nurse, the first thing that comes to mind is probably the registered nurse (RN). Many people will argue that the only “real” nurses are those who hold at least an associate degree in nursing. From the vocational nurse to the doctorate degree nurse, each have a wide range of capabilities and responsibilities. The vocational nurse is a person who has completed a one year accredited certification program that also requires a state board licensure exam. LVN’s are also real nurses. Although all roles are not equal, each one has important responsibilities to fulfill. Many have often wondered what the differences are between the license vocational nurse and the RN. The role of the nurse is ever changing. The scope of practice for each can be found on the Board of Nursing website at https://www.bon.texas.gov. The following is a quick comparison about the two. THE LVN Most LVN’s are responsible for many of the patients basic needs such has helping with baths, and assisting in bedside care. They also participate in monitoring patients condition such as recording vitals and performing focused assessment to help the ongoing care of the patient. The LVN can also provide moral support for patients and families dealing with a disease/disorder or loss in the family. All these things must be done under the direct supervision of an Registered nurse (RN), physician, physician assistant, podiatrist, or dentist.(pg 25 NPA)...
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...The National Black Nurses Association was organized in 1971 by Dr. Lauranne Sams a former Dean and Professor of Nursing at Tuskegee Institute. The NBNA is a non-profit organization. Its members include Registered Nurses, LPN/LVN’s, Nursing students and retired nurses from the USA, Eastern Caribbean and Africa. Currently there are 92 chartered chapters in 35 states. In KY the chapter is known as KYANNA and I was able to interview Vivian Griffiths, MSN, APRN-C a member of our local chapter on Saturday June 18, 2016 at 5:30pm. We met at Panara Bread restaurant on Dutchmans Lane. Our interview lasted approximately 1 hour. According to Mrs. Griffiths KYANNA’s goals are to support the development and advancement of black nurses and to improve the health and wellbeing of the African American community and serve as an unifying body between the community agencies and healthcare. KYANNA holds monthly meeting but due to the due date of this paper I would not be able to attend the next one which is scheduled for August 18th 2016. There is no scheduled meeting in July and I just missed the June meeting. The meetings are held at the Norton Cancer Institute at 234 East Gray St, Suite 160 in Louisville from 5:30 to 7:00 PM. Membership is open to currently practicing or retired registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPNs/LVNs), and nursing students who express commitment to the philosophy of KYANNA and NBNA. Membership fees for RN’s is $225 for the national...
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