...Hicks Jacksonville University School of Nursing Sept. 5, 2014 Staff nurse to Nurse Manager/Nurse Educator I. Personal Goals i. Short-term goals i. Elliptical, power walk or go running 40 minutes 3 times a week to lose 15 pounds. This goal will be achieved by eliminating sugars, and processed foods/carbohydrates. This goal will be achieved by Thanksgiving 2014. ii. Obtain BSN at Jacksonville University RN to BSN online. This goal will be achieved by taking 2 classes per 8wk. session while continuing to work full time in current position at LAMPS. This goal will be achieved by October 2016. ii. Long-term goals i. Obtain MSN from Jacksonville University MSN program online specializing in in Leadership in healthcare systems and Clinical Nurse Education. This goal will be achieved by October 2020. II. Mentor: Kristine Menofee MSN, RN-BC III. Title/Name of chosen role: Charge nurse on Med/Surg/Onc. Unit and Administrative Supervisor 7p to 7a shift. i. Degree level: MSN in Leadership in Healthcare systems. ii. Role responsibilities i. Supervise nursing staff in carrying out clinical duties in all hospital units, coordinates unit staffing needs, and nursing function with other healthcare employee’s. iii. Licensure/certification i. Requirements to become a nurse manager, nurse supervisor and/or nurse educator is an active nursing license...
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...Before making a purchase for a computer a person should take into consideration what kind of computer they need and for what. The first thing you should think into before even looking for a laptop would be the budget you are going to set for yourself. Think about how much money you are really willing to spend on a computer. They come in many different options so choose wisely on what you need the computer for whether it would be for school or work or even a basic home computer. The next topic to take into consideration before making a purchase would be what purpose will it serve? Is this computer you are going to buy for school? For just school maybe looking into a basic laptop for using word which could be a cheap way out of it. Maybe this computer is for gaming, which money will come into play for this. A gamming computer typically needs a fast processor, a lot of RAM and a large hard drive and good graphics cards. The next thing to take into consideration is where are you going to use this computer at? Basically do you need to take it with you to school? If you are on the go a lot a laptop would be a great choice. If you are always at home maybe taking online classes at home pick the desktop. Another question to ask yourself is who...
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...Before making a purchase for a computer a person should take into consideration what kind of computer they need and for what. The first thing you should think into before even looking for a laptop would be the budget you are going to set for yourself. Think about how much money you are really willing to spend on a computer. They come in many different options so choose wisely on what you need the computer for whether it would be for school or work or even a basic home computer. The next topic to take into consideration before making a purchase would be what purpose will it serve? Is this computer you are going to buy for school? For just school maybe looking into a basic laptop for using word which could be a cheap way out of it. Maybe this computer is for gaming, which money will come into play for this. A gamming computer typically needs a fast processor, a lot of RAM and a large hard drive and good graphics cards. The next thing to take into consideration is where are you going to use this computer at? Basically do you need to take it with you to school? If you are on the go a lot a laptop would be a great choice. If you are always at home maybe taking online classes at home pick the desktop. Another question to ask yourself is who...
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...fit in all the time and do what you think is right isn’t a mindful thing to do. I would suggest you do the right thing. Working together has always made me get a better understanding of my work and get me better grades. Working together has its pros and cons. I use working together as a pro because it helps me in varies ways. I use mine in school, home, extracurricular activities/ organizations, and etc. Working together will help me with my S.T.E.M career that I’m going to achieve when I head to college, Middle Georgia State College. There will be learning and studying sessions, for when you need help with your classes. You will always need help with something in life and will always put into a group where you have to work together. I would describe myself as always doing the right thing and working together. I would look at myself and could tell that I could do nothing wrong and get away with it. I love myself. 2. S.T.E.M is the careers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. I have chosen the science career of nursing, registering nursing to be specific. Right now in this world we need a lot more doctors and nurses. There are many illnesses and diseases that are going around now. If the upcoming doctors and nurses could come up with a medicine or a cure. 3. My parents never really had nothing while they were growing up, but my mother grew up in a single mother household. My father wanted to accomplish his goal in sports but his grandparents wouldn’t let...
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...After Florence Nightingale proved the importance of nurses in the Crimean War, the demand for trained nurses in the United Stated increases during the late 1800s. Although there was no nursing school at that time, trained nursing school was established in hospitals in a form of apprenticeship. In here, students dedicated two years of their life in the program working/training in the hospital, and hoped for the best. As Charles Rosenberg stated, the early nursing training school is an “institution in which a rigid and paternalistic discipline shaped every aspect of the student’s day and in which the need for hard work superseded every other educational goal” (10). The apprenticeship program in the hospital had pros and cons for nursing students,...
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...provided with questions from the opposing side, with the opposing teams response presented. Each side will then present a closing statement, again to support their side from the result of the debate. Euthanasia defined Euthanasia is the practice of mercifully ending a person's life to free someone from a deadly disease. The word euthanasia comes from the Greek word "good death." The term euthanasia is being used synonymously with the term Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS), although they are not one and the same. PAS generally refers to a practice in which the physician provides a patient with a lethal dose of medication, upon the patient's request, which the patient intends to use to end his or her own life (University of Washington School of Medicine, 2010). Voluntary active euthanasia means a deliberate intervention, by someone other than the person whose life is at stake, directly intended to end that life. The patient must be competent and terminally ill and must make a fully voluntary and persistent request for aid in dying. The term "mercy killing" is often used in place of "euthanasia" to emphasize that such an act is directly intended as an act...
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...Title: The differences between nurses prepared at the ADN versus the BSN level Shelley Mae Candelaria, ADN, RN Grand Canyon University: NUR430 June 11, 2015 Abstract In nursing, one can obtain one or more of three degrees in the nursing field. Two of the more sought after degrees are Associates Degree of Nursing and Baccalaureate Degree of Nursing. These two degrees have many similarities but in the same respect are exceedingly different. Research suggests a vast difference in the competencies regarding nurses with an ADN versus BSN. Title: The differences between nurses prepared at the ADN versus the BSN level Associates Degree of Nursing The ADN came in to play after the World War II when professional nurses, nurses that held a BSN, were in a large shortage. In the year 1948, Dr. Montag from Adelphi School of Nursing advocated to decrease the amount of education a potential nurse had to obtain, from 4-5 year program to a short 2 year program, in hopes these vocational nurses would assist in helping the shortage and she later assisted in the founding of the associates degree program. According to the Adelphi College of Nursing and Public Health the, “Associate degree education for nursing began as part of an experimental project at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York in the 1950s. In her doctoral dissertation, Dr. Montag proposed educating a technical nurse for two years to assist the professional nurse, whom she envisioned as having a baccalaureate degree”...
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...writer will briefly discuss the pros and cons of an ADN vs. BSN for entry level nursing. The primary difference in background between the 2 degrees are 3 nursing classes : nursing theory, research and finance. Many fingers point at the rapid changes and complexities in the healthcare system that have made BSN and higher degrees a more desirable title to hold. However, the associate degree of nursing curriculum provides for attainment of knowledge and skills set in the current practice of nursing, community concepts, health care delivery, critical thinking, communications, therapeutic interventions, and current trends in health care (Todd Van Wieran & Christine Reid, 2007). A big pro with the ADN is that in most places, this is the requirement. Whether there is another candidate applying for the same position with a BSN is another story. Many widely accredited nursing organizations such as the American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners ( AANLCP), Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse (CRRN), American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC) , the American Board of Nursing Specialties (ABNS), along with several others have all agreed on one thing. They all state “no stance advertisement about the minimal level of nursing preparation required for entry into professional practice, other than the implicit fact that they focus and represent RN practice issues i.e., diploma, associate’s, bachelor’s and graduate level nurses- and do not represent LPN issues”...
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...Vaccines are made to stimulate the production of antibodies in one's body. This helps provide immunity when a person comes in contact with the disease. Few people believe most of the negative rumors or thoughts that come with the vaccines. This could be because of the many benefits that vaccines give. As the years go by, vaccines have improved greatly to the point where most diseases have been if not completely; almost eradicated. This just goes to show how important they are to our society. Vaccines aren't very safe if you have a weakened immune system or is even pregnant, especially since some vaccines contain live viruses that have been weaken, certain bacteria, or chemicals. But this does not stop the fact that even infants can receive...
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...My goal is to be a skillful nurse with the BSN program. I look forward to continuing my studies further, but it was very hard to go back to school after so many years. It was hard for me to attend school after work, and with family responsibilities, with 4 year old baby. I feared of attending an online school because of all the negative comments and rumors regarding online education-‘some schools are not recognized’. However, there were more cons than pros when I consider not going to school online. With that in mind, I looked for possible schools to attend. My co-worker introduced me to GCU and I thought it would be right choice for me. My most fearful experience can be similar to all foreigner students. The first thing that I was scared of in New York was taking the NCLEX exam. I was afraid of not only failing the test, but also of what people would say about me if I didn’t do well. I didn’t want my friends and family, who have had high expectations of me, and I would let them down. At a certain point, I swallowed up my fear and prepared for the exam. I went to the library and took every review book, studied well at home, and took a Kaplan program that my husband encouraged me to take. I learned from the rationale to find out why the other answers are wrong instead of looking for which answer is right. I was hard working and determined to pass the exam. As a result, I did surprisingly well on my NCLEX. It was from that point on that I realized that you should not let fear take...
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...and Legal Documentation Standpoint Documentation is a written or electronic recording of patient information that forms the patient’s medical record. Per Jensen, “the patient clinical record contains recorded information from all health care encounters” (Jensen, 2011, p. 69). Within nursing, documentation,” should communicate observations, decisions, actions and outcomes related to patient issues and care” (Blair & Smith, 2012, para. 6).There are ethical and legal ramifications regarding this record, both positive and negative. Nurses need to be aware of how this record can affect them and what their responsibilities are considering this. The most important legal and ethical consideration, according to Mayer and Meyer, legal nurse...
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...Organization and Management of a Health Care Policy HSA 515 – Health Care Policy, Law, and Ethics August 13, 2015 With lives in their hands, hospitals have to function very precisely, executing high-quality services every hour of every day. Organizations that have this sort of requirement usually take on a vertical organizational structure that is having many layers of management, with most of the organization’s staff working in very specific, narrow, low authority roles. The numerous layers of management are designed to make sure that no one person can throw the system off too much. This structure also ensures that tasks are being done exactly and correctly. Organizational structure of a hospital refers to the levels of management within a hospital. Levels allow efficient management of hospital departments. The structure also helps one to understand the hospital’s chain of command. Organizational structure varies from hospital to hospital. Large hospitals have complex organizational structures while smaller hospitals tend to have much simpler organizational structure. A typical organizational structure of a hospital would usually be a combination of a hierarchical and divisional structure, since there is a chain of command where some levels are under another level, but employees are organized in departments or divisions that have their own roles. At the top of the structure would be the administrators, followed by the information services and therapeutic services. Both...
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...March 2014 Essay #1 Drug Testing in High, Pro or Con? There is a lot of controversy today on whether or not drug testing in high school is appropriate. There are many things to consider when making this decision, like constitutional rights and privacy, cost, and even if doing random drug tests will change the problem (drug problem). Los Angeles Times writer David G. Savage asks in the article “Justices Consider School Drug Tests,” “Could routine drug tests, like metal detectors, soon become an accepted part of daily life at many American high schools?” Drugs have become a major problem with children, but not all of them are experimenting with them. Many people believe that it is against the child’s 4th Amendment rights, which we all know protects people from unreasonable searches and seizure, that being said, unless the child is coming to school either “high” or “stoned,” has actual drugs on his person or has been known for drug use, doing a drug test is intrusive and a waste of time. Economic cost is another issue. According to M. H Davis in “Facts and Statistics on Random Drug Testing of High School Students” website www.everydaylife.globalpost.com, “The average drug test cost between $15 and $35, and at high schools administering tests to all students, the costs add up quickly.” So if there is a class of 1000 children, there is a bare minimum of $15,000. I’m sure the school systems have a lot more educations things that the school could benefit from rather than drug testing...
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...Vol14No1PPT03 Retrieved from http://gm6.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol142009/No1Jan09/ArticlePreviousTopic/YoungOnesandNursingWorkforce.html Three educators in Australia who identify and discuss the expanding nursing shortage on the undergraduate and graduate levels wrote this article. It shows how a lack of nursing instructors is directly influencing the need for nurses in the workforce. There are data regarding age and salaries, as well as a great list of resources for further study. The authors’ credentials are listed. I could use this article to show some of the recommendations to improve recruitment and retention in education. Hinshaw, A.S. (2001). A Continuing Challenge: The shortage of educationally prepared nursing faculty. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 6(1). Retrieved from http://ana.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ThePracticeofProfessionalNursing/workforce/NurseShortageStaffing/NursingShortage/Resources/ShortageofEducationalFaculty.aspx This author discusses the shortage of nurse educators....
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...BSN Versus ADN Veronica Suarez Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V March 6, 2015 High demands of nursing and more nursing schools existing are creating more competition for job opportunities that has evolved into hospitals raising the bar on nurses’ knowledge. Living here in Miami makes job searching a difficult task unless if you know someone who knows someone or you have all of the qualifications for the job which lately it’s including have a BSN, as opposed to many years ago where having an associates degree was sufficient. The hospital I just got hired at to do an emergency department residency program is not a magnet hospital but due to healthcare foundations and the hospital itself trying to become a magnet hospital they required me to either have my bachelors degree or at least be enrolled in one. I understand and respect this approach of the hospital because I do know that nurses with a BSN bring more to the hospital practice setting in the sense of their prized critical thinking skills, health promotion, and leadership skills. For example, being in the ER and having a patient that has been admitted with a possible ischemic stroke requires fast critical thinking skills in assessing the patient and following the hospitals protocols for this type of patient such as conducting a CAT scan and drawing labs to be able to diagnose if the patient is having a stroke or not so if need be give Activase as soon as possible since time...
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