Educational Preparation
Educational Preparation
Grand Canyon University
Professional Dynamics
NRS-430V-0102
Educational Preparation
Life is the largest ongoing educational facility in the world, and attendance is mandatory for all living breathing individuals. Nothing prepares an individual for life or its many lessons, as the old saying goes, “You live and you learn.” While we are all students daily in life’s university, we have many areas of individuality to grow, achieve, and seek knowledge. One aspect of individuality in life lies in the professions we choose and how we as individuals perfect our professions over the course of our life journey. Unlike the lessons in life the educational preparation required to enter the field of nursing is all about building a foundation to prepare, stimulate, and advance its students. Nursing is a phenomenal profession that offers many varied aspects of diversity in levels of skill, areas of practice, and practice settings. Since I was a child nursing has been the career choice that I knew would be my life’s work. In this paper I will discuss my educational preparation journey associated with the profession of nursing from the historical start of this profession leading to current day practice, the various levels of nursing from Licensed Vocational Nursing to Baccalaureate Science Nursing, and evaluate documented research on differences in approach and decision-making as it relates to the educational preparation of nurses.
Nursing is 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 population ("What Is Nursing?"). This is the definition presented by the American Nurses Association as it encompasses the nursing practice as a whole. The historical leaders of nursing laid the foundation for this definition and the various levels
Grand Canyon University
Professional Dynamics
NRS-430V-0102
Educational Preparation
Life is the largest ongoing educational facility in the world, and attendance is mandatory for all living breathing individuals. Nothing prepares an individual for life or its many lessons, as the old saying goes, “You live and you learn.” While we are all students daily in life’s university, we have many areas of individuality to grow, achieve, and seek knowledge. One aspect of individuality in life lies in the professions we choose and how we as individuals perfect our professions over the course of our life journey. Unlike the lessons in life the educational preparation required to enter the field of nursing is all about building a foundation to prepare, stimulate, and advance its students. Nursing is a phenomenal profession that offers many varied aspects of diversity in levels of skill, areas of practice, and practice settings. Since I was a child nursing has been the career choice that I knew would be my life’s work. In this paper I will discuss my educational preparation journey associated with the profession of nursing from the historical start of this profession leading to current day practice, the various levels of nursing from Licensed Vocational Nursing to Baccalaureate Science Nursing, and evaluate documented research on differences in approach and decision-making as it relates to the educational preparation of nurses.
Nursing is 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 population ("What Is Nursing?"). This is the definition presented by the American Nurses Association as it encompasses the nursing practice as a whole. The historical leaders of nursing laid the foundation for this definition and the various levels
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