From the inquisitive age of my formative years‚ my attention has been captured by all things that are implicated with nursing. I have always aspired to be a nurse‚ to be part of those who help vulnerable people and make a difference to their lives. When I was younger‚ I was always interested in playing doctors and nurses with my friends‚ which included getting miniature nursing kits and trying to treat and cure the falsely ill patients. I was always the one to help my mother look after my grandmother
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With the complexity of the disease process and the technology that we have today in the nursing field‚ it is important to have more educated nurses in our facility. We are gearing to the magnet status in every hospital wherein we are being recognized for nursing excellence and good patient outcome. “In the statement titled Education Advancement of Registered Nurses‚ the Tri-Council organizations present a united view that a more highly educated nursing workforce is critical to meeting the nation’s nursing
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Applying the Adams Influence Model in Nurse Executive Practice The Adams Influence Model (AIM) is a framework for comprehending the factors‚ characteristics‚ attributes and process of influence. The AIM is followed in nursing and organizational literature and provides nurse leaders with a guide for developing a successful strategy to achieve influence with individuals and or other groups (Adams & Erickson‚ 2011). According to Adams & Erickson‚ 2011‚ studies how influence‚ or the ability to convince
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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS TO SELF SCHEDULING FOR HOSPITAL NURSES a. Applicable General Topic: - Nursing Management b. Title of article: - Self-scheduling For Hospital Nurses: An Attempt And Its Difficulties c. Authors name: - Lotte Bailyn PhD‚ Robin Collins BSN and Yang Song BSc d. Name of the Journal: - Nursing Management e. Date of journal: - January 2007 f. Volume: - 15 g. Number: - 1 h. Pages (72-77) i. Publisher of journal: - BLACKWELL PUBLISHING Synopsis and Summary The article that
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Ethical Dilemmas & Impact of Nurse-Patient Ratios I was an ICU nurse for 18 years and I decided to leave bedside nursing in 1999 when I found myself standing in the doorway between two patient’s rooms‚ which both had alarms going off. I was being forced to care for three critical patients that night. I left nursing because as I stood in that doorway I realized that in choosing which room I was going to enter‚ the patient in the other room might very well have died (Massachusetts Nursing Association
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How Nursing Leadership Affects Staff Nurses’ Job Satisfaction Rhonda Rychlik Queens University How Nursing Leadership Affects Staff Nurses’ Job Satisfaction The constant and rapidly changing health care environment dramatically affects nursing practice today. Health care leaders are faced with the problem of achieving their strategic goals while balancing finances‚ productivity‚ quality outcomes and employee and patient satisfaction. The health care environment is competitive and
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Additionally‚ the nurses’ working environment has a variety of factors which may have an impact on job satisfaction and their intent to leave their current position. The factors which can potentially affect a nurses’ retention include a relationship with and support of one’s supervisor‚ the condition of the work environment‚ relationships with peers‚ organizational support and practices‚ physical and psychological responses to work‚ reward mechanisms and external factors (Han‚ Trinkoff‚ & Gurses
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Patient to Nurse Ratios Decreasing Job Satisfaction and Increasing Turnover The effects of inadequate bedside nurse staffing levels on job satisfaction and turnover rates is of major concern in healthcare facilities nationwide. In this paper‚ I will summarize evidenced-based nursing research which shows that heavy patient assignments and high patient to nurse ratios are contributing to staff burnout and dissatisfaction in the workplace and results in increased turnover rates of the registered nurse (RN)
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Advanced skills offer potential nurse practitioners a rewarding career path. [1] High demand registered nurse openings start at around $68‚000 annually. However‚ nurse practitioner salaries are higher. Specialty nurses enjoy increased career challenges and opportunities. Each state regulates specialty nurse practices independently. However‚ nursing advocates currently lobby the government to allow specialty practitioners to deliver service to the full scope of their abilities throughout the United
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to do my research paper over RN’s also known as registered nurses. Some of the reasons I would choose to be an RN for my career is because they are always needed everywhere‚ they make a pretty decent amount of money‚ and there are many branches of being a registered nurse so you have so much to choose from so you can do something you love for a living. The specific field of nursing I would like to go into is obstetrician‚ or OBGYN nurse. They care for women from puberty to menopause‚ they also help
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