“Advanced nursing practice is the deliberative diagnosis and treatment of a full range of human responses to actual or potential health problems.” (Calkin‚ 1984). Advanced nurse practitioners attempt to maximize the use of knowledge and skills and improve the delivery of nursing and health care services. The field of advanced nursing practice differs from basic practice as the former requires clinical specialization at the master’s level. At this level‚ nurses become expert practitioners whose work
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Original article The development of advanced practice roles: implications in the international nursing community S. Ketefian1 EdD‚ RN‚ FAAN‚ R. W. Redman2 PhD‚ RN‚ S. Hanucharurnkul3 PhD‚ RN‚ A. Masterson4 MN‚ BSc‚ PGCEA‚ RN & E. P. Neves5 DNSc‚ RN 1 University of Michigan School of Nursing‚ Ann Arbor‚ MI‚ USA 2 Professor and Associate Dean‚ Academic Affairs‚ School of Nursing‚ University of Colorado Health Sciences Center‚ Colorado‚ USA 3 Professor of Nursing‚ Ramathibodi School of Nursing‚
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Unsustainable environmental practices poses increasing threats to the Earth’s water‚ forests‚ climate‚ biodiversity and energy supply. The issue of environmental protection is definitely one of the toughest issues facing the whole human race. There are two different opinions debating whether the involvement of individuals is important to solve the problem. One opinion states that environmental problems are too profound that beyond the capbility of individuals to solve. Firstly‚ the lack of professional
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antidiscriminatory practice Discrimination is the unfair treatment of a person or group deemed different from ourselves or society. Discrimination derives from our prejudices towards these groups of people who we have developed negative attitudes towards. Family‚ friends‚ workplace and society can affect these attitudes. It is part of your job as a social worker to fight discrimination where you find it and for this you adopt the theory of anti-discriminatory practice. Anti-discriminatory practice is the
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assignment is to discuss the relevance of evidence based practice (EBP) whilst practicing as a professional social worker. With reference to my chosen focus question‚ the qualitative stance has been chosen in the form of population‚ issue and outcome (PIO). The specific focus question which I have chosen for this piece of work is homelessness. Various research methods with be undertaken and explained‚ in order to discover three relevant papers which relate to the focus question. ‘Evidence-based social
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will focus on developing reflective practice through exploring a critical incident in the workplace. It will explore different methods of reflection and use one particular method to reflect on the critical incident (appendix 1) and explain why this individual method was chosen. It will evaluate individual career development by reviewing past practice and the skills that have been gained throughout time‚ for example teamwork‚ group roles and experience gained‚ which will be ways to measure how development
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experience with the goal of approaching each patient with information which is as current as possible. The clinical practice guidelines are advocated because many experts have collaborated to produce the guidelines. According to Brent James‚ most matters can be standardized. However‚ given each patient is an individual‚ no individual or treatment is perfectly compatible with every patient. (Leonhardt) While the clinical practice guidelines approach is said to rely on the most recent research‚ such
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Healing Practices Introduction: The practice of healing restores the body‚ mind and spirit to a balanced state of nature. It is practiced in many forms and its manifestations are found worldwide. Healing practices emerged from the ancient times‚ and with the entwining of cultures‚ it has evolved into the intricate traditions they are today. Some of these practices include those of the Greeks‚ Indians‚ Igbo people‚ and the Chinese. Overtime‚ these healing practices have become well respected.
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SECTION 1 In this section‚ I shall discuss what I have learnt from the online group working that we did. For this module‚ we were split into groups and worked in teams‚ using an online forum as a discussion and exchange board‚ which raised some issues about being able to properly collaborate with equality‚ as originally it was planned we would meet in person. We were students from different disciplines; nursing and allied health professions‚ and by coming together to build on our knowledge
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community work as I engaged in educational non-profit mission in Korea community to improve the quality of education in primary schools. Based on my own practice‚ I realized that helping local people should be more effective‚ usable and accessible to the plan and initiatives. The community work function is recognised a part of professional practice of teachers‚ social workers‚ the clergy‚ health workers‚ architects‚ planners‚ administrators and others (Criaig 2008). White (2003) insists that the use
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