Nursing Education

I have been working as a nurse for some time now. Selecting this field of professional development always seem like a natural choice for the kind of personality I am and I have always enjoyed doing what I do but at the time when I started working as a nurse...

It is the mandate of the nurses to care for the patient, their family, and the community at large. As a result, there is an increase in the community-based care which centers on patients and their families. In addition, there is community-focused nursing care which takes the community as the...

As the health status of human beings is undergoing massive evolution, nursing education should also embrace diversity in various practical perspectives (Health Foundation, August 2012). This will assist in addressing various disparities in nursing practice while giving the profession the importance it requires in dignifying human health. The article ‘Using...

A review of scholarship and scholarly activity in nursing practice is provided. Scholarship includes the Scholarship is defined and applied to practice, and scholarly activity is distinguished from scholarship in practice. The ways that Advance Practice Nurses and Nurse Specialists can engage in nursing scholarship is reviewed. Scholarship is sometimes...

The relationship between theory and practice is often divided in the nursing profession and requires a continuous level of growth and development in order to effectively manage the needs of the client base and improve the practice environment. The ability to bridge this gap is an important step in the...

Fourth-year and newly graduated nurses have been found to have less knowledge about pain management than they require to meet the pain relief needs of patients. Studies which used the Knowledge and Attitudes Survey Regarding Pain have found that students and graduates often score very low on the survey. Appropriate...

While the origins of the nursing professional are often traced back to Florence Nightingale, the concept of nursing as an academic discipline is rather more recent. In the wake of World War II, the profession began to change, and in the 1960s the Nurse Training Act began to formalize some...

The assessment of nursing competence has become an inseparable part of nursing education over the last two decades. It comprises the assessment of the theoretical and practical competence, each worth 50% of the overall assessment. The two assessments must be passed if the candidate wants to register as a nurse....

Our personal experiences often shape our choices in life. As a patient advocate for head and neck oncology surgeons, I have developed deep insights into the needs and concerns of different stakeholders in the healthcare field including medical professionals and patients. The role of healthcare providers such as nurses have...

Nurses who are currently pursuing or have already attained a DNP degree have various opportunities for intra- and interdisciplinary collaboration. This basically means that they shall be capable of working in interprofessional teams, thus enabling them to deliver improved healthcare to their patients (Tomkowiak & Maki, 2011). The School of...

There are 9 AACN essential skills that have been proven over the last several years, to be highly effective in promoting highly effective and proficient nursing practices particularly in family nursing settings. For example, the ability of nurses, particularly with this Masters nursing education, to orchestrate highly efficient yet interpersonal...

Variables are of paramount importance in the modern health care industry. It should be highlighted that the implication of these variables is possible owing to the electronic health record system and other important sources. Electronic medical records systems include a great number of analyzable information fields that can reduce the...

Secondary data is information gathered for all other reasons other than the completion of a research project. There are various sources of secondary information that are available to the researcher gathering data. Secondary data can furthermore be classified according to its source, either internal or external. While internal data consists...

Transformation in the healthcare system is aimed at helping patients achieve a large-scale health change. For this reason, there is a need for coming up with effective strategies for Web-based patient education that might transform advance practice healthcare. First, setting up with an information technology platform for the patients can...

Working in the Veterans Affairs Administration means being ready to meet the changing healthcare needs of older veterans, whom are managing the complexities of their chronic diseases both in medical centers and at their homes. Successful introduction of major information systems into such complex health care organizations, like the Veteran...

Regardless of the discipline or subject which they represent, curricula are complex constructs which exist in order to make sure that a student’s educational experience contains exposure to and engagement with content as well as assessment of the student’s level of comprehension. Nursing education is no different, and like curricula...

The role of a nurse is crucially significant, especially in school, since the health of children and youth is in absolute priority of government policy. The school nurse contributes to management of chronic health conditions of students during the school day (AAP, 2008). Service of the school nurse is not...

In a qualitative study that sought to understand the effect that nurses have on the motivation of nursing students, Nasrin, Soroor, & Soodabeh (2012) found observing nurses as role models played a role in student motivation within the clinical setting. Through semi-structured and interactive interviewing of nursing students and their...

As a nursing student, I know that I am going to be interacting with people of all backgrounds. I will be handling patients of all ethnicities, genders, sexualities, and mentalities. It is important for me to have the social skills to personally get to know each and every one of...

Sure enough, 20th century nurses were exposed to entirely different educational opportunities when compared to today’s nursing education systems. With the rise of 21th century technologies, the way people are treated has changed. Despite the fact that opportunities for nurses to improve their patient education skills were lacking throughout the...