Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) – a master’s degree educated RN who assumes accountability for client care outcomes through the assimilation and application of research based information to design, implement, and evaluate client plans of care. The CNL is a provider and a manager of care at the point of care to individuals and cohorts or populations. The CNL designs, implements, and evaluates client care by coordinating, delegating, and supervising the care provided by the health care team, including licensed nurses, technicians, and other health professionals. Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) – a practice focused doctoral degree in nursing. The degree that is recommended by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) for all advanced practice nurses by 2015.
The Roles and Ways of Knowing for a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Through the practice of scholarship, theories, models and conceptual frameworks the Advanced Practice Nurse integrates clinical knowledge into evidence based practice. Healthcare reform has created a need for the advanced educated nurse at the Bachelor through Doctorate degree level. The nurse practitioner has become the norm in healthcare settings and is found in every specialty along the lifespan. Educational and clinical requirements defined by the APN Consensus Statement sets the standard for entry into clinical practice. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Position Statement on Defining Scholarship for the Discipline of Nursing (1999), the APN/DNP’s role of scholarship serves to benefit nursing research, teaching, education, and the practice of nursing itself.
The Advance Practice Nurse has the opportunity to specialize by focusing on adult, gerontology, family, pediatric and women’s health while the Nurse Educator works to facilitate learning. The Nurse Administrator exhibits leadership skills as an instrument to build and shape organizations in an executive positions. And finally but not least the Nurse Informaticist that employ informatics theories, concepts, methods, and tools to analyze information and information system requirements. Together these masters’ level nurses use their education, training and evidence based theory to be part of a collaborative team to care for the health care community. With the expansion of the role of nursing moves to an Advanced Practice Role through post graduate studies.
Nurses are accountable for their professional judgment and actions. To protect the nurse from liability. To practice nursing with understanding and confidence. (Berman, Snyder, Levette-Jones, Dwyer, Hales, Harvey, Luxford,Moxham, Park, Parker, Reid-Searle and Stanely, 2012, p 59) 2) Elijah has an intellectual disability. Prior to surgery consent must be obtained.
In 1997, Dr. Kolcaba graduated with a PhD in Nursing from Case Western Reserve University. While in this PhD program, Dr. Kolcaba earned the Lilian De Young Research Award in 1995 for outstanding research development (Kolcaba, 2010). Currently, Dr. Kolcaba is teaching theory and research courses at the University of Akron College of Nursing. Dr. Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory grew from an assignment given by Dr. Rosemary Ellis. Dr. Ellis challenged the new PhD students to diagram their current practice and define practice concepts.
Comparison Question number One The comparison of two nursing positions is a BSN prepared ICU staff nurse and an ICU nurse educator with the education preparation in MSN in Nurse Education. Both nurses are required to have a nursing license for the state they work in in order to be employed as a nurse. Other certifications that are required in order for nurses to care for patients in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) are: Basic Life Support/Advanced Cardiac Life Support (BLS/ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC). These licenses and certifications are required whether a nurse has an Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN), a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), or a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). On any nursing unit, both of these RNs are able to care for patients, go over patient, family, and discharge teaching, and be in charge of other nurses.
APN Paper--Certified Nurse Educator Denise Vavrinak Cleveland State University Abstract A Certified Nurse Educator is “a registered nurse whose primary area of interest, competence, and professional practice is the education of nurses at the university level. Minimum education required is Masters of Science in Nursing” ("Mosby," 2009, p. 21). Nurse Educators are responsible for educating and preparing future generations of nurses who will be charged with providing quality care to the population. The academic community should not assume that because an individual holds a certain credential or is said to have expertise in a field they would make adequate educators. In order to achieve this goal, Clinicians have to be competent.
FROM http://www.ukessays.com/essays/nursing/application-of-leadership-knowledge-and-health-visitors-practice-nursing-essay.php Application of leadership knowledge and health visitors practice 1.1This report will provide evidence of the application of leadership knowledge to the role of the Health visitor’s practice. The report will look at my leadership style and skills in relation to developing and implementing an evening well baby clinic. When implementing this clinic I will aim to address and discuss past leadership experience and how I will use this within my team to achieve the best outcomes for families within my practice area. Attention will be made on relating this to improving the quality of care as highlighted in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards of proficiency for specialist community public health nurses, 2004. The standards also state that I, as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCPHN) must work in partnership with all team members and clients.
A leader in the home healthcare agency must be able to meet these challenges armed with a wealth of knowledge, varied experiences and a good clinical skill base. I will discuss the results of our interview which entail her perspective on leadership styles and the roles and responsibilities of leadership and management. Leader: definition and characteristics I am of the opinion that a leader can be both born of natural abilities to lead and can also be groomed and developed with appropriate and timely education, training and mentorship. KIM describes a leader as “one who is only as good as the team” (KIM, personal communication, July 12, 2012). She explained that without proper education, effective communication skills and the ability to guide the team effectively, the leader will not be effective.
Delegating to Nursing Assistive Personnel Tracey Ford Purdue University Calumet Delegation is defined as “transferring to a competent individual the authority to perform a selected nursing task in a selected situation. The Nurse retains accountability for delegation” ( Bragadottir 2012, p10). Over the course of this paper we will discuss the pros and cons of delegation. The importance of delegation and the impact it makes on the nursing community. The five rights of delegation.