The importance goes further to the core of the problem focusing on the nurse and evaluating what is needed to be done in order to educate this patient group. The research problem involves nurses who are not comfortable discussing end-of-life issues with their patients and is identified in the first few paragraphs of the article. This is a significant problem nurses and doctors can educate, manage and monitor for these chronic patients. The purpose is not clearly stated in the study, but is inferred within the abstract of the article as well. Patients and families dealing with potential end-of-life issues is a very common problem in health care today.
The shortage was further worsened after the Second World War. Currently, America experiences an acute shortage of nurses within the healthcare facilities. The shortage is caused by different factors that include aging workforce, reduction in number of graduates from nursing schools, poor remuneration and other job working conditions making nurses to look for other better paying jobs in other service sectors like insurance or private practice nursing. This paper discusses ways of reducing nursing shortage in America and focuses mainly on three key issues of reducing the shortage. The issues are financial assistance programs for nursing students, creating a retention environment and strengthening the infrastructure.
Negligence and malpractice are increasing within nursing fields even though nurses and students who will become nurses are educated about their legal and professional responsibilities and limitations. Negligence is a failure of fulfilling the responsibilities that the nurse has which results in malpractice. A nurse can be sued for malpractice when she fails to take care of the patient; it results in patient’s injury, however we should keep in mind that not every case ends with the injury, but still it is a malpractice. Many nurses are not fully committed to perform the skills they should, and they enter the profession only because of benefits. Malpractice can be increasing because of a severe shortage of trained nurses, and it happened because of a few factors: nurses are required to work longer shifts; they can lead to fatigue and increase the risk for an error; also short Nursing courses providing degrees with no sufficient time to train nurses results in malpractice.
According to Hislop et al. (1996), one of the major reasons for theory-practice gap is the conscious effort on the part of nurse theorists to clarify and define rules which are direct abstractions of situations in the clinical domain, many nurse theorists assign the same term different meanings, which precludes nurses from reaching the assumption that one author’s use of a term will be the same for another (Draper 1990, Upton 1999). Ferguson and Jinks (1994) maintain that a more explicit explanation of the concept of nursing theory is required to achieve integration between theory and practice; while Benner (1984) believes that there exits a difference between ‘theory for knowledge’ and ‘theory for practice’. Nevertheless, the importance to recognize that the clinical environment is ever changing and it could be argued that no matter how effective
New nurses can experience “transition shock” due the pace of reasoning and level of engagement expected of them and the knowledge they are now professionally responsible and accountable for their actions (Price, 2013). Classroom Orientation There are a variety of traditional and nontraditional learning mechanisms that can be used during the orientation process. Staff educators can use a variety of approaches based on the individuals learning style preferences (Robitaille, 2013). Corporations and schools are discovering that direct instruction and lecture are not effective teaching tools in a group setting. However, providing individual instruction to a large group would be time exhaustive and cost prohibitive.
On the other hand, as more nursing colleagues enter the workforce from different cultures and varied language backgrounds, differences among nursing staff can create problems in communication and lead to conflicts that affect the workplace. Nurses have to work effectively together to give culturally competent care to patients. This paper will explore 1) the historical development of cultural diversity in nursing, 2) the importance of a cultural competence when caring for multicultural patient groups, 3) the ways to lessen misunderstandings and problems that result from a culturally diverse nursing staff working together and, 4) the role of nursing administrators in leading an ethnically and culturally diverse workplace. Background Cultural sensitivity has been developing in the United States over the past sixty years. Beginning in the 1950s, Madeline Leininger founded the transcultural nursing movement and the ethno nursing research method.
I realize this career may be stressful and even sad at times. Hopefully, the joy and ability to help as a new life begins will out -weigh the negative . Becoming a neo-natal nurse requires a lot of work in nursing school. Neonatology is a specialized area within the field of nursing. The requirements in this special area are much more difficult than basic, traditional nursing degree requirements.
Nurses are driven by, and are subject to a vast array of legal and ethical responsibilities. These responsibilities are far too numerous to discuss in great depth within this essay. The nurse has to take into consideration, the legal, ethical, moral and cultural implications of any decisions made as well due to the cultural diversity of patients. Nurses are faced with working in a society that many people have called a “sue happy” society. This fear of being sued can have an impact on the interventions or decisions made by nurses.
As “nursing is based upon a body of knowledge that is always changing with new discoveries and innovation” Potter and Perry (2005), nursing profession need to improve from its old fashioned bedside nursing. Report by IOM about future of nursing 2010 indicates need for “more highly educated, diverse nursing workforce”. In US one can become a professional Registered Nurse (RN) by studying Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) or studying Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN, Bachelor of science in Nursing). Both degree gives eligibility to take NCLEX examination and to get license to practice as a professional Registered Nurse. A long standing discussion is in progress about the differences in competencies of BSN and ADN nurses.
Stefanie Monderjar Research Proposal Annotate Bibliography Nurses and drug abuse. More and more nurses are receiving negative reviews about attending substance abuse programs due to the fact that they were using while working and their job requires them to be at a level of alertness then most other jobs. Nurses have a higher moral obligation than that of let’s say a construction worker Since it is becoming harder for nurses to come forward about their addiction due to either job punishment or ridicule are their chances of getting clean and staying clean diminished due to those things? Should a nurse be able to come forward get help in a program and then return to work as being a nurse? Because of the moral obligations a nurse has should