Once completing my bachelors of science in nursing, I can continue my long-term goal of becoming a nurse practitioner. The skills required of a nurse practitioner are skills that I have been practicing throughout my career as a nurse. I will listen to my patient’s needs and concerns, and provide them with information in a way they can understand it. I will have better critical thinking and reasoning skills for when problems or situations arise. I will have the knowledge and information needed to diagnose and treat.
With the practice of the scope of RN, there are also standards that every RN needs to follow. Every RN follows the nursing process. The nurse follows standards of heath for the patient by preforming physical exams, asking health status questions, recognize change in health status, and communicating all information to the authorized health care provider. The nurse also has a role in collecting data and analyzes the proper nursing regimen that is needed. Also establishes and modifies a diagnosis or
Like I previously mentioned, I make use of the must up to date nursing research and evidence based data to improve my critical thinking reasoning and skills. In my opinion, nurses demonstrate scholarship into practice when they question certain products, medications, look up actions, adverse effects and drug interactions. When they look up laboratory results and are able to tell which is abnormal and when nurse’s question doctor’s
Training and Development Welcome Knox HCS 341 March 17, 2014 Dr. Rita Fields Training and Development My paper will be about training and development in healthcare and why it is vital to have. I will also discuss the importance of measuring employee’s competencies and the process of tracking and evaluating training effectiveness. Training and development occurs in almost every company today. Both are very important to any business that wants to succeed. It is more vital to health care because we are dealing with people’s lives.
The preceptor has a job to ensure the new nurse is competent with skills to provided adequate, safe nursing care to patients. The preceptor has to wear many hats with the new nurse such as role model, educator, friend, confidant, and socializer. The preceptor must observe the new nurse and evaluate the skills of the nurse. Ideally the preceptor will explain a process or skill, demonstrate it, and then watch as the new nurse demonstrates as it is performed independently. Precepting involves a commitment on both the preceptor and the new nurse.
They can work in cardiology, emergency, family practice, geriatrics, neonatology, nephrology, oncology, pediatrics, primary care, school health and women’s health(“Nurse Practitioners (NP)”,U.S. National Library of Medicine). To be a nurse practitioner you will need to have excellent people skills. A nurse practitioner needs to have a genuine interest in a person’s well-being(“Nurse Practitioner”, Career Cruising). Emotional maturity is a must have.
Thesis: to define work of a registered nurse, this paper will discuss the job itself and its working conditions, the skills and schooling needed for success, a salary range and pathways to advance in the field, and the future job opportunities predicted for the career area. Body1: registered nurses (RN) are primary health care practitioners working in collaboration with physicians to promote patient health and prevent illness. Registered nurses job description includes, recording and analyze patient medical histories, symptoms and conditions, administer medications and treatments, create patient care plans with the help of healthcare professionals, document and communicate actions to maintain continuity among the nursing team, comply with procedures, regulations and rules in maintaining medical records, perform diagnostic tests on patients to assess their condition, discuss treatment with physicians and pharmacists, prepare patients for examinations and treatments, and teach patients and their families about treatments. Registered nurses may spend a lot of time walking, bending, stretching, and standing. They are exposed to back injuries because they must often life and move patients.
When nurses reach this level they understand how medications affect the body and why they are used and if they are seeing the expected outcome. This leads to the top of the domain which is create, nurses at this level are active participants within the health care team devising a plan of care for their individual patients. The affective domain or the feelings domain is made up of five subclasses. The first of these classes is receiving, at this level nurses are ready to learn and receive whatever is necessary for them to be successful. As learning progresses nurses start to respond to and value information, organize what is learned and finally internalize.
Using the research that has been applied to best practice is the way that nurses can make a huge difference in their client’s lives. Many of the research outcomes have presently been put into practice and employed by nurses. It is the responsibility of each nurse to be aware of what the research studies have
The NCNR dedicated areas within its institute to focus just on how to conduct research. Knowing how to conduct research is important as studies were undergone to not only improve nurses’ ability to slow a patient’s illness, but to also assist the nurse in promoting a healthy lifestyle for the patient. The NCNR believes research is necessary because nurses “are more likely to have continuing contact with the most vulnerable populations” (Merritt, 1987). Research is needed to assist nurses in identifying those patients at risk so interventions can be put into place to empower the patient to realize a healthy lifestyle is achievable. Conclusion Nursing research has always been and continues to be directed toward patient care.