Nursing Field
In the field of Nursing there are a number of challenges that will have an impact on the ability to attract and retain qualified candidates. To fully understand how this is taking place requires comparing recruitment strategies and determining selection criteria. Together, these factors will highlight the best practices for locating competent personnel.

Compare recruitment strategies.

Two strategies that are used most commonly inside the industry include: traditional / online strategies and loan forgiveness. In general, traditional and online strategies are most popular among employers. This is because they believe that using these mediums will attract the right candidates. A few of the most notable include: help wanted advertisements in local newspapers, job fairs and posting on different online job boards. The effect of these activities is that most facilities are unable to address critical needs in a number of areas (i.e. pharmacists, radiologists, nurses, doctors and technicians). ("Health Care ecruiting…...

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References

Health Care Recruiting Strategies. (2012). Med Zilla. Retrieved from:  http://www.medzilla.com/press51402.html 

Marquis, B. (2009). Leadership Roles and Management Functions. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott & Williams.

Nursing Informatics / Annotated Bibliography & Brief Critique
Harris, R., Bennett, J., and Ross. F. (2013). Leadership and innovation in nursing seen through a historical lens. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70(7. 1629-1638.

Aim of the Article and Main Findings

There was a time when technology was a distant vision in the minds of healthcare professionals, but the values that emerged from nurses nearly a hundred years ago are values that should be alive and well today notwithstanding all the wonderful tools that the healthcare field has today. This peer-reviewed article looks into the past to see how (qualitatively) nurses in the UK responded to the leadership style of Dame / Matron Muriel Powell between the years 1920-1980, well before today's nurses are empowered with the advanced technologies and communication standards of today. The point of the research is to review interviews that were conducted with nurses that worked and trained at St. George's…...

Professional Development in the Nursing Field
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Describe the nurse leader's role as advocate for the nursing profession

As the nursing profession advocate, the nurse leader will ensure that there is unity amongst the nurses within the health care facility. This unity will allow the nurses to work together and share responsibilities. With unity, the nurses can be able to coordinate and advice one another, and this would improve the quality of health care provided Dall'Alba & Sandberg, 2006.

The nurse leader will also advocate for better working hours for the nurses. Nurses work long hours and fatigue can affect the quality of service they provide. The nurse leader will come up with duty rosters that are considerate of the nurses working hours. The nurse leader can also advocate for the nurses specialization. With each nurse having specialized in a specific field, the nurse leader can push for the nurse to be based…...

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References

Dall'Alba, G., & Sandberg, J. (2006). Unveiling Professional Development: A Critical Review of Stage Models. Review of Educational Research, 76(3), 383-412.

Webster-Wright, A. (2009). Reframing Professional Development through Understanding Authentic Professional Learning. Review of Educational Research, 79(2), 702-739.

My attitude has changed resulting from the information I learned about business communications quite dramatically. Business communication in my opinion was always something that was important to people working as managers or administrators, but I never fully understood how critical business communication is to all people regardless of the field they work in. The components of business communication most important to my field include learning how to translate one's thoughts into oral and written communication in multiple forms.
Nurses have to document all interactions, whether with patients or with other healthcare professional (Riley, 2000). hile many are provided with charts they can use to fill in information, it is also important for nurses to know how to create strong narratives and oral presentations when providing information to others. Multicultural communication is essential in nursing today because of the diversity present among the patients treated and the doctors, administrators and other…...

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Works Cited

Fitzgerald, J. (2001) Better-Paid Caregivers, Better Care, the American Prospect, 12.9, p.30.

Johnstone, M.J. (1999) Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective. Sydney: Harcourt Saunders.

Locker, K.O. (2006) Business and Administrative Communication, New York: McGraw-

Hill.

Nursing Future in 2021
Nursing has not changed greatly for decades. Nurses now have more freedom than they did two decades ago, but nurses still provide the same care they have for the past century. This has been changing with the advent of nursing master's programs that are allowing registered nurses the opportunity to become more specialized in fields of their choice. A nurse can choose from many different nurse practitioner specialties to become more engaged in their field. Nurse practitioner programs allow nurses to be more involved in decisions that are made regarding patient care, so that the nurse becomes more responsible. The position of neonatal nurse practitioner is explained more fully in the following essay.

Neonatal care refers to the hospital department that takes care of an infant at the earliest stages of life. A neonatal nurse practitioner "frequently reports directly to a neonatologist or other specialists who may be…...

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Reference

Ellis-Christensen, T. (2011). What is a neonatal nurse practitioner? Retrieved from  http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-neonatal-nurse-practitioner.htm

Technology-based teaching strategies can greatly accelerate the how both teaching and learning occur and therefore often reduce traditional issues and concerns faced by students and instructors. This approach changes the conventional way of thinking about how quality nursing programs are assessed and changes the levels of requirements to better suit student learning with better access to libraries, counseling and tutoring services, computing equipment, tuition, and financial aid to name a few.
But where this Associates Degree approach will benefit the profession most is in the healthcare system where it is needed most. New nurses will be better acclimated to the needs of sophisticated logging processes, medical billing and inventory as well as scheduling and other tasks now all handled via digital processing and computer. A modern day nurses are more technologically sophisticated, the overall patient care process also gets better as more available free time is offered back to the…...

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Types of Reasoning

One of the main types of reasoning discussed in the readings is logical reasoning. This type of reasoning features the use of inferences in order to come into knowledge about a certain experience or phenomenon. Essentially, inferences are the way that conclusions are drawn after systematically examining observations and external phenomenon. It is close to the style of scientific inquiry which is also a very logic-oriented methodology. The primary idea behind inferences is that an individual sees or witnesses some stimuli or phenomena. From this event, that individual can then make their own conclusions as to why or how that particular stimuli or phenomena occurred, making an assumption based on external observations combined with prior knowledge of similar events and circumstances.

A second type of reasoning discussed in the reading is the use of deduction. Logical reasoning uses deduction, or the process of concluding an assumption based on these…...

Nursing: Personal Statement
For my entire life, acting as a caregiver has been an integral part of my identity. I come from Cuba, and caring for the old and sick is considered to be a very important obligation. I was the child who took care of the needs of my grandmother and grandfather as they aged, as well as my father who died all too young of cancer. As emotionally difficult as these experiences were, I felt privileged to be able to do something for the people who had given so much to me. I also learned how gratifying it was to nurse someone and to provide them with a sense of self-worth and empowerment, even when they were facing their own mortality. To make this my career would be my dream come true.

I wanted to become a nurse while still living in Cuba but unfortunately Cuban nursing schools are not…...

In the emergency room, this distinction can have a determinant impact on the ability of the staff to preserve life and diminish pain and suffering.
The introduction of a bioethical perspective into this dialogue invokes a question as to the primacy of an interest in pursuing to the utmost the well-being of the patient. This speaks to one of the core values associating the principles of the ANA with the treatment outcomes desired in patiences. An examination of the ANA's Code of Ethics reveals that a theoretical basis exists to contend a direct correlation between the nurse's self-interest and that which is best for any given patient. There exists an essential obligation for such healthcare practitioners to "examine the conflicts arising between their own personal and professional values, the values and interests of others who are responsible for patient care and health care decisions, as well as those of the…...

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Works Cited:

American Nurse's Association (ANA). (2004). The Nurses Code of Ethics. The Center for Ethics and Human Rights. Online at .

The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). (2009). AONE Resource Center. www.aone.org.

Dimaria, R.A. & Ostrow, L. (2004). West Virginia University School of Nursing Makes the Move to Web-Based Learning. Technological Horizons in Education Journal, 31.

Emergency Nurses Association (ENA). (2008). Vision/Mission Statements and Code of Ethics. www.ena.org.

Perhaps a nurse must also be given a say in the way in which the entire healthcare system is being run today, especially since it is a nurse who is the closest to the patient, and who is completely responsible for the daily care of the patient, and it is a nurse who would put the patient on the road to recovery. A nurse would then be allowed and be given a chance to make use of her education, her leadership training, her skills in mass communication and her management skills in order to further the interest of the patient. The International Council of Nurses in Geneva, Switzerland has summarized the various duties of nurses today, as they increasingly take part in important decision making processes, as follows: 'strategic planning, budgeting, efficient resource planning and utilization, and the planning, management and evaluation of programs and services'. (Akinci, 2007) it…...

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References

Akinci, Ugur. (2007, Jun) "More nurses in decision making roles, prospects and challenges" Retrieved 16 November, 2007 at  http://www.nurse-recruiter.com/articles/misc/more_nurses_in_decision_making_roles.html 

Allen, Davina. (2001) "The changing shape of nursing practice"

Routledge.

Beaulieu, Elise M. (2002) "A guide for nursing home social workers." Springer

Nurse Licensure
Do you believe that nurse licensure (and scope of practice) should be controlled at the state or federal level?

The NLC (Nurse Licensure Compact) is a mutual acknowledgement licensure model. Many states have thought of authorizing it. Nonetheless, there were various factors that either terminated the bill while it was being processed or had it cancelled after adjournment. National licensure involves setting of criteria for universal licensing nationally, and administering it per state. It relinquishes, to some level, state authority over criteria for licensing and would expect states to bargain and agree on a complicated chain of regulatory factors including discipline and investigations. National licensure would bring about one license for every registered nurse, which would be administered and granted by the national government. The fact that this model completely takes away state authority makes it special. Most of the issues raised on national licensure are also applicable in nursing…...

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References

David Gorski. (2014, January 6). Expanding the scope of practice of advanced practice nurses will not endanger patients. Science-Based Medicine.

(2013). Nursing Licensure Portability. American Nurses Association.

Sarah Robinson, & Peter Griffiths. (2007). Nursing education and regulation: international profiles and perspectives. National Nursing Research Unit - King's College London.

According to the research, it "is defined as a practice-based ethic that is patient centered, It is an individualistic ethic that unites the reason why a decision is made with the action itself and the foreseeable consequences of that action," (Brown, 2010). In this the theory also shares with Parse's theory the importance of individual decision making and choices. One of the main differences is the notion of how we relate to one another. We have a freedom from aggression, known as negative right, based on this relationship, where we are not scared of others acting out irrationally against us. As such, the health care professionals do not act to harm the patients, but the patients also have the strict role of being the patients, thus "to fulfill his responsibilities in the treatment plan and not to place any unreasonable demands on the healthcare professional" (Brown, 2010). This is…...

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References

Brown, Barbara. (2010), A bioethical decision making guide: A synopsis of Symphonology. Health and Human Development. Penn State University. Web.  http://www.personal.psu.edu/dxm12/n458/symphonology.htm 

Parse, Rosemary Rizzo. (2011). Human becoming theory. Nursing Theories. Web.  http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Rosemary_Pars_Human_Becoming_Theory.html

Nurse Patient atios and Quality of Care
This study reviews the broad level of issues that surround the nurse/patient ratio: a critical shortage of trained and experienced nurses; increased political and fiscal demands from all sectors of society; rising costs internally and externally combined with a rising number of under-insured; and the conundrum of nursing ethics and the ability to foster excellence in care and patient advocacy. We note that there remains an issue about hiring more nurses -- where will these nurses come from if the nursing schools do not increase their recruitment efforts and broaden their curriculum. In addition, we note that the large majority of patients and stakeholders primarily want two things when admitted to a healthcare facility: better paid nurses and more highly-trained professionals who are satisfied with their vocation.

Introduction

Modern nursing is, by necessity, a mixture of complex balance: patient care vs. staffing; procedures vs. patient load;…...

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REFERENCES

More Nurses Make the Difference. (February 2012). The Lamp. 69 (1): Retrieved from: http://search.informit.com/au/documentSummary;dn=045435426132502;res=IELHEA

Safe Nurse Staffing: Looking Beyond the Numbers. (2009). Vantage Point, CNA. Retrieved from: -_Looking_Beyond_the_Raw_Numbers_2009-pdf&folder=pdfs/db/newslettershttps://www.nso.com/pdfs/db/newsletters/Safe_Nurse_Staffing_-_Looking_Beyond_the_Raw_Numbers_20094.pdf?fileName=Safe_Nurse_Staffing_

Aiken, L. (2001). The Hospital Nurse Workforce: Problems and Prospects."Draft

For the Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change. Retrieved from:  / Council-Dec-14-2001-Aiken-paper.pdfhttp://council.brandeis.edu/pubs/hospstruct 

Nurse Case Manager:
Case management in the nursing field is basically described as the functions and activities carried out by the nurse case manager within a specific care setting. In some cases, these functions and activities are usually performed by a self-governing practitioner, especially in private case management practices and community nursing facilities (Cohen & Cesta, 2005, p.278). Generally case management responsibilities are provided by the nurse case manager in acute care, primary care, home care, and managed care organizations. Nonetheless, these activities may be offered to particular patient populations and communities like the elderly. Some of the most case management activities include patient identification and intake, problem identification and assessment, patient outreach, development and implementation of plan of care, and coordination of care.

oles and Functions of Nurse Case Manager:

In acute care organizations, the roles and functions of the nurse case manager includes coordinating the care provided to a group of…...

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References:

Blancett, S.S. & Flarey, D.L. (2006). Case studies in nursing case management: health care delivery in a world of managed care. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc.

Cohen, E.L. & Cesta, T.G. (2005). Nursing case management: from essentials to advanced practice applications (4th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Health Sciences.

Meadows, P. (2009, January). Community Health Nursing. American Journal of Nursing,

109(19). Retrieved from  http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/fulltext/2009/01001/community_health_nursing.5.aspx

Nursing
There are a number of significant differences between in the art of teaching nursing skills at the university level and the art of teaching nursing skills at the community level. The educational opportunities are similar at both types of institutions but the demands on faculty are different at each level.

Current literature shows that "approximately 42% of students enter community colleges with reading, writing, or math skills below the college level' (Cohen, Brawer, 2003) and therefore many of these students "need basic skills preparation in remedial-developmental courses" (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2003). The need for basic skills preparation is evident of many students entering college, but especially so for those who are entering at the community college level. Many of these students have not gained acceptance into the larger universities, or have the desire to hone their educational skills before tackling the demanding requirements of four-year colleges and universities. This…...

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References

Cohen, A.M. & Brawer, F.B. ( 2003) The American community college, 4th ed., San

Francisco: Jossey-Bass

Facts about nursing (2008) Community College Week, October 20, 2008, pg. 7

McKinney, M.; (2010) More advanced degrees, Modern Healthcare, Vol. 40, Issue 39, p. 10

Paradigm case studies are valuable tools for introducing and facilitating discussions in the nursing field because they offer real-life examples that nurses can relate to and learn from. These case studies provide a concrete context for discussing and analyzing complex nursing concepts and practices. They can help nurses develop critical thinking skills as they work through the nuances and ethical dilemmas presented in the case.

Additionally, paradigm case studies can help nurses apply theoretical knowledge to practical situations and improve their problem-solving abilities. By reflecting on and discussing the decisions made in the case study, nurses can learn from the experiences....

Paradigm Case Studies: A Valuable Tool for Nursing Education and Practice

Introduction

Paradigm case studies are narratives that present archetypal examples of nursing practice, encompassing the core values, principles, and behaviors of the profession. These case studies serve as valuable tools in nursing education and facilitate meaningful discussions that foster critical thinking, clinical judgment, and professional development.

Introduction and Facilitation of Concepts

Emulation of Best Practices: Paradigm case studies present examples of exemplary nursing care, showcasing strategies, interventions, and outcomes that adhere to evidence-based standards and best practices. This not only introduces new concepts but also reinforces existing knowledge.
Clarification of Complex Issues:....

1. Introduction:
- Overview of the nursing profession
- Importance of nurses in healthcare
- Personal motivation for pursuing a career in nursing

2. Education and Training:
- Pre-requisites for nursing school
- Types of nursing programs (e.g. Associate's degree, Bachelor's degree, Accelerated programs)
- Licensing and certification requirements

3. Clinical Experience:
- Clinical rotations during nursing school
- Hands-on training in a variety of healthcare settings (e.g. hospitals, clinics, nursing homes)
- Preceptorship or internship opportunities

4. Specializations in Nursing:
- Overview of different nursing specialties (e.g. pediatric nursing, critical care nursing, psychiatric nursing)
- Additional training or certification required for specific specialties

5. Continuing Education:
- Importance of lifelong learning in nursing
- Continuing education....