RN (Registered Nurse), but i didn't know what field i wanted to specialize in. Now i'm close to the end of my junior year and i have decided that i either want to be a Trauma RN or a Pediatric RN. Trauma Nurses treat patients in a state of emergency, and handle urgent situations where the cause of injury or disease isn’t yet known. They can work in hospital emergency rooms and other chaotic environments, and often need to coordinate with doctors, family members and other nurses. As a Trauma
always been a popular job, but it’s not an easy one. There are many routines to uphold and if you aren’t good with organization, then working in the hospital isn’t for you. I have chosen a career path to be a nurse anesthetist and this essay will tell you why. Job characteristics for a general nurse anesthetist include: reviewing medical history, evaluating patients and their accurate method of anesthesia, properly measuring and overseeing the level and speed of the anesthesia being administered, keeping
Under the regulations of the California Nurse Practice Act, a Licensed Vocational Nurse has the ability to delegate tasks to unlicensed assisted personnel (UAP) according to individual facility policy. Delegation as stated in Hill & Howlett is defined as, “transferring the authority to perform nursing duties that are in the job description of the LVN charge nurse.” Prior to carrying out this important nursing duty, it is important for the LVN to recognize the difference between assigning tasks and
Chapter 24 that discusses communication and chapter 36 that discusses spiritual health are the chapters that helped me in writing this report. It is factual that effective communication skills and competency are needed upon achieving a profession as a nurse. Upon first greeting a patient the distinctive level of communication is apparent. Communication has two core factors, non-verbal and verbal. Both types of communication will be implemented on a regular basis as I interact with patients in my nursing
builds on the other. As a bedside nurse for so many years I am propelled towards the second competency the “Facilitate learner development and socialization” (Billings & Halstead, 2016, p. 10). According to the National League for Nursing (NLN), competency II is geared towards the educator’s obligation to cultivate students or nurses (National League for Nursing., n.d.). As an educator one has to be able to reach and educate at the level of the student or nurse. For example, one cannot teach a
with applying for scholarships. For me, the career I want to push forth to being in nursing. The first couple of steps I took were finding out all the information I needed to find about the life of a nurse. I wanted to know how much money I would make and what I would need to do to become a nurse and a couple other things so I went on Google and found a website that could help me answer the variety of questions I had. So when I was doing my research on the job, I found that it hasn’t been updated
A nurse is a profession in the healthcare field. There are many different kinds of jobs that you can be in the nursing field which includes, OPN nurses, OB/GYN nurses, registered nurses, nurse midwife, and much more. The type of nursing career I decided to research is an OB/GYN nurse. OB/GYN is used as an abbreviation for the actual name of this career. The “OB” is short for obstetrics or for an obstetrician, which is a physician who specializes in delivering babies. “GYN” is short for gynecology
are those that affects care, need a solution, and would make a difference when gets improved (Assisting Nurses with Practice Problems). Every workplace has one or other practice problems that are current (Current Issues and Topics, n.d.). In my workplace, one of the major problems is the varying competency levels of nurses. The purpose of this paper is to establish that varying levels of nurse competency is a current practice problem. Identification of a practice problem In my hospital, the turnover
activities, nurse staffing and adverse patient outcomes as perceived by hospital nurses, the research gives evidence that indicates nurse staffing levels can have direct effect on patient care. Therefore, in correlation to the question and point of study, the research pointed at the fact that inadequate staffing and unrealistic workloads place an burden on nursing staff, reducing the quality of care that nurses are able to provide. The patient-to-nurse ratio averaged 8.74:1 overall within the nurses involved
Being a nurse is a profession. With each profession, there is a certain amount of knowledge that needs to be applied to be able to carry out the necessary tasks. In the nursing field, as students we are required to learn the human anatomy, pathophysiology, and pharmacology to apply it to practice. Prior to reading Thinking as a Nurse, I had already developed a notion of what it meant to think like a nurse. Thinking like a nurse in my own terms, means to know how the body functions, general concepts