Genetics and Genomics: Implications and Recommendations for Nursing Introduction Health care is an ever-evolving field of practice that must continue growing daily to keep up with the demands of a fast changing world. With the advancements in the fields of genetics and genomics nursing finds that this area must be incorporated into practice to adequately provide care for patients. As a result, the rapid expansion of genetics and genomics and its role in health care is beginning to be viewed as
Genetics and Genomics: Implications and Recommendations for Nursing Introduction Health care is an ever-evolving field of practice that must continue growing daily to keep up with the demands of a fast changing world. With the advancements in the fields of genetics and genomics nursing finds that this area must be incorporated into practice to adequately provide care for patients. As a result, the rapid expansion of genetics and genomics and its role in health care is beginning to become viewed
REVIEW FOR ENHANCING CULTURAL COMPETENCY IN NEW NURSING GRADUATES Cultural competency is an indispensable in nursing practice so that nurses can deliver optimal care for patients from diverse cultural backgrounds. Therefore, insufficient knowledge and skills of cultural competency have continued to increase racial and ethnic inequalities in health care service for minority groups (Dunagan et al. 2013; Long, 2012). As nurses interact with clients they provide nursing care, education and advocacy
Competencies between nurses prepared at Associate Degree level vs Baccalaureate Degree level Jane Doe Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS 430V Mary Smith May 14, 2011 Competencies between nurses prepared at Associate Degree level vs. Baccalaureate Degree level A nurse is a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. The nurse works in collaboration with other healthcare professionals and is responsible for the treatment, safety, and recovery of
Introduction Nursing research is a major force in nursing and it has been judged as non-cumulative, which is neither helpful nor beneficial for Nursing Science (Kirkevold, 1997). Nursing research makes clear contributions to the development of evidence based nursing practice. Science is used in nursing when “scientists develop theories to describe, explain, predict, and control the world around us and test their theories with experiments. When we understand the scientific rationale for our actions
using the nurse educators core competencies will ensure that competence-based education is achieved. The educators core competencies are as follows as stipulated by Nurse educator core competencies, 2016, p 14: 1. Theories and principles of adult learning: This is teaching concepts of nursing, and ensuring that the framework for the curriculum is addressed. 2. Curriculum and implementation: Using educational policies and approaches that are based on evidence-based research. Material taught should be
Cultural competency is extremely indispensable in nursing practice so that nurses can provide optimal care for patients from diverse cultural backgrounds. Therefore, insufficient knowledge and skills of cultural competency has continued to increase racial and ethnic inequalities in healthcare services especially for minority groups (Dunagan et al. 2013; Long, 2012). As Nurses interact with clients they provide care, education and advocacy at any point in need. Cultural awareness provides the bases
The Evolution of Nursing The concept of specialty nursing evolve from the profession role of registered nurse as a result of changes in the healthcare demand for more knowledge focus and need for advance nursing education. Nursing profession has evolved thru out history to specialty focus area to meet this demand. Many of these specialties have resulted in, recognition, explanation and growth that had made and impact on the health care needs. For example many of these specialties has evolved with
QSEN competencies. I have found that many sources in the literature discuss this fact as well. Best practices for the use of the QSEN competencies in the curriculum call for an integration into the theoretical and experiential portions of the curriculum by using active and student-centered methods to thread the competencies throughout several nursing courses from the beginning of the program (Bryer & Peterson-Graziose, 2014). In their article “Integration of Quality and Safety Competencies in Undergraduate
of this paper is to compare and contrast the differences in the scope of practice between Associates Degree in Nursing (ADN) and Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing (BSN) nurses. There are numerous variances and similarities identified. These variances will be explored to show distinction between the two educational preparedness expectations by the Board of Nurse Examiners (BON). Literature Review According to (Board of Nurse Examiners [BON], 2010) members of the profession of nursing, ADN and