SN-Student Nurse Objectives

Staff nurses will be paid to come to a classroom setting where they will be taught the five levels of development: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient and expert and the fundamentals of each level (Dracup & Bryan-Brown, 2004). In this class preceptors will be taught to help new nurses deal with the uncertainty of the clinical setting. According to Dracup & Bryan-Brown (2004), both nursing and medicine are taught in an apprenticeship system. Novice nurses require a “guide at the side” and without that guide they cannot move from novice to expert.

Benner’s theory gives a hope to new nurses and nurse practitioners in a way that experience brings expertise. Benner emphasizes on professional growth within the organization with increased experience. This theory provides a useful structure for practice development and marks out the difference between the functioning of novice and experienced nurses (Lyneham, Parkinson & Denholm (2009). It emphasizes on the power of expertise and empowers the nurse to expand her knowledge. It validates the clinical

Nursing is a dynamic profession and life long learning is essential for nurses to stay current with the increased complexity of the healthcare needs of today and into the future. In other words, the needs of our patients are changing, as we must change in order to be prepared to better serve that need.

Transitioning from nursing school to working in a hospital setting can be a challenging time for a new graduate. Due to the nursing shortage, new graduate nurses are being hired with little to no experience. This is overwhelming for new nurses, especially when they are not getting adequate support or training from the hospital. The amount of stress, pressure, and lack of training is leading to a high turnover rate for new graduate nurses. With patient acuity on the rise, new graduate nurses that are filling these vacancies in the hospitals, need to be competent nurses to provide proper and safe care to the patients.

The newly qualified nurse is in an especially good position to provide excellent patient care. Having only recently left education and training, the most up-to-date evidence regarding best practice should be fresh in the newly qualified nurse’s mind. However, what knowledge the newly qualified nurse possesses in theory, they lack in experience.

You, as a staff member have to realize that each patient is an individual. Each patient has unique healthcare needs. There are

As a nurse, we have the responsibility of providing safe and patient-centered care to the community. Patients are more than numbers, and as nurses we must treat them as individuals who need attention and personalized care. While caring for patients, we must use

Nurses need to understand the constant changes in the nursing profession. The shift is in patient care that transforms from specialty care to primary care and to deliver the care in the community rather than in the acute care area. Nurses would be enabled to practice within the full extent of their education, training, and competency levels creating better care in the health care community (Institute of Medicine, October 5, 2010). As an RN in surgery our department is constantly implementing more defined models of patient care through the use of teamwork, professional collaboration, and education of staff and patients. The nurses in our department demonstrate strong leadership capabilities that ensure the completion of assigned tasks.

Did you know that there is 126, 000 nursing positions unfilled in hospitals across the country ( Jackson, 2006) and the average nurse is 46 years of age? ( Alexandra, 2006). The public needs to see that the shortage of nurses is a major issue that is only going to get worse if something is not done about it. It has been shown that since the beginning of the shortage there has been an increase in mortality rates due to a increase of poor patient care. If this nursing shortage continues it will only decrease the quality of care the public receives, increase costs, make hospital stays longer, and health care less effective and efficient. Teamwork, good communication, critical thinking, and problem solving are all things

The period I have spent here in Emory nursing school has been gratifying, challenging, demanding, and astounding. Coming into the program, I had many fixed ideas about nursing, and was not aware of all the things nurses do on a day -to- day basis. At the present time, I have come to see the extensive nursing scope of practice and the skills required to become a professional nurse; I come to really appreciate this occupation. I did my Role Transition rotation at Care Initiative Unit (CIU) in Emory University Hospital (EUH). The unit has 7 stretchers and 6 recliners and the patients being cared for are generally patients from ED, Emory Clinic, ENDO, Vascular, and Cardiac specialties. The skills utilized by the nurses to care for these patients, and their specific pre-operative needs are very unique. I encountered many experiences during my Role Transition to help me evolve into a professional nurse when I am on my own. I will elaborate on this transitional passage through exploring the unit that I worked in, and my own personal leadership characteristics as well as defining methods that I can use to incorporate Evident Base Practice and provide quality nursing care.

In todays healthcare system, nurse’s will not only be required to proficiently with patients and other health care professionals, but they also need to have a skills as a provider, manager, and coordinator of care. According to the AACN, “Unlike graduates of diploma or associate-degree nursing programs, the nurse with a baccalaureate degree is prepared to practice in all health care settings - critical care, outpatient care, public health, and mental health” (“The Baccalaureate Degree”, 2000). Because of this provision, the baccalaureate nurses are well- conditioned to render care in individual families, outpatient centers, and neighborhood clinics where need is growing as hospitals are focusing on acute care. Now health care is going beyond the hospitals to more primary care and preventative services all throughout the community. In hospitals around the nation, baccalaureate prepared nurses are being practiced in peculiar ways that acknowledge their different educational preparations and competency from other entry-level RNs. To show these distinctions, nurses are not only delivering more complex aspects of daily care and patient education, but can also plan and organize a complete strategy of nursing care for the length of the patient’s stay in the facility. This is including pre-admission to post-discharge. AACN shows that the associate-degree nurse

A student, in the practical nursing program, giving the best care by using and applying skills, principles, and guidelines is the main concern. Seventy-five percent of patients in hospital are elderly simply because of their fragility and decrease in their immune system which would cause mature adult to develop a health problem. Every week is about meeting new patients with different type of diagnosis so skills can develop and one of the patients has caught a particular attention.

Those five stages include novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert (McEwen & Wills, 2014). Each of these stages shapes our world of nursing. We advance through these stages with the passing of time, with the development of our skills, and with the growth in our comfort level. The purpose of the text is to shine a light on Benner’s Model of Skill Acquisition in Nursing and to show how it effects our profession. Throughout this body of work, an overview of Benner’s Model of Skill Acquisition in Nursing will be given, a personal experience will be shared that will serve to tie into Benner’s model, and lastly we will discuss the application of Benner’s Model of Skill Acquisition in

Patricia Benner is popular for creating the five stages of skill acquisition that is applied into nursing. According to Benner (2015), the five stages include novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient and expert. The novice stage involves a new nurse who had not been exposed to any experience of the situation and relies on rules and instruction of expertise nurses. As the stages progress from novice to expert, the nurse slowly becomes confident in one’s skill and no longer relies on rules. By the time the nurse reaches expert, one will be able to fully understand the clinical situation. Along with the stages of skill acquisition, Benner came up with seven domains that apply to taking care of a patient in a given situation which include, helping, teaching and monitoring the patient and able to act quickly to a change in the patients status. The nurse will also need to ensure good health care practice and meeting patients needs and able to work well as team within the organization (Masters, 2015).

Nursing theories were developed to help professional nurses improve patient management. It helps promotes further knowledge, fosters critical thinking, and helps guide the direction for future nursing. There are numerous theories to choose from in nursing practice and they all give a variety of focal points. The systems theory of Betty Neumann and adaptation theory of Callista Roy are discussed, comparing both theories to all five components of the nursing process.