Scope Of Practice

In today’s healthcare system, nursing is a challenging field as a result of rapid technological advances and changes in healthcare policies. As a dedicated nursing professional, with a great passion for learning, I strive to stay on top of these changes. I am determined to increase my knowledge to be an instrumental part of providing quality healthcare. The demands of nursing are high; however the rewards are even higher. Nursing requires both a supreme understanding of the science of health, and a caring bedside manner befitting only those who seek a position of such a personal involvement in the well-being of a patient. Academically, I will put forth all of

The need for continuing education in nursing has been accentuated in response to rapidly changing health care environment. Expanding knowledge by pursuing higher education allows nurses to enlarge one’s practice. Furthermore, higher education in nursing has been shown that a nurse’s level of education can become a critical factor to the patient-centered quality of care. This essay describes increased demand for higher education in nursing and emphasizes the necessity of continuing education to provide optimum patient care in various setting.

Developing nursing science also connects to educated advanced practice nurses to have an increased depth of knowledge in health care policy. Nursing science is able to help maintain high levels of safety and quality over time and across all health services and various settings (Oberleitner, 2014). Advanced practice nurses may help form the policies. Many of these nurses have a personal knowledge base on what would work best for the patients and facility as a whole. Advanced nurses are able to advocate for the change needed in the health care systems. Another benefit to developing nursing science is the most obvious, the clinical roles. Nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, and nurse midwives will have more specialized content in an area of advanced practice nursing. Middle range theories exist such as: weight management, acute pain, successful aging, and symptom management (Peterson, 2017). Advancing science helps nurses follow specialties comparative to medical doctors with the trust from the patients and knowledge base needed to provide effective and safe

The Carnegie Foundation reports that nurses today “are undereducated for the demands of practice” (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard, & Day, 2009, ¶ 17). Education of the ADN centers around the hands-on skills needed to care for a patient at bedside and less on the scientific theories that allow the holistic treatment of a patient. A report by the Milbank Memorial Fund in 2001 reports that nurses educated at the ADN level have a higher incidence of mistakes made while performing their duties (Rosseter, 2011, ¶ 24). Registered nurses who graduate with the two year degree lack research skills, leadership and managerial skills as well as informatics needed to deliver quality medical care within today’s health care system (Orsolini-Hain & Waters, 2009, p. 269).

The health care field is ever changing, the article The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2010), explains all the changes that need to happen in the health care system (Institute of Medicine, 2010). The recommendations that the Institute of Medicine has for the health care field are ones that are important for the workers as well as the patients. This report applies to my career because being in the master’s program I am furthering my education, which is one of the messages that this article has to the readers (Institute of Medicine, 2010, p. 4). Message one is also relevant to my career because it talks about nurse residency program and I have been in a program for a little over a year (Institute of Medicine, 2010, p. 5). As a nurse doing continuing education is a way of following new trends and developments in information.

Over the years there have been vast changes in healthcare that require nurses to go above and beyond in their level of expertise in technology and scientific knowledge (Palos, 2014). Nurses have to evolve with those changes, therefore they must utilize educational tools and develop skills to stay current with the advancements that hospitals require for practice (Palos, 2014). Palos (2014) also found that nurses have a responsibility to use their critical thinking skills, make sound clinical judgments, and apply evidence-based nursing

A career in nursing is not an easy choice; nursing is hard work. The field of nursing requires individuals who are knowledgeable, competent, and committed. Advanced practice nurses (APNs) must possess an aptitude for managing complex circumstances, continuous learning, adaptability, critical change, differing interdisciplinary demands, radical technological shifts, and the inadequacies of resource allocation and time constraints (Sadri, 2012). Individuals not prepared to confront and embrace these realities should not seek entry here. Those who do accept the challenges of advanced nursing practice will find that these prevailing conditions and circumstances will yield levels of challenge, satisfaction,

There are certain expectations the IOM expect nurses to meet, and those expectations have increased greatly transitioning to the modern year. “Nurses now need knowledge of public health, geriatrics, leadership skills, health policy, system improvements, research, and evidence-based practice.” Team collaboration is important, and this focuses for associating with many health professionals with high standards who have held higher degrees of education than nurses. Nurses must also learn to work with more advanced technology, and contribute decisions in caring for weaker patients. The impact of increasing nurses that hold BSN degrees to 80 percent by the year 2020, is specifically behind one of the reasons to transform nursing

Nursing professionals help individuals, families, and communities to attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. The needs of patient care have evolved together with the healthcare system for a few decades, setting higher standards and delegating more roles for nursing professionals. Nurses, especially those with a bachelor’s degree, should always maintain continued education and teach other healthcare professionals as well. This is to equip them with the tools required to deliver a holistic patient

The constant factor in the healthcare field is change! As the nursing professionals navigate the front lines of patients' care, they are typically exposed to change. As the year goes by, the nursing profession continues to change and progress at a spectacular pace. There are many current trends in the nursing profession, some of which are; the rise in the senior citizen's population, evolution of informatics, shortage of nurses and the researches on health outcomes.

The nursing profession has evolved throughout the years, but more rapidly in most recent years. The educational roles and responsibilities, in particular, have transformed in alignment with hospital organizations, to provide a more patient-centered focus on the delivery of care. As a member of the largest healthcare profession, nurses work in diverse settings and are the main providers of healthcare services. “Nurses are well poised to meet these needs by virtue of their numbers, scientific knowledge, and adaptive capacity, and health care organizations would benefit from taking advantage of the contributions nurses can make” ("Institute of Medicine," 2010, p. 2).

Whether you have been practicing for many years or are just beginning your nursing career, you can see that the face of nursing is in transition. Due to rapidly advancing technology, greater autonomy within our field and healthcare reform, many changes are ahead for our profession. These changes are seen in every arena of nursing, whether that is in the hospital, long term care, non-profit or nurse-managed health clinics and give us a peek at what the future of nursing will be like. Patient care is evolving and nurses require a higher skill set to effectively treat such a diverse population (Models, 2010). In response to this need, educational institutes are encouraged to modify and expand loan forgiveness programs and increase the number of grants awarded to nurses furthering their education. The skills that were once needed for new nurses have dramatically changed over the past few years. We must do everything in our power to ensure new nurses are prepared to enter the workforce capable of handling their immense responsibilities (Hendren, 2010). The projected nursing shortage will severely impact patients across the United States and law makers are scrambling to find a solution to the problem. Patient care delivery models are changing across the board, these changes will likely affect us all, and regardless of the area we each practice in. Nurse practitioners will soon be able to practice independent of a physician, which can only mean the role of Registered Nurse will

The article at americansentinel.edu also goes into detail about the changing challenges of nurses of the future. No longer will nurses just have to be educated on the patient and the body. Now they will have this steep learning curve for technology. This is something we already see as a problem in some ways. Every hospital has a different type of IV pump, ventilator, and medication distributor. This means someone can’t just switch nursing careers without needing to learn a bunch of new

After a two-year comprehensive study that began in 2008 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in collaboration with the Institute of Medicine, the 2011 Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report was released (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2011). The report provides eight essential recommendations for the nursing profession to undertake to ensure they are able to appropriately respond and lead the way in the rapidly metamorphosing healthcare (IOM, 2010a). Recommendations four, five, and six focus on the need for nurses to continue to advance their education. In this reflection paper, I will focus on how I see myself fitting into these recommendations by the IOM. I will also discuss how my level of education will affect my role in the future of nursing and ability to

Nursing is one of the most popular professions in healthcare. To become a professional nurse, one must acquire certain level of education, whether it is at associate or baccalaureate degree level. Once becoming a nurse a number of professional standards must be maintained to stay abreast with the profession. In that respect, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in its 2010 report had suggested many recommendations focusing on the future of nursing. The aim of the report is to put forth recommendations that allow nurses to “(1) ensure that nurses can practice to the full extent of their education and training (2) improve nursing education, (3) provide opportunities for nurses to assume leadership positions and to serve as full