Vision for the future of nursing NUR 391 August1st, 2011 Dr. Wanda Dooley Vision for the future of nursing Introduction: This Power Point Presentation will show how evidence-based practice will influence trends in healthcare and the future of nursing. There will also be information describing how the application of nursing theory will continue to influence professional nursing practice, as well as the nurse’s current role is in research, and how new roles and opportunities will benefit nursing and healthcare in general. Trends: How evidence-based practice will influence trends in healthcare and the future of nursing. According to Fawcett and Garity (2009) “Evidence for nursing practice comes from research and other sources. Evidence-based practice requires an understanding of how research findings and other evidence inform and guide practice,” (p. 3) that is seen in professional nursing and patient care.
2). The research they conducted reveals the drastic, and undisputedly daunting, undertakings that will be needed to enhance the nursing profession, and enable growth in the evolving healthcare challenges ahead. The IOM reports that nurses need to be better educated, have a broadened scope of practice, one in which they can practice to their fullest extent, and they must be encouraged to take leadership roles, becoming active participants, and voices for change in healthcare reform. With so many changes that are already taking place, and more to come, the question about nursing remains, what is immediately needed for nurses to cope with the adjustments of healthcare, and how can we prepare the nursing community to better be able to navigate through the changes? According to the IOM report (2011), changes in nursing care must begin by having a direct impact on education, practice, and nursing leadership of today.
Since the medical profession is constantly changing nurses need to receive continuing education and training. The overall objective for nurse practitioners is to concentrate on the safety, care, and continued training and education for future nursing graduates. First of all, there was the indication that nursing education needs to be customized to the latest developments in the field. This implies that trainees will have the most updated information. Furthermore, the education should not be an intermittent process.
Ida Jean Orlando 1 RUNNING HEAD: IDA JEAN ORLANDO Ida Jean Orlando’s Nursing Process Theory Krystal Farley, RN, BSN Maryville University October 7, 2009 Ida Jean Orlando 2 Abstract The profession of nursing has a very rich history that begins with the most fundamental concepts of caring for and restoring health to those who are impaired. The initiation of providing care requires that information be gathered and organized in such a way that is expedient and effective. It is also required that a nurse’s efforts be used systematically with ease and that through repetition, this basic “framework” that is being formed, is able to be analyzed for its effectiveness, and changes can be made to improve the process or series of actions. Nursing is comprised of objective, measureable data, subjective data, concepts, philosophy, phenomena, and science, just to name a few. With so many components and such a broad scope of information, a framework is required to build ideas and give direction to the ideas that will begin to evolve with this cohesion.
The Roles and Ways of Knowing for a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Through the practice of scholarship, theories, models and conceptual frameworks the Advanced Practice Nurse integrates clinical knowledge into evidence based practice. Healthcare reform has created a need for the advanced educated nurse at the Bachelor through Doctorate degree level. The nurse practitioner has become the norm in healthcare settings and is found in every specialty along the lifespan. Educational and clinical requirements defined by the APN Consensus Statement sets the standard for entry into clinical practice. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Position Statement on Defining Scholarship for the Discipline of Nursing (1999), the APN/DNP’s role of scholarship serves to benefit nursing research, teaching, education, and the practice of nursing itself.
APNs can facilitate the ability to practice both the art and science of nursing and reduce the chasm between theory and practice by using nursing theory as a foundation. According to Chism, nursing theory is made up of ideas brought together by associated expressions that characterize, clarify, and foretell phenomenon that are in accordance with nursing viewpoints (Chism, 2013). Nursing theory helps to identify what should shape the foundation of practice by clearly describing nursing. It is essential the APN use nursing theory in evidence-based practice, to provide better patient care, improve communication between nurses, and as a guide for nursing research and education. In addition, because the main champion of nursing, caring, cannot be quantified, it is crucial to have a theory to examine and spell out what the APN does.
Personal Philosophy of Nursing Beverly’s Personal Philosophy of Nursing In order to write a philosophy of nursing, I believe that first one must decide what philosophy means to them. William R. Thomas (2011), director of programs for The Atlas Society, explains philosophy as an inclusive system of ideas about human nature and the nature of the reality we live in. Studies reveal that this system is a guide for living centered on the issues it addresses and determining the course we take in life and how we treat other people is determined by one’s philosophy. Based on this information a nurse’s philosophy of their responsibilities as a member of the health care profession is significant. As a nurse grows with knowledge and experience their philosophy is likely to yield some transformation.
The report put out by the IOM not only discusses the impact that nurses can have in the future of healthcare but also encourages higher education so as to be better equipped to meet the growing demands and challenges of healthcare that affect the American population. With an increasing number of an aging population, chronic illnesses, increased health disparities and increasing diversity, nurses have an opportunity to be used to their fullest potential, as delineated by their scope of practice. What impact does
From the ill-perceived role of the nurse performing mundane tasks for physicians more than half a century ago, the establishment of advanced practice nursing as a distinct pillar in the health care system to the hybridization of the practice of both nursing and medicine as a nurse practitioner to address primary care physician shortages, it is still to be determined what non-clinical roles may arise in the future health care system. More recently, the operations of the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Board of Directors arose "in response to client care needs and to the health care delivery environment" (Spross, Hamric, Hall, Minarik, Sparacino & Stanley, 2004, p. 2). The CNL, an APN who is a generalist, works at the microsystems level (e.g. outpatient clinics, hospital units) and is concerned with such tasks as developing and implementing strategies for plans of care at the preventive level, coordination of care and other administrative-related
Essay Keiser University Admissions August 26, 2011 Health care has gone through various changes including challenges both professionally and ethically, as a nurse in the field for several years I have witnessed a reorganization and expansion influenced by the conditions and the changes in society. The development of science, medicine, the hospital industry as well as war has brought about conditions that help to carve the patterns of nursing education. With this in mind my pursuant of a Masters in this field will aid to better serve society and add to the theoretical and technical body of knowledge. The demand for a better educated faculty and supervisory staff is increasing. Also leadership roles in nursing are expanding as well as the competition for promotions and the ability to function at a higher level.