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Growing as a Nurse Through Education, 2006.
An examination of the career opportunities available to nurses with higher educational qualifications.
1,630 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 78.95
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This paper examines the benefits of registered nurses (RNs) enrolling in Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree programs. These "RN to BSN" programs improve the skills and experience of an RN in many ways. As a result, RN to BSN degree holders qualify for some of the best jobs in the rapidly expanding nursing field. This paper discusses 10 key areas of improvement resulting from an RN to BSN program. The paper concludes that many nurses find that their future choices are expanded by additional education in nursing.
Critical Thinking
Decision-Making
Nursing Care and Management of the Client
Effective Communication, Collaboration and Negotiation
Professional Values and Behaviors
Teaching/Learning
Research
Leadership
Career Development
Management
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"Nurses enrolled in RN to BSN programs have a major opportunity to improve their business and management skills. In addition to the medical training they received during their original nursing program, BSN enrollees develop their critical thinking, leadership, and supervisory skills.
The average income for registered nurses holding only an associate's degree was $51,100 in 2004 (Mattera, 2005). Those with bachelor's nursing degrees earned an average of $56,900. But it doesn't stop there. The average income increase percentage was higher between 2001 and 2004 for BSN prepared nurses by 2.5%. So not only do BSN prepared nurses get paid more, their income level is increasing faster than AD prepared nurses."
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Is Nurse Education Sexist?, 2007.
This paper analyzes Stephen Kermode's article "Is Nurse Education Sexist - An Exploratory Study".
2,569 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 15 sources, MLA, AU$ 112.95
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The paper evaluates Stephen Kermode's article "Is Nurse Education Sexist - An Exploratory Study". The paper discusses key topics of research with reference to the three methods of investigation; quantitative, qualitative and outcomes method research. The paper examines the article's relevance to nursing and reviews Kermode's methodological approach. The paper focuses on his research through eight components of a quantitative research study.
Outline:
PART "A": Rationale for Research Area
Methodological approach
Part "B": Problem Definition
Literature Review
Research Design
Sampling Protocols
Data Collection Strategies
Data Analysis Strategies
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"Formal research builds knowledge in a discipline. In nursing, practitioners embark on discovering the best data to enhance clinical practice. Promoting nursing as an empirical, scientific profession based on evidence versus tradition, provides credibility, ensures nurses are meeting their social responsibilities and influencing organizational and government policies (Rafael, A. 2000). Nursing generates many questions. Best research evidence answers these questions through methodologically sound and pertinent investigations."
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Nursing Education, 2008.
Examines issues of regulation and accreditation pertaining to nursing education.
1,165 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 59.95
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This paper explains that nursing programs are only available through accredited colleges because it is in the public's best interest to have measured standards providing guidelines for the nursing profession. The author points out that the regulatory requirements of higher education form a foundation for accreditation. The paper outlines the five areas required for institutional accreditation. The author also presents several regulations of nursing education institutions.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Regulatory Purpose
Purpose of Accreditation
Similarities and Differences between Regulation and Accreditation
Conclusion
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"The 12-Hour Rule was originally drafted to prevent fraud by what is now as "diploma mills". Diploma mills are found mostly in correspondence programs and they usually do not operate on an academic year. An academic calendar maintains a mandatory 12 hour regularly scheduled classroom session each week allowing students to become eligible for federal financial aid. The 12-hour rule was created by the Education Department."
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Microsoft Access in Nursing Education, 2008.
This paper explores Microsoft Access' (MSA) application in the nursing education setting.
3,525 words (approx. 14.1 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 143.95
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The author relates his goals of gaining knowledge regarding Microsoft Access (MSA) and experimenting with basic functions of the application. The author details his experimentation and its successful outcome. The author is of the opinion that MSA provides the functionality that nursing in general and nursing education needs. The author further contends that nursing should provide its ranks with the time and training to implement programs such as MSA to their fullest potential. The paper includes the data used in the experiment as appendices to the paper.
Outline:
Introduction
Tutorial Experience
Dataset Discussion
Process Discussion
Analysis of Application
Literature References
Conclusions
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"In selecting Microsoft Access (MSA) for this assignment, the author's goal was to be introduced to this application for the first time to and learn some of its basic features. The author's plan was to gain knowledge regarding MSA and to practice the basic functions of this application. This task was accomplished by selecting an available dataset from a nursing educational setting. No overall question was selected to solve using MSA. However, in experimentation, several underlying questions regarding the data were addressed while exploring MSA's application in the nursing education setting. MSA can be used in various areas of nursing. Since the author is unsure at this time what area of practice will be chosen, the flexibility and power of the application is ideal and can be explored."
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Nursing Education, 2005.
This paper discusses learning theories as applied to nursing education.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 129.95
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This paper describes an actual nursing teaching situation from a behavioral standpoint using learning theories. The author points out how learning theory is applied to nursing education,evaluated and assessed. The paper explains how the learning theory is a best fit practice for teaching.
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"With the twenty-first century now upon us, there is even a greater need to foster an environment wherein there exists a coalition amongst educators, industrial leaders, politicians, regulatory agencies and professional organizations to assist the nursing profession with what may seem as an insurmountable task; namely, to combine nursing education, experience, and learning into a best fit practice for optimal patient care. In order to accomplish this rather challenging task there must exist, on all sides of education, a very discernible understanding of that which constitutes effective learning in a learning environment, whether the environment be a classroom or an actual work setting. However, a state of learning does not exist in a vacuum and two support systems must exist, monitored, and mentored if learning is to take place."
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Nursing Education, 2006.
An analysis of the phenomenological pedagogy and narrative approaches to nursing education.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 64.95
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This paper attempts to explain appropriate verbal and written communication skills in the clinical setting. It then looks at the effectiveness of the phenomenological pedagogy and narrative approaches in teaching clients in the clinical setting so that understanding will be reached. The paper specifically focuses on these approach with regards to nursing education.
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"Phenomenological Pedagogy, the Narrative Approach, and Learning Goals The pedagogical approach in nursing education that was chosen for this paper is the narrative approach. The narrative approach is very valuable because it "creates possibilities for new understandings to emerge" (Ironside, 2001, p. 81). That pedagogical approach will be applied to two learning goals."
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Nursing Education, 2007.
This paper links learning goals to the phenomenological approach in nursing education.
960 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 50.95
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This paper explains that learning goals consist of discovering meanings, identifying patterns and achieving new and unusual interpretations of personal experiences. The author points out that the phenomenological pedagogy, which is based totally on the lived experiences of both students and teachers, focuses on the process of dialogue and reflexivity. The paper relates that one form of the phenomenological approach is narrative pedagogy and that the narrative approach can assist nursing students in understanding the apparent gap between studying theory and learning clinical skills.
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"Through the narrative approach, I learned to reflect deeply on such issues as suffering. I structured the experience on paper and then reflected on the structure and on what appeared to be the most important aspects of the narrative. At the same time, it was only when I shared this experience with others that insights began to develop. I discovered that other nursing students and nurses had encountered the same types of experiences from which meaning seemed impossible to extract."
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Nursing Education, 2007.
This paper discuses the professional development of nurses through the inclusion of research activities in their education at the baccalaureate level.
1,220 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 14 sources, APA, AU$ 60.95
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This paper explains that present day nursing practices guided by research-based evidence are replacing the old paradigm of anecdotal experience handed down from mentor to student. The author points out that the inquisitiveness, critical thinking and methods required for evaluating and creating research are critical to upholding the standard of nursing care. The paper stresses that the readiness to accept and appreciate evidence-based practice, as well as ascertain obstacles to its practice, are important issues that need to be addressed by the nursing professional both individually and as part of a group or unit.
Table of Contents:
Review of Literature
Strategies for Implementation
Conclusion
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"A nurse should be able to assimilate the vast amount of literature available to her, but also be able to screen out irrelevant ones and "fit" useful ones to her patients' individual needs in a systematic manner. This is best exemplified in evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice by nurses is the process of arriving at clinically relevant research questions, attempting to gather evidence that answers these questions, determining the applicability of evidence in practice by determining its benefits, risks, cost-effectiveness, etc. and putting the answers to practice."
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Nursing: Application of the Educational Theorist John Dewey, 2006.
An analysis into the teachings of an educational theorist.
1,892 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 88.95
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This paper uses a case scenario to discuss the teachings of educational theorist, John Dewey. The paper concludes that the 'inquiry-based' learning and the lifelong learning process are critical in the field of medicine and other paramedical professions, such as nursing.
Table of Contents:
Objective
Introduction
Statement of the Problem
I. John Dewey - Educational Theorist
II. Understanding 'Inquiry-Based' Learning
III. Inquiry-Based Learning: Applied Learning
A. Cotton
B. The Persimmon Tree
C. The Boy Scouts & Self-Governance
IV. What Might be Suggested by John Dewey
Summary & Conclusion
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"The more of John Dewey's writings that she ingested the more clearly she envisioned the methodology proposed by John Dewey. Excitedly Ms. Thompson put away all of her planned lessons and got ready to 'wing-it' because she knew nothing of the cultural and regional factors affecting her teaching practice and in order to implement 'inquiry based learning' in her classroom she was first going to have to DO some inquiry based learning on her own."
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The Education of Nurses, 2005.
This paper reviews the history of the education of nurses concentrating on the 1950s.
870 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 44.95
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This paper explains that the decade of the 1950s saw radical change in the "art" of nursing because nurses began to move from a servant to a partner role, to have more interaction with patients, to see innovations brought back from the previous military conflicts and to seek out more education to complete their transformation. The author points out that early nursing education was usually hospital-based; collegiate education for nursing did not take hold until the late 1940s and early 1950s and was mostly outside the control of formal educational institutions. The paper relates that, by the 1965, the American Nurses' Association proposed that nursing be divided into two education levels: Junior college (a two year degree) for technical or vocational practice and senior college (a four year degree) for professional practice.
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"Socioeconomic factors affecting the nursing profession during this decade reflected the transition of the American culture. Women, who enrolled in nursing programs in the 1940s, began to "retire" from the nursing profession. During WWII, young women were actively recruited to fill the stateside nursing shortage. This campaign was considered patriotic, and the move away from private duty nursing encouraged this (in addition to the acceptance of private health insurance as we know it). Nurses were an active combat component in the Korean War (while women cannot serve in combat roles, they did and still are in supportive roles that require them to be close to combat zones) but afterwards many nurses chose to start families and stay home. Also, the profession at one time had strict moral clauses, such as the young women could not be married, have children, dance, drink, be an atheist, and some of these old-fashioned ideals carried over into the new decade."
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Licensing and Education of Nurses, 2008.
An analysis of the issues that Senate Bill 2529 is intended to address with regards to the licensing and education of nurses within the New Jersey State health care system.
1,525 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 73.95
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This paper introduces and discusses Senate Bill 2529 which focuses on the licensing and education of nurses within the New Jersey State's health care system. It begins with an address to senators regarding the Bill and then provides a statement discussing the necessity of the Bill. It further describes the issues that Senate Bill 2529 is intended to address.
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Address to Senators
Statement
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"The fact is that within that new health care system we are still impacted by issues of nursing migration, nursing retirement and globalization that will not cease to affect the process of nursing or the delivery of care without policies that are intended to provide positive results. One such policy is Senate Bill 2529 that gives us the opportunity at this time to mold our nursing professionals through education and not only ensure that they have the ability of universally achieving goals in health care delivery, but that they are the most knowledgeable and skilled nurses throughout the world."
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Educational Advancement of Nurses in North Carolina, 2002.
A cross-sectional study to determine factors in the educational advancement of licensed practical nurses in the State of North Carolina.
4,350 words (approx. 17.4 pages), 49 sources, MLA, AU$ 166.95
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The paper discusses the United States' serious nursing crisis and predictions that this trend will only get worse in the future, showing that the changing demographics of an aging population are largely to blame. The paper also shows that nursing shortages are greater in areas requiring higher levels of education, such as Masters or Doctorate Degrees and that not enough nurses are pursuing educational paths to fill this need. Congress has offered tuition reimbursement and grant programs to help fund higher education and Nursing Associations are working to create faster tracks to a careers in nursing. Other methods discussed are media campaigns which have highlighted the advantages of nursing. This research examines the factors that influence a nurse?s decision to pursue higher education and gives insight as to how to eliminate some of the barriers that prevent them from entering into higher education.
Table of Contents:
Literature Review
Scope of the Nursing Shortage
What is Being Done?
Have these Measures Been Effective?
Motivating Factors for Nurses to Pursue Continuing Education
The Traditional Career Path
Distance Learning and the Nursing shortage
What this Research Hopes to Answer
Methodology
Data Collection
Subject Selection Criteria
Data Analysis
Assumptions
Limitations
Biases
Conclusion
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"Distance learning offers many advantages over traditional programs. The first advantage is cost. As distance learning facilities do not have the high costs of maintaining all of those classrooms as in a traditional setting, they have lower over head costs and can offer their services at a much lower rate. Convenience is the biggest advantage. Many nursing students start families and must begin working as soon as they obtain their license. They often have many job and family responsibilities that would prevent them from having a career and going to school, without sacrificing family or professional life. Distance learning allows them to work at home, many times at their own pace, and still enjoy the benefits of family and professional life."
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Registered Nurse vs. Nurse Practitioner, 2008.
A research paper exploring the process of transferring from a status of registered nurse to nurse practitioner.
2,825 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 10 sources, APA, AU$ 123.95
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The paper defines and describes the duties, obligations and educational abilities of both a registered nurse and nurse practitioner in order to determine the motivations of nurses to transfer positions. The paper provides a literature review and concludes that a more in-depth analysis is necessary to truly assess a nurse's motivation for expressing interest in transferring to the role of nurse practitioner. The paper also shows the need for more studies on whether such a transfer will bring greater job satisfaction and motivation than if the nurse were to remain as a registered nurse.
Outline:
Introduction
Literature Review
Strengths & Weaknesses of the Concept
Discussions & Summary Conclusions
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"At present, there is a national crisis within the nursing industry. More and more, people are interested in becoming nurses. Nurses work in many capacities in clinics, community centers, hospitals and in private practice. However for some, there is no clear distinction between an R.N. and a Nurse Practitioner. Further, there is little data exploring the mechanisms through which a nurse may decide to pursue an advancing career, and what support if any he or she may receive in doing so. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the roles of these two positions, and assess which is most needed given the status of the nursing and healthcare industry in the United States today."
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Nursing and Obstetrical Nursing Curricula, 2006.
A look at the organizations that regulate and control nursing and nursing education programs.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 51.95
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This paper looks at nursing and obstetrical nursing and investigates what agencies police and design the curricula for these fields. The State Boards of Nursing and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission are examined and the policies and standards that they set are discussed as well as the required curriculum content and development they oversee. Their impact upon curriculum development and revision is also reviewed.
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"In the arena of nursing, there are so many specialties, so many fields, so many types of nurses, that there must be governing and regulatory bodies. Without such organizations that regulate and control nursing and nursing education programs, there would not be a singular and uniform set of expectations for this nation's nursing professionals. The two organizations that will be discussed in regard to how they influence the regulation of nursing, and more specifically how they could influence obstetrical nursing, are the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC). The first of the two governing agencies that this paper will discuss and investigate is the NCSBN."
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Using Non-Nursing Personnel for Nursing Tasks, 2004.
A look at the advantages and disadvantages of using non-nursing personnel to perform nursing tasks.
1,356 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 69.95
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This paper considers the reasons for using non-nursing personnel to perform nursing tasks and then takes a look at the advantages and disadvantages of doing so. The paper also discusses the outlook for using non-nursing personnel in the nursing profession as well as the decline in qualified nurses in the labor pool.
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"Much has been written about the nursing shortage that plagues physicians, hospitals and nursing homes in the United States. At the same time that there are fewer qualified nurses available in the work force a number of states and municipalities have passed regulations regarding the nurse-to-patient ratio that is making the situation even more acute. As a result, healthcare providers have been forced to be innovative in the way that they attract nurses to their institutions and recruiting efforts..."
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Director of Nursing in Nursing Home, 1999.
Examines issues affecting this position & role. Examines the economics of the institute, restructuring, responsibilities, quality of care and staffing.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 14 sources, AU$ 69.95
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"DONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY NURSING HOME ENVIRONMENT
Introduction
This research examines some of the issues affecting the position and role of the Director of Nursing (DON) in contemporary nursing home environments. DONs are experiencing increasing difficulties in their attempts to fulfill their responsibilities as the health care environment in the United States continues in a period of transition.
DONs and Transition in the Health Care Environment
An increasing number of nursing homes, in the pursuit of goals related to both efficiency and effectiveness, are implementing reorganization schemes that frequently involve downsizing, decentralization, or some combination of downsizing and decentralization (Barrett, 1995). Among health care.."
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