Requiring newly licensed registered professional nurse to attain a baccalaureate degree in nursing within 10 years seems to be a reasonable expectation, particularly given the greater demands put upon the profession in healthcare environments where nurses are often called upon to function in a similar fashion to doctors (Vitale, 2010, NJSNA). References

School nursing: Scope and standards of Practice (2005). Revised 2020. ANA. Retrieved

https://portal.nasn.org/members_online/submissions/substart.asp?action=welcome&cid=1

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Vitale S-620. NJSNA. Retrieved http://www.njsna.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=4

Question 2

Share any comments you would like to make on the Gordon's chapters 6-10.

One of the most depressing comments made by Gordon (2005) in Nursing against the odds is the statement that despite mounting evidence that "no matter how many warnings" they received about overcrowding, poor patient conditions, and overburdened staff, nursing academics did not address these challenges within their literature (Gordon 2005, p.249). Nursing is facing a twofold crisis at present: on one hand, there are the medical of public healthcare, such as the spread of disease-resistant bacteria that pertain to the scientific side of nursing. But many of the problems of nurses have social and political causation, such as uninsured individuals, a lack of access...

Nursing education does not always deal with these real life problems, even while residencies attempt to expose student nurses to hands-on practice in the real world. Understanding how to talk to patients about changing their diet when there is little fresh food available requires training the nurse -- but also demands that more advanced nurses within the academy and at higher levels of healthcare institutions engage in meaningful debate about treating these problems on a social, macro level. If they do not, entry-level nurses' frustrations with their inability to provide solutions to medically treatable problems will grow. It is always tragic to see patients suffer, but it is even more tragic to see a patient unable to get routine care because of a lack of health insurance, or to be unable to engage in basic self-care because of a lack of access to the appropriate tools needed to maintain a basic state of health.
References

Gordon, S. (2005). Nursing against the odds: How health care cost cutting, media stereotypes, and medical hubris undermine nurses and patient care. Ithaca, NY: