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Nursing education has come a long way since my aunt was a practitioner. A Registered Nurse, my aunt worked in geriatric care for twenty years, and in psychiatric care for five years before that. I took my cue from her, developing my skills in a systematic way during my undergraduate education before embarking on a serious investigation of my career options as a nurse. The Doctor of Nursing Practice was not an option until relatively recently; and it is only within the past year that I determined it to be the best degree program for my skills, needs, philosophies, and my personal vision. My skills as a practitioner are both clinical in nature and caring in tone, as I combine evidence-based approaches to health care with the artful mastery of caring for the whole person. This means that I have a . I need to study in a program that wisely promotes multiculturalism and family systems into its curricula, which is why I have selected this specific degree tract. Most of all, I appreciate the opportunity to be a primary care provider. The nursing profession has advanced tremendously, entrusting nurses with greater responsibilities as members of the health care team. Because I am engaged with patients, while also firmly believing in evidence-based practice, I am uniquely suited for a career as a Doctor of Nursing Practice.
I understand that the Doctor of Nursing Practice is a new terminal degree program, and not one without controversy. The nursing profession has been at a crossroads for several years, establishing legitimacy as a distinct health care field from any other while also developing a core body of research, knowledge, and praxis. Not all nurses will want to pursue a Doctor of Nursing Practice, as the degree does entail a less theoretical and more clinical approach. I appreciate the more…
Nursing Education Does nursing have a unique body of knowledge or is it the application of various other fields of knowledge in a practice setting? Nursing does have a unique body of knowledge as Moyer and Whittmann-Price (2008) state "it is nursing's unique knowledge base that warrants a unique service or practice called professional nursing" (6). This means that like the other help-specific sciences nursing was founded on the basis of research
Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice I requesting username BOLAVENS work. If, . These questions related NURSING RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE. refer book titled Nursing Research: Generating assessing evidence nursing, IBM# 9781605477084 answers. Discuss the differences between research, research utilization, and evidence-based practice. you may want to link this to the historical evolution of research in nursing. Research refers to the systematic process of searching and generating knowledge about a particular topic in order
Nursing Theory Applications in Nursing Nursing Theory and its Applications In this paper, we will assess a grand nursing theory namely the Humanistic Model. First let's have a brief introduction regarding this theory. The nursing theories either grand or middle range give organization in expressing statements which are related to questions in the field of nursing. It also gives nurses the opportunity in describing, predicting, explaining and controlling different sorts of activities which
Nursing Theory: A Microscopic Perspective on the Theory-Practice Gap Jerniganm A paradigm in nursing theory exists today that equates nursing theory to a mirror, a microscope or a telescope. Meleis talks about this equation of nursing theory to a mirror, microscope, or telescope (2007). According to Meleis nursing theory that is like a mirror will reflect reality, but give it different shapes. Nursing theory that is like a microscope will focus in
Nursing Original understanding of what it meant to be an RN Being a Registered Nurse meant applying evidence-based practice to patient care. It meant doing whatever it took to make patients as comfortable as possible, listening closely to their needs, and to the concerns they and their family presented to the healthcare team and me. Being a Registered Nurse meant collaborating with my colleagues and other members of the healthcare team to
Nursing Theorist: Sr. Roy Adaptation Model The Roy Adaptation model for Nursing had its beginning when Sister Callista Roy happened to get admitted in the Masters Program of pediatric nursing in the University of California, Los Angeles, in the year 1964. At that time, Sr. Callista was familiar with the idea of 'adaptation' in nursing, and it must be mentioned that Sr. Callista's adviser at that time was Dorothy E. Johnson,