Nurse Practitioners and Strategies the Students Can Adopt to Succeed in School Nursing students worldwide face quite a number of challenges in the course of undertaking their highly engaging and mind-intensive nursing practitioner programs. Non-completion of the practitioner program means that the student is not adequately prepared to practice as a nurse. This paper looks into the various challenges nursing practitioners undergo, and the ways or strategies to overcome them

Nursing Administration-Staffing A strategy for recruiting nurses for the acute care units The effect of the nursing shortage crisis combined with higher patient acuity has become a crucial concern for the nursing management team. This relates largely to the balancing patient needs with staffing needs. Nurse executives at hospitals contribute to the shortage of women having numerous opportunities outside the health care industry and to inadequate compensation for work done. However, diverse

The new nurse should not be left to muddle through alone. Benner's work (cited in Messmer, Jones & Taylor, 2004) showed that nurses become more proficient and develop better cognitive skills and judgment when they are exposed to competent and proficient preceptors. A preceptorship program in which the new nurse is paired with an experienced professional nurse for a time could greatly ease the transition. The preceptor helps the new

Mentorship in Nursing Leadership and the Effects of Evidence-Based Practice: An Integrated Literature Review Nursing leadership has been identified as a major contributor to the outcomes of the organization, the nurses, and the patients. Mentoring in nursing leadership has been shown to be critical in the development and sustenance of nursing leadership (Wallen et al., 2010; Stetler et al., 2014). In addition, mentoring in nursing leadership and evidence-based practice (EBP) is

Nursing Informatics Career Viability Analysis Nursing Informatics Career Analysis As the concept of healthcare delivery systems continues a rapid evolutionary path in order to keep pace with technological advancement, the role of health information technology deployment has become fundamentally important within America's hospitals, community clinics, and private medical practice. The advantages provided by digitally storing massive amounts of patient data -- also known as the electronic health record (EHR) system -- have

An effective communication channel must be identified. The initial step involves the identification of all the characteristics of the appropriate target audience (such as the area of specialty in nursing, years of experience as well as the types of facilities that the nurses have (social media and trade journals ) in regards to cost and outreach (the number of likely candidates who may see the messages). Formation of strategic partnerships Schools