Nursing

Global Nursing Shortage One of the major areas of global concern in health care is the shortage of nurses. While relevant authorities are doing their level best to reduce its far-reaching impacts, a lot of regions continue to face immense challenges. Because of the lean workforce available, nurses are often the subject of enormous pressure […]

Foundations of Nursing Education 1.1 Introduction Nursing profession is essential for any nation that has the prospects of providing quality healthcare to its citizens. Meeting the prospects will require the change of nurse training from ADN program to a BSN. Although the nursing degree is not the only requirement for nurses, it helps the students

Evolution of Nursing When nursing started, it was mostly concerned with gender and a willingness to the job and not formal medical apprenticeship. Nurses were viewed as inexpensive or free labor with limited tasks up until the 19th century. Florence Nightingale is often credited as the founder of modern nursing. She changed social norms associated with

One Way ANOVA Statistical Test In Nursing Research The knowledge of statistical tests is now becoming an area of interest to nursing research, to come up with evidence-based interventions whose primary objective is to provide first-level health-related care to patients (Clifford & Gough, 2014). Therefore, as elaborated by Main & Ogaz (2016), there are statistical

Sociology And Nursing in the 21st Century It is believed that once a patient walks into a hospital or falls sick at home, the sick person expects not only to get better but to be treated with care. Patients, whether in the hospital or at home anticipate that the nurses who will attend to them

Heritage Assessment in Nursing In the healthcare sector, the main focus is usually put on patient satisfaction. Many healthcare organizations aim to help take back the patient to his/her normal life for maximum productivity. This, therefore, means that healthcare provision is tailored towards meeting the specific needs of the individual patients. Every patient has different

MENTAL HEALTH NURSING Mental health has been a topic that people shy away from but has gained a lot of popularity especially in the 21st century. The quarantine period associated with the Corona virus has brought to light the need to address the issues of mental health. This paper will review the article by Daniel Newman

IOMs Recommendations on the Future of Nursing IOM’s Report on the Future of Nursing. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) established an initiative on the way forward for the nursing field for two years under the request of the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The exercise culminated in a document which contained recommendations on

IOM Future of Nursing Report and Nursing Recent changes in the healthcare sector have emphasized population well-being, quality of care, and service value. As a result of these reforms, registered nurses in the United States face both opportunities and challenges (Salmond & Echevarria, 2017). As a result of their numbers, nurses are vital in the

A. Ethical Issues As a practicing nurse, one will come across various challenges that require guidance from the American Nursing Association (ANA) code of ethics. However, the stipulations in ANA’s code of ethics can at times result to ethical dilemmas in actual practice. As a nurse leader serving on a healthcare organization’s ethics committee, I