American Nurses Credentialing Center

The professional organization I will explore is the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. This vison of the APNA is to instill the core values of “empowerment, inclusivity, integrity, collegiality, innovation, transparency, and stewardship.” It is the mission of the APNA Administrative Council “to facilitate collaboration and communication among psychiatric nurse administrators, to serve as a clinical resource in achieving shared goals, and to assist in the use of evidence-based practices and

are nurses (RNs or LPNs), nurse practitioner, physician, physician assistant, social workers, and/or psychologists. 4. Forces 6, quality of care, refer to providing an environment that promotes quality care such as providing safety for falls to decrease the patient’s chance of injury. Forces 13, interdisciplinary relationships, refer to collaborative work of the healthcare team to create successful outcomes such as an outcome of no more patient falls ("American Nurses Credentialing Center - ANCC")

encourage registered nurses (RNs) to pursue certifications in their specialty is becoming apparent. Many literatures have evidence supporting the positive impact of national certifications to the professional growth of nurses. Despite foreseeable barriers, many nurses find national certifications valuable to their practice. The purpose of this paper is to explore the transplant nurses ' perceptions of motivators and barriers to obtaining the Certified Clinical Transplant Nurse (CCTN) certification

Evidence based practice is an essential component of nursing practice. It offers nursing the ability to transition research to the clinical environment. Evidence based practice is rooted in nursing theory and is able to innovatively transform phenomena by examining person, health, environment and nursing practice. Keywords: evidence based practice, communication Introduction An evidence based initiated communication handoff tool can impact health in a positive manner. A communication tool can

How Do You Become a Nurse Executive? Those who want to become a nurse executive will need to earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree related to nursing administration, health care management and medical business administration. They will also need to have a set of core competencies and health care business acumen. Earn a Bachelor’s Degree A four-year degree in health care administration will train nurse leaders to use the principles of management and the functions of leadership for strategic planning

The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses The overall goal through all phases of The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) is to address the challenge of preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems in which they work. In order to accomplish this goal, six competencies were defined. These competencies from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are patient centered care, teamwork and collaboration

How will your knowledge of critical appraisal of studies (i.e. clinical research articles) allow you to contribute to the goals of your employing hospital or facility when you graduate as an advance degree nurse? Medicine is often called an art rather than a science. While I do not agree with this assessment entirely, because I believe in the value of empirically-gathered evidence, I do understand why many patients are frustrated by what often seems like contradictory studies supporting different

Approaches Used to Assess the Community Description of the Survey/Demographics. Hospitals exist with the purpose of facilitating health care, alleviating pain and suffering, with increased improvement in recent times. An assessment of the Riverside Hospital community was conducted utilizing the hospital community as a partner model. Assessment was completed using data collection, and interviews with hospital staff, patients and family members. The hospital is comprised of several units specializing

of Nursing reported in their most recent statistics that Associate Registered Nurses accounted for 58.4% of the workforce while only 38.4% have a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing in the United States. The issue is that recommendations have been made to shut down the existing pipeline of Associate Nurses (AN) to that of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). The goal of this change is to transition the average 50% of the nurses who have an associate degree to 80% BSN by the next

Step 2: State the problem Inability to practice to the full extent of APRN education and licensure Of the many obstacles that presently affect APRN practice uniformity, the most prevalent problems are the inability to practice to the full extent of APRN education and licensure, the inability of APRNs to practice across state lines, and the inequality of the reimbursement scale for payment of services. “Such lack of uniformity has had unintended consequences, including decreased mobility for APRNs