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Background: Why Teach Sexual Education?
With about half of all high school students admitting to have already had sex, and only 60% of those students claiming they used a condom, sexual education can be considered … Conference of State Legislatures, 2019). Unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases are the most important health-related reasons to teach sexual education in public school. Research has shown that “when sex education is comprehensive, students feel more informed, make safer choices and have healthier outcomes — resulting in … gender. Given that sexuality is an inherent part of human life, there is really no reason not to teach sexual education in public school. All ethical perspectives, from deontological to utilitarian, would support comprehensive sexual education in American public school.
Why Is Sexual Education Controversial?
If sexual education is important for improving outcomes for young people, then the matter should not be considered … improving outcomes……
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… industry—and that means they need to develop communication skills, technological understanding, and have access to intro-level health care courses when they enter high school. Getting students interested in a future healthcare career at the age of 14 or 15 is a great way to prepare the future … give recommendations for the future in the conclusion.
The Issue
There is currently an increasing demand in the healthcare industry for newly graduated nurse who posses nursing informatics competencies (Shin, Cummings & Ford, 2018). Though nurse’ informatics competencies have been studied in the past, however, Kinnunen, Rajalahti, Cummings and Borycki (2017) show that there remains a problem with regard … (Kinnunen et al., 2017; Shackelford, 2019).
Another issue is that in order to ready and prepare students at an early age for informatics, nurse educators themselves have to improve their competencies in informatics. This would require greater coordination and collaboration between……
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Kinnunen, U. M., Rajalahti, E., Cummings, E., & Borycki, E. M. (2017). Curricula challenges and informatics competencies for nurse educators. Forecasting informatics competencies for nurses in the future of connected health, 232, 41-48.
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Shackelford, S. (2019). Industry Voices—Healthcare is changing. We need to reach the future workforce earlier. Retrieved from https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals-health-systems/industry-voices-healthcare-changing-and-our-educational-approach-should-be
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Current Issue in Nursing: Nursing Shortage
Nursing quality and adequate staffing are intertwined. Adequate levels of nurse, lower nurse to patient ratios, and also more highly trained nurse are associated with better health outcomes and lower mortality rates. But despite the fact that there is high demand for nurse, and also increased interest in entering this very exciting profession, retaining qualified nurse and recruiting new nurse is a struggle for many hospitals. Also, in a desire to cut costs, many institutions are often unwilling, despite evidence-based research supporting higher … many institutions are often unwilling, despite evidence-based research supporting higher staffing ratios as leading to lower-cost and superior patient outcomes, to hire more nurse as healthcare staffing makes up as much as 40% of all intuitional operating costs (“Nursing Shortage,” 2019).
The attempt to cut costs by … must be managed with long-term care and guidance. Nursing has gained respect……
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Crawford, C. (2019). Addition of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to the trauma team: An integrated systematic review of literature. Journal of Trauma Nursing. 26(3):141–146,
Gillespie, G. L., Grubb, P. L., Brown, K., Boesch, M. C., & Ulrich, D. (2017). ‘Nurses eat their young:’ A novel bullying educational program for student nurses. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 7(7), 11–21. doi:10.5430/jnep.v7n7P11
Haddad, L.M., Toney-Butler, T.J. (2019). Nursing shortage. StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493175/
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… Others are more restrained and promote a collectivist approach to community, putting the needs of the group before the desires of the individual. nurse can use and understand culture by utilizing models like Leininger’s transcultural model of nursing, by adopting a patient-centered care strategy, or simply by … models like Leininger’s transcultural model of nursing, by adopting a patient-centered care strategy, or simply by developing their cultural competencies. In doing so, nurse can promote safe, effective, and quality personalized care for patients, their families, and for the communities they serve within the realm of nurse’ care. To promote cultural awareness among nurse, one of the best places to start is Hofstede’s research on cultural dimensions.
Literature Review
What is Culture?
Culture has been defined in … it promotes, as Hofstede (1980) shows. Hofstede’s (2011) 6d model of cultural dimensions has helped to advance the discipline of cross-cultural awareness among……
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… under unprecedented pressures to deliver high quality patient-centered care in the wake of the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic. In far too many instances, nurse are being overwhelmed on the front lines of patient care, and it may be weeks or even months before the peak of the … it may be weeks or even months before the peak of the pandemic is fully experienced. Against this backdrop, identifying ways that professional nurse can help achieve this goal by assuming appropriate leadership roles has assumed new importance and relevance. To determine the facts, the purpose of … presented in the paper’s conclusion.
Review and Discussion
In some ways, the nursing profession is unique because it calls upon virtually all professional nurse to be prepared to “hit the ground running” in a leadership role from day one of their career. For example, Standard 12 of … a leadership role from day……
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Student handbook.
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Quality and Sustainability Paper
Introduction
Quality and safety are paramount for patients experiencing illness and seeking treatment. The role of the nurse is complex, requiring effectiveness, efficiency, compassion, and understanding. Some aspects of nursing science involve research and use of evidence-based practice to provide the … care (the highest third of hospitals) had 23% lower odds of 30-day inpatient mortality” (Smeds-Alenius, Tishelman, Lindqvist, Runesdotter, & McHugh, 2016, p. 117). nurse who make sure patients take their medications, advise them on after-hospital routines, and educate on options for lifestyle changes, can lead to improvement … means committing one’s self to providing a comprehensive and effective protocol that allows patients a chance to improve on their health outcomes.
When nurse engage in unhealthy practices like unfinished care, it can lead to negative health outcomes, lending to the correlation of quality of care and … to the correlation of quality of care and……
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Smeds-Alenius, L., Tishelman, C., Lindqvist, R., Runesdotter, S., & McHugh, M. D. (2016). RN assessments of excellent quality of care and patient safety are associated with significantly lower odds of 30-day inpatient mortality: A national cross-sectional study of acute-care hospitals. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 61, 117-124. doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2016.06.005
Tobiano, G., Marshall, A., Bucknall, T., & Chaboyer, W. (2015). Patient participation in nursing care on medical wards: An integrative review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 52(6), 1107-1120. doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2015.02.010
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Becoming a professional nurse takes a long time, and some students may become so accustomed to the rigors of an academic regimen that they are ill-prepared to … and at five years.
Transition into the professional nursing role
The state where I will be seeking employment following graduation as a registered nurse is New Jersey. The criteria for becoming a registered nurse in this state include the following (1) graduation from a registered nursing program that has been approved by the New Jersey Board of … that has been approved by the New Jersey Board of Nursing; (2) pass a background check and (3) pass the NCLEX-RN examination (Nursing school degrees, 2019). Applications are accepted online or through the U.S. mails. Assuming these criteria are satisfied, I intend to seek employment with the … health care organization is a 478-bed acute care teaching hospital (About Saint Peters University Hospital, 2019)……
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Chicago Public school (CPS) system is the most understaffed in Illinois, where throughout the state the average student to staff ratio is 11 to one. In … to every one teacher, and that is just going by averages (Sepeda-Miller, 2018). As Laraviere (2019) puts it, “the 20 most adequately staffed school districts in Illinois have 100 staff members for every 500 students.” Yet in CPS, it is just 29 staff for every 500 students … compared to the best that Illinois has to offer, Chicago looks like the worst. That is a serious shame for a city and school system that should be recognized and hailed as the state’s top district. Instead, the reality is that there is no maximum limit on … exodus—student flight from the district—is massively underway (Leone, 2019). In short, the CPS is in a pitiful state—underfunded, understaffed, with too few teachers, nurse, social workers, and……
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Leone, H. (2019). Chicago Public Schools’ enrollment drops another 6,000 students, extending long downward trend. Retrieved from https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-cps-chicago-public-schools-enrollment-decline-20191108-u7qkibaptnb7ljyob3frclgldy-story.html
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How Healthcare Policy Impacts APN
Explanation of how healthcare policy can impact the advanced practice nurse profession
The role of APN is to provide primary, specialty, and acute care through assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of those who seek healthcare ……
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… as she never hesitated to visit soldiers to comfort them and bring whatever aid should could, even though she was only a self-taught nurse at the time (Howard & Kavenick, 1990). Women had a limited capacity to take part in the war as a soldier (though some … the war as a soldier (though some did); to serve their country and assist the men who did fight, they would act as nurse and deliver medical supplies, as Barton often did, even in the most dreadful of conditions. War and social politics put women in a … to in order to deliver quality care. Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first black woman to study and train to be a professional nurse in the U.S. She graduated from nursing school in 1879 and helped to fight against discrimination and assist other minority women to receive an education in nursing so that……
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