Have you gained a certain wisdom or insight as a senior nursing student that you did not have prior to becoming a nursing student?

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Paper Guidelines:

  • You developed a nursing philosophy when you first entered the nursing program <– (I did not submit that assignment). Has your philosophy changed, deepened and/or been modified through education and the exposure to real patients with real needs in the clinical setting through your past three

semesters of nursing school?

  • Have you gained a certain wisdom or insight as a senior nursing student that you did not have prior to becoming a nursing student?
  • Do you believe your clinical patients and their families were satisfied or pleased with the care you delivered? What do you think made your approach or care unique?
  • Write about a clinical situation where you were faced providing care to a patient with an ethical or moral issue that was different than your own values or belief system. How did it make you feel?

Identify a topic of interest related to nursing leadership. Perform a search in two scholarly databases for an article that is relevant to nursing leadership.

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  1. Identify a topic of interest related to nursing leadership. Perform a search in two scholarly databases for an article that is relevant to nursing leadership. Share the name, URL, and a brief description of the two databases you located. Do not report on MEDLINE or CINAHL, as they are already well known. What databases did you select? Why?
  1. The choice of Boolean terminology can markedly affect your search returns. Concerning nursing leadership, select two scholarly databases to find information nursing leadership. Describe the search. What key words did you use? How many articles did your initial search yield? How did you narrow or expand the search? How many articles did you find once you narrowed or expanded the search? Summarize the results from the search.

How do you determine if it is a fair and equitable division of time off for all staff?

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Discuss the meaning of the following statement about the negative aspect of managed care: Healthcare is over-managed and under led. What can nursing leaders do to improve healthcare so that it is not over-managed and under led?

NO MORE THAN 400 WORDS

THE SCENARIO

As a nurse manager, you are faced with scheduling the staff for the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s holidays. The unit has no policy, and this scheduling has always been a nightmare that everyone has somehow lived through. There are 35 RNs and 10 UAPs (unlicensed assistive personnel). You expect a full census, and there is no option for closing beds.

THE QUESTION

How do you determine if it is a fair and equitable division of time off for all staff?

Write a 1-page essay on the concept of nursing as a profession using the literature you found and your text to support your position.

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In this assignment you will:

  1. Read pages 16-18 on nursing profession in your text book.
  2. Google this question: Is nursing a profession?
  3. Find 1 peer-reviewed article on nursing as a profession. See the Library Tutorials on the home page.
  4. Write a 1-page essay on the concept of nursing as a profession using the literature you found and your text to support your position. There are three (3) items you need to address in this assignment. (a) What constitutes a “profession?” (b) Is Nursing a Profession or a Practice? (c) Why do you believe or do not believe nursing is a profession? Support your position from the literature. Use headings for each section except the introduction (APA manual page 62).
  5. You must have a title page in APA format. Your title page for this course will include:
  6. Running Head: refer to chapter 8, section 8.03 for an explanation of running head and page 41 for an example. Watch the YouTube recording on formatting a paper in APA style.

APA on a MAC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAhHWNcU3vM

APA on a PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sy4LxaNwo

  1. Page number
  2. Title
  3. Your name without credentials
  4. Your school: University of Louisiana Lafayette

You must cite your sources in text, Chapter 6 of the APA manual, and reference your sources, Chapter 7 of the APA manual.