The Future of Nursing

The Future of Nursing
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309208955

The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.

Teaching Nursing In An Associate Degree Program

Teaching Nursing In An Associate Degree Program
Author: Rita Girouard Mertig, MS, RNC, CNS, DE
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2003-09-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0826120059

This practical "how to" book for teaching nursing in an associate degree program is for new and not-so-new faculty. Advice gleaned from the author's many years of teaching is presented in a friendly and easy-to-read format, designed to quickly help new faculty get a positive sense of direction. The special issues of AD nursing students -- many have full-time jobs, families, and are more mature than the "traditional" college student -- are given full consideration. Strategies discussed include: What to do during the first class Motivating students Helping the student in crisis Helping students with poor reading, study, and academic skills Helping students with time management

Associate Degree Nursing Education

Associate Degree Nursing Education
Author: Patricia T. Haase
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1990
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780822309833

This volume offers a comprehensive listing, from the development of the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) program in 1948 to the present, of all literature related to the ADN program. Any item related to the degree programs and their contributions, the AD nurses, their relation to nurses trained in other programs, and their role in the health care system is included. Published and unpublished items as well as dissertations, research reports and monographs, state and federal government documents, materials issued by state and national nursing groups, journal articles, and books are listed.

Faculty Identification of Competencies Addressing Quality and Safety Education in Alabama Associate Degree Nursing Education Programs

Faculty Identification of Competencies Addressing Quality and Safety Education in Alabama Associate Degree Nursing Education Programs
Author: Reitha Ann Cabaniss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2013
Genre: Electronic dissertations
ISBN:

This study described the extent to which Alabama associate degree nursing faculty, implementing a standardized curriculum, implement the Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) selected competencies of safety and teamwork and collaboration. Full-time nursing faculty with a minimum of three years teaching in the Alabama Community College System associate degree schools of nursing participated in a Web survey. The survey instrument was created to incorporate the two selected QSEN competencies' knowledge, skills and attitude statements. The participants were predominantly female holding a master's degree in nursing with teaching responsibilities in both the classroom and clinical setting and had 10 years of teaching experience on average. Faculty were asked to identify the hours of direct classroom and clinical instruction dedicated to each knowledge and skill statement and rate the attitude statements in relation to importance of inclusion in the curriculum. The data reflected inconsistencies between hours of instruction and the importance rating for each attitude statement. The findings of this study did not indicate QSEN knowledge, skills or attitudes had current widespread inclusion in the Alabama associate degree nursing curriculum. This was the first study to explore evidence of the QSEN knowledge, skill and attitude statements within the Alabama standardized curriculum. Implications from this study suggest the concepts of quality and safety, though familiar to faculty, are not identifiable nor taught at the complexity level which relates to 1) safety and 2) teamwork and collaboration. A review of the state-wide curriculum may be warranted.

The Web of Inclusion

The Web of Inclusion
Author: Patricia Bayles
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1995
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780887376429

The tremendous impact of community-based nursing upon health care has educators to the height of innovation. Contributors from the Council o f Associate Degree Programs (CADP) provide the "dreams they have caugh t in a web," demonstrating their collective vision for nursing's futur e.