Download or read book Nursing Beyond the Bedside 60 Non Hospital Careers in Nursing written by Susan E. Lowey and published by Sigma Theta Tau. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursing Beyond the Bedside: 60 Non-Hospital Careers in Nursing introduces nurses and nursing students to career opportunities outside of the hospital setting—in areas where RN job growth is projected to remain strong as patients live longer but with more chronic illnesses. The goal of this book is to provide practicing nurses and those pursuing a career in nursing a thorough understanding of the many career options available outside the hospital. Author Susan Lowey describes how these non-hospital careers allows nurses to take on varied roles and responsibilities to deliver comprehensive healthcare to their patients. Each of the 60 non-hospital nursing careers includes a basic job description, the educational preparation or skills required, typical work hours and settings, availability of specialty certifications associated with the job, and links to professional organizations and online resources for that specialty.
Download or read book Beyond the Bedside written by Dwayne Adams and published by DNA Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready to launch your nursing career to new heights? Are you ready for something different? Here's how! Learn ways to transition into new opportunities within the field, where you can make a difference and love what you do. This book shows you: - How to use your current skills, education, and experience and shift to fresh areas of nursing. - Discover alternative fields, such as health coaching, workplace wellness, medical writing, and much more. - How other areas can offer a new experience and open up a whole new world in nursing. So if you a nurse who is burned out and ready for a change? Well, look no further! In "Beyond the Bedside," you will learn everything you need to know to use your current skills, education, and experience to move away from the bedside and onto the brighter side. This book is chock full of the information you need for making a serious career change that will lead to complete satisfaction. You will learn more about the state of the industry, including why so many nurses are leaving the field, as well as in-depth information about alternative fields into which you can seamlessly move, including workplace wellness, RN Health Coaching, training, medical writing, insurance, holistic nursing, nursing informatics, and smoking cessation. Whether you are ready to leave the nursing bedside now or are interested in discovering what other opportunities exist, this book will give you an overview of what is
Download or read book Indirect Care Handbook for Advanced Nursing Roles written by Patti Rager Zuzelo and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indirect Care Handbook for Advanced Nursing Roles: Beyond the Bedside addresses the indirect care responsibilities that confront nurses in a variety of advanced practice roles
Download or read book Nurses Making Policy written by Rebecca Patton and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart
Download or read book The Power of Ten written by Susan Hassmiller and published by SIGMA Theta Tau International. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau Internationals editors asked 30 global nurse leaders to identify 10 of the most critical issues in the profession. The result was the first edition of The Power of Ten, a collection of essays and data- and talking points that explored the obstacles nurses faced. The book challenged long-held beliefs that were stymying progress and invited readers to join the conversation about how to move nursing forward. The time has come to revisit and revise those issues and drive the conversation even further to support real change and progress in the profession. In this all-new edition, Susan B. Hassmiller and Jennifer S. Mensik connected with more than 50 national and international nurse leaders to survey the most pressing issues in the profession. From that feedback, they arrived at a new list of priorities. Through essays, action items, discussion points, and data, The Power of Ten, Second Edition, will help nurses question, converse, and lead the way into the future of nursing.
Download or read book Life After Bedside Do You Have a Plan written by Anitra Green and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a motivational book to help nurses look beyond bedside nursing. This book will get your juices flowing and will assist you in thinking creatively into looking at your other options in the healthcare industry. A must have book for all those who want to expand their career options and knowledge.
Download or read book Nurses Making Policy written by Rebecca M. Patton, DNP, RN, CNOR, FAAN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a plethora of policy books on the market, but none illustrate the steps in the policy process better than this one. The high caliber editors and contributors, all of whom have been involved in policy work, bring years of experience to illustrate the key points... This publication is timely as the shift in healthcare requires input from all health professionals, but especially nurses who are at the frontline of healthcare change and delivery. This outstanding resource will help motivate many more nurses to get involved in the policy process... Weighted Numerical Score: 93 - 4 Stars!"--Doody's Medical Reviews Written by those in the knowñexceptional nurse leaders in practice, education, and politicsñthis is a practical, "how-to" book written to help advanced students and nurse leaders develop health policy skills to advocate for patients from the bedside to the larger political arena. Co-published with the American Nurses Association (ANA), the book examines the pivotal role of nurses' involvement in health policy and describes the requisite steps for facilitating policy changeñfrom understanding the political system through activating a plan and beyond. It features the voices of a wide variety of nurse leaders who discuss policy work both locally and nationally through descriptive case histories. The book discusses those qualities and skill sets that are needed for advocacy at the bedside and other arenas where health policy is determined. It examines the political system and opportunities for nurse involvement, and clarifies the process of identifying issues that need a policy solution. Because citing research is an integral component of health policy solutions, the book describes how research can be used to strengthen policy initiatives. The book guides the reader step by step through the process of creating a work plan and describes the resources needed to accomplish policy change. Activating an action plan and strategies for working with the media are covered, along with the process of taking a leadership role, evaluating outcomes, using policy to eliminate health inequities, and maintaining and expanding momentum. Woven throughout the book are the major themes of ethics, leadership, safety, and the quest for quality of care. The text provides information and perspectives relevant to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) doctor of nursing practice (DNP) Essentials, and includes multimedia electronic links to resources (podcasts, online articles, social network resources, and key political websites) that promote policy research and leadership development. KEY FEATURES: Delineates the steps to becoming a policy advocate in organizational, educational, and political settings Written by noted nurse leaders who describe policy work locally and nationally Presents competencies for nursing policy work derived from the AACN DNP Essentials Focuses throughout on themes of ethics, leadership, quality, and safety Facilitates web use for policy research and development Ancillary materials from the editors are available
Download or read book The Future of Nursing written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Beyond Caring written by Daniel F. Chambliss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides eyewitness accounts and personal stories demonstrating how nurses turn the awesome into the routine. Chambliss shows how patients-- many weak and helpless--too often become objects of the bureaucratic machinery of the health care system, and how ethics decisions--once the dilemmas of troubled individuals--become the setting for political turf battles between occupational interest groups. The result is a combination of realism with a theoretical argument about moral life in large organizations. --From publisher description.
Download or read book Perianesthesia Nursing Care written by Stannard and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Core Concepts Perianesthesia Organization and Administration Preanesthesia Care and Preparation of the Patient and Family Phase I and Phase II Recovery Airway Issues Pain Management Postoperative and Postdischarge Nausea and Vomiting Thermoregulation Issues Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalance Integumentary Issue Infection Prevention Strategies Population Specific Principles of Anesthesia Bariatric Patients Patients with Chronic Diseases Critically Ill Patients Extended Care/Observation Care Patients Geriatric Patients Trauma Patients Patients with Mental Health Considerations Families of Perianesthesia Patients Pediatric Patients Pregnant Patients Surgery Specific Abdominal Cardiac Surgery Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Dental and Oral Maxillofacial Surgery The Endocrine System ENT Surgery Genitourinary Surgery Gynecologic & Obstetric Neurosurgical Surgical Oncology Ophthalmic Orthopedic Surgery Thoracic Liver and Kidney Transplantation Vascular Surgery Cardiovascular Interventional Endoscopic/Laparoscopic/Minimally Invasive Procedures.
Download or read book The Complexities of Care written by Sioban Nelson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and student shelves. Indeed, the discipline of nursing is often known as the 'caring science.' Because of their caring reputation, nurses top the polls as the most-trustworthy professionals. Yet, in spite of what seems to be an endless outpouring of public support, in almost every country in the world nursing is under threat, in the practice setting and in the academic sector. Indeed, its standing as a regulated profession is constantly challenged. In our view, this paradox is neither accidental nor natural but, in great part, the logical consequence of the fact that nurses and their organizations place such a heavy emphasis on nursing's and nurses' virtues rather than on their knowledge and concrete contributions."—from the Introduction In a series of provocative essays, The Complexities of Care rejects the assumption that nursing work is primarily emotional and relational. The contributors-international experts on nursing- all argue that caring discourse in nursing is a dangerous oversimplification that has in fact created many dilemmas within the profession and in the health care system. This book offers a long-overdue exploration of care at a pivotal moment in the history of health care. The ideas presented here will foster a critical debate that will assist nurses to better understand the nature and meaning of the nurse-patient relationship, confront challenges to their work and their profession, and deliver the services patients need now and into the future.
Download or read book The Nation of Nurses written by Jalil A. Johnson, PhD, MS, ANP-BC and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspires nurses to envision themselves as leaders, innovators, and agents of change Firmly grounded in the digital age, this unique and innovative book focuses on the challenges and opportunities for nurses in the 21st century. The author, one of nursing's fastest-rising influencers, focuses on the power dynamic between nurses and the healthcare system—which often impedes opportunities for nurses to manage and lead effectively—and offers contemporary solutions that help nurses to mobilize and completely revolutionize healthcare as we know it. Based on the author's extensive experience with digital and online trends, communities, and spaces, the book offers practical strategies whereby nurses can assert themselves within the healthcare and education systems to make positive change on institutional, regional, and national levels. Focusing on nurse self-advocacy, the book offers concrete strategies to ameliorate a top concern for nurses: a perceived lack of power and respect in the workplace. It features step-by-step processes for empowering and mobilizing nurses as change agents at a systemic level, demonstrates how nurses can alter cultural norms and perceptions of their profession, and illustrates how nurses can maximize their influence and impact on institutional and government policy. Woven throughout is the author's extraordinary personal story of rising from a Certified Nursing Assistant to CEO of the largest nurse-run online community. Key Features: Delivers contemporary strategies to help nurses powerfully assert themselves within the healthcare and education systems toward effecting positive change Discusses how nurses can significantly impact healthcare on institutional, regional, and national levels Addresses a top concern for nurses: a perceived lack of power and respect in the workplace Accessibly written for all nurses with step-by-step instructions for implementing the book's concepts and strategies Demonstrates how to use social media platforms to expand the influence of nurses in the healthcare system
Download or read book One Nurse Universe written by Susan Turnage and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My occupational memoir reveals one nurse’s bedside observations on where nurses come from, how we are educated, treated in the workplace and how we learn to do what can never be taught in a curriculum. When a patient vomits explosively onto your chest how you may unexpectedly vomit right back. How to explain to a deaf patient where a suppository goes while an audience of staff and visitors listen in from the hallway. How to collect your thoughts and make a plan when you arrive for a home care visit to find your elderly confused patient has ingested a full bottle of liquid laxative and left evidence of those results all over the walls, floor and Barco lounger in the home. It is where medical science meets nursing artistry. Where technology meets humanity. Where hearts open and wounds heal. Through selected vignettes, I recognize modern nurses’ courage to lean into discomfort and hard emotions. I acknowledge the power they hold in their healing hands and throw forward a lifeline of hope to renew their faith and joy in their vocation. And to my many non-nurse readers, come experience a nurse’s day; what we see, feel, hear and touch. Have a peek behind the bedside curtain.
Download or read book Magic Nurse Bedside Artist written by Rob Divers Rn and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursing is a passion and a mission. Nursing is also an Art, and we are the Artists at the Bedside. The real magic of our craft is found in our bedside manner. Find new ways to bring creativity into your practice and discover how performing art, magic, music, and comedy will enhance your joy of being a creative healthcare provider.
Download or read book Bedside Manners written by Suzanne Gordon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the need for interprofessional cooperation in healthcare. Countless studies have shown that genuine teamwork and team intelligence are critical to patient safety. Poor communication among health care personnel is a major factor in hospital errors, even more so than the level of staff competence and experience. This is why many schools for health professionals and major health care employers now promote interprofessional education and cooperation. Bedside Manners is a play about workplace relations among physicians, nurses, others who work in health care, and patients—and how their interaction affects the quality of patient care, for better or worse. The accompanying workbook helps educators, managers, patient safety advocates, administrators, and union representatives to analyze and discuss the issues raised in the play. When presented in hospitals, universities, and health care conferences all over the United States, Bedside Manners invariably sparks a vibrant conversation about patient safety problems and how to solve them, job satisfaction and stress, and the importance of information sharing and mutual respect. As text or script, this play is a unique teaching tool for medical and nursing schools, and other health professional schools and continuing education programs involving health care clinicians and staff of all kinds.
Download or read book Change Your Path written by Sandra Nichols and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change Your Path is a unique list of career alternatives for hospital bedside nurses. It includes the author's insights and anecdotes from over forty years of working in healthcare, twenty of which were in careers beyond the bedside. There is something for everyone in Sandra Nichols' selections which consist of actual jobs for RN's. She includes the job descriptions and requirements, salaries, and occupational outlooks for 75 nursing positions. At least half of the roles include Nichols' personal advice, opinions, and other relevant information based on her personal experience. Nichols encourages readers to recognize that, although "hospitals need nurses, not all nurses need to work in them" at the bedside. She inspires nurses to find the autonomy and working conditions that may be lacking in their current roles and to realize that they are deserving of work that is fulfilling. She asserts that nurses have more transferable skills than they may realize and demonstrates her own success in finding diverse alternatives as examples. She assures nurses that job dissatisfaction is often the necessary impetus for change and growth. Calling herself a "late bloomer" whose search spanned forty years, the author concludes that each career path meanders and provides the steps that lead us ultimately in the right direction and prepare us for our true calling.In "Change Your Path", the writer's intention is to provide hope and to encourage nurses to consider change whenever working conditions threaten their health or safety. In her introduction, she points out the fundamentally dichotomous philosophies of healthcare and nursing, suggesting that hospital nurses who may feel they have failed must consider the extent to which system-related factors contributed to their inability to practice the concepts they value. From her working experience at the managerial level of healthcare risk management, occupational health, and clinical education, Nichols provides information on the organizational and regulatory factors that influence the practice of nursing today, helping RN's to understand not only alternatives to bedside care, but the changes that have provided nursing opportunities beyond the bedside. She provides readers with a picture of future prospects for nurses in many areas including information technology, care coordination, integrative medicine, and education.Sandra Nichols is also the author of "INFP: A Flower in the Shade" and "Dead Mentors", a novel. Her work is about healing from various perspectives and her writing style is metaphorical. "Change Your Path" was prepared as a legacy at the end of her professional career, a parting message for nurses from one whose ambitions and interests led her to change paths many times. Nichols' nursing career diversity is testament to her message of hope. "Change Your Path" is intended as a message of healing and of hope for nurses whom Nichols holds in high esteem.
Download or read book Foundations of Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice written by Janet S. Fulton and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart
