In 1,000-1,250 words, examine the importance of nursing education and discuss your overall educational goals.

Include the following:

1. Discuss your options in the job market based on your educational level.
2. Review the IOM Future of Nursing Recommendations for achieving higher levels of education. Describe what professional certification and advanced degrees (MSN, DNP, etc.) you want to pursue and explain your reasons for wanting to attain the education. Discuss your timeline for accomplishing these goals.
3. Discuss how increasing your level of education would affect how your competitiveness in the current job market and your role in the future of nursing.
4. Discuss the relationship of continuing nursing education to competency, attitudes, knowledge, and the ANA Scope and Standards for Practice and Code of Ethics.
5. Discuss whether continuing nursing education should be mandatory. Provide support for your response.

You are required to cite to a minimum of four sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.  

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

 

PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING SCHOLARLY PAPER

A philosophy of nursing is a written paper declaring a nurse’s beliefs, values, and ethical considerations regarding their practice of nursing.  The purpose of this paper is to provide you with the opportunity to reflect on your nursing care and treatment of patients and how you see yourself as a practicing nurse and an individual.  You will find that your nursing philosophy is dynamic, growing as you grow personally and professionally. 

Assignment Criteria:

1. Discuss your professional belief system of nursing. This will include broad statements of your values and beliefs that propose the nature and concerns of nursing and its moral obligations to society.
2. Use the nursing theory you chose for the nursing theory PowerPoint (THEORY OF HUMAN CARING BY JEAN WATSON). Explain the theory and how your values and beliefs are guided by the theory. 
3. Provide your definition of nursing based on your personal belief system and nursing theory. Your definition should be only a few sentences in length.
4. Give at least two examples of how you apply your definition of nursing to your nursing practice. Clearly identify each example.
5. The scholarly paper should be in narrative format, no more than three (3) pages in length excluding the title and reference pages. An abstract is not needed. Include an introductory paragraph and a conclusion.
6. Include Level 1 and 2 headings to organize the paper (see below).
7. This scholarly paper is intended to include first person formatting, with statements such as “I believe…” or “My values include…”
8. Include a minimum of four (4) peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles, professional organizations, or government websites to support the paper. At least two (2) of the four (4) references are current peer reviewed journal articles. References must be no greater than five (5) years old unless considered a “classic source”.
9. APA Student Paper format is required; also attention to spelling and grammar. APA (7th) Student Paper format is required (title page, a reference page, and all citations). Also, attention to spelling, grammar, and style. Do not use quotations.
10. Review your Turnitin Similarity Score and make any needed changes. If the score is greater than 20%, you must revise the paper prior to submission.  A Turnitin Similarity Score of 20% or less is required by the RN to BSN Program.

Title of Paper

(Note: Here you will write your introductory paragraph but do not label it as Introduction)

My Personal Belief System of Nursing

Nursing Theory Best Matching My Values and Beliefs

My Definition of Nursing Based on My Values, Beliefs, and Nursing Theory

How I Apply My Definition of Nursing to My Practice of Nursing

Conclusion

 

Hello, please are two tasks. Task # 1 is a Care Plan, below I attach two forms in words that must be completed. Please below I attach a document with an example of a Nursing Care Plan that will serve as a guide to make mine. Task # 2 is a Case Study that has three items a, b, and c, which must be answered independently. 

 Required Textbooks and Reading Material:

Touhy, Theris DNP and Jett, Kathleen, (2018). Ebersole and Hess’ Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging, 5th Edition. Elsevier. ISBN: 9780323401678

Task # 1

Care Plan 

Medical Diagnosis: Arthritis

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Task # 2 

Case Study 

Case Study: Health Care of the Older Adult

2.The nurse is completing the admission assessment for a patient scheduled for cataract surgery in the outpatient center. Because the patient is over the age of 70 and has several chronic conditions, including hypertension and congestive heart failure, the nurse focuses on completing a thorough medication history. (Learning Objective 4)

a. What questions should the nurse include in the medication history?

b. The patient states that she stopped taking one of her medications due to cost, since her health insurance would not reimburse for the medication. What are other reasons that older adults may be non-compliant with ordered medications?

c. How does aging affect drug absorption, metabolism, distribution, and excretion?

 

Instructions: Read the Case Study below and discuss the questions that follow: 

Aron, a single father, is raising his daughter on his own.

“Naomi is a good girl, you know?” She does her homework, and she likes hanging out with me. She even laughs at my jokes still, but sometimes I worry that she’s going to become anorexic or something,” he says. “She’s not overly thin or anything, but she just doesn’t eat like I think she should. Breakfast is the toughest time. We end up yelling at each other every morning before school with me running behind her as she heads downstairs and out the front door of our building, and me yelling, ‘Here! At least take this!’ and I stuff a banana or an apple in her backpack, while she yells, ‘Dad, you’re embarrassing me!’ Sometimes I look up, and, oh man, she’s right. Sometimes there are other kids at the corner waiting for the bus and here she is, my sweet little Naomi with her crazy dad grabbing at her backpack! Poor baby, but it drives me crazy that she won’t eat!”

1.      As soon as the nutritionist mentions breakfast, Aron throws his hands up and says, “No, don’t even talk about it, man! Breakfast is like our worst thing! She’s such a picky eater, and mornings are her worst time.” What advice can you offer?

2.      Aron’s income is 25% below the poverty level for the United States. He asks, “How do I find out if Naomi is eligible for reduced-price school lunches?” What might you advise Aron?

3.      As it turns out, Naomi does qualify for reduced-price lunches at her school. However, things don’t go very well. She often comes home from school hungry. Aron, who can find only part-time work 3 nights a week, meets her at the door most days and is distressed, he says, to find that “her stomach is actually growling, and she’s all weak and listless. She’s asked if she can go back to packing a lunch, even though my lunches aren’t very good. Usually, all we have in the cupboard is some pantry food such as peanut butter, saltines, and raisins.” When he asks her why she wants “our lousy lunch stuff,” she says, “Everybody sees who gets the ‘poor kid’ lunches. I get made fun of.” 

Suppose you are the school nurse at Naomi’s school. Brainstorm about ways you might support students like Naomi.

Consider the role and responsibilities of school nurses—on the levels of both the individual child and the family, as well as their influence on their particular educational system and the community at large.