Sally Besnick is a newly promoted charge nurse with a BSN degree. The nurses she supervises all have A.A. degrees in nursing, considered a lower level degree. This could make for strained relations between a charge nurse and those she supervises due to a sense of superiority. However, in this...

What types of groups do I need to observe? You need to observe two group meetings – professional or agency and family/patient-centered- support. These two observations must be related to nursing practice and cannot be municipal community meetings, i.e. town meeting. The groups must be administered/facilitated by a healthcare professional....

Theories in the field of nursing profession can be defined as sets of concepts or models, and they are attained through deducting and inductive reasoning processes (Alligood, 2013; Fawcett & Desanto-Madeya, 2012). In the context of the nursing process, nursing theories are essential since they act as the platforms or...

Article: Ramesh, N., & John, D. (2015). Does investing in professional development coaching for nurses help contribute to their better functioning in the hospital?. National Journal of Community Medicine, 6(3), 379-384. Summary In India, there are insignificant numbers of published studies that evaluate the types of nurses’ professional development within...

Abstract This paper discusses Germ Theory and its application to nursing practice. It examines two specific case studies from current research to show how Germ Theory informs theory-led practice in both routine aspects of everyday care, and in the specialised circumstances of medical crises. Germ Theory can be considered one...