NURS 3100 Week 4: Nurses in the Spotlight: Improving Health Care As a Registered Nurse, you are trained and proficient in caring for the physical well-being of patients. Just think about how much time and effort those skills took you to acquire! And you are still improving, correct? The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has answered…

NURS 3100 Week 3 Assignment 2: Promise to Practice by Walden’s Code for Academic Integrity As a nurse, the Nurses’ Code of Ethics is a foundational guide as you practice your professional obligations with integrity and ideals. This assignment allows you build on those nursing ethics as they pertain to your academic work and writing.…

NURS 3100 Week 3 Assignment 1: Impact of Nurses On Health Care Quality It is important for nurses to stay abreast of current issues and trends in our field. Use this opportunity to develop or enhance your expertise on your chosen topic.   This Assignment introduces you to the Walden Library. The Library is an…

NURS 3100 Week 2 Discussion: The Most Trusted Profession Nurses are the most honest and ethical professionals in America, according to Gallup polls for more than 12 years in a row. In 2014, 80 percent of Americans said that nurses have “very high” or “high” standards of honesty and ethics, compared with 7% and 8%…

NURS 3100 Week 3: Taking the Lead: The Magnet Model Magnet is a guiding framework whereby you and your nursing colleagues are encouraged to intensify your efforts to improve organizational conditions, components, and processes of health care systems to enhance patient safety. The model serves as a road map for organizations seeking nursing excellence in…

NURS 3100 Discussion: Nurses Make the Difference Health care organizations that adhere to or seek Magnet designation (Magnet hospitals) are exemplars in serving patients. They are recognized as organizations that have high nurse satisfaction and lower rates of nurse shortages. These organizations tend to have higher degrees of nurse involvement at all levels of decision…

NURS 3100 Week 2 Assignment 1: Journal: Time Management (Observe, Process, Reflect) Returning to school to earn your next degree is a wonderful goal, and balancing family, work, and school can seem daunting. Often when focusing on one task, you lose track of others. That is why it is important to have a plan for…

NURS 3100 Week 2 Assignment 2: Improving Writing: The “Grammarly” Report Grammarly is a writing enhancement platform that helps make you a better writer by correcting more than 250 grammatical mistakes, while also catching contextual spelling errors and poor vocabulary usage. All you have to do is submit your work—and Grammarly will work its magic!…

NURS 3100 Week 2: The Future of Nursing In Week 1, we discussed the idea that the foundation of YOUR emerging legacy is the current individual experience and knowledge that you bring to the profession. Your experience and knowledge are an invaluable and incredible contribution to the safety and quality of health care. In a…

NURS 3100 Assignment 2: Journal: Observe, Process, Reflect The objective of the Journal Assignment is to provide you with a private place to think on the page; “thinking on the page” is a phrase used to describe writing as a form of thinking. Some of us process our thoughts out loud as we describe them…