Review process

The few questions I have would be one: 

What kind of classes will I have to take?\

What's the worst part of working in the medical field? 

What type of working environment do nurses work in?

Observation complete

My observation took place in the emergency room of St. Joesph hospital at about 10:00pm on a Tuesday.  I wanted to do it there because it related to my research topic.  Anyway there were a lot of nurses and doctors very busy. The emergency room was full as it usually is.  People were in there for various reasons.  All of a different race or background.  Some are screaming in pain and others are sitting there as though nothing is wrong.  I watched the nurses and doctors work on each patient.  Some of the staff were overly nice and others were not so nice.  The waiting room is pretty nice size. Over all it was interesting to sit there and observe and really watch what they are doing and how some staff really hate there job.  For me and it just allowed me too see that I really will enjoy my job.  Work load will be very but to help people makes all worth wild.  So that's my observation.

Research topic 2

For this paper I have chosen to write on option 1.  It will be about Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care.  I chose this because what I have found out already is medical boards and legislators want to take away practices from non physicians including nurse practitioners.  I chose this also because it is something I would need to know about since this is what I want to pursue.  

Interview Results

After completing my interview I found that I learned what I expected to.  I learned about the amount hard work and schooling it takes to become a Nurse Practitioner.  I learned the difference between a RN and a Nurse Practitioner.  Everything I learned was really interesting though to gain this information someone actually working in the field.  To get this information I asked questions along the lines describe your education and experience, and describe your what your job entails specifically if you work in a special field etc.  I enjoyed learning about what my job and career will be like and how rewarding it will be to help people in need.  Overall,  I learned a lot and gave all the information I had gathered credibility because it was I know someone who has been through it.

Research reflection

When I think about my research topic I find that I am pleased with my topic because it's what I want to pursue as my career and it only makes sense to write about my career choice.  I find that this would be the best thing for me write about, because it would allow me the opportunity to learn more about what my own profession.  No I would not do any thing differently.  What's exciting about my topic is reading about how there are a lot of different special areas and how they are taught to save lives.  The only thing that troubles me in completing the research is what I going to focus on completely in my paper.  It's a difficult decision because it's so much I can write about makes it tough to decide.  But other than that I can say that the project is going  fine and I know when I find my focus it will be a great paper.

Artfifact

My artifact is a book.  It was written by many authors.  It was written at a a hospital full of Nurses. It was recently in 2012.  I believe it was written to inform aspiring to become a Nurse Practitioner.  To give a Nurses perspective on the job and what it entails. This my artifact and what is does.

Citations

My books have not arrived yet so I cannot cite them here.  I am very sorry that they have not arrived yet.  This is a citation for popular print periodical, the name of a scholarly journal, and two articles about an important date "The Nurse Registration Act 1901."  The databases only had two articles regarding that particular important date. Here are all the citations.

Works Cited


Bobbie Berkowitz, et al. "Nurse Practitioner Workforce: A Substantial
Supply Of Primary Care Providers." Nursing Economic$ 30.5 (2012):
268-294. Academic Search Complete. Web. 7 Feb. 2013.   This is going to be help me with my paper because it has great information about working as a Nurse Practitioner.

Davies, Joanna, Fiona Bickell, and Shane M. Tibby. "Attitudes Of
Paediatric Intensive Care Nurses To Development Of A Nurse Practitioner
Role For Critical Care Transport." Journal Of Advanced Nursing 67.2
(2011): 317-326. Academic Search Complete. Web. 7 Feb. 2013.

Pearson, Alan. "Registration, regulation and competence in nursing."
International Journal of Nursing Practice Oct. 2005: 191+. Academic
Search Complete. Web. 7 Feb. 2013.

Dixon, Alison. "International Review." International Journal Of Nursing
Practice 7.6 (2001): 442-443. Academic Search Complete. Web. 7 Feb.
2013.  This probably will not prove to be useful.  mostly because its just more a persons experience.

Research topic Continued

Three influential people in my life that helped me become more interested in the healthcare profession.  The first person would be a lady at my church who is an actual nurse practitioner.  I have talked with her a little bit and she has helped me come to understand the basics and more in depth of the job. Along with all the medical issues in my family that I would like to learn more about.  People such as my auntie, and my grandma and i would love to be able to assist them more with their medical problems.

Three important dates are: 1881 – Clara Barton becomes the first President of the American Red Cross, which she founded, on May. 21.  1901 – New Zealand is the first country to regulate nurses nationally, with adoption of the Nurses Registration Act on September 12.  1902 – New York City Board of Education hires Lina Rogers Struthers as North America’s first school nurse.  All of these dates seem to be self explanatory.  They have had an impact on the history of Nurses everywhere.  Without these important events healthcare and Nurses would not be where it is today.  

Three controversies are: The author critiques the dialectic between justice-based ethics and an ethic of caring from a historical perspective (by analogy with the dialectic between agape and friendship). Justice-based ethics have been problematic for nursing because of the contextualization approach. The ethic of caring is problematic because caring, being contextual, is particularistic and therefore can be based on morally irrelevant factors, such as liking. At the forefront of strikers' concerns were nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, benefit cuts, and of course, salaries.   The union-based actions were not long, usually only 24-hours, but they did disrupt normal business and they did garner national attention.  All three of these controversies are still on going debates.  No one has been able to agree yet but they are all important to any one interested in nursing.  They will soon come to an end and have a decision on these issues.   

Research topic sub divisions

My Research topic is to be a Nurse Practitioner we are supposed to break it down into seven subcategories but I was unable to really come with seven but I did find all types of different specialty fields that there for Nurse Practitioners.  These consists of areas such as Pediatrics,  Neonatal Nursing, Adult nursing, psychiatric nursing, etc.  The history of Nurses. To find out how where it all began and how long it has been in existence. This is all could come up with.  I really tried but I couldn't think of anything else so here's what i have.

Research topic

My research topic going to be based on my career choice to become a Nurse Practitioner.  I chose this topic because I am going to be learning more about any way so I thought I should just get a head start. Three  places to find more information on my topic.  http://www.excite.com, http://www.npcentral.net/journals/, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/.