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Hello, I am applying to grad schools and was hoping to get some feed back on my essay. I've haven't been able to find any nurses to read it. This is the first time I am writing about where I would like to go with my advanced degree so I would love a bit of advice. I'm not sure this is the right discussion board to post under. If not, could someone please direct me to the correct one? Thanks and Happy New Year! In my 3 years of working on acute care floors, building a professional nursing practice as been my focus. I searched for models to follow on how to develop my practice, looking for guidance. I found the Magnet Recognition Program model (MRP), a program that provides a framework for evidenced based nursing practice. The MRP emphasizes transformational leadership and stresses the need of innovation in professional nursing practice to meet the demands of a health care system undergoing a major overhaul. What attracted me to this model is its promotion of a collaborative, interdisciplinary team approach to care that recognizes nursing as a vital part of that team. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) initiated health care delivery systems have their emphasis on teams and collaborative decision-making. Nurses are the prime choice to be facilitators and managers of these teams. The nontraditional educational model established at The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing (BISMN) allows the nurse scholar and leader an interdisciplinary education to handle the challenges of our changing health care system. Nursing is in the midst of a paradigm shift with all that is being asked of it. My contribution to this effort will be to add to the body of knowledge available in nursing research and prepare nursing for its leadership role in our growing interdisciplinary professional environment. BIMSN's vision of bold system change in their mission to improve quality of care and shape policy align with my own interests in seeing effective interdisciplinary collaboration established in nursing. I also plan to further my knowledge and experience in patient centered care models that emphasize the inclusion of complementary medicine. Before nursing I worked as a massage therapist and in the nutritional supplement industry researching the use and efficacy of vitamins, minerals, nutraceuticals and herbs. In my nursing practice, it has been wonderful to be able to bring attention to the areas where complementary treatments would benefit patients such as pain management, respiratory conditions such as asthma and body based work such as yoga. We are experiencing the most dramatic changes in healthcare since the beginning of Medicare. BIMSN is in the best position to help establish a new kind of nurse professional. It is such an exciting time to work in nursing pursuing an advanced degree. There is such a growing effort to push the profession forward, yet so much work needs to be done. Another interest of mind is in the patient centered medical homes (PCMH) model being prominently included in the ACA. A few items on the PCMH agenda is to provide effective comprehensive care, utilization of evidence-based research and establishing a larger role for nurses in care coordination across the health care continuum. With an education from BIMSN I would have the opportunity to work in an academic environment enhancing my knowledge and understanding of patient care delivery systems. BIMSN will provide me the tools and structure needed in becoming a confident nurse scientist able to develop and conduct scientific research. With the installment of the health exchanges the massive influx of patients expected to flood the system will require a higher level of knowledge and competencies for health care professionals. Nurses will need to enhance their level of computer literacy skills, critical thinking, leadership and health promotion which cannot be covered effectively in annual skill classes. Increasing the education and development of nurses in acute and primary care will be vital in ensuring good patient outcomes. Nurses are given so much new information on a continuous basis without any further education on the translation of research into practice. With a PhD from BIMSN I will be prepared to take on a leadership role in nursing and successful in a research intensive environment.

Hello, I am applying to grad schools and was hoping to get some feed back on my essay. I've haven't been able to find any nurses to read it. This is the first time I am writing about where I would like to go with my advanced degree so I would love a bit of advice. I'm not sure this is the right discussion board to post under. If not, could someone please direct me to the correct one? Thanks and Happy New Year! I have been fortunate to have many supportive, loving people in my life who motivate and inspire me. One such person is my mother who raised me as a single parent, made sure I went to college, then went back to school herself and earned her Master's in Health Administration from USC. She has taken on many roles at the community health clinic in Central Los Angeles where she has worked for almost twenty years. She also involved me with the clinic by volunteering my services throughout the years to some of the clinic's programs and events. Having witness her evolution into a leadership role at the clinic has had a great impact on my nursing career. I graduated from nursing school in June of 2009, right at the end of the Great Recession. New grad jobs were hard to find in many states. In researching job options, I found the Versant RN Residency, a program offered to new grads that provides a didactic curriculum in the preparation of a nurse to the floor. I applied for positions all over the country. I looked for all the residency programs I could but pretty much applied to any hospital taking new grads. Almost a year after I graduated I was offered a position at Keck Medical Center of USC starting off with a Versant 18 week classroom and clinical training. The program provided me with the skills, education and confidence needed to construct a sustainable, evidence based practice. It also introduced me to advance nurse practice specialties. The hospital at the time was working on having clinical nurse specialists (CNS) assigned to every unit. They were the resident expert on the floor. I could see myself in that role. I love to educate, to share with others what I have learned. In school I remember feeling a duty to share with my cohorts whatever new information I found. After working acute care for a few years I was having this reoccurring feeling of helplessness in the hospital. My patients were usually those having an exacerbation of a problem with multiple comorbidities. It was distressing to witness the state of these patients knowing that a lot of what I saw could be prevented. Also I was seeing a lack of professional development in the nurse practice environment that I wanted to address. I began looking at nursing roles outside the hospital. In researching a PhD in nursing I found a degree where I could become a nurse leader and scientist creating and disseminating research guiding evidence based practice. In learning about this degree, it helped me to define what kinds of research I wanted to study. My area of concentration in nursing began to focus around nurse development and primary care delivery systems. Primary care is such an underserved specialty; however this is where most of the work needs to be done in order to not have patients with co-morbidities filling up hospital beds. I am a per diem RN for an outpatient Veterans Administration (VA) clinic in Eureka, Ca. The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT), VA's patient centered care model, has just recently been implemented here. It is a framework driven model designed to enhance coordination between disciplines, increase patient access to providers and establish continuity of care. My job is to help the care teams keep up in their management of their patient panel. One area of interest I have in PACT is in the managing of care teams. The provider will have 1100 patients on their team and will need to keep track of every abnormal lab, diagnostic, vital sign, etc. I would like to study models like these working on methods of measuring and refining them. Obtaining my PhD will allow me the opportunity to develop leadership skills and gain the clinical expertise needed to work in a variety of complex care settings helping in transforming health care.

Hello, I am applying to grad schools and was hoping to get some feed back on my essay. I've haven't been able to find any nurses to read it. This is the first time I am writing about where I would like to go with my advanced degree so I would love a bit of advice. I'm not sure this is the right discussion board to post under. If not, could someone please direct me to the correct one? Thanks and Happy New Year! I have been fortunate to have many supportive, loving people in my life who motivate and inspire me. One such person is my mother who raised me as a single parent, made sure I went to college, then went back to school herself and earned her Master's in Health Administration from USC. She has taken on many roles at the community health clinic in Central Los Angeles where she has worked for almost twenty years. She also involved me with the clinic by volunteering my services throughout the years to some of the clinic's programs and events. Having witness her evolution into a leadership role at the clinic has had a great impact on my nursing career. I graduated from nursing school in June of 2009, right at the end of the Great Recession. New grad jobs were hard to find in many states. In researching job options, I found the Versant RN Residency, a program offered to new grads that provides a didactic curriculum in the preparation of a nurse to the floor. I applied for positions all over the country. I looked for all the residency programs I could but pretty much applied to any hospital taking new grads. Almost a year after I graduated I was offered a position at Keck Medical Center of USC starting off with a Versant 18 week classroom and clinical training. The program provided me with the skills, education and confidence needed to construct a sustainable, evidence based practice. It also introduced me to advance nurse practice specialties. The hospital at the time was working on having clinical nurse specialists (CNS) assigned to every unit. They were the resident expert on the floor. I could see myself in that role. I love to educate, to share with others what I have learned. In school I remember feeling a duty to share with my cohorts whatever new information I found. After working acute care for a few years I was having this reoccurring feeling of helplessness in the hospital. My patients were usually those having an exacerbation of a problem with multiple comorbidities. It was distressing to witness the state of these patients knowing that a lot of what I saw could be prevented. Also I was seeing a lack of professional development in the nurse practice environment that I wanted to address. I began looking at nursing roles outside the hospital. In researching a PhD in nursing I found a degree where I could become a nurse leader and scientist creating and disseminating research guiding evidence based practice. In learning about this degree, it helped me to define what kinds of research I wanted to study. My area of concentration in nursing began to focus around nurse development and primary care delivery systems. Primary care is such an underserved specialty; however this is where most of the work needs to be done in order to not have patients with co-morbidities filling up hospital beds. I am a per diem RN for an outpatient Veterans Administration (VA) clinic in Eureka, Ca. The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT), VA's patient centered care model, has just recently been implemented here. It is a framework driven model designed to enhance coordination between disciplines, increase patient access to providers and establish continuity of care. My job is to help the care teams keep up in their management of their patient panel. One area of interest I have in PACT is in the managing of care teams. The provider will have 1100 patients on their team and will need to keep track of every abnormal lab, diagnostic, vital sign, etc. I would like to study models like these working on methods of measuring and refining them. Obtaining my PhD will allow me the opportunity to develop leadership skills and gain the clinical expertise needed to work in a variety of complex care settings helping in transforming health care.

Hello, I am applying to grad schools and was hoping to get some feed back on my essay. I've haven't been able to find any nurses to read it. This is the first time I am writing about where I would like to go with my advanced degree so I would love a bit of advice. I'm not sure this is the right discussion board to post under. If not, could someone please direct me to the correct one? Thanks and Happy New Year! I have been fortunate to have many supportive, loving people in my life who motivate and inspire me. One such person is my mother who raised me as a single parent, made sure I went to college, then went back to school herself and earned her Master's in Health Administration from USC. She has taken on many roles at the community health clinic in Central Los Angeles where she has worked for almost twenty years. She also involved me with the clinic by volunteering my services throughout the years to some of the clinic's programs and events. Having witness her evolution into a leadership role at the clinic has had a great impact on my nursing career. I graduated from nursing school in June of 2009, right at the end of the Great Recession. New grad jobs were hard to find in many states. In researching job options, I found the Versant RN Residency, a program offered to new grads that provides a didactic curriculum in the preparation of a nurse to the floor. I applied for positions all over the country. I looked for all the residency programs I could but pretty much applied to any hospital taking new grads. Almost a year after I graduated I was offered a position at Keck Medical Center of USC starting off with a Versant 18 week classroom and clinical training. The program provided me with the skills, education and confidence needed to construct a sustainable, evidence based practice. It also introduced me to advance nurse practice specialties. The hospital at the time was working on having clinical nurse specialists (CNS) assigned to every unit. They were the resident expert on the floor. I could see myself in that role. I love to educate, to share with others what I have learned. In school I remember feeling a duty to share with my cohorts whatever new information I found. After working acute care for a few years I was having this reoccurring feeling of helplessness in the hospital. My patients were usually those having an exacerbation of a problem with multiple comorbidities. It was distressing to witness the state of these patients knowing that a lot of what I saw could be prevented. Also I was seeing a lack of professional development in the nurse practice environment that I wanted to address. I began looking at nursing roles outside the hospital. In researching a PhD in nursing I found a degree where I could become a nurse leader and scientist creating and disseminating research guiding evidence based practice. In learning about this degree, it helped me to define what kinds of research I wanted to study. My area of concentration in nursing began to focus around nurse development and primary care delivery systems. Primary care is such an underserved specialty; however this is where most of the work needs to be done in order to not have patients with co-morbidities filling up hospital beds. I am a per diem RN for an outpatient Veterans Administration (VA) clinic in Eureka, Ca. The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT), VA's patient centered care model, has just recently been implemented here. It is a framework driven model designed to enhance coordination between disciplines, increase patient access to providers and establish continuity of care. My job is to help the care teams keep up in their management of their patient panel. One area of interest I have in PACT is in the managing of care teams. The provider will have 1100 patients on their team and will need to keep track of every abnormal lab, diagnostic, vital sign, etc. I would like to study models like these working on methods of measuring and refining them. Obtaining my PhD will allow me the opportunity to develop leadership skills and gain the clinical expertise needed to work in a variety of complex care settings helping in transforming health care.

Our hospital is opening a new wing and my unit just got the tour today. Our PCU, ICU and ER are going into the new wing and the ramp from MedSurg to the new wing was ACCIDENTLY built with an incline; so we are being made to take an elevator downstairs to the basement, go down the basement ramp which as well has a little incline to it, then take another elevator back up. Many were asking why wasn't a laser used or something. In the new wing they placed the buttons to push for a code and to call help right above the beds, so if we have a patient out of control we are going to have to get by them to call for help! They also did not plan out were the crash carts would go. So now they cannot not find a wall with a red outlets that is out of the way to store the cart. Its going to have to be pretty much in the way right in the hallway. Nurses were just shaking their heads in horror. I am terrified to think of rushing a patient from MedSurg to ICU or PCU. I'm not sure what to do, guess I just wanted to vent.

You know, at the last minute a job came through in Los Angeles so I stayed out here.

Are at UTAs RN-BSN program? I'm there too and doing the same paper. I found Oregon Nurse Assoc. guidelines on nursing staffing that had a lot of info. The instructions for the paper said we can search online if our hospital doesn't have a staffing committee. Here's the link: http://www.oahhs.org/quality/nurse-staffing-file-library/ona_oahhs_guidelines_final_.pdf

sorry, my links don't come up, but if you go to www.ahpra.gov.au you can find the info. they have an update to the new registration process that says assoc degree nurses can get their aus license. see below nurses and midwives qualified in the united kingdom, the republic of ireland, the united states of america, canada, new zealand, hong kong and singapore who have a degree or a diploma and further education and who are registered as a first level nurse in these countries, are deemed to have the equivalent qualification as a practitioner qualified in australia. specifically, this means nurses and midwives who have successfully completed a minimum six semester (or equivalent) bachelor degree or associate degree (or higher) in general nursing at a university in one of these countries, who also has professional licensure as a registered (first level) nurse in the country of education, will be considered to meet the requirement for equivalence to an australian degree completed at an australian university.

i just recently contacted aphra, www.ahpra.gov.au who now handles aus registration.they sent me these attachments for registering for an aus rn lic. how i understand it is first you need to apply for an lic., then you can either find a hospital to hire you through employment agencies or find one yourself. then you apply for a visa with the help of that hospital. there other options for getting a visa, here's the link, http://www.visabureau.com/australia/nursing-job.aspx. hope this helps! Application-for-general-registration-as-a-nurse-or-midwife--overseas-applicants----AGOS-04.pdf Framework-for-the-Assessment-of-Internationally-Qualified-Nurses-and-Midwives-for-Registration.pdf Update-for-International-Nurses---news-item.pdf

Hello, does anyone have the website to find out more info about the new AUS RN national board? Thanks

Hello, I am a new nurse (less than 6 months exp) looking to move in 2011 to Sydney. I've been reading this thread and was a little confused about the process of finding a job. I've also looked at the AUS Visa website which gives so much info but does not tell you step by step what is needed. Is the best course to go through recruiters or just call around to the different hospitals in Sydney? Are there hospitals anyone would recommended or not recommend? Is it true that you need a BSN to get a RN job in AUS? Thanks for help

The next USC RN new grad Versant Program will begin in March 2011. Applications for open positions will be accepted beginning October 2010, and will be available through the use jobs Web site at CAPS Website. Look for "New Graduate" in the job title. For more information about the program, visit the Nurses of use Web site at For our patients. Fight On. | Nurses of USC Versant has developed an innovative and comprehensive RN Residency program that is highly-supportive of new graduate nurses and provides an appropriately-paced learning environment. Unlike other new graduate nurse programs, we offer a number of benefits including: • One-to-one preceptors • Classroom and skills lab education • Caring and committed mentors • Self-care I support groups • Individualized rotation and orientation As an RN Resident, you will be hired as a full-time employee. Upon successful completion of this paid residency, you'll be prepared to work as a full-time, independent professional RN on your home unit. Versant Info0001.pdf

Since Feb 2008, hospitals have decreased the amount of new grads they are hiring in many states. Just type in new grads in the allnurses search box and you see all the threads of new grads telling their stories. There is a shortage, but due to the recession, nurses who left the field starting coming back which has allowed hospitals to decrease their hiring of new nurses. It takes at least $100,000 to train a new nurse and hospitals don't want to spend the money. There are thousands of new grads out of work all over the country. It's really sad how short sided hospitals are right now, they don't even care about what they are doing to the future of health care, they are just looking at how much money they can save now.

http://media.www.tcudailyskiff.com/media/storage/paper792/news/2009/12/03/Graduation/Economy.Leaves.Nursing.Graduates.In.Tough.Job.Market-3843633.shtml?refsource=collegeheadlines Just had to share this article to show how misinformed the public really is.

DOU After I got the phone call I was in such complete shock, but one of my first thoughts was of this thread and of wanting to get out the word to you all. I don't know about you but I've been pretty crazed since this past Friday, constantly checking my email waiting for word from anyone. This has been one of the hardest struggles I have been in since starting this journey. Having this thread, this website has been a tremendous help. Thank you so much for the support, wisdom and kind words. Many blessings in the new year.