Capstone Project

Capstone Project

Introduction

Nursing is the ultimate academic discipline and practice profession, which has shaped leadership displayed by women throughout the pace of time. Nursing was historically viewed as an extension of a woman's role in the home. Organized nursing had its roots in religious orders of women and men, such as the Knights Templar, dating back centuries before the era of Florence Nightingale, considered the mother of professional nursing (Atkinson, 2006). Nightingale was a leader not only in nursing but in her country. She set the stage for leadership for the thousands of women across the world that would come behind her to lead nursing into the next two centuries (Vallano, 2008).

A profession in nursing is very challenging. Nurses face daily challenges and emergencies at work. They have many responsibilities in their workplace and are always available to respond on call. Nurses provide more than medicines and medical services. They give tender loving care to their patients. They help provide a healing environment for their patients. A profession in nursing is really fulfilling and commendable. However, there are only a small number of nurses compared to the need and requirements. There are also fewer students who take up nursing courses. Hospitals experience shortages of nurses and are looking for other sources to make-up for the scarcity (Kaplow, 2007). There are many reasons why there is a decline of nurses. In this paper we are going to analyze five different articles related to challenges faced by nursing.

Challenges to Nursing Values in a Changing Nursing Environment

Nurses not only have to keep up with the growing demands of quality patient care, but they also are required to remain current with the ever changing standards of practice, policy and procedures, research, and continuing education.

The primary reason perhaps why there are relatively not enough nurses is because of the lack of schools that offer nursing courses. There are only a few schools that offer nursing courses while there is a huge demand for nurses. Many of these schools also face the problem of the lack of budget to implement their programs. The lack of funds to provide for the needs of nursing students including laboratories and laboratory equipment, training kits and clinical materials, and not just urbane scrubs causes a decline in the quality of education given to students (Vallano, 2008).

Another problem is the lack of qualified and competent faculty that will help in the education and training of students. All these problems cause difficulties of students in learning appropriately from their schools. These including the high cost to send a student to a nursing education are reasons why most individuals would rather go to other schools and take other courses.

Communication, Collaboration, and Teamwork among Health Care Professionals

Health communication

The health communication is defined as "the modification of human behavior and environmental factors related to the behavior that directly or indirectly promote health, prevent disease or protect individuals from harm. The interest in understanding what motivates people to adopt or not adopt behaviors that ...