MASTER'S PREPARED NURSES

Expanding the scope of practice for master's prepared nurses

Expanding the scope of practice for master's prepared nurses

Scope of practice for master's prepared nurses

The purpose of this study originated during the development process of the thesis of Master Nursing and Health, before the challenge that nursing has to exercise care as inter subjective praxis health. The knowledge gained in the process of construction / reflection gave rise to old concerns that link the evaluation of higher education psycho emotional training for nursing as praxis the professional nurse / caregiver. Human care is included in this study as the essence of nursing practice, developed procedural form in the human experience and learned and professional competence through a commitment with humanity in its entirety body-mind-soul, embracing the ethical, moral and aesthetic, endorsers a professional position capable of contemplating the multiple dimensions of the human person from transversally between scientific knowledge and being humanistic. The need for nurses has to have a formation capable of subsidizing developing this transpersonal competition for human care has been widely discussed, ahead of the need for human understanding in a social, cultural, historical and psycho-emotional, which requires a professional nurse approximation to that internality of being, by means of cognitive skills that link the areas of knowledge such as anthropology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, and others, awakening their sensitivity (Waters, 2008).

Criteria

A master's degree in nursing is a type of advanced practice degree that opens the doors to multiple types of nursing careers. Depending on your area of interest, a master's degree in nursing may offer you the chance to practice with certain groups of people or to perform nursing functions that are above and beyond the role of a registered nurse. A master's degree in nursing typically requires 18 to 36 months to complete. Nursing programs that offer master's degrees often accept students who already are registered nurses, although some direct-entry programs are available for students who have an undergraduate degree in a field other than nursing. Additionally, not all potential students must have bachelor's degrees in nursing, as some programs have accelerated tracks for nurses with associate's degrees to advance to the graduate level (Meyers, 2004).

When you decide to pursue a master's degree in nursing, you may need to choose an area of specialty in which to work. Most programs offer certain specialty degrees and you can apply according to your area of interest. Nurse practitioners are master's-prepared nurses who have completed advanced study to perform many of the same tasks as physicians. They often work within certain areas, such as pediatrics or critical care, and provide medical treatments and prescriptions for patients. Clinical nurse specialists are nurses who have master's degrees and who study, or perform research about, better practice methods within nursing. They then teach other nurses in order to continuously maintain updated standards of care. Other types of master's degrees within nursing include nursing administration and nurse educators. Some master's degrees require additional certification beyond the degree, typically in the form of clinical ...