Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse

Nurse practitioners are a very important of our modern society. It has been noted that there is a shortage of nursing staff all over the North American continent and well-educated and experienced registered nurses (RNs) are in high demand. Increased markets for RNs and their services, which depends upon the population's demographic in the areas of age and health, create employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for them. RNs provide services that are essential to the well-being and health of the community. Nursing is understood as encompass processes and activities by which the nurse establishes an empowering relationship and gives direct care designed to promote a state of health, which is optimal for the individual.

The community places trust in nurses to provide high quality care in the services they provide and expect that they will act in the best interests of individuals, groups and the community. This can only be made better if the nurses are also taught more about leadership and management. This would enable them to be better managers of themselves, and this would be good for both the nurses as well as the patients.

Today's turbulent, chaotic health care environment necessitates dramatic changes in roles of nurse executives. These role changes are rapidly being cast upon individuals who are pressured to react, accept, and adapt quickly. As large multihospital systems are evolving into integrated health care networks, more of the network's business is shifting to the managed care arena (Reinhard and Stone, 2001). Capitation and the network's responsibility for a population of "covered lives" are emerging as the preferred managed care agreement. Health care networks are addressing there cost structures and are redesigning and reengineering the work of employees in the organizations. In addition, senior executives are streamlining and flattening the administrative and organizational structures to prepare the organization to identify and meet the continued demands of health care consumers rapidly. Although nurse executives continue to be valued for their ability to manage the clinical discipline of nursing, they too are impacted by the new structures. Due to the changes in reimbursement structures, the need to provide quality yet cost-effective care, and the formation of new business relationships with physicians and other providers of health care services, the new executive leadership roles require astute financial skills as well as adept executive administrative skills (Isham, 2003)

In order to become a registered nurse, a person has to obtain a diploma, associate degree, a bachelor degree, or even a master degree in nursing. However, the only way that a normal nurse can become a registered nurse is by passing the national nursing license exam. The nursing schools that the nurses have graduated from have to be approved. Once the nurse has passed his or her national nursing exam, the nurse can now be registered as a RN. The RN can only practice in the state from which he or she has passed the licensing exam from, except in certain cases where the state has agreement with the other states which allow ...