Abstract
Baccalaureate education makes nurses ready to become a part of a complicated healthcare system. The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing shows the steps necessary to achieve this. Today, nurses need not only the knowledge of life sciences but the knowledge of social sciences as well. Having direct contact with patients, the nursing profession becomes a fundamental component in improving the national healthcare system. Nurses should be given a vital knowledge on how to transfer from education to practice, including the ability to work with modern technologies and software. To be confident, nurses must monitor health-related laws and tendencies. The sharing of experience between nurses and other healthcare providers is very profitable for health care. One more way nurses can influence national health is to take patients’ features into account.
Introduction
According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2013), “The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing reflect the profession’s continuing call for imagination, transformative thinking, and evolutionary change in graduate education”. Baccalaureate education makes nurses ready for leadership, and decisive action in complicated, developing areas that nurses will become a part of.
Liberal Education Background for Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice
A proper liberal education that studies culture, society, science, and art create a vigilant member of society. Proper liberal education for healthcare students builds a responsible, comprehensively competent, understanding nurse. Nurses need not only life sciences. Liberal sciences affect clinical practice making nurses intelligent and humane (Scott, 2014).
Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership
By improving nurse’s decision-making, communication, and capacity to work directly with patients, nurse’s leadership skills improve patient’s health security. Nurses with proper leadership skills will be able to have a positive impact on the internal processes of healthcare. Nurses, having direct contact with patients, can change the healthcare system for the better (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2013).
Education into Practice
Nurses must have up-to-date knowledge. They act on evidence, so they have to be given sufficient knowledge to transfer it into practice. American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2013) states that “Professional nursing practice is grounded in the translation of current evidence into one’s practice”.
Information Management and Healthcare Technologies
Nurses need to keep up with technology. Informational technology is an integral part of nurses’ profession, and nurses will be surrounded by it throughout the work. Nurses should be given proper education on how to use computers and specialized software in today’s nursing practice (Button, Harrington, & Belan, 2014).
Political and Financial Aspects
The Healthcare system is very complicated. It is ruled by the policy. Nurses must know all its nuances and their influence on the nursing practice and healthcare system in general. Also, nurses have to monitor healthcare laws and recommendations to stay confident and prepared for eventualities (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2013).
Working together to Improve Healthcare
Nurses usually work together, and very often with groups of other healthcare specialists. The value of working as a team is very significant. The sharing of experience leads to better patient care. Both consumers and providers benefit from good communication in a medical institution (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2013).
Clinical Prevention and Population Health
Health issues of a patient change during his or her life. Also, the health concerns of patients depend on their community and families. Decease prevention is a major part of nurses’ jobs. Being both caretakers and educators, nurses have to manage care plans according to the individual needs of a particular patient, taking his or her health histories and genetic factors into account. Health awareness and informing patients are very important to improve population health (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2013).
Professional Values
Nurses must be professional, altruistic, humane, and just. They must show their professionalism and respectability even in the most difficult situations. It is fundamental for the discipline of nursing, especially for nurses with a baccalaureate education (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2013).
Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice
After getting a baccalaureate education, nurses should be ready to deal with individual patients, families, and even greater populations. Nurses should graduate comprehensively competent to provide decent care for every patient.
Conclusion
Baccalaureate education makes nurses ready for leadership, and decisive action in complicated, developing areas that nurses will become a part of. The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing are developed to make nurses an important part of improving health care all over the United States of America. The steps that should be taken to achieve this include getting theoretical and practical knowledge, and putting it into effect. Nurses should study not only life sciences to become a high-quality specialist. Learning social sciences is an integral part of the nursing profession. It is critical for nurses to be professional, kind, polite, just, and humane even in stressful situations. To provide high-quality services, nurses must graduate comprehensively competent and practiced.
References
American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2013). The essentials of master’s education in nursing. 2011.
Button, D., Harrington, A., & Belan, I. (2014). E-learning & information communication technology (ICT) in nursing education: A review of the literature. Nurse Education Today, 34(10), 1311-1323.
Scott, R. A. (2014). The meaning of liberal education. On the Horizon, 22(1), 23-24.