Nurses education

The Medical College of Georgia is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Georgia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center s Commission on Accreditation. 

What are the educational needs of nurses This is a critical question. Nursing education must adjust rapidly to... 

Nursing education must provide nurses with an understanding of disaster science and the key concepts of preparedness. 

Nursing education must help nurses attain the skill sets that will allow them to respond to large-scale disaster and mass casualty events while still providing for their own personal safety. These skills include rapid physical assessment and disaster triage, decontamination and the use of personal protective equipment and the allocation of scarce resources. 

Currently, not all nursing education standards recommend that nurses be prepared with a minimum set of... 

NURSING EDUCATION S ROLE IN PREPARING FOR A MASS CASUALTY RESPONSE... 

Nursing education s role in disaster preparedness revolves around four areas ... 

Challenges to adequately preparing our nations nurses include a gross lack of funding for disaster preparedness initiatives, an insufficient supply of nurse educators whose specialty focus is the domain of disaster nursing, compounded by a persistent shortage of nurse educators nationwide. 

A general consensus among coalition members prevailed—that all registered nurses currently licensed to practice and all nurses educated from now on should have some basic level of knowledge and skill related to mass casualty incidents. 

SUMMARIZING NURSING EDUCATION S ROLE IN DISASTER RESPONSES AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MCI COMPETENCIES... 

Professional nursing education organizations may contribute to the preparedness of nurses through such activities as ... 

Faculty development related to the core competencies and nursing education s role... 

Nursing education s role in addressing the country s emergency preparedness for response to future mass... 

Neuman, B. (1982). The Neuman Systems Model Application to nursing education and practice. Nortvalk, CT Appleton Century Crofts. 

The PHN and other emergency response personnel may harbor concerns about their ability to respond in a clinically responsible way. A survey entitled, Ready and Willing revealed that 80% of nurses and physicians polled are willing to respond to a disaster while only 20 % feel that they have the knowledge and skills to do so safely [Health Affairs, 2003). Preparing public health professionals to respond to incidents that they have never seen before and may encounter very infrequently requires new and creative approaches to education and training. (See chapter 28, Directions for Nursing Education, for further discussion.)... 

Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) an umbrella term which describes a registered nurse (RN) who has met advanced educational and clinical practice requirements beyond the two to four years of basic nursing education required of all RNs. 

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Bakken, S., Cook, S., Curtis, L., Desjardins, K., Hyun, S., Jenkins, M., John, R., Klein, W. T, Paguntalan, J., Roberts, W. D., Soupios, M., Promoting Patient Safety through Informatics-Based Nursing Education, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Vol. 73, No. 7-8,2004, pp. 581-589. 

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