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In addition to nursing skills, the school nurse must possess excellent organizational and communication skills in order to succeed. [11] School nurses play a vital role in the reduction of absenteeism by promoting healthy practices among students and staff. [10] School nurses have the potential to have a positive effect on their young students.
Patricia Sawyer Benner is a nursing theorist, academic and author. She is known for one of her books, From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice (1984). Benner described the stages of learning and skill acquisition across the careers of nurses, applying the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition to nursing
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a certification body for nursing board certification and the largest certification body for advanced practice registered nurses in the United States, [1] as of 2011 certifying over 75,000 APRNs, including nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists.
The NLN was founded in 1893 as the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses and was the first organization for nursing in the U.S. [2]. In 1912, it was renamed the National League for Nursing Education (NLNE) [2] and released the first Standard Curriculum for Schools of Nursing in 1917.
Nurse education consists of the theoretical and practical training provided to nurses with the purpose to prepare them for their duties as nursing care professionals. This education is provided to student nurses by experienced nurses and other medical professionals who have qualified or experienced for educational tasks, traditionally in a type of professional school known as a nursing school ...
A recent survey of 675 nurses in the United States indicated that 30% of respondents knew how AI is used in clinical nursing practice, but 70% had only fair or even no knowledge of the technology ...
In 1999, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) was created in the UK. [49] In the area of medical education, medical schools in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, and other countries [50] [51] now offer programs that teach evidence-based medicine.
Graduate students (master's and doctorate) must have completed half of the nursing curriculum; achieve academic excellence (at schools where a 4.0 grade point average system is used, this equates to a 3.5 or higher); and meet the expectation of academic integrity. They must also be in the top 35 percent of their nursing program cohort. [6]