The Impact of the Shortages in the Nursing Profession

Nursing is an occupation making up a majority of the medical workforce. It is an “important component of the US health-care system” (Bakhamis, 2019) and without nurses, a majority of the patient care would not be accomplished. Nursing shortages have been a topic of discussion in the past few years. It is estimated that there will be a nurse shortage in the upcoming years due to many factors such as the baby boomer generation, nurses leaving the profession early and not enough new nurses to replace the retiring nurses. The nurse shortages have been occurring in cycles which is dependent on supply and demand and retiring nurses and citizens. “According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2.8 million registered nurses (RNs) worked in the US health care system” (Bakhamis, 2019).

The Immigration Nursing Relief Act of 1989 allowed nurses from foreign countries to migrate to the U.S as an alien to seek for employment. The act targeted the nursing occupation at the time because of the shortage that was declared by the Department of Labor. Nurses from the Philippines were a majority of the migration act, having more than seventy percent of the nursing relief. Since then, nurse immigration has tripled since 1994. There were some opinions regarding foreign nurses’ competencies to practice in the country. The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) was established to qualify foreign nurses to practice safely in America. It promoted patient safety while supplying additional nurses in the United States. The shortage occurred again when President Bush signed the Nurse Reinvestment Act in 2002 encouraging citizens to join the nursing workforce. The American Nurses Association requested 250 million dollars to fund and assist nursing schools, policy makers, nursing organizations, and society to bring the nursing shortage into attention. Hopefully in due time the reinvestment act will encourage citizens to pursue the profession.     

The Baby Boomer generation is known as the massive increase in births after World War Two. Citizens in this population are born between the years of 1946 to 1964. There are approximately 75 million people under this generation. Currently, this population have begun retiring since 2011. As they retire, patients in hospitals, nursing homes, home care and private care will increase as they need more nursing care in which will need additional nurses. The baby boomer generation and the “aging population will exacerbate the nursing shortage” (Bakhamis, 2019). According to Bakhamis, “more than 55% of current RNs are 50 years or older and expect to retire” (Bakhamis, 2019). The increase in the number of patients and decrease in the supply of nurses will result in a nurse shortage because the supply is unable to meet the demands of health care.

Poor staffing ratios is an ongoing problem for nurses throughout the United States. The average hospital medical-surgical nurse should take between four to six patients. More than six patients would increase the risk to patient safety and mortality. The risk of patient death increases by seven percent “for each additional patient the nurse must take on at one time”. The probability of a medical error increase as the nurses takes more than six patients in their assignment. Management perspective may have to require nurses to stay for mandatory overtime as a last resort to fill in empty spaces in staffing. Mandatory overtime defined by Huston, is also called “compulsory or forced overtime, occurs when employees are required to work more than are standard” (Huston,) of forty hours per week. Facilities with less nursing staff may have the difficulty finding adequate staffing for the shift. They then require nurses from the previous shift to stay overtime. This frustrates the staff as they are forced to stay with extreme exhaustion present at the end of their scheduled shift. California is the only state to have mandated safe staffing laws since 1999. Research has shown mandatory safe staffing improves patient care and safety, according to McHugh, Kelly, Sloane and Aiken. Decrease mortality rates in patients has been found with more nurses on staff. California being the only state to have mandated safe staffing laws indicates adding additional nursing staff shows “better outcomes, compared to outcomes for patients treated in hospitals in states without a similar law”. Other states should follow the state of California to improve patient outcomes.

  Burnout is defined by Freudenberger in 1974 as “the state of emotional exhaustion in which the individual feels overwhelmed by work to the point of feeling fatigued, unable to face the demands of the job, and unable to engage with others” (Bakhamis, 2019). Symptoms of burnout include dulled emotions, compassion fatigue, lack of motivation and dissatisfaction. The term is relevant in nursing as more nurses are experiencing burnout early in their career.

According to Erickson and Grove’s research, “the rate of burnout amount RN’s younger than 30 years was 43.6%” (Bakhamis, 2019) compared to older nurses with the rate of 37.5%. Bakhamis states “80% of the RNs sampled complained that they had no time for rest because of a heavy workload” (Bakhamis, 2019). Continuing burnout results in “RN turnover rates, poor job performance, and threats to patient safety” (Bakhamis, 2019) which is the number one goal for the Joint Commission. Chronic stress in nurses can result in “severe headaches, sleeping complications, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular illness” (Bakhamis, 2019). Experiencing too much burnout will drive nurses to leave the occupation altogether, causing an even larger shortage. There were up to sixty-five percent in Bakhamis’s study who “left their jobs as a result, which as contributed to a nursing shortage” (Bakhamis,2019). Burnout can be prevented in nurses by teaching the importance of the motto “self-care before healthcare” so nurses can provide the highest quality care they can when their health is being taken care of as well.

Nurses are not motivated to proceed with additional education after their baccalaureate degrees. Schools of nursing require students to practice a specific amount of hours in the practice to provide clinical experience and readiness into the profession. Professors teaching the curriculum may require masters or doctorate degree to teach. There were approximately fifty-four thousand applications denied “because of insufficient faculty, lack of sites for clinical placement, budget constraints and other factors”(Egenes, ). Eugene calls this “the other shortage” as the shortage of “qualified faculty members for schools of nursing”(Egenes,). Nursing faculty members are expected to retire within the next ten to fifteen years, exacerbating the nursing shortage because they are relied on to teach future nurses. The number of faculty members will decrease as nurse educators are retiring and current nurses are not pursuing further education degrees to assist with the nurse faculty shortage.

The inability to fulfil vacancies in nursing will eventually cause an increase in medical error occurrences. Medical errors are preventable mistakes occurring in the care of patients which may or may not cause injury, harm or death. The existence of medical errors in healthcare has brought into attention by the U.S Institute of Medicine with a report written in 1999 called To Err is Human. According to Olds and Clarke, it was “reported that 9.6% of RNs in their sample had a contaminated needle stick or serious injury, 15.1% provided the wrong treatment or dose to their patients, 19.8% had caused injuries to their patients from falls, 32.8% had experienced work-related harms, and 35.2% got infections”(Olds and Clarke, 2010). Nurse shortage, unsafe staffing, constant stress, mandated overtime and distraction while administering medications are some of the many factors nurses can make medical errors.

Shortage of nurses will result in low staffing, “poor level of patient care, patient dissatisfaction, an increased number of medical errors, higher infection rates, and higher mortality rates” (Bakhamis, 2019). “The problem of a shortage of nurses in the U.S. is cyclical in nature” (Egenes,). Staffing issues are always a topic of discussion at work, in which the unit is understaffed almost everyday or every other day. Stress levels rose when the lack of staffing was found out during rounds. They are more patients than nurses to count especially with the growing retiring population requiring more nursing care than society can supply.

The demand for nurses is “fueled by a growing elderly population with a longer life expectancy, advances in medicine that require well-educated nurses, increased numbers of patients requiring care for chronic conditions, and hospitalized patients with higher acuity levels” (Egenes,). Increasing the nursing workforce can “improve the quality and safety of patient care in the United States” (Buerhau, 2005). Nursing contains a stigma when it is mentioned as an occupation to strangers. It is automatically assumed that a lot of blood is dealt with during my day to day basis and the occupation is opt out entirely. Blood is one of the reasons why people are not encouraged to join the profession. My future plan is to pursue a Masters of nursing in Nurse Practitioner or Nursing education but ideally, I would like to do both. I want to be the inspiration and assistance that I was not fortunate to have during my time as a nursing student. Assisting others to achieve their dreams as a nurse will motivate others to assists others as well and fix the nursing shortage.

References:

 

Contradicting Fears, California’s Nurse-To-Patient Mandate Did Not Reduce The Skill Level Of The Nursing Workforce In Hospitals. Health Aff (Millwood). 2011 July ; 30(7): 1299–1306. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2010.1118

Olds DM, Clarke SP. The effect of work hours on adverse events and errors in health care. J Safety Res. 2010;41(2):153-162.

Davis, Catherine; Nichols, Barbara (2002). Foreign-Educated Nurses and the Changing U.S Nursing Workforce. Nurs Admin Q. 26(2): 43-51.

Bakhamis,L. ; Paul III,D. ; Smith, H. ; Coustasse A. Still an Epidemic: The Burnout Syndrome in Hospital Registered Nurses (2019) The Health Care Manager. Volume 38, Number 1, pp. 3–10

Huston, C. J. (2017). Professional issues in nursing: Challenges and opportunities (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

Buerhaus, P.;  Donelan K.; Ulrich, B. ; Norman, L.; Williams, M.; Dittus, R. (2005) Hospital RNs’ and CNOs’ Perceptions Of the Impact of the Nursing Shortage On the Quality of Care. Nursing Economics. September-October Vol. 23/No. 5

 

Reference letter

Nov 5, 2018

 

To Whom it May Concern :

 

It gives me great pleasure that I write this recommendation letter for Ms. Vicky Nguyen for your consideration to support her application as a Registered Nurse at your esteemed institution.

 

I have worked with Ms. Vicky Nguyen since she started working at Hopkins Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare. Since then I know you can count on her work ethics. She is a professional who doesn’t only perform at her highest potential but works with her heart. She’s always passionate about her work and compassion towards the residents at Hopkins center.

 

As a registered nurse, she is an asset to Hopkins Center where she has constantly provided residents with exceptional medical care and is well adored by the residents’ families and staff. She is very hardworking, diligent, task-orienteded and she’s very sensitive to the needs of the residents and the facility as a whole.

 

I highly recommend Ms. Vicky Nguyen without any reservations for employment in a nursing role, and if you have any further questions with regards to her qualifications, please do not hesitate to email me at your most convenient time.

 

All the best.

 

Junnel S. Gaviola

(Nursing Supervisor)

 

Hopkins Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare

 

Self analysis

I’ve always known nursing was the career choice for me. That altruistic feeling when making sure the client is satisfied, comfortable and safe is one of the best feelings I have been experiencing since working as a registered nurse. The nursing program was the most difficult obstacles faced in my life due to the extensive amount of studying to pass each nursing course. I faced the program without knowing how difficult it was to stay and finish. There is no ounce of regret going into nursing because I absolutely love what I do as a nurse and my experiences continue to shape me into the motivated and intelligent person that I am today. As a pre-nursing student, the school was done in a mediocre way to pass at the minimum guideline. Once accepted into the program, I was grateful to be accepted into a CUNY nursing program right before I was going to send applications to private nursing schools. I have not done so much studying in my entire life over the course of 2.5 years, I completed my Associate’s degree of Nursing in December 2017. I’m extremely proud of what I have accomplished so far as an RN and the first in my family to graduate with a college degree. My strongest is the trust and respect for all clients without discriminating based on their gender, sexual orientation, religion, culture, class, age, race, color, disability or national origin. This course has definitely taught me a lot of important issues within the nursing profession. Learning the importance of the nursing shortage has gotten me to give more than to the clients but to future nurses. The decision to enrol in a master’s program for nursing education was made this year when teaching new nurses was a new fulfilment in my nursing career.

The Slow Evolution of Women’s Rights & Feminism

Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal, to define, establish, and achieve political, economic and social equality of the sexes, particularly in women. Feminists and women have come a long way to achieve equality within the government, department of education and society. However, the will to fight is necessary to continue and maintain equal rights for women.

The first wave of feminism was founded off of the concept of the women’s suffrage, the right to vote. The Seneca Falls convention of 1848 was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in which assembled around three hundred people to discuss the issues surrounding women’s rights. After the Civil War, the thirtieth amendment, fourteenth and fifteenth was passed between the years of 1865 to 1869. These amendments granted African Americans emancipation from slavery, citizenship, and suffrage. However, the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment was only applicable to African American men. These newly implemented laws brought outrage in women worldwide due to the fact that African American men were climbing up the “political ladder”, in relation to attaining equality, at a much faster speed than women. This did not necessarily mean that women thought that they were superior to their African American male counterparts but rather they had a desire to be their equals. As a result, the American Woman Suffrage Association was created to fight for women’s political equality. Susan B Anthony, an American women’s activist, attempted to cast her vote in the 1872 election and was arrested for ‘unlawfully voting’ due to the prohibition of women voting at the time. World War I was a didactic time for women as it highlighted the power and solidarity of women. During this period in time, they dedicated their time and energy to their fight for equal citizenship and rights parallel to their male counterparts. In the midst of the WWI, the majority of the workforce was comprised of women while the majority of men were enlisted in the war. Impressed by the women’s work ethic and dedication, the United States government passed the nineteenth amendment of 1920 which states “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” (History Editors,2010)

The second wave of feminism centred on allowing additional rights for women apart from their right to vote. This second wave brought controversy as it gave women the right to run for political office, achieve an education without discrimination, and choice of abortion. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 states that “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” (U.S Department of Education,1972). Roe vs. Wade, one of the biggest supreme court cases, legalized abortion on January 22, 1973. “Roe v. Wade affirms the constitutional right to access safe, legal abortion.” (Planned Parenthood, 2018).

The third wave of feminism focused on goals that concentrated on a different population of people. Whilst the second wave allowed women’s right to vote, it did not necessarily allow African Americans the right to vote. This is when the term intersectionality came into play. The structures of society not only exist separately but exist together and this creates additional problems. Equality has to be throughout the entire spectrum and not limited to a specific group of people. Intersectionality is further discussed later.

Currently, society is in the midst of its fourth wave of feminism that includes the use of social media to spread the word about feminism, sexual violence, and inequality. While feminists have made great strides in the pursuit of equal rights, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done. The use of social media aides in the spread of awareness and education to people who are not educated on this powerful movement. With the use of popular social media platforms such as Google, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, the worldwide vexation that is sexual violence is live streamed daily and showcases that its occurrence is more common than people think. Social media used to be viewed as a debilitating instrument that allowed women to believe that they were not good enough until they mastered the concept of ‘white aesthetic’. In the present day, feminists are taking back social media and reinventing its use to unify women instead of allowing it to be a portal for insecurity and fear-mongering against women and other groups of people considered to be second class citizens because of their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion.

In the early beginnings of this fourth wave, a woman named Lilly Ledbetter decided to take legal action against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, a company she had worked for almost twenty years, due to the unequal salary she was receiving as a result of her gender.  It was revealed that she made a substantially lower salary compared to that of a male employee with the same skill set, experience, and education. It took ten laborious years of continuous fighting with the Supreme Court until Barack Obama signed The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, which was just nine years ago.

 Intersectionality

Intersectionality is a term coined by KimberlĂ© Crenshaw, which means the overlap of various social identities such as race, class, sexual orientation, age, religion, gender, disability do not exist separately, but they intersect together “creating many levels of social injustice” (Crenshaw,2016). Women’s right to vote in the 1800’s were not equally treated the same upon one another. While Caucasian women were given the right to vote, that was not the case for African American women. African American women’s right were excluded from this social and political narrative which included the freedom to achieve an education without discrimination.

She was a guest speaker for Ted talk hosted in San Francisco, California, In 2016 was invited to be a guest speaker for a TED talk show in which she stated: “Everywhere, the awareness level of police violence that black women experiences is exceedingly low.” (Crenshaw, 2016). She made a powerful claim that African American women receive little to no attention for the same situations as the Eric Garner travesty that involved police brutality and death. She illustrated this by listing African American men’s names known for their death by police force such as Eric Gardner. Gradually, she continued her list with African American women’s names. To substantiate her claim, she called out names from her list and the audience would stand until they heard a name they did not know. The result was four people standing after the last name was called. Her purpose during this TED Talk was to spread awareness by showing the many African American women involved by police violence. In the end, the audience said the names of the fallen women to bring them recognition. Crenshaw finishes with  If we don’t see a problem, we can’t fix the problem.” (Crenshaw, 2016). These intersections, allowed existence and riots between all types of to fight for equality throughout all citizens.

Me Too Movement

Tarana Burke coined the phrase “Me Too” to encourage the support between women of colour who survived sexual violence. The concept of Intersectionality was interwoven with her goal to bring attention to the many African American women who experienced sexual violence on top of the whole population of women. This movement is also included in the fourth wave of feminism due to the use of social media to increase awareness. Just typing the hashtag #MeToo in any social media platform garners countless results that display many women’s narratives that reveal social, economic, and political injustices. Survivors of sexual violence include their experience in their social media accounts and include the hashtag to share with the world and other survivors that they are not alone, it is not okay to experience it and they can speak up to stop sexual violence.

Another example of sex inequality is the sentence difference between Brock Turner and Cynthia Brown for their crime. Brock Turner, a young caucasian male student was known for raping an unconscious woman. He was sentenced to six months in jail, only serving three months. “Cyntoia Brown, a Nashville woman who is serving a life sentence for killing a man who picked her up for sex while she was being trafficked as a teenager” (Hauser,2018). She is a young woman of colour, already served 13 years until this year, she was given a clemency trial. The treatment between these people are extremely different, proving women are continuing to fight

Yes means Yes

   California is the first and only state in the United States currently with a state law that requires an affirmative consent when participating in sexual activity. The term “Yes means yes” “goes further than the common ‘no means no’ standard, which has been blamed for bringing ambiguity into investigations of sexual assault cases.” (Chappell, 2014). Affirmative consent is ongoing throughout a sexual activity and the consent has to be ongoing and can be revoked at any given time. Sexual harassment is becoming extremely common but undocumented in the state of California, especially within the education system. The colleges of California, for example, Stanford have been under fire for the increasing amount of sexual misconduct occurring within the college campus that includes student to student and faculty to student sexual misconduct allegations. In an article by The Mercury News, Stanford University reported “nearly 200 reports of sexual harassment, sexual violence and other unwanted sexual conduct involving faculty, staff and students during the 2016-17 academic year, including 29 allegations of sexual assault.” (Deruy, 2018).

The Awakening

   Edna was not an ordinary woman. Her mind, soul and heart did not belong where she was. After three kids, she questioned herself the question that women don’t ask themselves at that time, ‘who am I ?’. “Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman.” (Chopin,1860)

She does what other women in the nineteenth century would have not done. “She drank the liquor from the glass as a man would have done” (Chopin,1899) proved that she was turning into the person that she is comfortable as. The colonel tells Mr. Pontellier, “Authority, coercion are what is needed. Put your foot down good and hard; the only way to manage a wife. Take my word for it.”. Men in the nineteenth century believed that women are property and are to be told what to do. Edna did not follow her husband’s orders, instead instructs him “Don’t speak to me like that again; I shall not answer you.” (Chopin,1899).

Purple Hibiscus

   This novel by Kate Chopin focuses on domestic violence within a household. Kambili Achike is a fifteen-year-old girl living in Nigeria during. Her papa, Eugene is the factory owner of a newspaper company known in the country for his popularity and worth. He is the head of the household, controlling the family using religion, psychological and physical abuse with the belief of punishing his family are in the best intentions. There is no difference between how men in society view women as property and how Eugene treat his family. Adichie uses religion with no differentiation between society and religion, women are viewed as property. Eugene believed to have the right to control and use violence against his wife and children. He takes religion as his priority and not family love. This is shown by not calling or visiting more often than he should have, allowing his children to see him for only fifteen minutes per year and not asking about his health. At his papa-Nnukwu death, there was no emotion toward his own father’s death except when he questioned his sister if papa-Nnukwu had converted for his death. His family mistakes his punishments for an act of love and throughout the novel, Jaja, Kambili’s brother, separates himself from his abuse faster than Kambili does. Jaja becomes infatuated with the purple hibiscus his aunty Ifeoma have, which represents freedom. Kambili eventually reaches for the freedom as well but she doesn’t attempt as hard as jaja do , and towards the end of the novel, Kambili is free by default. Her mother poisoned his tea, killing their father and Jaja takes the blame for it, imprisoning him for three years.

Real Women Have Curves

   This movie held heavy significance to me due to the various similarities between Ana’s story and my story. Ana Garcia is an 18-year-old Mexican-American female whose family struggled to make ends meet in the lavish neighbourhood of Beverly Hills, California. As a first generation Mexican – American, Ana struggled with her identity and her journey to advance in higher education and career due to her mother’s emotional abuse.

Ana and her mother, Carmen, are two extremely different people. They both had conflicting ideologies in what a women’s role was. Carmen’s dream was to have her daughter(s) find a man, get married, and become a stay at home mother. In reality, she recognized that her eldest daughter, Estela, who owns a dress sweatshop, has no interest in marriage. Carmen and Estela accepts the fact that Estela is not going to get married so Carmen precedes to hope for Ana’s future to be how she wanted it to be. Carmen emotionally abuses Ana by calling her fat constantly, explaining to Ana she calls her fat because she cares. One day, the sweatshop is too hot for the workers, Ana starts to strip almost completely naked showing confidence and shut down her mother’s body shaming.

   Ana graduates from high school with no plan to continue on to college due to her family’s financial inability to fund her education. Her English teacher, Mr. Gruzman assist her to apply to Columbia University. Although Ana got accepted with a full scholarship, her family doesn’t approve of her moving across the country because her family, her parents specifically believes family is more important than anything else. Ana rebels against her parents and attempts to tell them she’s going to New York for school. Before she goes to her father, he gives his blessing to go.  Her mother continues to disapprove of her decision to go to New York and doesn’t say goodbye to Ana leaves for the airport. The movie ends with her walking confidently and happily in Times Square. This walk is significant because her walk is different compared her walk on her last day of high school. Within the span of her summer vacation, Ana has grown to confident mature young women.

 

Conclusion    

   The evolution of feminism, in my opinion, and with the provided facts, is a continuing slow evolution. The slow growth of the movement resulted in equal pay, education opportunities, right to vote, right to consent to their own abortion, the creation of the birth control pill and recognition. Life for women have gotten better for women since way back then. I am beyond proud of all of what the feminists have accomplished but it’s still not enough. Society has to accept that women are growing powerful and we are smart to know what they deserve and what they are capable of. Women are capable to get an education, a job, hold a leadership role, hold power in office, anything the women can put her mind into. The government should not prohibit the women what a man can do. It is disappointing that it may have to take years for a federal law to be implemented, an example, Roe vs. Wade took four years. Lilly Ledbetter equal pay act took ten years to be in effect.

Sometimes, our mothers are the first defence to our equality. Some mothers are traditional and want their daughters to experience growth as themselves and not better. Carmen, for example, didn’t want Ana to do what she couldn’t do. She verbalized to her husband “that it’s not fair”. Mothers of female genital mutilation are another example, if they do not stop this ritual cutting for their daughters, it will not stop. My mother is also an example, as an Asian American, she didn’t allow me to explore my choices of college. She also wanted me to go to a college locally, just like Carmen did with Ana.

Women as a population will always have this ongoing battle with men and society for equality. The number of people fights for equality in women will expand while there will also be people working to take those rights away or prevent additional rights for women. Women have to understand and use the value they bring into the world besides just being a housewife. Like J, Howard Miller’s poster, “We Can Do It !”

References

Chappell, Bill. (2014, September 29). California Enacts ‘Yes Means Yes’ Law, Defining Sexual Consent. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/09/29/352482932/california-enacts-yes-means-yes-law-defining-sexual-consent

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. St. Louis: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1899.

Crenshaw, K. October 2016. The Urgency of Intersectionality. TED Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality

Durey, E. Stanford University report reveals nearly 200 cases of sexual misconduct. The Mercury News. 28 February 2018. https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/28/stanford-university-report-reveals-nearly-200-cases-of-sexual-abuse/

Hauser, Christine. (3 May 2018). Cyntoia Brown, Trafficking Victim Serving Life Sentence for Murder, Will Get Clemency Hearing. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/us/cyntoia-brown-clemency-hearing-.html

History editors. (2010, March). 19th Amendment. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/19th-amendment-1

Sheber, V. (2017, December 16). Feminism 101: What are the Waves of Feminism? Retrieved from https://femmagazine.com/feminism-101-what-are-the-waves-of-feminism/

 

RN resume

Vicky Nguyen, RN

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE____________________________________________

NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island – Medical-Surgical Staff Nurse

March 2019-Present

Hopkins Center for Rehabilitation & Health Care— Charge Nurse/ Registered Nurse April 2018-January 2019

Responsibilities:

Supervision of 2 LPNs, 4 CNAs in the care of 36 patients

Providing nursing care to residents in sub-acute & long term units

Admission review and discharges

Quarterly and Annual Care Plans per patient

Infection Control Committee  

 

Diva Nails, 180 Jericho Turnpike Mineola, New York

Nail Technician April 2016-December 2018

 

Clinical Experience_________________________________________________________

NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island

Departments: Medical Surgical

NYC Health + Hospital/ Kings County

Department: Labor & Delivery, L&D Triage

Maimonides Medical Center

Departments: Oncology, Medical surgical, PICU, NICU, Pediatric, Psychiatry

Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center:Brooklyn

Department: Long term care

 

EDUCATION________________________________________________________________

NYC College of Technology, 300 Jay Street — RN-BSN February 2018 – Present

Anticipation graduation – May 2019

NYC College of Technology, 300 Jay Street — Associates of Science in Nursing

September 2013-December 2017

 

Licensure__________________________________________________________

Registered Nurse at the State of New York

     license No. : 746799

Basic Life Support August 2017-August 2019

 

Language___________________________________________________________

Vietnamese – moderately fluent

Spanish- Conversational

 

Philosophy

Nursing is a humanistic, altruistic profession that assists persons in the promotion, maintenance, restoration and/or rehabilitation of health and preparation for death with dignity. This nurse believes in the holistic care of the patient. The nurse follows the practice under Jean Watson’s Caring theory which is the comprehensive part of the client. The nurse uses evidence-based practice to effectively and safely care for the client. In order for the client to heal, their physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and sociocultural being of the client’s defined health in their highest functioning abilities is taken into account when caring for this client. The client has patient rights, which the nurse have to abide by including receiving all the information needed to know about their treatment, the right to refuse treatment, and privacy and confidentiality.

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