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Notice the new nurse?
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Notice the new nurse? In many states nurses are exchanging roles of passivity and acquiescence for roles of activity and involvement. The motivating factor is proposed change in the rules and
In one state, nurses who have never assumed active roles within their professional system are forming conference groups with
regulations which govern the preparation and practice of nursing.
noteworthy objectives-objectives which will help nursing leaders to better understand the needs of the nurse practitioner.
As state boards of nursing move to institute changes which seem to delineate practice according to basic preparation
They are asking nursing educators to consider the career-ladder concept in nursing. They are asking to have a part in such
without consideration for experience and or continuing education they are being met
consideration and deliberation. They are
with storms of protest.
asking to be allowed input into leadership activities.
Nurses are standing enmasse for long
No truly concerned nurse would insist on
hours to listen and speak at public hearings. What at first seemed to be militancy and emotional over reaction to change i s now taking a more positive course.
traditional replication and thus deliberately block nursing’s advancement toward becoming a true profession. Nurses are demanding that nursing education be made
What may have been negative motivation by state boards can be good if the end result leads to positive action and lasting effect. Instead of diploma school nurses speaking for the status quo, and pleading for reinstatement and continuation of the traditional hospital schools of nursing, they are thinking with logic and reason. They are taking meaningful action to work within the system for better nursing education.
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meaningful and relevant and that it produce a useful, well educated and well prepared practitioner. Nurses have a right to expect sensitive knowledgeable and persuasive leadership -not
domination.
Now they are demanding that kind of leadership through and positive action.
-Betty
personal involvement
! I J. Thomas, RN
13
Notice the new nurse? In many states nurses are exchanging roles of passivity and acquiescence for roles of activity and involvement. The motivating factor is proposed change in the rules and
In one state, nurses who have never assumed active roles within their professional system are forming conference groups with
regulations which govern the preparation and practice of nursing.
noteworthy objectives-objectives which will help nursing leaders to better understand the needs of the nurse practitioner.
As state boards of nursing move to institute changes which seem to delineate practice according to basic preparation
They are asking nursing educators to consider the career-ladder concept in nursing. They are asking to have a part in such
without consideration for experience and or continuing education they are being met
consideration and deliberation. They are
with storms of protest.
asking to be allowed input into leadership activities.
Nurses are standing enmasse for long
No truly concerned nurse would insist on
hours to listen and speak at public hearings. What at first seemed to be militancy and emotional over reaction to change i s now taking a more positive course.
traditional replication and thus deliberately block nursing’s advancement toward becoming a true profession. Nurses are demanding that nursing education be made
What may have been negative motivation by state boards can be good if the end result leads to positive action and lasting effect. Instead of diploma school nurses speaking for the status quo, and pleading for reinstatement and continuation of the traditional hospital schools of nursing, they are thinking with logic and reason. They are taking meaningful action to work within the system for better nursing education.
August 397 2
meaningful and relevant and that it produce a useful, well educated and well prepared practitioner. Nurses have a right to expect sensitive knowledgeable and persuasive leadership -not
domination.
Now they are demanding that kind of leadership through and positive action.
-Betty
personal involvement
! I J. Thomas, RN
13