Nursing Blog

The nurse care planning process is an important aid in the treatment of patients. In turn it creates a systematic care plan approach which with the inclusion of other health care professionals allows the patients the best route to full fitness. When used effectively, the nurse planning process offers many advantages to the health care environment: It's patient-centred, helping to ensure that your patient's health problems and his response to them are the primary focus of care. It enables you to individualise care for each individual patient. It promotes the patient's participation in their care, encourages independence and concordance and gives the patient a greater sense of control - important factors in a positive health outcome. (See Putting the 'P' in planning.) It improves communication by providing you and other nurses with a summary of the patient's recognised problems or needs so you all work towards the same goals. It promotes accountability

Many experienced Registered nurses are becoming certified in many areas; one of these is Emergency Care. Emergency nurses provide wide ranging care to patients ranging from common colds to heart attacks. These nurses must be prepared to deal with all types of injuries and trauma situations. The certification for Emergency Care is CEN - Certified Emergency Nurse administrated by the BCEN association. This certification denotes that the nurse has completed many additional hours of training and passed a difficult assessment test. Emergency Nurses have to maintain a vast knowledge of many areas of patient care including obstetrics, geriatrics, gynecology, cardiology, oncology, pediatrics, and general medicine. They encounter many different types of injuries and illnesses every day, handling critical and non emergency issues. Acquiring a CEN certification is not a requirement for employment at a majority of hospitals, so nurses that pursue and obtain this certification are showing their emp