Essays on Bogaert

In the past 3 decades, there has been a significant increase in nurse shortage with the numbers expected to fall even more by the end of 2020. Most researchers, healthcare managers, and nurse leaders assume that the issue has been resolved but the truth is it is far more disastrous. Nursing shortage has many negative implications within the healthcare system. Registered nurses have a high demand in the market place, wherein the current RN workforce of over 2.7 ˘million is expect to grow above 3.5 million by 2022 (AACN 2014). Due to the increasing number of elderly patients, acute ...

Reflection Paper

Introduction Like a humble farmer feeling pleased at a bumper yield after a year of toiling in his field or a passionate architect proudly gazing at her inspired engineering marvel, as a nursing professional who has successfully completed her DNP Project and Practicum, I am excited at my academic and practical accomplishments. As I write this reflection paper on the DNP competencies I have acquired in keeping with the fundamental skills as described in the AACN Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice, I look back how this practicum course has guided me to apply my newly developed ...

Healthcare

Introduction Data provided by research encompasses critical importance to the advancement of practicum experience at an HIV agency. The information afforded through research offers new perspectives and approach to dealing with HIV cases, particularly for students that are starting to get exposed in real-world experience working in HIV related issues. The discussion will demonstrate the understanding of the importance of data on all aspects of the practicum experience in an HIV agency in Canada. This includes highlighting agency practices in terms of implementation of data security and the importance of training in handling critical data, particularly about HIV patient’ ...

Research into the relationship between staff levels and outcomes in patient care is important in order to ensure that those receiving healthcare are given the most valuable service possible. The effect that staff levels have on patient care is an essential factor in the overall level of success that their treatment will see. In determining the relationship between these two factors, it is important to critically assess the general values that nurses themselves have as well as their patients when receiving care. Furthermore, the level of burnout, or physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion that nurses feel due to high ...

Performance appraisal is a tool that the management uses to evaluate the performance of employees against the set performance standards such as output, competence, job initiative, and accomplishments (Bogaert, n.d.). Used effectively, performance appraisal can provide the management with important information to make decisions such as salary increment, promotions, or take disciplinary actions against an employee. Properly conducted performance appraisals also provide the organization with a legal defense in case an employee sues the organization over any grievance they may have against a negative performance appraisal. An effective performance appraisal is one that is consistent, valid, factual, and job ...

Rape is the acting out of forced sexual intrusion or intercourse on a person that has not accented to the act. There are many theories on why rapists carry out such crimes. The feminist theory perceives rape as an act that is "pseudo sexual” (Hyde & DeLamater, 2006). Feminists believe that males use rape to dominate and intimidate women. The social learning theory, on the other hand, hypothesizes that rape is one of the outcomes of attitudes of male acquisition as well as explicit learning experiences that result from incidences where men act violently towards women. The evolutionary theory, a controversial hypothesis, ...