NR 395 Week 1 Discussion Topic. Describe the way in which nurses are … by your patients and the public. Do the best-known nurses currently depicted in the media represent the type of nursing image you wish to promote? Speaking of image, do you feel that no longer wearing traditional white uniforms … an impact on how nurses are … ? Is how you dress an important part of your public image? What could you do to improve the professional image of nurses?

NR 395 Week 2 Journal Entry # 1 Form

NR 395 Hot Topic (Summer 2019)

Have you … asked to work mandatory overtime? If so, what was your response? Did you work the requested hours, or did you refuse? If you … , what were the consequences, if any? What is your opinion about the use of mandatory overtime? Explain the pros and cons of this practice and how you lean toward either allowing or disallowing it.

New York Times Nurses Strike in New York: Threat Increases Over ‘Safe Staffing’ Levels ( On March 30th, 2019, Patrick McGeehan wrote an article that focused on the major threat of the nursing walk out that was to occur in New York City Hospitals. In McGeehan’s article, he interviewed a nurse in the NICU, Shanna Murphy, who remembers an issue where she was taking care of a critical/unstable infant while a mother of a crying baby felt her child was being ignored.

What principles do you use when delegating to unlicensed personnel? Because the licensed nurse is … for care performed by an unlicensed person, how do you protect yourself and your patients?

Directions Review the guidelines and the grading rubrics for this assignment. Please post questions to the Q & A Forum, or contact your instructor. Complete each section. This is not a scholarly paper. You may write in the first person, and you do not need to follow APA format, but you are expected to write in complete sentences and use proper grammar and correct spelling. Use Microsoft Word 2013 (or higher) to complete this form. Save as a .docx document. Submit this journal entry by Sunday, e...

Do you believe there is a culture of academic integrity in your nursing program? What evidence do you have that supports this notion, or disputes it? How can you promote academic integrity within yourself, and your classmates?

Describe the way in which nurses are … by your patients and the public. Do the best-known nurses currently depicted in the media represent the type of nursing image you wish to promote? Speaking of image, do you feel that no longer wearing traditional white uniforms … an impact on how nurses are … ? Is how you dress an important part of your public image? What could you do to improve the professional image of nurses?