Nursing Informatics | Assignment

Running Head: NURSING INFORMATICS
NURSING INFORMATICS
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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NURSING INFORMATICS1
The reflection of the advantages and scopes of nursing career is carried out using Gibbs’
Reflective Cycle. The reflection is done intentionally to identify and analyze the process of
examining and interpreting the opportunities and gaining experience and improve and learn.
Gibb’s Reflective Cycle consists of six stages namely Description, Feelings, Evaluation,
Analysis, Conclusion and Action Plan.
It is very important for nurses to receive higher education to progress in their career.
Researchers reveals that highly educated nurse can help the hospital community to be ensured
about the type of care that the patients will receive (DeWitty, Huerta & Downing, 2016). Highly
qualified nurse can provide high quality, person centered care and implement the required
interventions necessary for a particular patient.
Since, I am pursuing BSN; I will be able to gain expertise in fields of nursing as
compared to RN nurse. An RN with BSN has more responsibilities and can indulge in
management roles. They receive better rewards for their labor along with higher salaries and
more benefits (Eyikara & Baykara, 2017). This reward will definitely lead to the hike in the
number of people pursuing nursing as their career with a doctorate degree. Higher the degree of a
nurse, the nurse will gain more expertise in various fields and patient care techniques.
Nurses are engaged in a lifelong learning. There are various types of patients with
different forms of ailments requiring different types of patient centered care. Nurses should
always be open to any kind of learning procedures (Shin et al., 2015). They get to learn from the
patients as they take new strategies to cure each patient. Each patient has different requirements
to be fulfilled and nurses need to approach those from the patient perspectives. Education is not
the only method to perceive learning. The improvement in the quality of care is also a process of