Nursing Leadership & Management

Nursing Practice

Nursing professionals around the world are experiencing an array of changes as the healthcare industry is continuously adapting more advanced technology and medical trends. Nurses adapt themselves to various fields of medicine and medical research, and many new fields of medical research require the assistance of nurses. Some of them are: Genetics nursing, Stem-cell technology nursing, Fertility nursing, Holistic nursing, etc. This session covers such new fields and its requirements.

The Nursing Practice requires specialized knowledge, skill, and independent decision making. There are about 3,60,000 professionally activated nurses in UAS, In Alabama there are 3600 registered nurses regarding the statistics of 2015. This figure, however, is an underestimate of the NP workforce as the numbers do not include ACNPs from all Canadian jurisdictions. Until recently, in some provinces ACNPs have not been licensed, and therefore it is not currently possible to determine how many exist in USA. It is also difficult to ascertain the exact number of CNSs in USA because there is no protected titling or standard credentialing mechanism. Based on self-reported CNS data, the number of CNSs decreased between 2000 and 2008 from 2,624 to 2,222, accounting for about 1% of the USA nursing workforce (CIHI 2010; CNA 2006).