FREE ESSAY ON REGISTERED NURSING

REGISTERED NURSING

The practice of nursing by a registered nurse is defined as the process of diagnosing
human responses to actual or potential health problems, providing supportive and
restorative care, health counseling and teaching, case finding and referral,
collaborating the implementation of the total health care regimen and executing the
medical regimen under the direction of a licensed physician or dentist. 
Advanced nursing practice is defined as the performance of advanced level nursing
practice activities which, by virtue of post-basic education and experience, are
appropriate to and may be performed by an advanced practice registered nurse. The
advanced practice registered nurse performs acts of diagnosis and treatment of
alterations in health status, as described in subsection of this section. The advanced
practice registered nurse may, under the direction of a physician licensed to practice
medicine in this state and in accordance with written prescriptions, and if practicing in
an institution licensed pursuant to subsection as a hospital, home for the aged, health
care facility for the handicapped, nursing home, rest home, mental health facility, the
maintained by any state agency and providing services for the prevention, diagnosis and
treatment or care of human health conditions, or an industrial health facility licensed
pursuant to subsection which serves at least two thousand employees, or a clinic operated
by a state agency, municipality, or private nonprofit corporation, or clinic operated by
any educational institution prescribed by regulations prescribe, dispense, and administer
medical therapeutics and corrective measures, except that an advanced practice registered
nurse licensed pursuant to maintaining current certification from the American
Association of Nurse Anesthetists who is prescribing and administering medical
therapeutics during surgery may only do so if the physician who is medically directing
the prescriptive activity is physically present in the institution, clinic, or other
setting where such surgery is being performed. In all other settings, the advanced
practice registered nurse may, under the direction of a physician licensed to practice
medicine in the state and in accordance with written protocol, prescribe and administer
medical therapeutics and corrective measures and may dispense drugs in the form of
professional samples in accordance.
The practice of nursing by a licensed practical nurse is defined as the performing of
selected tasks and sharing of responsibility under the direction of a registered nurse or
an advanced practice registered nurse and within the framework of supportive and
restorative care, health counseling and teaching, case finding and referral,
collaborating in the implementation of the total health care regimen and executing the
medical regimen under the direction of a licensed physician or dentist. 
In the case of a registered or licensed practical nurse employed by a home health care
agency, the practice of nursing includs executing the medical regimen under the direction
of a physician licensed.
Registered Nurse. 
A graduate nurse who has received such certificate of registration shall be known as a
Registered Nurse and no other person shall assume such title or use the abbreviation R.N.
or any other words, letters or figures which indicate that the person using the same is a
trained, certified, graduate or registered nurse. 
Prescription forms used by advanced practice registered. 
All prescription forms used by advanced practice registered nurses and nurse-midwives
shall contain the name, address and telephone number of the physician under whose
direction the advanced practice registered nurse is prescribing or with whom the
nurse-midwife has a clinical practice relationship. Nothing in this section shall be
construed to preclude such form from also containing the name of the advanced practice
registered nurse or nurse-midwife. 
Licensure as advanced practice registered nurse. 
The department of public health and addiction services may issue an advanced practice
registered nurse license to a person seeking to perform the activities described in
subsection of section 20-87a, as amended by section 1 of this act, upon receipt of a fee
of one hundred dollars, to an applicant who satisfies the following requirements is
eligible for registered nurse licensure in this state, as provided by section 20-93 or
20-holds and maintains current certification as either a nurse practitioner, a clinical
nurse specialist, or a nurse anesthetist from one of the following national certifying
bodies which certify nurses in advanced practice: The American Nurses' Association, the
Nurses' Association of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Certification Corporation, the Nation Board of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and
Associates or the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists; has completed thirty hours
of education in pharmacology for advanced nursing practice; and if first certified by one
of the foregoing certifying bodies after you, hold a masters degree in nursing or in a
related field recognized for certification as either a nurse practitioner, a clinical
nurse specialist, or a nurse anesthetist by one of the foregoing certifying bodies. No
license shall be issued under this section to any applicant against whom professional
disciplinary action is pending or who is the subject of an unresolved complaint. 
During the period commencing, the department of public health and addiction services may
in its discretion allow a registered nurse, who has been practicing as an advanced
practice registered nurse in a nurse practitioner role and who is unable to obtain
certification as nurse practitioner by one of the national certifying bodies specified in
subsection (a) of this section, to be licensed as an advanced practice registered nurse
provided the individual: 
1. Holds a current Connecticut license as a register nurse pursuant to this chapter; 
2. Presents the department with documentation of the reasons one of such national
certifying bodies will not certify him as a nurse practitioner; 
3. Has been in active practice as a nurse practitioner for at least five years in a
facility licensed pursuant to section 19a-491; 
4. Provides the department with documentation of his preparation as a nurse practitioner;

5. Provides the department with evidence of at least 75% contact hours or its excellent
of continuing education related to his nurse practitioner specialty in the preceding five
calendar years; 
6. Has completed thirty hours of education in pharmacology for advanced nursing practice;

7. Has his/her employer provide the department with a description of his practice
setting, job description, and a plan for supervision by a licensed physician; 
8. Notifies the department of each change of employment to a new setting where he will
function as an advanced practice registered nurse and will be exercising prescriptive and
dispensing privileges. 
Any person who obtains a license pursuant to subsection of this section shall be eligible
to renew such license annually provided he presents the department with evidence that he
received at least fifteen contact hours, or its equivalent, eight hours of which shall be
in pharmacology, of continuing education related to his nurse practitioner specialty in
the preceding licensure year. An individual licensed pursuant to subsection of this
subsection becomes eligible at any time for certification as a nurse practitioner by one
of the national certifying bodies specified in subsection of this section, the individual
should apply for certification, and upon certification so notify the department, and
apply to be licensed as an advanced practice registered nurse in accordance with
subsection of this section. 
A person who has received a license to this section should be known as an Advanced
Practice Registered Nurse and no other person shall assume such title or use the letters
or figures which indicated that person using the same is a licensed advance practice
registered nurse. 
Reasons why I want to become a Registered Nurse
I think I want t o become a registered nurse is because I love working around people and
I would love to help the sick that need someone there and also because I understand the
way the people do feel cause I been in that atmosphere before and I know how the people
feel and I would love to just be there for the patients. So I want to be there for them
when ever they need something.