Disparities In Nursing

Introduction
The nursing profession is increasing with many opportunities of employment in this era. When considering these opportunities one must be passionate and factual to better serve the patients. The nursing profession is not just a job its an art and science that holds high expectations and requirements for the employees. The candidates of the healthcare system are thought to be experts and have acquired knowledge to meet ones job description. The healthcare system has improved over the years due to technology, higher education, and new specialties. The newer contribution to the healthcare system has resulted from goal driven individuals who noticed the trends and unsuccessful approaches from patient care and research. These individuals

Nurses were helpful at this time for educating the patients about ways to prevent illnesses such as having good hygiene and staying away from the contagion. As nurses progressed into the graduate programs they visualized another level of nursing that could be perfected to provide better care for the patient. On this level of education the emphasis was on functional role preparation (LaSala,Connors& Phipphs, 2007). During this period of time the demand for nursing was high because of WWII many nurses served at Veteran hospital and battlefields. During this time it was discovered that the nurse needed more skills than basic bedside care to assist the doctors with education and managing patients’ .The growth of hospital care gave rise to supervisorial roles such as clinical practical nurses. According to Francis Reiter three concepts of nurse clinical roles are clinical competence understanding the range of function and service, clinical expertise around the coordination of an responsibility for continuity of care and professional maturity in collaboration with the medical profession (LaSala,Connors& Phipphs, 2007). Clinical specialist were described as model of expertness because these individuals had the proper training for (higher education) their positons. The shortage in primary providers made it critical that nurses be educated to provide primary care like physicians giving rise to clinical nursing. The expansion of clinical nursing began when BSN nurses became interested in graduate programs which led to establishment of the clinical nursing programs. The ANA created the curriculum for clinical nurse specialist; they considered combining clinical nurse specialist with nurse practitner to