Negative and Positive. To calculate a problem that begins with a negative number and is being divided by a positive number, the answer will also always be negative. For example, -10 divided by 5 also equals -2. Multiply the quotient by the divisor to check your answer: -2 x 5 = -10.
What Is Nursing Excellence? By Margaret Ort, RN, MSN, BSN, CEN. On the eve of Nurses Day, I thought it incumbent upon all of us as professional nurses to revisit for a moment the idea of excellence in nursing practice. I did some research and discovered that nursing excellence is defined in so many different ways. Depending on the literature you read, nursing excellence can be related to mentorship, to membership in a professional organization, to collaborative practice, and so on.
Leaders are creative and innovative; utilizing their personal influence to empower others and challenging the status quo. The following article employs the letters in the word LEADERSHIP as an acronym to outline the ten learnable characteristics of all nurses as leaders: 1. LIFE-LONG LEARNER âLeadership and learning are indispensable to each other.â â John F. Kennedy. Preparing to become a nurse begins long before the first day of nursing school. Acceptance into nursing school requires achieving superior grades in a wide variety of subjects. Once in nursing school, students are challenged by rigorous academic and clinical workloads.