Contemporary Issue In Nursing Practice

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Professional boundary is an important concept due to the fact that it defines the limits and responsibilities of the people with whom you interact in the workplace. When the workplace boundaries are clearly defined, the organization works more efficiently because redundant work assignments are eliminated and each personnel is accountable for his or her actions.
An individual’s professional boundaries can be defined in terms of a job description, which by definition should clearly outline the basic responsibilities for each occupation or role. However, most of the times, these job descriptions that are supposed to define work responsibilities end up being too broad and general.
Unfortunately for the nursing profession, we have been plagued by similar vagueness in term of job description and definition. Professional boundaries separate therapeutic behaviour of any registered nurse from any behaviour which, well intentioned or not, could lessen the benefit of care to clients.1 However, as the role of nurses advances, so does the vagueness increase in terms of professional nursing boundaries. This is the result of nurses being able to adopt and perform roles and also skills that were previously found in other health personnel such as doctors, pharmacists, psychologist and also counsellors. This has resulted in a different scope of professional boundary issue which is outside from therapeutic relationship between nurses and clients; but in fact it involves other health personnel. Among others are relationship with any students, working with research personnel, management staff, and working relationship with other healthcare personnel such as doctors, psychologist, pharmacists and physiotherapist.
My workplace area is one of the main general outpatient clinics in my city. The majority of patients are those with general medical conditions such as Diabetes,

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