For example, question number six mentioned, “Emotional attachment to get in the way of good care.” (Hansten, 2009, pp. 175-176) I feel that is a question that is difficult to answer because a nurse needs to have an emotional attachment to connect. The reason we became nurses is because we care for others and we want to care for their health. We came into this field with an emotional attachment. I will continue to treat my patients how I would like to be treated and show them the respect they deserve being under my care.
There were quiet a number of areas that were touched on. Below is an illustration of some of the specific areas in nursing that were touched on by the report and the impacts that they had on the nursing profession. Education There is the conventional understanding that for a nurse to attain the RN status, there is the need to have attained the right educational qualifications. The IOM Report (2010) asserted this fact but gave a deeper insight into the nursing education. Since the medical profession is constantly changing nurses need to receive continuing education and training.
In my studies associated with this course, I have gained a greater appreciation for the history and evolution of our profession. I have come to appreciate that each professional nurse has an obligation to advocate for our professional practice as a means to ensure optimal patient care and outcomes. By sharing our specialized knowledge and understanding of healthcare and patient needs with politicians and legislators, we can shape the direction of legislative change and reform. I have also learned a great deal regarding nursing jurisprudence. As a young RN, I worked in a critical care setting.
Professional Development of Nursing Professionals With the ever changing healthcare system and the current efforts to revamp healthcare reform, it should come to no surprise that nurses are on the forefront of conversations regarding measures needed to help guide and maintain the changes to come. Attention has been drawn to the fact that the present nursing profession needs to be re-assessed and transformed to cope with the developments of the broadest healthcare overhaul since 1965 (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2012, para. 1). “The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) launched a two-year initiative to respond to the need to assess and transform the nursing profession” (IOM, 2012, para. 2).
Concept Comparison and Analysis across Theories Lori Hamilton NUR/513 October 14, 2013 Georgia Swank Concept Comparison and Analysis across Theories As a profession, nursing theorists have come up with different theories that support and guide nursing practice. This paper will discuss the role of nursing in both Virginia Henderson’s Need Theory and Dorothea Orem’s Self Care Theory. The premise of each theory is the nurse will care for the patient until the patient can care for his or her self. By comparing and analyzing each theory, one will be able to get a better understanding of how to best apply the nursing theory in practice. In both, Henderson’s Need Theory and Orem’s Self Care Theory, the ‘role of nursing’ is the core concept.
Peoplau’s interpersonal relations were found in all major theoretical works today. Peoplau’s theory gives the nurse the opportunity to enter in to personal relationship with individual clients in some cases. Peoplau explores in her theory in four phases of nurse-client relationship: firstly, the orientation phase is also known as the problem defining phase. So in this phase the clients ask for help and the nurse response by helping the clients and understand the clients need as well as understand the extent of the need of help. Also this phase happen when the nurse meets new clients for the first time (Forchuk, C., Dorsay, J., 1994).
They may think that they are not hurting anyone by cheating on one exam but really they have done a disservice to themselves and to each of their future patients. That may sound extreme but I certainly would not want to have shoulder surgery by a surgeon who cheated on the shoulder exam. By cheating, these two peers have shown they do not have integrity and that value is critical in the nursing field. The Code of Ethics for Nurses is not only for licensed nurses already in the profession. Nursing students should also live by this code.
As a nurse grows with knowledge and experience their philosophy is likely to yield some transformation. Novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand explains, “ in order to deal with concrete, real-life problems an individual needs some implicit or explicit view of the world, of man’s place in it, and what goals and values he ought to pursue” (Phiosophy:Who Needs It, 1995). The ideas and beliefs that one possess concerning precisely what the nurse’s role encompasses directly reflects their personal philosophy of nursing. According to Hood (2010) “Each nurse brings a personal set of beliefs about people, the world, health, and nursing. This set of beliefs constitutes a philosophy of nursing” (p. 60).
I can identify with more than one nursing theory influencing my practice but the one I most readily relate with is Julia Brenner’s Theory of Novice to Expert. I believe the reasons started when I was a brand new nurse at a small rural critical access hospital. They sent me to a class for “novice” nurses. It was a class that purpose was to further educate and provide an environment where we could voice our experiences. The hospital had a hard time retaining employees and one motive for the class was helping new nurses feel more comfortable and helping us have meaningful, fulfilling employment.
Even though the FNP did not have satisfactory outcomes with the patient care so far, the FNP did not perform any negligence or malpractice. It was merely because the patient did not compliant for the regimen. Therefore, I would not criticize or scold her because criticizing could make Mr. W think that she was incompetent rather than she still has has a chance to make it better. I would point out what the FNP has done so far for the patient, for example, giving her a written instructions and her personal phone number, to encourage her. Then, I would ask the FNP what her plan is for the patient care and what are the difficulties to conduct the plan.