Ending Nurse-Nurse Violence with Ethical Leadership NR504: Leadership and Nursing Practice: Role Development Ending Nurse-Nurse Violence with Ethical Leadership Upholding high professional standards and codes of ethics is and always will be a top priority within nursing. There is an abundance of literature focused on the subject, with much of it emphasizing the treatment of patients. However, in the past twenty years there has been an increase in research related to how nurses treat each other. As a profession, nursing is well known for its caring spirit; nurses devote their time and energy to easing the suffering of their patients through the care they deliver. Yet, there exists in on-going trend of nurse-on-nurse violence within the workplace.
The medical profession and healthcare is a very complex and rapidly developing arena. Due to pressure of science, improvements of technologies and easy access to information through mass media by the public, more challenges have been created for the nursing profession in maintaining good nursing practice. In Harley & Linsley (2007)’s opinion, current nursing practice requires greater sensitivity towards nursing issues which are happening in social environment. It is only through awareness and understanding of current nursing issues which are challenging nursing education, profession and changing ethical concerns that nurses are able to contribute more effectively to the healthcare system. According to Bartels (2005), the nursing profession is heading towards a known disaster – shortage of nurses, increased demand of society, decreased reimbursement and growing dissatisfaction from patients and professionals.
Some patients were also made to shower with their clothes on. The program un-covered serious abuse within the Hospital and there was a public outcry. Several people wrote to the Prime Minster who was reportedly “appalled” by the findings. The national regulator Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) involvement, Ms Margaret Flynn was asked to investigate what was happening at the Hospital and undertake a Serious Case Review. Whilst investigating she spoke to patients, workers, NHS staff and family members and learnt that there was a high level of physical intervention by the staff and some of the patents very badly hurt with some seen to be self-harming.
It has long been acknowledged by the expression, “Nurses eat their young,” that some nurses participate in hostile behaviors toward other nurses. According to the Joint Commission, to achieve high quality care, professional teamwork among nursing staff is critical (Becher & Visovsky,
Generally the nurses experiences of care for the dementia patient in the acute care setting was one of uncertainty, due to the fact the nurses felt they had a specific lack of knowledge. Nurse’s knowledge and education As the population grows and there’s an increase in the number of dementia patients, nurses in the acute care setting need to be skilled and educated to support patients with dementia as stated by (Archibald & Cunningham 2006 p.55I). Erikson & Saveman (2002) described the lack of specialized education for nurses in regards to dementia patients in the acute care setting. This is of particular concern as there are many demands on nurses in the acute care setting and can influence the nature of the care they give. According to Nolan (2006, p.213) nurses had concerns of
Enhancing Patient Safety by reducing Medical Errors I chose the topic of “Enhancing patient safety by reducing medical errors” because it is a topic that I am very interested in. No matter what area of nursing I choose to go in, patient safety is always going to be a crucial part of the healthcare system. I know that when I work with the different patients, I am going have to provide a safe quality of care, be aware of the different risk factors that can affect a patient’s safety. I understand it is going to be a challenge to keep patients safe because errors and mistakes happen every day, and they can happen at any time. I feel like my job as a nurse would be to make sure that no errors occur, and that the patient is safe at all times.
Registered Nurses work very hard to meet the needs of their patients, both emotional and physical. However, after this diagnosis is given the patient it is not uncommon for RNs’ to feel inadequate to the situation. Delivering bad news to a patient is very difficult and something to be studied. 3. Phenomenological descriptive approach was utilized in this study to help the research Perceive and interpret events and participants relationship to then.
Ethical issues in clinical practice By: Miami Dade College Medical Campus School of Nursing RN-BSN NUR-3805 Abstract In every nurse's career, the nurse is faced with many legal or ethical dilemmas. One of the professional competencies for nursing states that nurses should integrate knowledge of ethical and legal aspects of health care and professional values into nursing practice. As such, it is important to know what types of dilemmas nurses may face during their careers and how they may have been dealt with in the past. It is also important for nurses to understand what malpractice is and how they may protect themselves from a malpractice suit. Nursing students increasingly encounter ethical problems during their clinical practice which sometimes infringe the rights of patients.
Imagine being a newly graduated nurse and landing a job on your dream unit. There is this one nurse who likes to taunts the new nurses. You began to realize that she does things to make you uneasy and you began to feel like the target of workplace bullying. Horizontal Violence has become a newly coined termed to further define the concept of bullying in the workplace. According to Becher and Visovsky (2012), Horizontal Violence is described as “an act of hostility that creates an undesirable work environment that weakens teamwork in the clinical setting”.
This only reflects back on ineffective nurse staffing with poor outcomes. The current shortage, heavy workloads and increasing reports of burnout have significant effect on the working registered nurse. Studying the critical care nurses staffing concerns gives valuable insight between the nurses work condition and shortage. This could reveal information about daily stress levels in nursing that make patient care more complex and add to the nursing turnover. This proposal is to validate current working conditions in critical care units and the fact that nurses do have input on turn over.