The nurse can either help or interfere with the patient’s healing process, depending on how this nurse-patient relationship is developed and followed through. Watson’s theory helps nurses examine themselves and their patients on a holistic level - mentally, physically, and spiritually. “In Watson’s theory, nursing is centered around helping the patient achieve a higher degree of harmony within mind, body, and soul, and this harmony is achieved through caring transactions involving a transpersonal caring relationship” (Suliman, Welmann, Omer, and Thomas, 2009, p 293). This
The nurse also has to treat the patient with dignity and aide in the healing process that is conducive to each individual. The scope of practice is a parameter set in place that defines the rolls, procedures, actions, and processes are permitted by a licensed professional. An example would be a RN administering medication to a patient or doing a care plan after patient check in and assessment. An advanced practice nurse has skills beyond the normal scope of practice of a RN. They generally have more knowledge and experience in a concentrated field of study with a complexity of skills and intervention practices.
Nurses Personal Perceptions Towards Nursing Shortages and Staffing Ratios Abstract The proposal reveals data pertaining to current nursing shortage or understaffing among Registered Nurses. In healthcare today it is important to consider the personal perceptions of the working nurses. Significant information obtained for the reasoning behind nursing turnovers and there stress levels. INTRODUCTION The current staffing scale used in hospitals today seems to under staff not only the patients but also the employee. This only reflects back on ineffective nurse staffing with poor outcomes.
Post-operatively, whether post-operative day 1 or day 10, orthopedic patients are very dependent on nurses and other healthcare professionals to meet and provide their daily needs. This patient population has many self-care deficits of varying degrees. To meet the demands of the orthopedic patients, Dorothea E. Orem’s theory is a good guide for my and other nurses’ professional practice. Self-care competence has an impact in the quality and quantity of life. Nurses educate and assist patients to achieve their competency in caring for themselves.
All nurses have a scope of practice they must follow but depending on the patient will tell them what procedures to perform. Some roles that RNs are responsible for are developing nursing plans, instructing patients or their family members how to properly take care of the ill, providing direct patient care, and also teaching in nursing programs. The direct patient care is when they examine the patient and record signs, symptoms, temperature, height, weight, and any other problems. (Daily Activities). Most nurses usually work in healthcare facilities unless they are home health care providers such as school nurses or for the elderly.
One of these qualities is critical-thinking skill. Registered nurses must be able to asses changes in the health state of patients, including when to take corrective action and when to make referrals. It is common that a nurse will work with multiple patients at a time with various health needs so organization skills are critical to ensure the patient is given proper care. They also need to be caring and sympathetic and detailed oriented because they must make sure that their patients get the correct treatments and medicines at the right time. Last but not least, a registered nurse must be able to be emotional stable with human suffering, emergencies and other stresses.
Running head: COURAGOUSLY CARING FOR THE FEARED Courageously Caring for the Feared Susan L. Philcox NGR 6703 Advanced Nursing Practice Grounded in Caring Jul 19, 2005 Courageously Caring for the Feared In every almost every nursing arena nurses are challenged to provide care for people who have often been labeled disenfranchised by society. Nurses in these settings must overcome social barriers in order to build a trusting, caring nurse-nursed relationship. Courage is needed to stand with these unique people during difficult situations and provide the empowering care they deserve. Utilizing caring concepts such as Falk-Rafael’s (2001) empowering concept and Smith’s (1999) caring theory Zerwehk (2000) identifies three themes for courageously and fearlessly caring for this special group of people: the Human Connection, the Community Connection and Making Self-Care Possible (2000). Zerwehk was inspired by Ray’s phenomenological approach to examine the lived experience of caring, “the purpose is to learn anew the world of caring, not that previously encoded” (Zerwehk, 2000) in her article entitled, Caring on the Ragged Edge: Nursing Persons Who Are Disenfranchised (Zerwehk, 2000).
In the quest for professionalism, nurses were constantly confronted with conflicting assumptions on which their role was based. While the development of knowledge is an essential task for nursing, the work of historians suggests that professional status is not likely to evolve passively form nursing’s recognition as a scholarly discipline. It was in that era that actual cures were developed for certain endemic infectious diseases. However the decline in many of the most lethal
Obstetrical nurses identify themselves as advocates for laboring women (James, et al., 2003). But, Thorman, et al. (2006) in a Round Table Discussion of Perinatal Nurse Executives, states that, “much work is still needed to support appropriately assertive communication techniques when nurses have concerns about patient status”, to promote and ensure patient safety. My research interest is focused on identifying the barriers to assertiveness, or implementing the chain of command, when an obstetrical nurse is faced with clinical discord that threatens patient safety. This interest, sparked by quality assurance record reviews, led me down a path of communication factors and teamwork systems.
Introduction II. Role of a nurse in health institutions III. Role of a nurse in alleviating health in the community IV. Role of a nurse in health care policy V. Conclusion VI. Reference list The Role of a Nurse in Health Care and Health Policy The health care system has different people who are involved in the running of the health care institutions; this include people in the health administration, doctors, nurses and the subordinate staff.