Annotated Bibliography: Effective Communication in Nursing Anastasia Robey NR-101 Effective Communication in Nursing Communication is of utmost importance in the field of nursing. Lives depend on it. We communicate in many different ways. The way we communicate and how effectively we can get information across is vital in the nursing profession. The following articles will help you to understand the importance of, and the different forms of communication used in the nursing field.
Abstract Planning and delegating nursing care efficiently and effectively is an essential skill for all registered nurses to develop and master. The nursing process will assist the registered nurse to effectively plan and implement nursing interventions as well as to appropriately delegate nursing interventions to co-workers. Additionally, following the professional standards for nurses will assist in safely managing a patient load. Equally important is the use of communication. Effective communication is essential to ensure patient safety and positive outcomes, as is effective communication between nurses and the multidisciplinary team.
This paper will briefly discuss 3 core conditions associated with effective helping skills, empathy, genuineness and acceptance (unconditional positive regard). It will focus on empathy and critically discuss the condition, looking at how empathy affects the nurse-patient relationship as this is viewed as central to the delivery of care (Yu & Kirk 2008, Bonnie et al 2003). It will also discuss why effective communication skills are imperative in building a therapeutic nurse - patient relationship. The significance of a therapeutic nurse- patient relationship is advocated within the Nursing and Midwifery Councils (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct. It states that nurses are responsible in developing and maintaining an appropriate relationship; advising that nurses must listen to the people in their care and respond to their concerns, “Make the care of people your first concern, treating them as individuals and respecting their dignity”, (NMC 2008).
New knowledge is applied into practice through evidence based decision making, quality improvement processes, instituting policy changes, and providing patient and community education opportunities. With background in OB/GYN, my interest is the role of Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. My aim involves collaborating with other healthcare professionals to provide high quality individualized care, promote health education, disease prevention, advocacy, and counseling to women in a community setting. WHNP certification is provided by the National Certification Corporation
Critical thinking contains a form of discipline, intellectual process of applying skills, and guidance. Nurses use critical thinking in order to make systematic and logical questions in order to maintain quality of care. This requires adherence to intellectual standards, proficiency in using reasoning, commitment to develop and maintain intellectual traits, and the ability for safe decision making. (Critical Thinking and Nursing, 2013) Requirements Critical thinking requires specific skills in order to stand effective. These skills remain a vital role in patient care.
Nursing focus is aimed at assisting, encouraging, and supplying the tools that are needed to have patient success. (Alligood, 2014) Evaluation is an important time for both the nurse and the patient to reflect and reassess. The patient remains the focus and helps determine if the philosophy, theory, or model helped achieve the desired outcome. This is a time for active listening by the nurse and feedback. Nightingale, Orem, and Rogers are some of the philosophers or theorists that have helped to mold nursing into the profession it is today.
Documentation and the Care Planning Process Chapter 49. Documentation and the Nurse Care Planning Process Gail M. Keenan, Elizabeth Yakel, Dana Tschannen, Mary Mandeville Background Tools are needed to support the continuous and efficient shared understanding of a patient’s care history that simultaneously aids sound intra- and interdisciplinary communication and decisionmaking about the patient’s future care. Such tools are vital to ensure that the continuity, safety, and quality of care endure across the multiple handovers made by the many clinicians involved in a patient’s care. A primary purpose of documentation and recordkeeping systems is to facilitate information flow that supports the continuity, quality, and safety of care. Since recordkeeping systems serve multiple purposes (e.g., legal requirements, accreditation, accountability, financial billing, and others), a tension has arisen and is undermining the primary purpose of the record and instead fueling discontinuity of care, near-misses, and errors.
The intent of EBP is to improve the quality of the care that is delivered to the client. This increased knowledge, whether it is correct or incorrect, is a motivating factor for nursing professionals to have current and correct information available when working with clients in making healthcare decisions. Healthcare professionals, especially nurses, are the touch point of health care and are the key to cost effective quality care. To ensure that decisions are based on sound information nurses must utilize EBR. As technology and research in health care expands, EBP is becoming essential in delivering high quality patient care.
NIL | Evaluating Practice through Theories and Models | Assignment 1: Essay | | Contents 1) Introduction…………………………………………………………………….3 2) Discussion a) Nightingale’s model……………………………………………………….4 b) Orem’s model………………………………………………………………6 c) Team Nursing model……………………………………………………....7 3) Evaluation (Pros and Cons)…………………………………………………..8 4) Case Study……………………………………………………………………...9 5) Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..11 6) References……………………………………………………………………..12 7) Introduction Nursing needs a systemic approach, a guide to optimise the efficiency and efficacy in delivering nursing care to clients. This guide, or theory, is engendered through the use of concepts of theoretical and empirical perception and schemes to justify the connections between the concepts used. Theories are developed for the intention to provide the necessary guidance for the nurse to guide one’s nursing practice. As defined by Meleis (2007), “nursing theory is a conceptualization of some aspect of nursing reality communicated for the purpose of describing phenomena, explaining relationships between phenomena, predicting consequences, or prescribing nursing care”. For instance, Florence Nightingale brought to mind a favourable co-relation between nature and wellbeing.
Upon completing both leadership assessment tests, I was able to analyze my strengths and create action plans in areas that need improvement. Rath and Conchie (2008) suggests to lead effectively one must be aware of their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of this paper is to assess a nursing practice quality improvement issue and analyze how applying effective leadership methods developed from previous assessments could have improved the outcome. ROLE As a future advance practice nurse (APN) who is seeking a position in nursing management in the field of labor and delivery, it is imperative to always be aware of ways to improve the quality of care provided to patients. As a nurse administering high alert medications it is important to follow protocols and guidelines set in place to maintain the safety of the patients in our care.