“If we take seriously the idea that caring is the future of all healthcare…it is not that we care which is moral, but how we care” –Marks-Maran (1997, pg 87) I feel that is why communication is so important to nurses. Of course nurses need to be academics at times and have excellent fine motor skills but all this would be lost if they communicate and express themselves inadequately to patients- and to each
The study found that individuals’ philosophies of interprofessional working impacted on professional interactions within the teams. Communication was found to be an issue with teams not sharing information and Freeman et al (2000) point out that an increased level of communication was needed in order to facilitate enhanced team interactions. Role overlap has been noted to exist in interprofessional care (Nancarrow 2004) however the issue of role protection should also be considered as a barrier to interprofessional working. Nancarrow (2004) found that nurses were highly protective of their role within intermediate care and believed that it was the role of the nurse to take responsibility for the management of the patients’ medical needs and viewed therapy needs as the remit of the therapists within the team. This would suggest that role overlap was not in existence and
Healthcare: Plato’s View Versus Modern Western Society People in today’s society have an immense number of expectations in regards to their quality of life. Perhaps the most prevalent is the expectation to the healthcare they choose. On the surface, it seems pretty clear cut. After all, why shouldn’t the individual patient be allowed to make choices that directly, or even indirectly, effect their general health? The waters become murky, however, when one takes into account the amount of resources allocated to providing some services or procedures to certain patients.
Cultural Diversity in the Health Care Setting The American Nurse’s Association (ANA) has made clear their position on the cultural diversity in nursing practice with a positional statement they published in 1991. The approach to nursing, if done ethnocentrically, they claim is ineffective in meeting the needs of diverse cultural groups; nurses would benefit greatly by learning about the impact their own culture has on their interactions with patients. In fact, the ANA claims such knowledge to be essential, or vital, and by gaining that necessary knowledge, the delivery of the healthcare system will only improve. The ANA goes on to state the nurse should recognize how variation in culture dictates how each patient should be assessed and treated for their cultural differences: individually, rather than collectively. In addition, the ANA recognizes that nurses themselves bring their own cultural differences to the healthcare setting and that
Ethical Standards and Nursing for the Elderly Kate Smith Walden University NURS 6050, Section 18B Policy and Advocacy for Improving Pop. Health November 7, 2012 Ethical Standards and Nursing for the Elderly Health care ethics are ways of practice that are followed in making good judgment in regards to patient care, involving moral principles and professional guidelines. Health care ethics helps in making good moral decision bases on beliefs and value of life, health, suffering, and death (Cleveland Clinic, 2012). Allocating resources for the elderly in relation to ethics is a complex issue that put the health care provider in a thin line, not knowing how to resolve the situation. I will look on allocating resources for the elderly and end of life, and how it goes against ethical standards.
Jean Watson is someone who cares for patients and believes that they should be treated with respect. Jean Watson created a philosophy for ten carative factors for patient care and how the role of being a nurse should be. Watson believes that it is the way to satisfy certain human needs. (http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Watson.html) The ten carative factors deal with being fair and to respect yourself and others. She believes others should have hope and faith when modern medicine can do no more to help the patient.
This paper will explore factors that contribute to medication errors and their effects on mental health nurses. In addition this paper will offer some future recommendation in order to decrease medication errors. Medication errors Medication administration is an essential aspect of nursing, however, failure to consider the details of adverse reactions, drug interactions or administration schedules may compromise the efficiency of the therapeutic medication regime (Jordan, Jones, & Sargent, 2009). According to Haw, Stubbs & Dickens (2007) and Ramanujan &
She is an associate director and programme director in Health Sciences Ethics, Emory University, Atlanta, United States (US). It is based on frequently raised ethical issues in palliative care which may arise when there is a change from a curative approach towards a palliative approach. The ethical principles addresses respecting patients autonomy; promoting good for the patients (beneficence); the obligation not to harm patients (non-maleficence); and justice. Depending on the situation, it may be difficult to honour all the ethical principle because ethical issues are conflicting. They are characterised by making the right decision to benefit the patient and at the same time being able to justify the decision made.
Theoretical Perspectives in Mental Health Nursing In examining the nursing theories of Orem and Peplau it becomes obvious that the care of patients can be enhanced by using a number of different nursing models. This assignment will highlight the theoretical perspectives of these two theorists and compare and contrast the core concepts, demonstrating their commonalities and how the two may be more suitable to different clients, developed half a century ago, can be validated and practical today in mental health nursing. The elements of the theory created by Hildegard E. Peplau had become public domain and integrated into nursing practice without Peplau being credited until she was recognised as the “Mother of Psychiatric Nursing” (Callaway, 2002) first published nursing theorist in a century, since Nightingale created the nursing middle-range theory of Interpersonal Relations helped revolutionize the scholarly work of nurses and contributed to mental health laws/reform (Tomey & Alligood, 2006; O’Toole, 1989) At a time publishing her book took four additional years because it was ground-breaking for a nurse to contribute this scholarly work without a co-authoring physician. She had vision to bring the Harry Stack Sullivan's theory of inter personal relations 1953 theory to interactions with her patients – they needed: Humane treatment Dignity & respect Healing discussion … in a time when there was none to be found… (Forchuk et al 1993) The nursing theory of Hildegard Peplau incorporated aspects of both behaviourism and logical positivism. Peplau used the term, psychodynamic nursing, to describe the dynamic relationship between a nurse and a patient, known as Therapeutic Interpersonal Model.
Person Centred Care Person Centred Care is a major skills acquired by a healthcare providers.Which main target is individual traits of character in doing health care provision. Treat every person as a unique human being disregard his/her age, culture, sex and race.Acknowledge, respect, and take into considerations the choice that every service is entitled to. Set some standards for practice but not so precise to deny the specific application demands of each individual uniqueness. Guidelines might be essential for the care providers to include complex concerns that help the nurses but sometimes leads to apart a patients' rights. According to Professor Draper ,getting to know the person behind the illness is the key principle of person centred nursing care.We as the care providers needs to listen diligently to our patients conditions, treat as a unique human being.