Healthcare often reflects global changes, as these changes occur, the roles and responsibilities of the nurse also changes. It is imperative for nurses to know laws that standardize and affect practice to guarantee that their actions are consistent with up to date legal principles and to protect themselves from liability. Also, nurses are required to consistently polish clinical skills and knowledge through CEUs to meet standards of care. There are set rules from each state Nurse Practice Act and facilities employed in that give nurses guideline for of standards of care. The ANA’s Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice is another crucial manuscript for professional nurses.
Hence this paper seeks to explore the similarities, differences, considering their theories, principles, skills and roles as a leader and a manager as it relates to dealing with nursing shortage and turnover in the healthcare business of today. As we all know, considering the demand for nurses and the innovations in the healthcare industry today, nursing shortage and turnover has been and continues to be a major problem, which organizations and even the government still grapple with all the time, irrespective of the numerous researches and resources that have been directed towards the resolution of this problem. However, to effectively develop these solutions, it will suffice to know what the causes of the problems are. With my experience as a direct care nurse, I can attest to the following as some causes of nursing shortage and turnover: Fewer nurses to the meet the innovation and diversity of care, as expressed by Buchan and Calman (2005)and cited in Parry (2008) that in many developed countries there is an abundance of qualified nurses,
Six Step Process with an Ethical Dilemma Nurses face ethical dilemmas on a daily basis anywhere they practice. In nursing an ethical dilemma can be caught between conflicting duties and responsibilities to your patients, your employer, and to yourself. There is no right answer to an ethical dilemma. As a nurse when finding yourself in an ethical dilemma you ask yourself “are you supposed to do what is right by your employer, but is it right? Or did you help the patient?” As a nurse you want to help the patient in every situation.
Ethical Issues in Nursing This book examines major ethical issues in nursing practice. It eschews the abstract approaches of bioethics and medical ethics, and takes as its point of departure the difficulties nurses experience practising within the confines of a biomedical model and a hierarchical health care system. It breaks out of the rigid categories of mainstream health care ethics (autonomy, beneficence, quality of life, utilitarianism…) and provides case studies, experiences and challenging lines of thought for the new professional nurse. The contributors examine the role of the nurse in relation to themes such as informed consent, privacy and dignity, and confidentiality. Nursing accountability is also considered in relation to the contemporary Western health care system as a whole.
Thus, nurses who use only one theoretical approach to working with families are in essence, limiting the possibilities of families. When working with families, the way nurses view and think about the whole client influences the possible outcomes and interventions that nurses recommend to clients or carry out on their behalf. Using eclectic frameworks that suit the needs of the family is deemed important. Theories do not stand alone without conceptual frameworks, but frameworks by themselves are not sufficient to explain the relationship between phenomena (Berman & Snyder, 2011). Nurses must draw on various theories to be effective in tailoring interventions for specific families with their unique needs, and the number of possibilities for effective intervention is increased when nurses use multiple ways of conceptualizing families.
Nursing students increasingly encounter ethical problems during their clinical practice which sometimes infringe the rights of patients. Simply put, ethical issues are a major concern in the healthcare field because healthcare providers have to make ethical decisions on a daily basis. Working in the modern world as a newly developed registered nurse, one can face many hurdles as they come upon their new work environment. While trying to grasp this major transition, nurses can often find themselves in the mist of ethical dilemmas. There are, in some cases, policies of the healthcare institutions and the nurse’s personal professional ethics that can conflict with the clinical settings’ decision making.
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
I will first provide an overview of the issue in relation to both these fields of nursing and discuss why it is important and the impact it has on nursing care. I will then highlight any similarities and/or differences that may rise between the two fields. Adult nurses provide a high standard of essential personal care with dignity and compassion, while also being able to undertake complex interventions and use specialist skills, such as communication-the basic skill needed to survive as a nurse. Philippa Sully (2003) stated that “development of effective working relationships underpins all aspects of nursing practice. Whether we are exploring the best way to arrange shift cover or discuss with patients and their families the most appropriate community care, how we communicate depends on our professional relationships with all those involved.” In other words, communication is a key aspect in nursing as a whole.
Professional Ethics Paper Margaret Simon HCS/478 Health Law and Ethics April 15, 2014 Ann-Marie Peckham Professional Ethics Paper The purpose of this paper is to discuss professional ethics, examine the relationship between laws, ethics, and discuss different ethical theories and principles. Furthermore to discuss how these theories and principles are applied in daily practice. As nurses we are confronted with ethical issues on a daily basis, unfortunately the ethical decision may not always correlate with the laws at hand. It is important a nurse to study and understand the relationship between law and ethics, so to provide the best possible care to patients, while abiding by their moral and values. According to Judson and Harrison (2010), two reasons to study law and ethics is to help health care professionals function in the highest capacity, while providing competent, compassionate care to patients, and to prevent legal issues that can end your profession (p. 3).
And how all the studies had been influenced by politics of the time. The future of nursing study was done in the same manner as the other studies and some groups in the society who influenced the studies made their reports according to how they valued nursing work. The report showed similarities with the last major study on nursing that was done by IOM in 1983 that nurses need to be well educated and remove barriers to nursing practices. The circumstances in the past and circumstances in future that we cannot predict shape how nursing work is done and defines what it means to patients. Because the values and responsibilities of nurses is shaped by history the report was based on this idea, and was developed as a historical evidence grounded modern data.