Scott & McSherry (2008) also define evidence based nursing is a process by which nurses make clinical decisions using the best available research evidence, their clinical expertise and patient outcomes. We will also discuss nursing’s simultaneous reliance on and critique of EBP in the context of critical reasoning. There will also be discussion of a study done that examined the effects of integrating evidence based practice into clinical practicum among RN-BSN students and the limitations of evidence based practice and an alternate view of decision making. Lastly we will discuss evidence that challenges the traditional practice regarding injection sites (Cocoman & Murray 2010). According to Guem et al.
In the second part, the author will discuss the legal obligations of nursing staff in delegating roles to HSWs. Thirdly, the author will discuss HSW care given to patients with regards to the rights of patients and nursing staff as dictated by the NHS Constitution. Finally, the author will look at the risks to patient safety posed by HSWs and the arguments for and against the regulation of HSWs and discuss what effects this would have upon the future of the nursing profession. ! !
A Client Based Study Knowledge and Skills for Nursing Practice Part Two Written Assignment. A Client Based Case Study. The aim of this essay is to demonstrate the assessment process of a patient using the Roper Logan and Tierney (RLT) model of nursing framework, and to show how the nursing process works alongside this model. This will be established by including a holistic history of the patient and also by considering how the RLT model is applicable to this patient. The discussion of one nursing intervention will follow, showing how the nursing process is applied to patient care.
This informs nurses’ practice from different types of evidence by professional expertises that collect and interpret the evidence for a valid outcome for clinical practices in supporting patients’ health and treatment. The ‘evidence’ in EBP requires a blending of research involving patient experience and clinical professions expertise as part of the evidence (Gerrish
Concept Comparison and Analysis across Theories Lori Hamilton NUR/513 October 14, 2013 Georgia Swank Concept Comparison and Analysis across Theories As a profession, nursing theorists have come up with different theories that support and guide nursing practice. This paper will discuss the role of nursing in both Virginia Henderson’s Need Theory and Dorothea Orem’s Self Care Theory. The premise of each theory is the nurse will care for the patient until the patient can care for his or her self. By comparing and analyzing each theory, one will be able to get a better understanding of how to best apply the nursing theory in practice. In both, Henderson’s Need Theory and Orem’s Self Care Theory, the ‘role of nursing’ is the core concept.
Explanation of the functional difference between a regulatory nursing agency and professional nursing organization will be provided. Two provisions from the American Nurses Association (ANA) code of ethics that had influenced my nursing practice will be discussed. Discussion of four professional traits that I had used when interacting with the interdisciplinary team of the healthcare professionals will be presented. A nursing theory that has influenced my professional practice will be identified and explained, and how the contributions of Florence Nightingale had impacted my professional nursing practice will be discussed. Lastly, I will share a scenario in which I have safeguarded principles of beneficence and respect for autonomy for my patients.
Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice. 2003;3:97-107. 24. Rassin M. Nurses professional and personal values. Nursing Ethics.
Jean Watson is recognized for her theories on human caring and the way nurses give care. Her theories are used to educate nurses on the integration of care and compassion within the discipline and technology of today’s healthcare organizations to better serve patients. Watson believed that human caring is “not just an emotion, concern, attitude, or benevolent desire. Caring is the moral ideal of nursing whereby the end is protection, enhancement, and preservation of human dignity” (George, 2011, p. 29). With this idea in mind, assessment tools are used by the nurse and physician to protect, enhance, and preserve human dignity (George, 2011).
Pressure placed on nurses from organizations, patients, as well as family members has the possibility to create ethical dilemmas. The long of it is that ethical dilemmas play a major part in healthcare and nursing management. “An ethical dilemma is a difficult moral problem that involves two or more mutually exclusive, morally correct courses of action” (Finkelman, 2012). There are many resources available to nurses to assist with ethical decision making. ANA’s Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (2008) is a primary resource for ethical decision making (Finkelman, 2012).
Personal Philosophy of Nursing Beverly’s Personal Philosophy of Nursing In order to write a philosophy of nursing, I believe that first one must decide what philosophy means to them. William R. Thomas (2011), director of programs for The Atlas Society, explains philosophy as an inclusive system of ideas about human nature and the nature of the reality we live in. Studies reveal that this system is a guide for living centered on the issues it addresses and determining the course we take in life and how we treat other people is determined by one’s philosophy. Based on this information a nurse’s philosophy of their responsibilities as a member of the health care profession is significant. As a nurse grows with knowledge and experience their philosophy is likely to yield some transformation.