Knowledge is consider as one of the most important values towards this profession is to ensure that under different situations nurses can act in a right manner along with providing relevant measures. All three values, which includes personal, spiritual and cultural plays an important role towards my nursing practice. My values keep me motivated to achieve the positive results in the right manner (Armstrong, 2009). Values play an important role in nursing profession because values are beliefs that nurses have when attending a sick person. When attending a sick person, values helps to take care of the well being of the patient including any actions they require to achieve the best results.
Nursing assessment skills are essential in prevention, early diagnosis and treatment. Regardless of how one defines nursing, it is certain that nursing encompasses a vast body of knowledge and requires a great deal of competency and skill. It is also a demanding profession that involves cultural competency and a high level of interactions with patients. According to Sweet, “Nurses serving in primary care roles could expand access to care, educate people about health risks, promote healthy lifestyles and behaviors to prevent disease, manage chronic, diseases, and coordinate care” (2010, p. 28). It is important to educate public about nursing profession and move away from the stereotypes that nurse’s job is to follow doctor’s orders.
The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections? Jonathan Gruber NBER Working Paper No. 17168 June 2011 JEL No. H3,I18 ABSTRACT The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the most comprehensive reform of the U.S. medical system in at least 45 years. The ACA transforms the non-group insurance market in the United States, mandates that most residents have health insurance, significantly expands public insurance and subsidizes private insurance coverage, raises revenues from a variety of new taxes, and reduces and reorganizes spending under the nation’s largest health insurance plan, Medicare.
Leadership in Nursing Essential to quality patient care is the effective functioning of an interdisciplinary team. In most clinical settings, nurses have the closest relationship with patients. For that reason nurses need to take an active role in the interdisciplinary team, they are the front line providers, ensure communication between team members and the patient, and continually advocate for the patient and family. Nurses know how care should be delivered. They can ensure smooth handoffs as the patient transitions through the continuum.
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Leadership and management in nursing are very important, which indirectly affect the quality of health care provided to patients. Donner and Wheeler (2004) stated that, leadership and management are believed to be required at all levels of the organization to provide staff alignment, learning and professional development, which can help in optimizing the patient's positive. In other words without both parties everything can be failure. Prosperity in health care can lead to optimal patient outcomes through the provision of employee organizations, which in turn achieve the vision and mission set by the organization. To describe what are management and leadership, Kolter (1990), describes that management is to prevent chaos through structured policies and monitoring, beside that it is to provide clear goals and direction to allow others to achieve their policies, objectives, vision and mission.
Such perspective demands are necessary for the planning of continuous performance improvement. Implementing and utilizing plans that are put into place will help the organization to achieve the desired result of operating smoothly. The responsibilities that a health care manager faces today can be challenging and overwhelming. With the knowledge that I have received from this course, I want to be able to incorporate all the roles into the tasks that a health care manager faces daily. I wish to also be able
Good Record-Keeping and it's implementation This essay outlines the need for good record keeping. It will discuss the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2009) guidance for nurses and midwives. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2009) have guidelines for good record keeping. They state "good record keeping is crucial to the provision of safe and effective care and an integral part of nursing and midwifery: not an optional extra to be fitted in if circumstances allow". It helps midwives provide the correct and safe care for women in their care.
There are two major benefits of effective leadership that can impact the nursing profession. The first, is employee satisfaction/ nurse retention, and the second is patient satisfaction. This paper is to discuss that effective leadership can promote a satisfying and productive work environment in which staff members can positively contribute to the success of the organization, which results in impacting patient care and promoting patient satisfaction. Employee Satisfaction/Nurse Retention The inability of hospitals to retain staff nurses threatens the adequacy of healthcare delivery and this increases personnel and patient care costs. Effective leadership styles among nurse managers have been associated with staff nurse job satisfaction and is a key factor in staff nurse retention.
NURSING ETHICS 1 Abstract Nursing is a profession that values character, ethics, and good morals. Nurses use these standards daily and if they are not taken seriously they can have major impacts on patient’s as well as colleagues. Over centuries the role of nursing and the ideal image of what it means to be a nurse have changed drastically. Nursing has evolved and has lead to broad professional possibilities and brighten the horizon for the nursing field. "The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines nursing as the protection, promotion, and optimization of health abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations (ANA, 2010b)."