In order for a nurse to deliver patient focused care, they must first develop an effective nurse-patient relationship with the service users that they care for. This is important in order to ensure that the highest quality of care is provided to the patient. As, according to Sheldon (2009), a nurse-patient relationship is based upon the commitment of a nurse to work alongside their patient’s, in order to deliver personal and effective care which meets the identified health needs. Patient focused care involves the patient and nurse working together as a partnership and places the patient and their relatives central to decision making in regards to the planning, implementation and assessment of care. An equal nurse-patient relationship is important in order to ensure that safe, effective and personal health care is delivered and that the patients’ needs are appropriately met (The Health Foundation, 2012).
Describe the elements of a comprehensive health assessment of a geriatric patient. What special considerations should the nurse keep in mind while performing this assessment? Nurses and healthcare professionals need to pay close attention to different things while performing a comprehensive assessment on the older population. The comprehensive assessment includes mental and functional status, social and economic status and the actual assessment of the body functions (Jarvis, 2012). It’s important to observe mental status changes and functional status changes, this can determine how well the patient can take care of themselves and deal with their health promotion on their own.
Fulmer SPICES: An Overall Assessment Tool for Older There is an extensive variety of tools nurses can use to asses and prevent potential geriatric complications. “In most circumstances the quality of care the elder receives is dependent on the quality of the assessment conducted” (Touhy, 2013). Therefore, I believe the tool for assessment is dependent of that which is sought to evaluate. For example if one wants to assess the mental status of the specific individual, one fortunately has a variety of tools to choose from , such as the “Mini Mental State Examination”, “The Clock Drawing Test”, “The Mini Cog”, or “ The Global Deterioration Scale”. Correspondingly, a tool that I found covering various aspects of the individual’s life was the FANSCAPES, which covers a diversity of things such as communication, nutrition, socialization, fluids, aeration, activity, pain, and elimination.
Success For The CENA Working with the sick, the disabled, or the helpless is both an emotional and physical job to take on. One of the most important jobs in a care team would have to be the CENA (certified and evaluated nurse assistant). They are the paraprofessionals who are the right hand to a licensed nurse or other health care professional. They provide the primary care for those who are unable to care for themselves. The tasks given can be responsible for major wear and tear on both the mind and body.
“Two consensus reports from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) which calls for greater interprofessional education of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, as well as new methods of improving and demonstrating competency throughout one’s career (IOM, 2003b, 2009)” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of nursing research network is estimate costs of nursing education for different degree levels. Although nurses are rapidly adapting to new technology and their ability to give exceptional care to their patients. “Nurses have great potential to lead innovative strategies to improve the health care system. However, a variety of historical, regulatory, and policy barriers have limited nurses’ ability to contribute to widespread transformation (Kimball and O’Neil, 2002).” There are numbers of health care institution have put limitation and regulation on their nurses, some of this regulation are imposed by state law. Here are few of the examples of limitations.
Nurses in primary care are measured by their performance in tasks, procedures, and requirements in the office setting. Formal tests measure the knowledge and practices learned by nurses who are in primary care. They take examinations, which can be verbal or written. They have to demonstrate how competent they are with certain procedures and see how they can assess blood pressures, heart rates, and other vital
A Comparison of the Professional Roles of Nurses In this paper, the nurse’s unique role in providing inter-professional care, patient care quality and safety, cost effective healthcare, and care to diverse patient populations will be investigated. A Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), J.W. and a Nurse Educator, M.,H., were interviewed, their roles as nurses were analyzed using provided protocol to discuss the difference between research and quality improvement, also how informatics affect the quality of patient care. The two specialties based on the individual interviews will be compared and a copy of both interviews will be incorporated into the paper. Lastly, a reflection of findings will be discussed as to how nurses could contribute the information from the two interviews into their own professional growth and development.
(Cooper, S. 2011, www.abs.gov.au/statistics) Q2: Describe the different roles of the Enrolled Nurse in a variety of health care settings. Enrolled nurses can work in a variety of health care settings such as, hospitals, aged care facilities, private homes, doctor’s surgeries and pathology. In all of the different health care settings the main role of the nurse is to provide patient care. EN’s are able to provide basic care to patients, treat wounds, change bandages, administer medication and immunisations, assist patients with personal hygiene-such as showering, shaving, assist doctors/surgeons in operations, blood collection, diagnostic collection and testing, being a patient advocate, being a mediator, support network, a shoulder to cry on. Q3: Examine the principles of primary health care and wellness and illness models of care.
Delegation in Nursing & Health-Care Practice Nursing and health-care have experienced significant changes in the last decade. With an increasing demand for nursing staff, in combination with cost reductions, “if you want to get the job done, you have to do it yourself” cliché is slowly being weaned out. The “ability to delegate work, responsibility and authority [has become] essential for a productive staff development” as well as ensuring optimal patient care (Jones, 1996). According to the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) (2013), “delegation is a formal process through which a regulated health professional (delegator) who has the authority and competence to perform a procedure under one of the controlled acts delegates the performance of that procedure to another individual (delegate)” (p. 6). In nursing, it allows a nurse to instruct a competent co-worker or health-care member to perform specific duties in his or her place.
Historical Development of Nursing Timeline Studying the historical development of nursing helps the nurse to recognize the numerous forces and issues that confront the nursing profession. In addition, understanding the history of nursing allows the nurse to gain appreciation for the role of the nurse and evolution of the nursing profession. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the historical development of nursing. Nursing Science and the Evolving Profession The development and evolution of nursing as a profession is intricately linked to historical influences and events of the past. Edwards (1999) states “If nursing is a science then perhaps it will prove fruitful to apply the historical turn to it in order to determine how nurses might best meet the ends of nursing” (p. 567).