Through the use of the nursing process all professional standards can be adhered to and patient care can be safely tended to. This essay will discuss planning and delegation of a nursing shift. The registered nurse has responsibility for delegating nursing intervention and remains accountable for those interventions delegated. Appropriate delegation will occur when the registered nurse is aware of professional standards and individual scope of practice of their co-workers. Additionally, the paper will highlight critical thinking and decision making which are important attributes the registered nurse will need to develop along with the ability to provide a suitable handover to appropriately delegate nursing
The intent of EBP is to improve the quality of the care that is delivered to the client. This increased knowledge, whether it is correct or incorrect, is a motivating factor for nursing professionals to have current and correct information available when working with clients in making healthcare decisions. Healthcare professionals, especially nurses, are the touch point of health care and are the key to cost effective quality care. To ensure that decisions are based on sound information nurses must utilize EBR. As technology and research in health care expands, EBP is becoming essential in delivering high quality patient care.
Critical thinking contains a form of discipline, intellectual process of applying skills, and guidance. Nurses use critical thinking in order to make systematic and logical questions in order to maintain quality of care. This requires adherence to intellectual standards, proficiency in using reasoning, commitment to develop and maintain intellectual traits, and the ability for safe decision making. (Critical Thinking and Nursing, 2013) Requirements Critical thinking requires specific skills in order to stand effective. These skills remain a vital role in patient care.
Documentation and the Care Planning Process Chapter 49. Documentation and the Nurse Care Planning Process Gail M. Keenan, Elizabeth Yakel, Dana Tschannen, Mary Mandeville Background Tools are needed to support the continuous and efficient shared understanding of a patient’s care history that simultaneously aids sound intra- and interdisciplinary communication and decisionmaking about the patient’s future care. Such tools are vital to ensure that the continuity, safety, and quality of care endure across the multiple handovers made by the many clinicians involved in a patient’s care. A primary purpose of documentation and recordkeeping systems is to facilitate information flow that supports the continuity, quality, and safety of care. Since recordkeeping systems serve multiple purposes (e.g., legal requirements, accreditation, accountability, financial billing, and others), a tension has arisen and is undermining the primary purpose of the record and instead fueling discontinuity of care, near-misses, and errors.
Thereby patients’ lives are guarded from stake of harm. Advantages of nursing theories are, they provide standardization of nursing whilst the nursing processeses are recognised as a problem solving approach. These theories also signify the individual as a whole hence personalised care is rendered. Other advantages would include expansion and development of nursing, positive effect on nursing students, professional and increased quality of care which is contributed by systematic approach. Rationale of work and having analytical knowledge on patients’ care are undeniable strenghths of nursing theories.
It states that nurses are responsible in developing and maintaining an appropriate relationship; advising that nurses must listen to the people in their care and respond to their concerns, “Make the care of people your first concern, treating them as individuals and respecting their dignity”, (NMC 2008). Research demonstrates that there are many approaches to having effective relationships that can bring significant change (Hill and Kellems 2002). One is the clients’ motivation; another is the presence of a person who can offer a relationship that displays acceptance/unconditional positive regard, empathy and genuineness (Rogers as cited in McLeod 2003). As described by McLeod (2003), Rogers three core conditions are indispensable in facilitating change and are used in most health care disciplines. The use of empathy, unconditional positive regards and acceptance is important and if used correctly can achieve positive outcomes, assisting the nurse-patient relationship (McQueen 2000).
Ida Jean Orlando 1 RUNNING HEAD: IDA JEAN ORLANDO Ida Jean Orlando’s Nursing Process Theory Krystal Farley, RN, BSN Maryville University October 7, 2009 Ida Jean Orlando 2 Abstract The profession of nursing has a very rich history that begins with the most fundamental concepts of caring for and restoring health to those who are impaired. The initiation of providing care requires that information be gathered and organized in such a way that is expedient and effective. It is also required that a nurse’s efforts be used systematically with ease and that through repetition, this basic “framework” that is being formed, is able to be analyzed for its effectiveness, and changes can be made to improve the process or series of actions. Nursing is comprised of objective, measureable data, subjective data, concepts, philosophy, phenomena, and science, just to name a few. With so many components and such a broad scope of information, a framework is required to build ideas and give direction to the ideas that will begin to evolve with this cohesion.
FEATURES FOR NURSES Time-saving feature(s) In an age of nursing staffing shortages, efficiency is a key component that expanded for the sake of the patient. An electronic medical record that provides nursing staff with keyboarding shortcuts when documenting routine tasks performed on a unit would be extremely helpful. The appropriate shortcuts would allow nurses to focus more on patient care and bedside
(2010) as “The formation and fostering of therapeutic relationships between all care providers, patients, and others significant to them. It is underpinned by values of respect for persons, individual right to self-determination, mutual respect and understanding”. It is also acknowledged however, that trying to translate the core concepts into everyday practice is challenging and reasons for this come in many forms, one being that we are in times of constant change particularly within health and social care (Mc Cormack and Mc Cance 2006). Evidence-based nursing is the application of valid, relevant, and research-based information in nurse decision-making. Used effectively, evidence-based nursing methods can be used to dramatically enhance patient care and improve outcomes.
Name: Topic: Reflective Essay Tutor: Date: Introduction Comprehensive Health Assessment is a successful clinical system usually used to provide comprehensive medical history for patients. The information collected becomes stored in one essential location for easy access in the future (Lenox (2007). Furthermore, a comprehensive health assessment is a process of steadily collecting and analyzing data to be used in making important judgments about patient’s health and other life processes for individuals and families. It includes critical analysis of data in order to come up with diagnosis and to recognize mutual problems. Health assessment plays a major role in the identification of individual’s strengths so that they are assimilated into healthcare planning.