This paper will provide understanding of the theory of nursing, key concepts of the theory of comfort, and how these concepts and theories are relatable to current nursing leadership. The Importance of Nursing Theory Nursing theory is a key component of effective nursing. Nursing theory establishes principles, rationales, and helps enhance overall knowledge of nursing (Davidson, 2012). The common question that arises in nursing school is “Why do we need to learn nursing theories?”. Although it may seem cumbersome to learn, having a firm understanding and knowledge of nursing theory will one day allow the student nurse to develop a nursing theory of their own.
In more recent years,novelists, play-writes, biographers and clinicians have all ... Nurses' learning styles: promoting better integration of theory into practice Staff members’ ability to learn and then apply learning to practice has a significant impact on delivering effective clinical care. A skilled and competent workforce ensures patient safety, and will be able to recognise and respond to clinical need more appropriately. I believe that the knowledge and application of a range of learning theories, concepts and approaches is the foundation for building and managing effective learning environments. An eclectic model is therefore proposed, which combines the individual’s complex learning needs with the organisation’s practice requirements. In considering an adapted practice model, substantial research highlights the usefulness of work-based mentorship and supervision as part of effective training strategies.
NVT2 Task 3: Nursing Roles and Values Page | 2 Continuity of care for patients in the medical environment is very important. In many instances it is essential to promote a positive outcome for patients. As a nurse supervisor, education of your staff is essential to show how interdisciplinary care within the clinic can be performed. This can be accomplished through in-services, training webinars, and role playing. Education for all staff members in understanding each other’s specialized jobs is also a critical piece for continuity of care.
In order to achieve this goal, Clinicians have to be competent. Competence as an educator must be earned, established, recognized, and expanded. Core knowledge and skills set are essential if the Nurse Educator is to be effective and achieve excellence in the role. In addition the Nurse Educator must have excellent communication skills, be creative, be flexible and possess excellent critical thinking skills. As an instructor one must also be able to combine their clinical abilities with the following teaching skills: designing curricula; developing courses/ programs of study; teaching/ guiding learners; evaluating learning; documenting the outcomes of education process; facilitate learning, advocate the development of professionalization of future nurses, and design appropriate learning experiences ("NLN," 2002).
MENTORSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE The aim of this essay is to demonstrate author’s role as a mentor in organising, managing and leading programmes of learning and critically reflect and evaluate own performance while working with a student in clinical setting. Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2006) defines the term ‘mentor’ as the role of a registered nurse who facilitates learning and supervises and assesses students in the practice. Furthermore, NMC also identifies eight domains and standards that must be achieved to become a mentor. In this assignment, author will be referring to those Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in Practice. First of all author will look at the personal and professional reasons to undertake this module.
Abstract Planning and delegating nursing care efficiently and effectively is an essential skill for all registered nurses to develop and master. The nursing process will assist the registered nurse to effectively plan and implement nursing interventions as well as to appropriately delegate nursing interventions to co-workers. Additionally, following the professional standards for nurses will assist in safely managing a patient load. Equally important is the use of communication. Effective communication is essential to ensure patient safety and positive outcomes, as is effective communication between nurses and the multidisciplinary team.
The student nurse was using both verbal and non-verbal communication, including using warm body language and eye contact. Good communication skills are essential to the nurse to allow her to identify problems with the patient (Kenworthy et al 2001). This will also allow the student nurse to build and establish a therapeutic relationship with the patient. According to Roper et al (2000, p124) the term assessing should be used rather than assessment as it is an ongoing cyclical activity. This means
How to be a Successful Leader It is imperative as the nursing supervisor to make certain all resources available to staff are being used to help with the care of the patients. To ensure this is happening, she could approach the FNP in a positive and respectful manner to make sure she is using her teamwork and delegation skills. As stated on a NOVA blog page for nurses, (Thompson, 2006, para. 1), “The number-one quality a good nurse manager must have
My Personal Nursing Philosophy Kimberly A. Anderson RN, BSN Holy Names University Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe my personal nursing philosophy and growth objectives in the context of preparing for the advanced practice role of Nurse Educator. Nurses are educators in the sense that they educate their patients on their health status, diagnostic interventions, medications, and after-care instructions in some manner during most interpersonal interactions. Nurses educate the physician and other healthcare team members when communicating a patient’s information, responses to interventions or special methods to utilize when approaching the patient. Nurses educate each other through the sharing of techniques, knowledge, and expertise gained from experience. Though nurses generally align themselves with a favorite nursing theorist to form their approach to practice, many concepts are based on the basic metaparadigm of nursing: person, environment, health, and nurse.
Why is it so? Humans are born to commit mistakes as are nurses. Although medication administration failures or errors are highly emphasized for the nurse, there are research reports from journals that identify problems affecting nursing practice while administering medications. The purpose of the research studies enumerates the interventions and ways to reduce errors that include strategic counter-solutions of the problems and prevention of repetitive mistakes. Therefore, teamwork effort awareness among clinicians is paramount to maintain the daily routine of following strict rules and executing correct steps in medication administration to promote patient safety (Härkänen et al, 2013).