Nursing uses theories, research based models and scientific systems to collaborate care provided within the health care systems. Nursing utilizes multiple sciences and knowledge development models to create a diverse education base. The nursing knowledge disciplines use empiric knowledge, esthetics, personal knowledge, and ethics. Nursing science encompasses the relationship between health and illness while addressing biologic, social, and behaviors to seek truth to provide better patient outcomes and enhance better living for all humans. Nursing knowledge expands to create a meaningful, holistic approach to providing health care needs and meeting the challenges of the social aspects of patient care.
Theoretical Basis: Watson's Theory of Human Caring An advanced practice nurse (APN) to help guide professional practice and provide a working framework can use many different theories and models. Theories provide a foundation in which an APN can seek to understand patients and their problems and effectively plan interventions. Basing our practice on a particular theory can help improve the care we provide by not only providing structure but also providing boundaries and goals for our nursing actions and it defines a framework to evaluate the effectiveness of the actions we provide (Eldridge, 2014). This paper is going to review Watson’s theory of human caring and provide a description of the interrelated concepts for the grand nursing theory. The theorist’s background and perspectives will be explained and lastly the theory will be discussed as to how it can serve as an underpinning and improve nursing practice.
The 2010 IOM report also puts a light on the importance of nurse as a leader . Nurses should take part and act as full partners in redesigning the future of health care with physicians and others in the health care team. Be accountable for the care delivered and efforts to improve at all levels to avoid and prevent errors from happening. Today we need more nurses as leaders in fields of policy making advisory boards to local and federal levels and in legislative levels ,to bring forward ideas to improve health care system and there by ensuring the safety and health of our patient and community
Ghaye et al (2000, pg 6) explain “reflection has the potential to transform both who we are and what we are able to do, for and with others in our healthcare worlds”. Reflective practice can help shape peoples values, which are fundamentally important as they make healthcare professionals the people they are. Reflection allows healthcare professionals to gain a sense of situation as it occurs and therefore gain a sense of clarity. Reflective practice permits health care professionals to assess the impact of their work on service users, families and their colleagues. This is essential for people working within health and social care as it improves clinical practice.
Informatics Needs Assessment Marie Bass HCS 482 Monday, July 22,2013 Jacqueline Sommerville Informatics Needs Assessment The informatics needs assessment is an important step in the selection and implementation of the Electronic Health Record (EHR). The purpose of a needs assessment is to understand the organization and the needs of the organization well enough to maximize the positive impact of an EHR while minimizing the risk of negative effects (American Medical Association, n.d). A readiness assessment will help identify an organizations readiness to successfully implement an EHR, the staffs readiness to accept, productively use the EHR. The results will help determine the present state of technology adoption, prerequisites for change, potential barriers, user needs, time-sensitive factors and appropriate action steps. Both the readiness and the needs assessment should involve everyone who will use the EHR or whose job will be affected by the implementation of the EHR.
The symptom is usually what brings the patient to seek out health care (Humphreys et al., 2008) and adherence to treatment by the patient is crucial. The nurse who provides a biopsychosocial view of the symptoms to help the patient better deal with their symptoms is imperative to this adherence. The Theory provides many target areas for research and furthers our knowledge of the development of symptom management. To provide a greater understanding
Personal and Professional Health Care Communication Annie Trinh HCS 350 December 11, 2013 Litanya Simien-Robnett Personal and Professional Health Care Communication Communication is an essential component of professional nursing. The knowledge and utilization of effective communication among professional health care providers directly effects their patient health outcomes. It allows health care professionals to obtain and share crucial data, teach and express their thoughts and concerns. It is a mode of transportation to utilize knowledge and convey a plan of action for progress and improvement. It is a way for professionals to embody and project change, to make a difference.
4. Effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and information infrastructure. Impact of IOM Report on Nursing Education The report recommends that nurses should attain higher education levels to meet the needs of today’s changing healthcare system; therefore nurses should achieve the necessary competencies to ensure the delivery of safe patient-centered care. The nursing education must be improved to accommodate these competencies which include leadership, system improvement, collaboration, emphasis practice based on evidence, research, community and public health, geriatrics, computer skills and information management. These are essential to emulate the technological advancement in healthcare today as opposed to the current fragmented system that is both antiquated and ineffective.
These actions; theory, research, and evidence-based care will shape nursing’s values and goals to improve the quality of care and health of individuals, families, and society. This makes theory the foundation of nursing as a caring profession. Dossey in 2008, through her grand theory of integral nursing, concludes that at this point and time in nursing there is a demand for a new language. A language that takes the best theoretical evidence known in science and the art of nursing, to have positive impacts on holistic and human caring theories and modalities. It is through these theoretical approaches and world views that nursing will be better prepared to share the depth of their knowledge, expertise, and critical-thinking skills for complementary assistance to others in creating health and healing.
Clinical decision support system (CDSS) is implemented the health system to promote quality health care services by making appropriate diagnosis and decisions to improve the patient’s health status. The system gives health care professions confidence in making decisions and the system promotes education to health care professions and to patients. Petri net is assumed that by using management challenges we can provide better services and decrease the costs for patients and then we can design the clinical decision expert system, according to Darvish, Muminoy, and Darvish (2012). The expert systems give available lab results in expedition manner, and the pharmaceutical expert