Through experience, we develop our skills and knowledge. For most nurses, being able to provide excellent care to our patients is a source of great personal and professional satisfaction. Although team leaders often find opportunities to apply their clinical expertise to direct patient care, their primary responsibility is to facilitate the patient care delivered by members of their team. Competent team leaders are able to look at the big picture. Nurses who assume a leadership role must be able to understand and prioritize the work of the unit as a whole.
Explain the importance of continually improving knowledge and practice. The importance of continually improving my knowledge, is to ensure that the I am aware of, and follow, the current health & social care standards, legislation, and guidelines for good practice. Learning new skills and refreshing training enables me to progress, and achieve within my career and working practices. Personal development not only benefits an individual, but also the organization, and the residents who receive the services. The focus of training tends to be on the staff group delivering the services, to ensure that all recommendations and standards are achieved.
Before a new service user moves in to the home, either myself or the manager would go to visit the potential new service user to do an assessment this could be in their home, hospital setting or another home. Involved in this could be any number of people, the service user themselves, friends and family. Other health care professionals like doctors, nurse or social workers. Communication between all involved must be to the highest standard to ensure the service users wants, needs and wishes are all met. Once it has been established that we can meet the services users’ needs arrangements for them to move in will be made, communication again is a must to ensure all equipment that the service user requires is in situ before they arrive.
UNIT CU2942 PROMOTE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Understand principles of professional development 1.1 – Explain the importance of continually improving knowledge and practice Within my professional role as a Health and Social Care Trainer, I have a responsibility to engage in continual professional development. I must continually improve my knowledge so I have the skills to pass on to our social care workers and other staff members. I need to know what I am aiming for and what I need to do to meet my objectives. I need to be a positive role model to all staff members. Working in the Health and Social Care industry I think the most important thing is the service users and our health and social care workers and their happiness.
The right training is important to have when a patient is treated. From administration to the certified nurse’s assistant to the professionals in human resource, a trained workforce is needed to ensure quality of service. Selecting the right candidate for the job is crucial too. Now we come to measuring the employee’s competencies. All employers and employees have to know personal skills will vary from person to person in any work environment.
Biomedical and social model of health Health is “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity” (WHO, 1946). Health can be defined as an “absence of disease” in the modern western world and is found in medical documentation, government reports and legislation. (Waugh et.al 2008). There are two competing models of health and they are often referred to as the biomedical and social models. The differences between the biomedical and social model of health is that biomedical focuses on the cure for treating and diagnosing treatment for ill patients while the social model focuses on the origins of the illness rather than the cure.
They must not only be concerned with patient’s and family members but they too must look at their employees and make sure they have a focus and the tools they need to reach the goals and provide safe, efficient, quality healthcare. They must be able to handle any ethical issues. There must be a focus point so that employees have a goal in site to reach for. Leadership is the backbone for nursing and healthcare providers. References Aitamaa, E., Leino-Kilpi, H., Puukka, P., & Suhonen, R. (2010).
Philosophy 331 Section 1 1. Why is it important that consent to, or refusal of treatment be informed? What are the criteria of an informed consent or refusal? Give two reasons why it might be difficult to ensure that a consent or refusal is informed. It is important that consent or refusal in a medical and/or scientific context be informed for all patients and research subjects.
The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses and the International Council of Nursing Code of ethics are important within the healthcare environment. Both sets of professional ethics allow nurses to develop a better understanding of the role ethics in the nursing field. Within the healthcare environment, both codes focus on nurses and their relationships with patients. The primary values include integrity, respectfulness, and supportiveness. These values should also be extended to not only patients, but families and co-workers.
(Potter & Perry, 2011, p. 2) As a professional nurse, you need to stay informed and be aware of the most current evidence or research. (Potter & Perry, 2011, p. 2) Research helps to inform our practice and helps us to improve patient outcomes. Just as it is important for nurses to be aware of current research, it is also critical that nurses have effective and adaptable communication skills. A nurses responsibility is to effectively communicate with patients and their familles, as well as the team. Effective communication allows nurses to develop important therapeutic skills.