Importance Of Discipline Nursing

Limitations of the paper Although the paper gives a brief view over the concept of Culturally Competent Nursing Care by defining the term of "Cultural Competence", highlighting its importance in nursing care, and introducing a few number of assessment models to assure the highest population-specific care, it avoids to bring into attention a simplified step-by-step approach for nurses on how to learn the necessary skills of cultural competent care, how to incorporate it into their daily practice, and how to evaluate their current skills for the weak areas necessitating modification. It seems the main purpose of the criticized paper was to emphasize the importance of the nursing care to underrepresented minorities in the US health care system. This was achieved by introduction of a series of assessment tool and their utility in different cultural settings.

There is a correlation between health care members providing information in a timely manner to patients who need to make decisions about their care and treatment and the quality of care patients receive. Lack of care resulted from physicians being reluctant to refer patients to palliative care. Due to a lack of honest open discussions regarding diagnosis, prognosis and treatment options patient’s suffering was prolonged. Since palliative care focuses on improving symptoms, dignity and quality-of-life it is important that sufficient attention is placed on the complex needs of individuals. The delivery of palliative care has become challenging for nurses.

The second specific practice theory in nursing is the professionalism concepts. The professionalism concepts are based on the delivery of professional nursing aspects, quality health care and health policy (Polit & Beck, 2013). By taking into account these concepts, it is a serious concern that the nursing fraternity will have been a better profession and industry catering for the well-being of humanity race. Therefore, being a nurse, I have to take into consideration all the aspects that would enable an efficient delivery of quality services (Dossey, 2010).

Nightingale wrote “the very elements of nursing are all but unknown” through this statement she implied that nurses word be learning for the rest of their career (journals.lww, 2017). Reflection is when an activity or incident requires thought about the action, and is used to determine what points are positive and negative, and how it could be improved or changed if done again in the future. The reflection process begins with thinking about an incident and how the situation can be utilised in future situations. The process consists of being open, this would involve an individual looking at things from a different perspective. In addition, the process would involve being inquisitive, desiring knowledge.

Critical Thinking: Tanner (2006), had introduce the term ‘thinking like a nurse’. When I read this article I was wondering what it means and takes to think like a nurse, I am a nurse by profession and yet I don’t even know what it means. In order to be a professional nurse, nurses are required to learn to think like a nurse. To my surprise, to be able think like a nurse, a nurse got to clearly defined and understands what is critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Both terms are powerful terms and these terms explain the mental processes nurses use to make certain that they are doing their most excellent thinking and decision making for their patient’s better outcomes.

My interest in the nursing profession was not made conscious until I realized that inherently, I am a caregiver. Taking care of someone feels as if it is second nature to me. Being so, I found a passion for assisting others in a professional environment. I became interested in nursing because as a nurse, I will be able to holistically care for patients and their families at their most vulnerable moments and ensure the highest quality of care because I will be the one delivering it.

Both have a similar route to acquiring licensure starting with master’s education, passing a national certifying exam to become nationally certified then state licensed. However, the difference in education is that medical school curriculum is disease centered and focuses on disease pathology, anatomy and physiology. This differs from NP school nursing model curriculum which focuses on the patient’s as a whole person. Scope of practice is similar in that both provide medical management including diagnosing, treating, and interpreting tests; but the NP emphasizes on the nursing model when treating the patient, whereas the PA treats the diagnosis rather than the patient due to the philosophy and values of schooling. Prescribing authority for both health care team members are similar.

To address this, Francis made several recommendations on changes to the way nurses work to improve quality of care offered by frontline NHS staff (Entwistle, 2013). The Francis Report (2013) highlighted that the decline in standards was associated with inadequate staffing levels and skills, as well as a lack of effective leadership and support (Entwistle, 2013), therefore, recommendation 195 of the report suggested that “ward nurse managers should operate in a supervisory capacity, and not be office-bound” (RCN, 2016). Within the report, Francis stressed the importance of strong nurse leadership from ward to ward, in order to drive up standards of excellence, to support an open organisational culture, and to deliver high quality and safe patient care (RCN, 2016). For this reason, clinical leadership is crucial for the future viability of the NHS (Storey & Holti, 2013), and is central for the execution of effective care delivery and for the coordination of work processes (Grindel,

I believe that the nurse leader ought to first have the nursing expertise and be able to utilize interpersonal skills to influence and empower the other nurses to deliver quality nursing care. Importantly, I would only consider nursing leadership effective when the leader is directly and actively involved in clinical care provision as that provides opportunities to improve care provision by influencing the nurses that one is leading. Notably, improvements would not be guaranteed if nursing leadership is restricted to management as leadership is founded on the strength of the opinions that the leaders raise, which I believe applies to nursing profession. On considering the aspect of interpersonal skills, I would focus my nursing leadership efforts on team building, establishing respect and confidence in other nurses, coming up with a vision and empowering them.

This paper will examine the purpose of Critical Thinking and its importance in the medical field, especially in the field of nursing. There are many aspects to nursing, but the two that will be discussed in this paper are critical thinking and concept mapping. Critical thinking is essential to skilled nursing; therefore, it is essential to nursing education. It is believed skilled nursing depends upon a well-reasoned philosophy of nursing rooted in a deep and rich conception of critical thinking. In the educational curriculum for nursing students, the focus has been to present problem-based learning and evidence-based practice concepts to help increase critical thinking skills.

What educational background do you have for your career? I have a Bachelor in Nursing, Master of Science (neonatal nurse practitioner), Master of Science #2 (Pediatric nurse practitioner). I also am a lactation consultant, and did coursework online to take my international lactation exam. 9.

The act of good mentoring can significantly impact the maturation of the nurse’s career and longevity in that position (Grossman & Valiga, 2013). The issue of nurse retention on the forefront of a nursing shortage is a critical issue that nurse leaders must address and manage to ensure the survival of their facility. Leaders must have open and ensure communication to address the questions and assist the staff with the preventable issues of fatigue and dislike for their employment. The high turnover rates with nursing affect the future nurse leaders.

In addition, adding complex tasks to residents daily life may help with feelings of unworthiness. According to Bhar & Brown (2012) reestablishing problem solving in nursing home residents produces feelings of worthiness, proficiency and significance (p. 121). Restoring problem solving in residents may be a key to preventing suicide. However, further research is necessary to effectively aid nursing home residents. Further research may be useful, such as evaluating residents cognitive status of depression and the modification after psychotherapy (Bottino, Cordás, & Simon, 2015, P. 232).

In the growing of health care setting around the world the definition of competence is still open to debate as for some it is an objective concept that can be measured, but for many others it is merely related to performance of skills. However, nursing competence is heavily influenced by managerial competence in order to identify the concept of competence. The competence literature in nursing has discussed the important of several competencies to serve as competent nurses at the workplace. The definition of competence in nursing includes the element of clinical (Benner 1982 and Meretoja et al, 2002), moral (Taylor, 1994; Jomsri et al., 2005 Park and Peterson, 2006; Rhodes et al., 2011) and personal competencies (Norman, 1985; O’Shea, 2002

How does this topic affect the general population? Health care in general? The nursing profession historically and to this day has been comprised of mostly women. Male nurses make up only 5.89% of the nursing workforce in Ontario.