It is the job of the APN to apply their skills to promote a culture of excellence. Promoting such a culture involves using all aspects of the quality competency. The Nurse Practitioner is in a unique position as a clinician and manager. According to Carney (2011), clinical managers have the capability to ensure the safe, ethical, and high quality of care due to their professional background, which is firmly grounded in ethical healthcare. Therefore, the APN has a distinct set of skills that will ensure positive patient outcomes.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council Code (2015) is to always provide the best possible service related to the best available evidence that is also in line with the patient’s preferences. It’s important to use evidence based practices in nursing because it creates solutions to the patient’s needs, it improves the overall care of the patients, reduces harm and helps support nurse’s actions and clinical judgments. Sackett (2000) says that evidence based practice is looking at the best evidence along with using your clinic expertise in helping you to make a decision about the patient’s individuals care. Outline the process undertaken when searching for credible and relevant evidence to support Part 2 of the workbook. (Justify and support answers with credible and relevant evidence whilst adhering to UWS referencing guidance).
Considering the changes that continue to arise in the healthcare environment, the nursing profession can make a profound contribution if it embraces nursing leadership. Especially to limit failure in care provision, strengthening nursing leadership continues to be fronted as the basis of care provision. Consequently, I view that nursing leadership ought to be central to the nursing professional goals. In this paper, I will reflect on my values and beliefs in nursing leadership and my future expectations from a perspective of a nurse leader in a manner that is consistent to what I would desire in nursing leadership. I believe that progress has been made, but some areas still need to be given more weight.
Nursing specialty organizations have set forth values regarding nursing professional practice. The values of the American Association of Critical- Care Nurses (AACN) (n.d.) are ethical responsibility, integrity, organizational decisions, and stewardship of resources, leadership, critical thinking, inquiry, excellence, innovation, and collaboration. The Oncology Nursing Society values innovation, excellence in quality care of oncology patients, and advocacy (ONS, 2017). The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses values leadership, professionalism, community, and client care (ARN, n.d.). The American Association of Neuroscience Nurses values are excellence in providing care, innovation, collaboration, integrity, and visionary (AANN, n.d.).
Thus, engaging in meetings where opinions, researches and other relevant knowledge is shared allows comprehensive learning, effective research and crafting or invention of better approaches to ensure patients and nurses enjoy the services and the health care environment as implied by Munhall (2012) and Torrey et al. (2014). Wallis (2012) makes implication that the prime objective of EBP is to provide approaches that can be applied effectively to prevent, detect and provide care of health disorders. Thus, obtaining a magnet status and evidence-based projects and should integrate current best evidence from research with clinical policy and practice to improve healthcare
The areas comprise of health and the patients' well being. The health of patient is very important as it takes care of an individual's immediate needs because it offers services to patient with chronic illnesses. The well being of patient in other words public health, offers a wide spectrum of services to the community for healthy living standards. These two areas aim at providing as well as improving people's health hence reducing the cost incurred by the health care provider and the patient. Both disciplines ought to work together to ensure optimal health for all
I personally believed that adequate implementation of evident based nursing, the knowledge of the nurse, the patient’s preferences and multiple studies of evidence must be collaborated and utilized in order to produce an appropriate solution. 9b. SOCIAL CONTEXT In any health care system, good patient’ outcome is very vital and necessary. Evidence based nursing helps the society to get perfect practice which in return assist both the patient and care giver in the society to achieve a set
178). Having this knowledge provides focus for our roles as nurses, as well a purpose for our practice. The significant advancements in patient care, education, and research that we have been able to construct would not be possible without having a nursing philosophy. My personal health related values incorporate a drug and tobacco free lifestyle, good nutrition, regular exercise, moderation, monogamy, scheduled immunizations, personal care, and self reflection. For words
The process of ongoing learning can support health organization including AUBMC in order to promote the acquisition and implement perfect knowledge as a basic foremost strategy in order to manage the changes required for AUBMC and will support the organization in identifying major critical requirements to empower workforces to achieve and participate in continuous healthcare improvement. To implement culture of accountability, Sayegh will have to tackle knowledge and learning, this will ultimately result in development of a culture that supports continuous improvement and learning. The culture of accountability in order to work successfully will require committed leadership; the culture will result in performance feedback to motivate employees, as Sayegh faced with unmotivated staff. (Frost et al.
Reflective practices as well as self awareness are very important for health care professional to develop their skills in providing high quality care (Bulman and Schultz, 2013). I was able to carry out nursing intervention for Anne effectively and provide sufficient health promotion advices. My academic work and the previous placements along with the self reflection enabled me to reinforce my knowledge and clinical skills, but more importantly, it developed my self confidence level. My efforts to seeking assistance and assessment of my skills enabled me to step up my skills to become more independent and I was able to confidently complete my nursing interventions for Anne. I was also able to provide the rationale for the nursing interventions that I offered to Anne and this helped to improve the effectiveness of my nursing practice.