Nursing: The Nursing Process

“These abilities are essential for today 's professional nurse who must be a skilled provider, designer, manager, and coordinator of care (AACN, 2010). My goal is to be the safest nurse I can be and deliver a high quality of care to all of my patients. I would want the same if I was the patient. I want to grow my career and achieve my nurse practioner degree.

The Nurse of the Future (NOF) Core Competencies Models were choosing to achieve one optimal goal of providing quality of care to patients and their families. The NOF Nursing Core Competency provides a normal structured of approach to nursing and patient care, and they are all equally important in their unique ways.

As an integral part of the healthcare team, nursing has evolved tremendously. In Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies a picture was painted of what the future of nursing looks like. From my own opinion I do feel that a reform or evolution in nursing education is required to create competent nurses of the future. Current nursing school programs are academic heavy with an emphasis on skills. While growing competency in clinical skills is necessary, there is much more to the future of nursing than being highly skilled. It is time to distinguish not just skills, but characteristics of a successful nurse of the future. This is a nurse who will be well rounded with the tools and resources to help guide healthcare and the patient experience

Nurse’s role has a unique contribution in the interprofessional team. The interprofessional team are group of individuals in a various healthcare disciplines communicating and working together towards common goals to provide quality, individualized care for patients. Each team members from different profession and occupation collaborates, supports, enhances, and provides knowledge, skills, and attitudes to coordinate processes and interventions. Nurse’s offers specialized service to society to meet the health care needs of their clients.

Demanding tasks while documenting make this difficult to accomplish. On the other hand, Koernig Blais & Hayes (2016) expressed “an advocate must know how to provide support in an objective manner, being careful not to convey approval or disapproval of the client’s choices” (p. 71). These values will develop into benefits associated with being a patient advocate. One of the benefits is satisfaction of helping a person because there is an issue and a need for change. Some examples are smoking, domestic violence or alcohol. Nurses advocating on this can effect this changes in the long run and will make it easier for people to be healthy. The profession is also benefited when taking advocacy roles in public health. When nurses are knowledgeable and possess a vast amount of skills, they can take leadership roles, so they are held in high esteem and trusted by the public. Nursing image improve in an advocacy role that is active and constructive. Every action that demonstrate a positive action in our profession is beneficial since there is an ongoing shortage in nursing. To conclude, “advocacy involves

My personal philosophy of nursing seeks to incorporate the art of conveying nursing science holistically with care and human dignity. The four nursing metaparadigm concepts are described in relation to nursing as a science and an art and provide the base upon which my view of nursing and my personal philosophy are derived. As a nursing student at UIC, I am well aware of the fact that the best outcome for any patient may not be improvement in health, but rather, a dignified death during the end of life care. End of life care includes a significant quality in care and human dignity.

The Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies include ten areas of expertise: Patient - centered care, professionalism, informatics and technology, evidence - based practice, leadership, systems - based practice, safety, communication, teamwork and collaboration , and quality improvment. After a lot of research, these competencies were selected based on how we can transition from our current practice and education standards to our future practices. The ten competencies that were selected are based on the foundation of nursing education and how it will translate into the practical world. It is very important to understand each aspect of this model because it is the core of how we develop our nursing knowledge while transitioning from student

Learning is a change in behavior over time that is brought about by experience during training in educational encounter (Akubuiro and Joshua, 2003). Training as part of education, is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competence as a result of the teaching of practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competences (Angel, 2007). Training helps the learner to acquire certain useful skills and develop critical mind for the learner’s self-development. Therefore, the knowledge that comes from training is more of knowledge of how to do or perform specific tasks. Thus, the

Intellectual competencies and technical skills are developed in the nurse for the ability to assist individuals, who are ill or well, in coping with their health care needs (ENMU, 2015). We believe that the professional nurse functions in the roles of an educator, care provider, patient advocate, manager, researcher, and a leader (NMSU, 2013). We believe the nursing based knowledge of caring contributes to health and sovereignty of all individuals throughout their

he purpose of this paper is to present the philosophy of man as a knowing and relational being applied to nursing practice. Through knowing one’s philosophy, one can discover thoughts that lead to possible action, helps people to determine the nature of truth and knowledge and to find what is the value and importance of life. This idea is significant because as a student nurse it had an enormous influence on everyday lives and professionally, establishing rapport with the patient nurses can gather information, work effectively, gives quality services and promote health. This philosophy may contribute to the society because people held certain beliefs about what is important, true, real, and significant and about how life should be ordered.

The nursing profession is one of the most meaningful and passionate careers which has grown in the medical field due to the nurses’ holistic care, dedication and responsibility to their patients, and the healthcare demand for a more qualified level of care. The art of nursing, which creates the human relationship between the patient and the nurse, and the science of nursing that implements the knowledgeable nursing practice, both combined achieved patient-centered care.

“Peplau applies principles of human relations to problems that arise at all levels. Throughout the nurse-patient relationship, the nurse, and patient work together to become more knowledgeable in the care process” (Deane and Fain, 2016, p. 36). Peplau described nursing roles in seven different ways as a counselor, resource, teacher, counseling, surrogate, leader, and technical expert. As a home health nurse, my major nursing role was teacher focused on patient teaching. For example, educating patient who has high blood pressure about DASH diet which stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. Also, this theory introduced four progressive phases between nurse and patient to build a strong nurse-patient relationship. In orientation period, when a nurse and patient meet, each role began to be understood. Next, identification phase, a patient begins to identify problems to be worked on within the relationship. The nurse’s goal is to help a patient to realize his or her role as a participant to achieve a goal and promote responsibility for self. In exploitation phase, patient’s trust is fully developed and uses the nursing resources to solve immediate problems. Finally, resolution phase, the patient no longer need nursing staff, and patient attains more self-reliance to deal with his or her problem. One of my home health patient who has type 2 diabetic, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and

After prioritizing nursing duties the student must demonstrate a high level of competency and confidence when performing nursing skills. This builds a sense of trust between her and the patient and communicates to the examiner that the student knows what she is doing. The tool would evaluate the good communication skills with patient and other members of staff. The student for example, would be able to demonstrate good interpersonal relationship skills between patient and other members of

A nurse is a health care professional who is engaged in the practice of nursing. Nurses are men and women who are responsible (along with other health care professionals) for the treatment, safety and recovery of acutely or chronically ill or injured people, health maintenance of the healthy, and treatment of life-threatening emergencies in a wide range of health care settings. Nurses may also be involved in medical and nursing research and perform a wide range of non-clinical functions necessary to the delivery of health care. Nurses develop a plan of care, sometimes working collaboratively with physicians, therapists, the patient, the patient 's family and other team members. In the U.S. (and increasingly the United Kingdom), advanced practice nurses, such as clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, diagnose health problems and prescribe

As a nurse, I strive to make the core competencies a part of my daily practice. Nurses utilize evidence-based nursing knowledge and professional nursing judgement to assess health needs, provide nursing care, educate clients and support individuals to manage their health holistically. They practice in collaboration with other healthcare professionals. They are accountable for their scope of practice including the supervision and delegation of nursing activities to the enrolled nurses and nursing assistants. Nurses practice in a variety of clinical contexts depending on their education preparation and practice experience. The Core Competencies are a foundation for nurses to maintain their competence and to acquire additional competencies or