Professional Roles and Values

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Professional Roles and Values Stacy Bouma Western Governors University Professional Roles and Values Nursing has become one of the most trusted professions in America. While the healthcare industry has continued to change, thus has transformed the roles of the Registered Nurse. With increasing responsibilities, and broadening of their scope of practice, nurses are being recognized as professionals and leaders in today’s healthcare system. (ANA, 2013). The purpose of my mission statement is to express my caring nature, selflessness, and motivation, by taking good care of my patients. By continuing my education, I hope to gain the confidence needed to showcase my professional strengths, ability to handle stressful situations, use critical thinking skills, and to never lose sight of the reasons I became a nurse to begin with, to touch the lives of my patients on a daily basis. A. Functional Differences There are two main agencies that regulate and support the nursing industry. There are regulatory agencies, such as an each state’s Board of Nursing, and there are also professional organizations, such as the American Nurses Association. Both of these agencies play different roles in how the nursing profession is governed. First, the regulatory agencies are government ran agencies that regulates each states’ nursing practice. These boards protect the public by making sure that the standards of nursing care are met and also ensure that nurses are competent in their scope of practice. Some of the duties that these agencies are responsible for are to administer nursing license by state exams, enforce the states nurse practice act by taking action against those nurses who have been deemed unsafe towards patients, develop rules, regulations, and policies as determined to be appropriate for nursing practice, give accreditation and approve education programs for

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