Nurses are obligated to practice with integrity, safety and form therapeutic relationships with patients and families. Nurses each bring distinct personality traits into the care environment that affect patients and the healthcare team members. For a nursing professional to provide safe and therapeutic care to a patient, it is essential to be focused on the needs of the patient at the time of care. In order to minimize external distractions and facilitate an inner calm, nurses can create and implement a mindfulness practice plan. Not only do patients deserve holistic care from a mindful nurse, patients need an environment that optimizes the potential for well-being.
The ultimate goal of nursing delegation is to provide the most efficient, effective, quality care in the time frame the nurse is given. Delegation in Nursing A Registered Nurse (RN) must know and understand the differences in delegation, authority, responsibility, and accountability before being able to delegate tasks appropriately. According to Kelly-Heidenthal and Marthaler (2005), “Delegation is the transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity from one individual to another while retaining accountability for the outcome” (p. 6). Authority is the right to act or to command the action of others. Responsibility as defined by Kelly-Heidenthal and Marthaler (2005) “Is the obligation involved when one accepts an assignment” (p. 9).
Nurse Leader Interview Nurse leadership has the distinct responsibility to manage “challenging workplace and workforce issues” (Cummings, et al., 2009, p. 1). In the past, nurse administrators believed that leadership was simply the process of ensuring the completion of specific tasks while providing care to patients. As the nursing profession grew, nurse leaders are now held responsible and accountable for financial, administrative, and patient care management. Future nurse leaders must become educated on various leadership styles that can be used independently or in collaboration depending upon each situation’s needs and the people involved. The objective of this paper is to present the views of a nurse administrator regarding leadership and the application of various leadership styles.
The ability to critically and accurately asses, plan, intervene and evaluate the health illness which the client experiences (Marie-Laure Delamaire, Gaetan Lafortune, 2010). Besides, advance nursing role represent innovation and continuously challenge the boundaries of nursing practice and existing modes of health care delivery to a community. More importantly advance practice nurses (APN) as innovator in the field help in shaping the quality and safety
The nurse provides care and meets the basic needs while the patient will cooperate for its faster recovery. Orlando’s theory states that it is the expressed role of the nurse to find out what a patient's immediate needs for help are and fulfill them. The nurse’s primary goal in the presented case study is to develop a therapeutic relationship with Sam and Susan. Belief in the value of the nurse-patient relationship is the cohesive core of nursing care (Rawnsley, 1994). The recognition of the patient’s needs and its fulfillment is the next goal.
Educational Preparation Jody A. Johnston Grand Canyon University: NRS 430 March 29, 2013 According to the ANA’s definition of nursing, “nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations” (ANA, Nursing World). Through education and experience, nurses will be able to fill the roles as stated by the ANA. According to Lane and Kohlenberg, “society’s view of nurses and healthcare providers demands professionalism, and the underlying component of professionalism is education” (2010, p. 220-221). The scope of what the
Nursing theories are concepts that define and guide nursing practice and nursing research. Guided by theories, nurses purposefully implement the nursing process systematically to deliver effective holistic nursing care efficiently. Nursing theories clarify and separate expert nursing profession from other profession that delivers care. It maintains the boundaries of the nursing profession. Nursing is a caring profession and caring endorses the profession and is central to nursing.
Jean Watson’s Caring Theory Nurses’ responsibilities to their patients are continually changing with the times. Jean Watson formed the “caring theory” to convey the significance and emphasize nursing as a diverse health profession. Using the Jean Watson’s caring theory enables nurses to maintain their perspective on caring for patients when overwhelmed with increased acuity, responsibility and workload. With the increase of patients and their needs, nurses often replace the caring attitude with an attitude of arrogance and hurried tasks, leaving patients and family members with belief that nurses believe they are here just to perform a job. By applying the Watson caring theory in caring for patients, “it allows nurses to practice the art of caring, to provide compassion to ease patients’ and families’ suffering, and to promote their healing and dignity but it can also contribute to expand the nurse’s own actualization” (Cara, 2003, p 2).
Abstract Margaret Newman’s theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC) is a theory in which a patient is looked as a whole. In this theory it explains how it is the nurse’s responsibility to connect with their patients and help to expand their consciousness. By having a trusting nurse-patient relationship, it will help patients achieve this goal. For the purpose of this paper an overview of Margaret Newman’s theory will be given, along with a rational as to why this writer chose Newman’s theory of HEC. A plan to implement this theory by having daily rounds will be explained, and barriers and challenges discussed.
Heritage assessment offers an affirmative holistic structure for measurement and provision for racially proficient care. Health tradition evaluation form visualizes health as “the state of equilibrium inside the body, mind, and spirit, and with the family, community, and the powers of the natural world (Spector, 2004b). It helps nurses detect one’s classification with hereditary traditions. At first, nurses need to understand their own beliefs in order to respect each individual’s wishes to facilitate communication that can lead to healing process. Nurses intermingle with people from diverse branch of the world with a mixture of civilizing practices, so cultural alertness seems essential in creating a patient-nurse relationship during the interview phase of the health assessment, initial step of the nursing process.