3 Running head: NURSING PRACTICE ACT Nursing Practice Act Laura Pasnicki ITT Tech NU/100 1. The definition of nursing practice is the analyzing of human stimuli to indicate the actual or potential health issues. The nurse should also support and provide therapeutic care; nurses should be a patient’s counselor and educator in their health. The nurse will work together under a licensed doctor, dentist, advanced practice registered nurse and etc. The nurse shall stay within their scope of practice without exceeding the doctor orders.
Clear communication is the main key in all this. The nursing process appears to go hand in hand with EBP. The nurse is always visually assessing the patients each time the patients is seen. This allows the nurse to constantly take note if there are any drastic changes in the patient. For diagnosing purposes, the nurse is comparing those observations to the initial assessment to see what if any changes are taking place with that patient.
The role of the nurse in the GI lab is performing a thorough head-to-toe assessment, along with obtaining prior medical history, and making sure consent and all documentation is completed before the patient goes in for their procedure. The nurses’ role intra-procedure is documenting, assisting the physician, initiating the time-outs, and giving report to the next nurse of what occurred, post diagnosis, and any new orders to the next nurse. Post procedure, the nurses’ role is to assess the patient, perform vital sign every 10 minutes until stabilized, give discharge instructions and do patient teaching. Nursing care is different in the GI lab than on a med/surg floor because you’re with the patient for an hour before they go for their procedure, and then discharging them usually after 45 minutes post procedure. While a med/surg nurse is with their patient for 12 hours.
Nursing research is a systematic inquiry designed to build knowledge on an important issue for nurses, with the aim of developing nursing education, practice and administration (Beck and Polit, 2006). ). The general agreement is that the best evidence comes from rigorous research (Beck and Polit, 2006). The growing use of EBP is fuelled by the increasing demand for accountability of actions, when carrying out safe and effective improvements within healthcare (Stevens, 2013). Throughout nursing it has become a pivotal role of the nurses to ensure that they are carrying out safe, effective person-centred care which is based on the current available evidence (Gordon and Watts, 2011).
Patient assessment is vital to ensuring patient needs are met, their status is evaluated, and the best possible care is provided. Every patient is different and possesses unique needs. This concept analysis will examine the continued evolution of patient assessment. As the nurses treat the patient as a whole, they need to know what makes up the individual. The nurse starts by looking at the individual as a whole, is he or she clean and fed.
Running Head: INTERVIEWS NVT2 TASK #2 1 Interviews NVT2 Task #2 Diana Kaminski Western Governors University Interviews Task #2 2 Summary After interviewing the perspective disciplines, all the disciplines acquire assistance from other staff members. It is apparent that all staff members value the expertise from the other disciplines when they have questions of that particular field and are uncertain of a particular topic. For example, the staff nurse that I interviewed said she utilized orthopedics and cardiologists most often to discuss treatments and referrals when necessary. The certified nurse midwife stated that she utilizes the expertise of family practice physicians and OB/GYN. Each nurse demonstrated that teambuilding is important because it helps to provide better patient care by utilizing the expertise of the other disciplines and allowing collaborative efforts to resolve patient problems.
Hospitals are using more unlicensed assistive personnel to assist in patient care. This brings up an important part of delegation which consists of understanding all staff member’s job titles, roles, and ability to carry out tasks. The safety of patients is very important in providing the care they need and deserve. The registered nurse is considered to be a team leader in the process of delegation. The ultimate goal of nursing delegation is to provide the most efficient, effective, quality care in the time frame the nurse is given.
All stakeholders responsible for the women health policy would evaluate the process to determined if the policy on women health objective are met. Evaluation consist of examining the final results of the policy, which includes measurements; sometimes the evaluation preventive plan is is included when the policy is first developed. Policy makers do this by identifying the goals and objective, which will be the deliverance of excellent quality healthcare services to all women concerning aspect of the women body and needs. Goals and objective are determined by the women needs, the organization objective, public opinion, and available resources, and many other contributing factors that involves evaluating. Needs assessment can be gathered by looking at current women problems, collecting data of demographics and the number of the population the issue affects.
For example knowing and acting upon their symptoms, how to deal with acute attacks if they occur and to understand the implications of professional advice. The nursing and midwifery council explain that a nurse role as a health care provider is to provide a quality of care for all regardless of ethnicity, culture and
The report makes sure that nurses carry out their nursing training with greatest proficiency. The IOM report states that nurses ought to use their training and education to the fullest. This is important as it shows if the patient will be stable and in a position to recuperate from the condition the patient is suffering. In the Institute of Medicine 2010, an upgraded education structure for nurses