undariesProfessional boundaries in Nursing
This assignment a discussion about nursing boundaries issues which happened in my workplace. The founder of modern nursing has rightly quoted that ‘nursing is the care which puts the person in the best possible condition for nature to either restore or preserve health or to prevent or cure injury’.
Nursing has its own entity and ethics which makes it a profession. In response to the rising health needs, the need for independent nursing is the demand of the hour. This concept are formulated and implemented in develop countries. This has helped in meeting the consumers’ demand for health benefits.
In the early years of the nursing profession, it generally believed that nurses served and cared for their patients by assisting physicians. However, now days role of nursing a more expending, not only bring title as register nurses but also as nurses practitioner, advanced nurses practitioner and clinical specialty. Those nurses require undergoing specialized post basic training and most of them are quiet senior staffs. Furthermore , some of the specialty of nursing such as wound care nurse, stoma nurse, diabetic nurse and so on and some of them also been as referred from the doctor for furthered management.
In the healthcare set up, if all patient care only being a nurse’s job, this organization will be failure. It need other professional collaboration for better outcome specially in patient care such as physician, surgeons, pharmacists, radiologists, phlebotomies, respiratory therapies, physiotherapies and so on. Each of them a play in difference role for example radiologist will performed radiology test, phlebotomies will running and taking blood test, and the high hierarchy position in patient care with was doctor commonly will examined patient, diagnosed the patient and prescripts medication. Each of this professional also