As a professional nurse, I am accountable for maintaining a safe environment for my patients. A healthcare team consists of multiple players including doctors, nurses, nurse aids, respiratory therapists, physical and occupational therapists, dieticians, etc. It is my duty to ensure that all components of the healthcare team preserve the patient’s best interest, and if they do not, intervene to the limit of my scope of practice, and utilize my chain of command. In accordance with my duty to maintain
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record, both positive and negative. Nurses need to be aware of how this record can affect them and what their responsibilities are considering this. The most important legal and ethical consideration, according to Mayer and Meyer, legal nurse
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Professional Roles and Practices D Stephens, RN 000352184 Western Governor's University Functional Differences Nurses are in a position to make a difference in society. Ethical decision making and professionalism is essential to the nursing practice. Nurses are a majority of the employees in hospital setting, outpatient centers, clinics, and colleges that provide direct patient care, education, and advocacy for patients. Nursing, as a profession, is regulated in each state by their board
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Professional organizations and associations in nursing are critical for generating the energy, flow of ideas, and proactive work needed to maintain a healthy profession that advocates for the needs of its clients and nurses, and the trust of society (Matthews, J.H., 2012). These organizations are helpful to get the nurses together from all around the nation and share ideas, thoughts, congregate, talk among themselves, and advocate for their causes. These organizations make it possible for nurse
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Professional Roles and Values Lorie Patzak Western Governors University Professional Roles and Values In this project I will develop a professional mission statement by fulfilling the requirements to showcase my professional development. I will discuss the functional differences of the American Nurses Association and the Board of Nursing. I will discuss provisions of the nursing code of ethics and how it has shaped my practice, along with professional traits from the American
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outline a Professional Nursing Mission Statement, with a keen look at nursing organizations, ethics, accountability, and professional practice. Mishel’s Theory of Uncertainty in Illness will be explained as a support to the mission statement and support of my personal professional practice. Additionally, two personal anecdotes will be shared regarding the ethical principles of respect for autonomy and beneficence. Functional Difference between Regulatory Agency and Professional Nursing Organization
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Commission’s 2006 National Patient Safety Goal 2E set certain standards for maintaining an effective handover and to reduce medical errors. In 2008, this standards revised which including communicate effectively, provide an opportunity for questioning to the nurse who receives hand over, include read back or repeat back policy which indicate the verification process and provide an opportunity for the hand over receiver to evaluate and check the information. These standards will help to reduce the adverse events
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Running head: THE ASSOCIATES vs. THE BACCALAUREATE PREPARED NURSE 1 Educational Preparation Doris N. Nwoko Grand Canyon University College of Nursing Author Note Discussion on the differences in competencies between an associate degree prepared nurse versus the baccalaureate degree prepared nurse Abstract As nursing continues to strive for its rightful recognition in healthcare settings and the world at large, there has been and
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expertise. The American Nurses Associate gives a simple description when thinking about determining scope of practice it is the “who," "what," "where," "when," "why," and "how" of nursing practice. Consideration must be given to the guidelines of the Nurse Practice Act, rules/regulations/guidelines of the state in which the nurse is working, the policy and procedures of the facility in which the nurse is working, community standards of professional organizations, the nurses own educational preparation
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Nursing Practice The Institute on Medicine (IOM) released a document in 2010 entitled: “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” The group that arranged this report were made up of professionals who recommended and helped shape legislation and health care policy (“Professional Accountability,” 2011). The document guided health care improvement by advancement of the nursing profession as the number of insured Americans rose to over 32 million in 2010 (IOM, 2011). This report has resulted
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