assigned to a hospital to preform clinical hours and provide care to four patients. Additionally, the purpose of this paper is to explain and provide examples of how our patient care included the concepts of Quality and Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) competencies, delegation, hand off reporting, and a reflection of our clinical experience. Quality and Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) Competencies To provide patient centered care, I had to educate the patient when administering medications
Portfolio project Throughout the years of studying for the nursing program, a lot of information have been read, revise and analyzing with the intention of developing a better understanding of the nursing role on the medical field. By being able to look back to a variety of prior papers created as part of the program, the understanding of the intention of those projects become clearer as development of researching, analyzing, critical thinking and understanding of evidence base practice. The rationalization
The position of the Washington State Nurses Association’s (WSNA) position paper on continuing competence in nursing is that assurance of nursing competency must be a collaborative process that includes regulatory agencies, individual nurses, employers, educators, professional organizations, credentialing and certification agencies. Another WSNA position is that individual nurses are responsible for the maintenance of their own continuing competency, and that it is imperative that nurses from all
who are able practice across multi specialties are demand of time. This paper discusses the set of methods and practices by which healthcare sector workers particularly nurses learn while working in hospitals and what are the needs of their continuous education and training through learning in workplace? The paper examine the nature of workplace and work performed
discuss nursing philosophies, one must know what a philosophy is. A philosophy is defined as the study of the principles underlying conduct, thought, and the nature of the universe (Black, 2014, p. 261). Philosophies of nursing are statements of beliefs about nursing and expressions of morals in nursing that are used as roots for thinking and acting. Most nursing philosophies are built on a base of beliefs about individuals, environment, well-being, and nursing (Black, 2014, p. 262). Nursing is more
Self-Reflection: Personal Leadership Supporting Professional Leadership The leadership of advanced practice nurses plays an important role in the future care delivered to patients within a society so badly in need of healthcare improvements and reform. The challenge is to further develop all nurses and their abilities to be truly transformational in this process. Advanced practice nurses can serve as complexity leaders and role models for the entire nursing profession, which will ensure excellent
Personal Views on the Five Ways of Knowing in Nursing Knowledge is an important fundamental base for practice in all areas of health care. Many nursing theorists have tried to define and identify nursing knowledge since the time of Florence Nightingale. Carper’s seminal article in 1978 highlighted four ways of knowing; this delineated knowledge beyond just empirical (Bonis, 2009). The inclusion of White’s sociopolitical knowing rounded out nursing knowledge more completely. While the different
In this reflection paper I will be discussing the importance and the overall process that is used to conduct a multidisciplinary team meeting. The multidisciplinary team meeting that I observed meets each day to review the care of each client currently admitted and any pending admissions each day. The reflection paper will include how the multidisciplinary team member uses discussion and work together for the benefit of the client. The paper will also include my evaluation, feelings and observations
professionalism and nursing and one article that is based on professionalism and nursing through philosophy. The six articles that would be annotated in this assignment are: 1. Professional Comportment: The Missing Element in Nursing Practice. 2. Providing end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: Issues that impact on nurse professionalism. 3. The Influence
The Use of Survey Tools to Promote Caring in Nursing “Effective use of an interpersonal tool, such as advocacy, enhances the care-giving environment.” (Selanders, L., Crane, P., 2012) This quote shows the importance of using advocacy as a tool to promote caring in the healthcare field. In light of modern healthcare striving for more holistic patient-centered care, it is important to encourage the use of tools that will focus on the patient’s perception of care and provide the nurse with a resource