professional boundary

Tremendously, Malaysian nurses are among of the backbone of the medical practitioner, has demonstrated the highest level of professionalism and dedication. Nurses provide a continuous service around the clock for the benefit of all citizens in the country. In many cases, nurses work double or triple shifts, to provide holistic nursing care. Nurses contribute major roles in the healthcare systems and as competent health care providers. Nursing is a dynamic profession and forever striving to meet the challenging needs due to constant change occurring in the profession.

Nowadays, nurses generally became accountable for their own practices and they have been at the vanguard of new role development. However, nursing at times, will cross their boundaries in providing care, as an individual or teamwork to save patient lives. This may result overlapping of roles. Nurses adapting the changing environment and continually develops new skills (Chaboyer et.al., 2001). Doyal (1998) argues on nurses and others medical practitioner is doing physician’s work, which has involved the creation of new roles. As described by Nancarow & Borthwick (2005), the nurses have an opportunity to identify a new role in getting change within their expertise boundary.

This paper will explore, discuss and critically analyze on the impact on professional roles on crossing professional boundary that often occur in my practice performs task which is suppose done by anesthetic physicians. The issues that I am going to debates here is on my daily activities, cross professional boundary of preparing, diluting and administering the intrathecal opiate drugs. Occasionally, most of the time, the boundaries usually consider that is not clear issues, whether right or wrong. It depends on a lot of factors and required careful of thinking through of all the issue.
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