Professional Nursing Practice: Craven and Hirnle‚ (2009) suggest that in general professions have a knowledge base and a collection of skills and values that distinguish one from another. Knowledge base‚ power and authority over training and education‚ registration‚ altruistic service‚ a code of ethics‚ lengthy socialisation and autonomy are the seven qualities that have been recognized as being the characteristics of a profession (McEwen & Wills‚ 2007).The question of whether nursing is a profession
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The Impact on Nursing of the Institute of Medicine 2010 report on the Future of Nursing Grand Canyon University: Professional Dynamics 04/15/2013 In this twenty first century‚ where modern health care system is evolving rapidly and getting more complex by the day. Patient are being diagnosed with new diseases‚ prescribed new medications‚ newer test are being ordered and new sophisticated procedures are being performed. In this current demanding healthcare system‚ physicians are spending less
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The first part of this Reflective Account describes what influences and events in my life have helped to develop my Personal Values. My grandparents taught me most of my basic ‘Personal Values’. I learned from an early age how to be polite‚ have good manners and respect my elders as failure to do so would result in getting sent to bed early. In those days I did not have a television in my room so in my eyes this was the ultimate punishment! They were not deeply religious people; my grandmother
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Promote Professional Development 1.1 It is very important to always continue learning and training as this will always give good practice‚this can be done through training courses‚ when starting with the company we all undertake mandatory training and this will be followed up by refreshing each course yearly or as and when needed‚ staffs in their supervision will be asked if they would like to take up and advanced courses and also we would also discuss about what training needs to be refreshed.
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describes my own Professional Development Plan (PDP) for the first six months of my nurse registration. Following a PDP will show my commitment to Continuing Professional Development (CPD)‚ otherwise known as PREP (CPD). PREP stands for Post-Registration Education and Practice and is a set of Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards and guidance that help nurses give the best possible care (NMC PREP Handbook 2006 p3); part of which is a commitment to CPD. CPD is a process of learning activities
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Reflective Practice Portfolio Q1: Recall a situation in your clinical experiences in which an ethical decision was being made. If you have not been involved in this process yet‚ ask your preceptor to share an experience with you. Be sure only to discuss the situation as a case scenario without use of names of persons involved. Which ethical decision-making principles came into play? What impact did the ANA and/or ICN codes of ethics have on the decision that was made? Answer A 48 year old African-American
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Personal and Professional Development This assignment will discuss proficiency from within the pre-registration clinical profile. The proficiency to be discussed shall be clause 4.1 ’Personal and Professional Development ’. The rationale as to why this proficiency was chosen was to reflect on a challenging situation in regards a client with personality disorder‚ which the author experienced during a clinical placement. The client who shall be referred to as ’Trevor‚ ’ as to protect his identity
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CU2942 Promote Professional Development 1 understand principles of professional development 1.1 The importance of continually improving knowledge and practice is that you can ensure that you are aware of any new relevant legislation and you can also improve the service you provide. It also gives you the opportunity to reflect on what you are good at as well as what you are not so good at‚ so that you can see what areas you can improve in. Professional development is an opportunity to reflect
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Pre-Scenario Discussion: One of Andragogy’s five assumptions of adult learning is that adult learners have accumulated a great deal of experience‚ which is a rich resource for learning. (Kaufman‚ D. M.‚ 2003) Reflective Practice tells us that learners can reflect both “in action” and “on action” meaning that they can gain insight both during a new encounter from their previous experiences and also by analysing an event after it has occurred. (Wang‚ E.E.‚ 2011) With this in mind‚ we as educators should
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Professional values of nursing Laura Mcclymont-Allen Nur403 July 19‚ 2010 Stephanie Merck Professional values of nursing Professional values guide the decisions and actions we make in our careers. As nurses we are responsible for caring for patients during birth‚ death‚ illness and healing. If we are not aware of the decisions and actions to take it would be impossible to provide our patients with exceptional care. The values that are the foundation of the nursing profession are altruism
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