Professional Nursing Values Yvonne Simms NUR/403 Undergraduate Nursing Studies April 29‚ 2010 Joseph DeCostanza Professional values are the foundation for practice; they guide interactions with client‚ colleagues‚ other professionals‚ and the public‚ by providing the framework for commitment to the Welfare of others. They are also belief or ideas to which an individual is committed and which are reflected in patterns of behavior. Institute of medicine (2000). In this article
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Responsibility has been defined as a nursing ethical value. It is defined with traits of commitment‚ feeling responsible for the duties forward patients‚ and respecting the patients’ rights for decision making. Based on this definition‚ nurses are responsible for giving evidence-based care‚ best clinical function‚ and applicable and valid research‚ and are accountable for their actions and duties. Verpeet (2005) argues that nurses are responsible for the promotion of patients’ well-being‚ having
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Hi Katherina‚ Human error in nursing is usually unavoidable‚ unpredictable and unintentional. Further‚ some risks include language barriers‚ neglecting to follow the policy‚ in a hurry to complete the task. As a supervisor‚ I encountered a nurse who gave a patient the wrong medications. The error occurred when the patient answered to the wrong name‚ and the nurse failed to check the patient’s identification bracelet. Other errors can include carelessness on the behalf of the staff as well as not
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the hospital but also for other healthcare profession such as doctors and assistant medical officer and also between communities. Their services are very important and therefore they performing “heart” in the medical and healthcare service provision in Malaysia. Due to the rapidly changing in Malaysia healthcare environment‚ the nurses are required to provide care through their extended roles and provide services rendered by other healthcare professional in order to complement the health service
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Judgement is a vital trait to have in a nursing profession. It involves both intellectual and professional maturity from the nurse. Judgement alone requires the ability from the nurse to pay attention to the clients surroundings‚ taking into account all the events that have occurred and making an appropriate judgement based on these reasons. It can be defined as “having an idea‚ a clear opinion following a period of reflexion whereas the term clinical indicates that it is related to the patient”
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Horizontal Violence The clinical issue of interest to me and one that I would like to focus on his Horizontal violence. This topic is of interest to me because in my profession as a nurse supervisor‚ I have encountered and had to resolve many instances of horizontal violence in the work environment. In this paper‚ I will provide a rational as to why Horizontal Violence (HV) is a relevant workplace issue and provide the research to support this rational. Horizontal violence has been defined as “hostile
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Professional Role Development Professional Role Development The synthesis of Art and Science is lived by the Nurse in the Nursing act. –Josephine G. Paterson. In this article entitled “Professional Development and the Role of Mentorship‚” the author‚ Panther W. Ali‚ PA‚ talks about developing a professional nursing role is to role model the nurse in an actual working facility. The skills and role-conceptions developed in the actual nursing field
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Characteristics of Professional Nursing By Maksim Khasin‚ eHow Contributor Nurses are crucial to providing patients with adequate health care. Nurses are critical components of the health care system. While doctors determine the health care plan for a patient‚ a nurse helps to execute the plan and serve as a liaison between the doctor‚ the patient and the family. To be successful‚ nurses must be equipped with certain tools and abilities. These skills are developed over time as a nurse gains
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Nursing‚ an integral part of the health care system‚ encompasses many tasks and duties throughout different aspects of the profession. To complete these responsibilities‚ nurses must possess a set of values to ethically guide them through both professional and personal life. Through the self-exploration and reflection that has taken place in NURS 1206: Relational Practice 1‚ I have been able to investigate important self-values. These core values that are featured in my self-mandala include being
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health care. Every aspect of health care‚ including health care professions‚ have begun to evolve as a result of the laws passed in 2010. The nursing profession is one of the largest divisions in the healthcare workforce and requires large transformations in order to meet the goals that the United States has set forth. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) conducted a report in 2010 which laid out recommendations for health care professions in order to make the goals attainable. Transforming education
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