PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY

Personal & Professional Views Regarding Nursing



Personal & Professional Views Regarding Nursing

Definition Of Core Elements

Person: Patient

Environment: Good healthcare environments are key drivers of patient experience. Good environments matter to patients, their visitors and carers and to staff. This section contains policies and guidance on how to improve the patient environment and the basic care services delivered within that environment. (Hoffart, 2008)

Health: Health is maintained and improved not only through the advancement and application of health science, but also through the efforts and intelligent lifestyle choices of the individual and society. Patients expect hospitals to be clean, tidy and welcoming. The Clean Hospitals programme aims to improve and maintain standards of cleanliness across the NHS, giving control over cleanliness issues to front line staff and highlighting how cleanliness is everyone's responsibility.

Nursing: Patient care is part of a nurse's role. Nurses use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care. Patient care is founded in critical thinking and caring in a holistic framework. Nursing care is increasingly framed in best practice, which is the application of evidence-based concepts to patient problems in a particular setting. Florence Nightingale is recognized as the first nurse researcher.

Assumptions

Registered nurses (RNs), regardless of specialty or work setting, perform basic duties that include treating patients, educating patients and the public about various medical conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients' family members. RNs record patients' medical histories and symptoms, help to perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operate medical machinery, administer treatment and medications, and help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation.

RNs teach patients and their families how to manage their illness or injury, including post-treatment home care needs, diet and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and physical therapy. Some RNs also are trained to provide grief counseling to family members of critically ill patients. RNs work to promote general health by educating the public on various warning signs and symptoms of disease and where to go for help. RNs also might run general health screening or immunization clinics, blood drives, and public seminars on various conditions. (Hoffart, 2008)

Discuss awareness of issues involving provisions of patient care

It is a fact that environment affects nursing practice. There are two reasons that the nurses should take the environment issue seriously. The first one being that exposure to toxin are the cause of many diseases like asthma, lead poisoning and some cancers. (Joy, 2005) These toxins are present in the environment. The other reason is that the hospitals are most of the time a source of pollution. This condition is caused by the release of mercury and dioxin. The nurses are mostly in a danger to be exposed to these hazards and the nurses should know all the procedures to protect themselves.

Critical components of professional nursing practice

In nursing, group theory is a sense of belonging, of group membership, is one universal motive that can be used to advantage in the health education process. (Ethridge, 2007)

In nursing, critical thinking for clinical decision-making is the ability to ...