Advanced Practice Nursing

Advanced Practice Nursing

Introduction

This essay is about a case study of patient suffering from type2 diabetes and the better opportunity for his health care through advanced nursing practice. Nurse Practitioner or practice nurse is completed graduate-level education (either a master's or doctorate degree) and training in the diagnosis and management as well as complex medical cases. For a license to practice Nurse Practitioners awarded a national area of ??specialization (family, pediatrics, adult care), the license is through nursing councils as well as the medical boards. Nurse Practitioners provide a wide range of health care services, should have wide acceptance among patients and by the public. Nurse dealing with both physical and mental cases by recording case history, physical examinations and physical therapy, tests and treatments, and patients within the scope of the order of practice.

Possible for the practice nurse primary health service delivery to the patient, and see patients of all ages, depending on the selected range of practice. Functional features of advanced practice nursing in his specific field of activity, the advanced practice nurse addresses the patient care situations and their families on a nursing perspective. It provides nursing experts in a specific field. It is also authorized to provide care in the field of diagnosis and prescription by medical supervision arrangements (protocol, prescription early) prescribed by the regulations governing professional practice. Its actions are complementary to those of other health and social sector component of the interdisciplinary team. (Snyder, 2007, pp 78)

The advanced practice nurse is a registered nurse who has validated a university education 2nd cycle combines medical science and nursing sciences. A nurse regulatory complex care pathway contributes to the efficiency of the interdisciplinary care of patients. She participates in a cluster of medical activities or a health facility to smooth the path of the patient in relation to the clinical pathway in which was included in accordance with the referring physician. It coordinates all aspects of the process of care specified in the clinical pathway, following the course of the latter within the institution. It facilitates the continuity and consistency of care across sectors of care through the patient in his career in health care institutions in the city and between the city and hospital. It contributes to the detection of deviations in the course of patients between care obtained results and those anticipated in the clinical pathway. It provides the referring physician and / or patient care team immediate corrective action and implements. It participates in the compilation and analysis of the differences in the context of continuous process improvement in institutional quality.

The case study also focuses on duties of the nurses, it points out that the nurse facilitates the exploration and expression of feelings to help the patient, without fear being rejected, and to accept the disease as an experience that reorients those thoughts and feelings, strengthen the positive forces of personality, in addition to providing the necessary satisfaction to participate and collaborate in their own care. The advanced nurses' education ...