Continued Professional Development

Continued Professional Development

Introduction

People choose the profession of nursing due to reason that it is the most devoted field, to work for someone else whole heartedly. To treat more than a disease is the eventual objective of all health professionals. Nursing is really an honourable profession. The basic purpose of continuing professional development (CPD) in the field of nursing is change of patient care. Continuing Professional Development empowers nurse specialists to furnish quality nursing care and delivery of services to their clients and patients. The motivation behind this paper is to survey the need for continuing professional development for professional nursing staff so as to advance criteria that might aid with the procurement of these programmes. The targets of this study are to: evaluate if professional nurses are cognizant of their authority to proceed their knowledge beyond their starting pre-service training; evaluate the degree to which professional nurses take an interest in continuing educational activities; determine if proficient medical nurses underpin the presentation of required continuing professional development; and verify the boundaries to cooperation in continuing professional development.

Discussion

Registered Nurses (RNs) take on a variety of roles, aided by Healthcare Assistants (HCAs). Many times patients will fear being labelled “difficult”. They hesitate before challenging decisions of healthcare professionals for this same reason. In 1991, the Department of Health published the Patient's Charter which made recommendations to patients regarding expectations and demands from healthcare professionals. In England and Wales, patients received a copy of the Patient's Charter in each household. Despite these measures to ensure that individuals are aware of their rights, many patients are either ignorant or do not know how to assert themselves. Nursing as a profession is becoming more specialized, working along disease related parameters. Healthcare institutions are employing nurses specialized to assist patients with specific medical conditions for instance the Parkinson's disease. Health services have been reengineered to become synchronised with the wave of the “new nursing discourse” in Australia. Nurses have taken advanced nursing and practitioner roles, particularly in administering health options alongside doctors. Nurses are trained to take many duties of junior doctors in recent times.

The Australian government acknowledges that it the role of nurses has become rather ambiguous with health care assistants taking on many of the traditional nursing duties. In addition, nurses have begun to expand their area of expertise in administering healthcare, moving onto integrate into their work ethic, the work performed by doctors. Since the role of nursing evolved beyond what are considered “menial” or “mundane” tasks such as basic care: bathing, feeding, nursing work ethic is changing swiftly with the new tides in the nursing profession. In traditional nursing ethics, the role of the nurse was synonymous with the patient himself or herself. Unlike the modern nurse, the traditional nurse did not aim for occupational status or self-fulfilment. Nightingale continually referred to nurses as “good and intelligent” women which demonstrate the focus of the traditional nurse ethic on a good character. Nursing, as a profession, was a “holistic, moral, educative process ...