Critical Thinking in Nursing

Critical Thinking in Nursing

Introduction

This paper shall explore the critical thinking that is involved in the nursing profession. Further, various elements are discussed to have deep insight of nursing profession. Nursing is the ultimate academic discipline and practice profession to have been shaped by women's leadership. Nurses have joined professional nursing associations having gained greater control of their professional future and to have developed a greater awareness of nursing issues. Professional nursing associations also assisted nurses to communicate to the public what nurses have done, and to have been active and informed members of the nursing profession. Belonging to a professional nursing organization may indicate dedication and commitment to professional growth.

Discussion

Nursing and Decision making

Decision making on the part of Nursing is undoubtedly the most important aspect of an healthcare organization’s success in the modern era. Often, top management tries to analyze and identify which areas of opportunity are important to develop and improve healthcare, maximize efficiency and increase effectiveness. They look for the details, analyze and define the macro behavior of action plans to correct the faults. The most common factors relating to operational aspects are quality, efficiency, productivity, human resources’ performance, efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility, teams’ capacity, obsolescence, maintenance costs, administrative, patient’s service and logistics and others.

Comparing leaders’ identified leadership styles with nursing home quality signals may determine whether a relationship exists between leader teams and care quality. Nursing education leaders (current or future) who are prepared to take on these challenges will benefit from the knowledge of the practices that are able to aid them in being successful transformational leaders. Nursing Professional associations can cooperate identifying opportunities and presenting them to members. Nurses must accept individual responsibility for their own education, and get the ability to plan and manage strategically.

The nurse leaders also need business skills and interpersonal various sectors such as:

1.Resource management

3.Strategic planning

4.Communication

5.Negotiation

6.Motivate others and influence them.

To be effective, today's nurse leader must understand the health system reform and its implications. Have vision, think strategically, plan effectively, and contribute to the development of policy. Manage change, work effectively in teams, partnerships and alliances.

Nurses must be prepared for new and demanding and must be willing to participate in the planning, policy and general health management. They should be able to promote the value of nursing. Efficiency and effectiveness must be followed pertaining that this is the major aim of what they are trying to fulfill. Worldwide, it tests the ability of countries to address health priorities and meet the need and demand for health services. Emphasis is on efficiency and cost effectiveness and the provision of quality care within frequently severe economic constraints.

Nursing and Strategic Planning

Nurses have to select appropriate programs, mono-disciplinary or multidisciplinary, to prepare them effectively for the management, policy development and leadership in various contexts, at different stages of their professional development and the evolution of his career. In the preparation was to corroborate the importance of lifelong learning adapted to changing needs and expectations. It must be emphasized in the ...

Nursing should be taught in a hospital, not a university

Nursing should be taught in a hospital, not a university

Introduction

Nursing care is the health of human beings. It also receives the name the profession, grounded in science that is devoted primarily to diagnosis and treatment of health problems or potential. Nurse's unique approach focuses on the study of the response of the individual or group to a health problem or potential, and, from another perspective, in addition to or substitution of the need of every human being to take care of itself from the views bio-psychosocial and holistic. Critical thinking nursing is based on the merits of questions and challenges facing a complex situation and how to deal with this situation. It is the system of nursing practice, in the sense that it provides the mechanism by which the nurse uses their views, knowledge and skills to diagnose and treat the customer response to actual or potential problems of health. As nursing is a critical profession, it requires detailed and continuous education for the nurses. Furthermore, it is important that the nursing education being provided is of the highest quality, in order to make sure that the resulting nurses are of the highest potential, as well (Radcliffe, Mark, 2000). Therefore, this paper would focus on examining the fact that nursing should be taught in hospitals, not a university.

Part A

Nursing should be taught in Hospitals

A hospital is where sick people are cared for to provide diagnosis and treatment they need. There are different types of hospitals, according to the type of pathologies that attend: general hospitals, acute hospitals, chronic hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, mother and child, and so on. Within hospitals there are different branches of medicine such as: the ENT doctors, ophthalmologists, cardiologists, dentists, pulmonologists, urologists, neurologists, internists, etc, belonging to general hospitals. Within the maternal are gynecologists, surgeons, pediatricians, etc. As this is a very critical profession, therefore, it requires detailed and continuous education, which is best possible in hospitals, as nurses can practically learn in hospitals. This will in turn, also make them better nurse. Following are the benefits of nursing education in hospitals (Radcliffe, Mark, 2000).

Since there are many opportunities for distance learning schools for nurses, nursing students should consider the potential benefits of attending a local school, preferably a hospital nursing school. It is evident from statistics that the best ranked nursing schools are schools of nursing hospital. So attend a prestigious school, as the number one ranked University of San Francisco, you may want to pursue a nursing career. A distinct advantage of schools of nursing in the hospital is based on the fact that it makes you to be able to pursue the practical aspects of learning with the ease of scheduling. Large hospitals also offer students a wide variety of specialties, in which to practice their profession before reaching a degree (Radcliffe, Mark, 2000). Normally, the hospital's nursing school is usually a teaching hospital, as well, which means that training does not exist ...

Nursing Informatics

Nursing Informatics

Introduction

The phenomenon of Nursing informatics deals with the adoption of technology by nurses. In the late 60's was installed the first computer system in hospitals in developed countries. These systems were funded primarily to process orders, charge sheets and billing accounts. Gradually it developed technology going from the basement of the hospital to the nursing units. So computers, PDAs, cell IPad and today, but slowly began to replace paper securely over the last 50 years. During this period the nurses / I have contributed to the acquisition, design and implementation of these technologies. Beginning in the 80s and due to technological development reached a new discipline, nursing informatics. According Hovenga, the early work in this area was published by Ball & Hannah, 1984; Grobe, 1988; Hannah, 1985.The nurses that began at that time were the pioneers in the discipline and often unconsciously began as they were involved with the technology or were curious start in new fields of knowledge. 

Nursing Informatics

It is the discipline which connects nursing, computer technology and science. Although the literature on the subject can be found numerous definitions, rules and differences exist, which probably correspond to the historical social and technological context in which they were written, reflecting the growth in perspective, however, a detail relevant in this movement and progress of the definition, is the change of focus in the computer and technology, to an approach where the focus is the person in the collection, processing and management of information to create knowledge. As indicated Thede and Sewell, the definition of nursing informatics has evolved reflecting common areas, as seen in the following definitions. 

In May2001 the ANA expanded its definition to "the specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science and information management and communication of data, information and knowledge for nursing practice. Nursing Informatics (IE) facilitates the integration of data, information and knowledge to support patients, nurses and other health care providers in their decision-making in all roles and environments. This support is accomplished through the use of structures, processes and information technology (IT). “Finally, in 2008, the ANA defined it as "a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science and management information and communication of data, information, knowledge and knowledge in nursing practice”.

There is today a breakthrough in clinical simulation, education and use Second Life for teaching robotics nursing and patient education. In the field of care and the administration has made progress in computer systems for patient risk categorization and dependence, DRM systems, bed management systems, and is beginning to develop tele-nursing, remote monitoring and mobile health applied to care, among others. In the field of research, our country has progressed especially in the use of evidence-based practice and teaching in schools of nursing, as part of critical thinking professional, yet little emphasis has been made in the management of information clinic to create evidence from practice (evidence based practice). For Knight and Hullin is the demonstration of how the nursing gradually sees the Information Technology and Communication (ICT) as a clinical tool to ensure quality, continuity and safety of the care of ...