Nurse Role in Patient Care

Nurse Role in Patient Care

Introduction

The high-quality healthcare system includes the provision of healthcare services to the population that eradicate healthcare inequities, advance health results through accessibility and quality management in healthcare provision to the patients. The nursing care in the healthcare provision involve the implementation of all legal, ethical, professional, social, and personal considerations to assure patient safety, dignity, and compassion in to consideration that aid nurses in decision making related to patient's physical, mental and psychological health. The nursing healthcare provision to the older population is significantly affected by the “ageism”, that is responsible to bypass the ethical and legal considerations while treating patient in the nurse care set up (Topaz and Doron,2013, p. 2). The nursing ethical considerations involves the the unlawful practices involve the assault in a mental or physical manner. The paper also addresses the protective laws often addressed as critical laws or civil laws to address the problems related to the care of patient and increase the dissatisfaction and decrease in patient turn out (Davies, 2011,, 49).

Discussion

Nursing Care to Older Adults with Mental Illness

The nursing care to older individuals with mental illness is exceedingly manipulated by the nurse as care givers. This involves the nurse's confirmatory approach to treat older populations. The professional nursing care for the population to assure their safety includes trust development among nurse and patient relation, attentive listening to patient, respectful assistance and friendly relationship development with patient (Topaz and Doron, 2013). The patient safety and quality assurance in the healthcare delivery include assistance of the occupational, physical, and social and speech therapy services. The nurses have to spotlight the ethical, legal, and social considerations to promote patient well being (Ellenbecker, 2008,). The WHO report (1996) has clearly established the ethical and professional considerations to deliver care to mentally ill old people in the hospitals, communities and the nursing care set up. These involve the health promotion efforts to clearly assess the preservance of patient dignity, the development of the procedures and laws to resolve the legal concerns related to patient, aid patient to cure with the physical, emotional, social impairments with care and concern. The professional and ethical values require the patient access to healthcare with equity without discrimination. The personal values involve the voluntary care assessment to patient at the time of emergency conditions through proper diagnosis, treatment, competency determination and the harmful side effects that can affect patient (Davies, 2011,, 49).

Nurse Care, Patient Protection and Legal Considerations

The “American Nursing Association” (2010), has got approval for the affordable act and patient protection public law, 111-148, that highlights the prerequisite of highly requisite and comprehensive approach through the development of professional nursing work force to promote patient care delivery. The nurses under the legal considerations are bound to respect the patient and assist him in his care through maintenance of patient confidentiality, treatment without discrimination to follow ethical laws.

The equity act law was passed by the UK government in 2010, to assure patient ...