A) As you observed the professional/registered nurse’s role in this setting, what evidence of a professional level of nursing practice?
The type of setting I was in during my clinical rotation was Acute Rehabilitation. The nurses on the floor all had a very professional mechanism. The use of evidence based practice integrated patient-centered care, working in interdisciplinary teams, integrating research, and quality improvement (Stevens, 2013). These professional nurses displayed characteristics that created this professional mannerism such as being compassionate, advocates for their patients, and being wise.
The nurse displayed compassion and was an advocate when providing patient-centered care. On the unit, there was a patient being discharged …show more content…
In the previous question, there was different mechanisms discussed about what makes a nurse a professional in regards to evidence based practice. This answer is focusing on the ways these characteristics were observed which promoted well-being for the patients. Examples that will be shown include patient-centered care, working in teams, and incorporating research into the day.
Patient centered care was implanted every time the nurse was administering medications. Before each administration, the nurse discussed which medications are being delivered to the patient. The nurse makes sure that the patient understands what each medication is being used for and why and makes sure that the patient is okay with receiving it. With this, the nurse is providing respect and treating these patients with dignity by giving them their independence with decisions. This provides education to the patient to also enhance this independence. Emotional support and physical support is always given to them whenever needed. For example, the nurse had a discussion with the patient about his demand for taking a shower. Before he could do this, we had to disconnect the IV and put a clear wrapping over it. The nurse clearly explained what would need to be done before he could shower and the patient had the option of choosing what he wanted to do (Oneview Healthcare, …show more content…
When asked to state his name and date of birth, he got very upset and felt the nursing staff only asked him these questions because they did not remember his name. He was very emotional about this, because he had been there for a long time and thought we should know his name by now. People had told him previously the reasoning for doing this, but he was unable to understand them. To address this problem, the healthcare team sat down beside him, held his hand, and let him express his feelings about how he felt toward his wrist band and having to state his name and date of birth to us. After sitting down and explaining why we did what we did, it gave him some relief and reassurance that these questions were being asked only asking for safety reasons. If these feelings continued throughout his stay, a technique that could be implanted would be to have him state his name and date of birth through conversation. Instead of him bluntly asking him to tell us his name and date of birth, the nurse could have initiated a conversation that required him to state this phrase in a way that distracted him so he did not notice we were having him do it for medication
The type of setting I was in during my clinical rotation was Acute Rehabilitation. The nurses on the floor all had a very professional mechanism. The use of evidence based practice integrated patient-centered care, working in interdisciplinary teams, integrating research, and quality improvement (Stevens, 2013). These professional nurses displayed characteristics that created this professional mannerism such as being compassionate, advocates for their patients, and being wise.
The nurse displayed compassion and was an advocate when providing patient-centered care. On the unit, there was a patient being discharged …show more content…
In the previous question, there was different mechanisms discussed about what makes a nurse a professional in regards to evidence based practice. This answer is focusing on the ways these characteristics were observed which promoted well-being for the patients. Examples that will be shown include patient-centered care, working in teams, and incorporating research into the day.
Patient centered care was implanted every time the nurse was administering medications. Before each administration, the nurse discussed which medications are being delivered to the patient. The nurse makes sure that the patient understands what each medication is being used for and why and makes sure that the patient is okay with receiving it. With this, the nurse is providing respect and treating these patients with dignity by giving them their independence with decisions. This provides education to the patient to also enhance this independence. Emotional support and physical support is always given to them whenever needed. For example, the nurse had a discussion with the patient about his demand for taking a shower. Before he could do this, we had to disconnect the IV and put a clear wrapping over it. The nurse clearly explained what would need to be done before he could shower and the patient had the option of choosing what he wanted to do (Oneview Healthcare, …show more content…
When asked to state his name and date of birth, he got very upset and felt the nursing staff only asked him these questions because they did not remember his name. He was very emotional about this, because he had been there for a long time and thought we should know his name by now. People had told him previously the reasoning for doing this, but he was unable to understand them. To address this problem, the healthcare team sat down beside him, held his hand, and let him express his feelings about how he felt toward his wrist band and having to state his name and date of birth to us. After sitting down and explaining why we did what we did, it gave him some relief and reassurance that these questions were being asked only asking for safety reasons. If these feelings continued throughout his stay, a technique that could be implanted would be to have him state his name and date of birth through conversation. Instead of him bluntly asking him to tell us his name and date of birth, the nurse could have initiated a conversation that required him to state this phrase in a way that distracted him so he did not notice we were having him do it for medication