These characteristics seem particularly important in the current healthcare environment with the pressures and challenges facing professionals today, in particular the potential tensions between value-based practice as espoused by professional ethical codes, and the increasing focus on value for money and achieving targets.
The most essential professional competency for a master’s prepared nurse is personal accountability for one’s own practice. Accountability for one’s own nursing practice entails that the nurse be ever mindful of current best practices while relentlessly pursuing the safest and best care for his or her patients. An article published in the British Journal of Nursing argues that the “recognition of individual personal accountability
The most essential professional competency for a master’s prepared nurse is personal accountability for one’s own practice. Accountability for one’s own nursing practice entails that the nurse be ever mindful of current best practices while relentlessly pursuing the safest and best care for his or her patients. An article published in the British Journal of Nursing argues that the “recognition of individual personal accountability