Abstract
Patient safety is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care and considered the cornerstone of high-quality health care. Nurses play an important role in that vital care. Nurses need to know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes.
A Nurse’s Role
Providing patient safety is not the of a nurse. The nurse must also show commitment, from the code of ethics, to provide competent and ethical care. Registered nurses also have the professional obligation to raise concerns regarding any patient assignment that may put the patient, the nurse or both at risk. This professional obligation is anchored in the Nursing’s Social Policy Statement Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice. Under the Provisions of the Code of Ethics provision 3 it states, “The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient”. (Fowler, 2010, p. 29) The role of the nurse to provide patient safety begins at the beginning semester, with the course of "Fundamentals of Learning". Further, the role of the nurse is continued as the first patient is encountered. At this time, the nurse will implement …show more content…
I will learn from my previous incident, and see this as way to improve my performance. I will try to improve my critical thinking, and as I handle daily tasks, I will identify the issue by interpreting any available resources. Moverover, I will think of possible actions, evaluate my actions, and choose the best action to make a clinical judgement. I will use my resources available, such as my nurse preceptor or my clinical instructor. I will foremost make sure that I have plenty of rest prior to any work day while I am in clinical rotation from here
Patient safety is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care and considered the cornerstone of high-quality health care. Nurses play an important role in that vital care. Nurses need to know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes.
A Nurse’s Role
Providing patient safety is not the of a nurse. The nurse must also show commitment, from the code of ethics, to provide competent and ethical care. Registered nurses also have the professional obligation to raise concerns regarding any patient assignment that may put the patient, the nurse or both at risk. This professional obligation is anchored in the Nursing’s Social Policy Statement Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice. Under the Provisions of the Code of Ethics provision 3 it states, “The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient”. (Fowler, 2010, p. 29) The role of the nurse to provide patient safety begins at the beginning semester, with the course of "Fundamentals of Learning". Further, the role of the nurse is continued as the first patient is encountered. At this time, the nurse will implement …show more content…
I will learn from my previous incident, and see this as way to improve my performance. I will try to improve my critical thinking, and as I handle daily tasks, I will identify the issue by interpreting any available resources. Moverover, I will think of possible actions, evaluate my actions, and choose the best action to make a clinical judgement. I will use my resources available, such as my nurse preceptor or my clinical instructor. I will foremost make sure that I have plenty of rest prior to any work day while I am in clinical rotation from here