Adapting In Nursing

Other attributes of the nursing team include being professionally competent and committed to work, and demonstrating clear values and beliefs (McCormack and McCance 2010). In addition, nurses should be able to use different processes in the development of person-centred care: working with patients’ values and beliefs, engaging patients and mental health service users, having a sympathetic presence, sharing decision making and accommodating patients’ physical needs (McCormack and McCance 2010). People

As a Registered Nurse is a crucial component to ensure that there is effective communication between the nurse and patient. As well as being respectful to the person’s dignity, culture, values, beliefs and rights. This is because everyone is different, and due to this it is important that I am being cautious to each person’s individual needs.

Human beings are at the core of nursing in my opinion. It is the commitment of a nurse to understand each person on an individual level. The nurse needs not categorize the patient other than by simply saying they are a human being and from that point let their personal beliefs and their gained knowledge guide the care they will provide. I can relate this to Rogers (2014) saying humans each have their own individual essence that makes them who they are as a human. My personal feeling is that humans are like puzzles and if we only look at certain pieces trying to make a big picture we will miss vital information, it is imperative that we build the whole puzzle to properly see a human’s big picture.

As a nurse you have to care about the patient, their health, using holistic care, and the environment. The patient is the person that comes to you for health care due to them being ill or wanting information on how to improve their health. Patients are the nurse’s main priority and their goal is to make the person feel great again. To do this, nurses care about their health and well-being. Health is your body working at it’s greatest potential. You can obtain good health by taking care of your body, eating well, exercising, and practicing a healthy lifestyle. While caring

Nursing goes beyond caring for a patient during their illness and managing their disease process. Nursing includes adapting to a patient’s and their family’s physical, social, spiritual, environmental and psychological needs. I believe in treating the whole patient and being supportive of the family’s needs as well. Shelly & Miller (2006) asserts “while critical thinking, decision-making, and leadership skills are extremely important, the characteristics nurses need most are compassion, competence, faith, integrity and responsibility” (p. 291).

Providing patient-centered care is the first core competency, and it is very important in nursing. The IOM believed that respecting the patients 'personal beliefs, educating the patient about ways to prevent disease, being able to use active listening are some of the main characteristics of a patient-centered care. Nurses have the responsibility to take good care of their patients. Every patient need to be considered as a whole and cared for by focusing on their individual needs. (Finkelman, 2010, p .267)

For nurses, patient-centered care has always been an important factor when providing effective and quality medical care to an individual. These patients form the very core of the profession and as such, it is important that nurses care for every aspect of that patient. Each patient is a different person with different needs that need to be addressed. Every day, these patients are challenging nurses to look beyond the physical condition presented before them, so that the patient-care encompasses the individual as a whole.

As a nurse, I take on a responsibility of putting an individual’s care in my hands. This is a job that demands hard work and dedication in making sure each and every patient’s well being is a top priority. Nurses take on a duty to ensure that each patient is given the best care possible while under their supervision. However, before a nurse can give the best care possible, understanding a personal philosophy of nursing is essential. A personal philosophy of nursing is how a nurse defines his or her practice. It looks into the

Health care and indeed nursing is dynamic. This reality should a reminder of how flexible we should be when change knocks our door. There are two types of change; First-order change, that occur within a stable system and makes minimal but incremental alteration on the current system; Second-order change is drastic and disjointed and calls for a transformation for finds most people unaware or not ready to move to a new system. “Workers need to be open and responsive to change and become ‘long life learners’’ (Huber, 2014 p. 39). One of the challenges is for the leader and manager to influence as where needed coerce the followers to adopt new processes.

The impact of the Affordable Care Act has had a direct effect on tackling barriers that are deterring quality of care. Healthcare providers are now looking at the existing ways of delivering care and improve the system. Nurses, being the largest group of healthcare providers, has begun to assess and change how care is delivered. This change has begun to alter the methods of teaching and curriculum development. Transformation is a complex process that includes redesigning of the current clinical education model that provides nursing students with learning experiences in a patient-centered environment (Halstead, 2012).

Nursing exist to care for, to teach, to love and to understand that everyone must be looked at in a holistic

It is important as a nurse to remain competent and avoid causing suffering and injuries to patients.

Nurses provide care for patients, residents, and clients. They also are the first to be in contact with the family of their patients, providing emotional support, and physical support as they help patients recover health and quality of life. Nurses are seen as caring, trusting and well-respected individuals. Moral beliefs and values are a foundation on which nursing stands. In addition, education has become an important aspect to being an effective nurse. I possess all of these qualities; compassion, a desire to develop my medical expertise, and the values that exist at the foundation of being a nurse.

Being a professional nurse means patients and their families in your care must be able to trust you, it means being up to date with best practice, it means treating your patients and colleagues with dignity, kindness, respect and compassion. In nursing, you see people pass away and new life enter this great world. This transition often changes you as a person and you learn nursing lessons along the way. Even in situations that are not "life or death" you can learn many things from patient care.

The grand nursing theory chosen by the future APN is Roy’s Model of Adaptation. In 1970, Sister Callista Roy identified the need for conceptual frameworks to be developed in order to have a foundation from which to build nursing knowledge. She developed the Model of Adaptation based on her theory that all patients must adapt to his/her given situations; we as nurses must guide and encourage positive adaptation for our patients (Roy, 1970). Roy’s grand theory addressed all four of Fawcett’s concepts identified in her meta-paradigm of nursing, adding an additional concept, adaptation. Roy referred to the concept of person as man, identifying man as a biopsychosocial being who received a nurse’s services. Roy identified the environment as any and all focal, contextual, and residual stimuli (1970). She addressed the concept of health as an aspect of a man’s life, lying somewhere along the health-sickness continuum (Roy, 1971). In regards to the concept of nursing, Roy identified nursing as a duty that helps and encourages man’s response to environmental stimuli (1970). The additional concept, adaptation, was identified by Roy as man’s encounter and reply to any given stimuli. This reply can be positive or negative (Roy, 1970). In addressing all the concepts identified by Fawcett as nursing’s meta-paradigm, Roy strengthened her grand theory’s foundation thus adding strength to the foundation of nursing.