Collaborative Nurse

This class was very challenging, interesting, and informative. First, students must push themselves to expand their knowledge and help themselves become more inquisitive, critical, reflective, and problem solve. As future professional nurse practitioner, we are striving for integrating clinical judgment skills. The knowledge gained in the textbook must be applied in the clinical settings without discrimination.

As a nurse, communication is an essential and important factor to building a therapeutic relationship between a nurse and patient as it is the difference between average and excellent nursing care, as it helps maintain a good quality of life and allows nurses’ and patients to interact and provide comfort when needed. The importance of good communication can become apparent with patients especially when they are in the hospital, as it helps the nurses build a positive relationship with patients and helps overcome barriers including physical, psychological and social. A therapeutic relationship is built on many factors which include both verbal and non-verbal communication which helps maintains the relationship and strengthens it due to the positive impact it has not only on the patient’s experience but also the nurse’s.

The following assignment will be written in first person as it is reflective in nature. Bulman and Schutz (2004) agree that to learn from an experience practitioners should go beyond description and reflect on that experience. The aim of this piece is to reflect on my role as a mentor and demonstrate my awareness of the responsibilities involved, whilst paying particular attention to the required learning outcomes 2-5 of the module. In keeping with the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2008) Code of Conduct anonymity will be adhered to and therefore no names of people or places will be mention.

In this event, the matter that is unusual can be the fact that I have experienced and witnessed the process for interprofessional collaboration between the community nurse and other professionals that I have never knew about before. This event made me realize that there are many aspects of community nursing that I have knew about before where in this situation it is the importance and accountability of interprofessional collaboration. From my nursing theory course I have learned that interprofessional collaboration is when the nurse forms relationships with other professionals that enable them to achieve a common goal to deliver care and strengthen the health system and clients involved in it. (Betker & Bewich, 2012, p.30) In this event,

Teamwork and collaboration can be found in many various settings including healthcare. In nursing one can find a plethora of teams, such as multidisciplinary teams. Observers and participants have found particular dynamics within teams that influence the success of those teams which in turn affect patient safety. Through a collaborative effort, nursing experts developed competencies to ensure teamwork and collaborative practices of current and future practitioners with the goal of improved quality of care and patient safety.

They provide high quality evidence based care across the lifespan to enhance patient safety, reduce adverse events, impact and improve patient’s satisfaction, support and promote optimal health status, track admissions and readmissions, and manage costs within and among continually expanding, diverse, and complex populations. This means that registered nurses are essential to the delivery of safe, high quality care and should not be replaced by less skilled licensed or unlicensed members of the healthcare team. Registered nurses are the people that are best prepared to facilitate the functioning of interprofessional teams across the care continuum. They also coordinate care with patients and their caregivers, and also mitigate the growing complexity or transitions in care. Registered nurses play a critical role in the delivery of telehealth services and virtual care. The development of the art of science of telehealth nursing practice has improved and expanded coordination of healthcare services, reduced patient risk, and contributed significally to care management models. Registered nurses must practice at the top of their license, education, and expertise to affect quality and cost through patient engagement, care coordination, enhanced teamwork, resource reduction, improved access, and quality and outcome improvement. Registered nurses must lead, participate, and support performance improvement activities designed to promote and enhance quality and safety, improve efficiency in care delivery, and evaluate impact on patient outcomes. Registered nurses also have the expertise in the development, implementation, and sustainability of quality measures and clinical practice

A nurse-patient collaboration experience I encountered stood during my junior year of high school. At the time, my mother was incarcerated and I suffered from constant anxiety and depression.Two attributes of collaboration that occurred in this exchange included communication and teamwork. Communication enntailed three components - silence, remaining neutral, and acknowledgment of emotions. Silence sanctioned me time to truly consider what I needed, and to decide what emotions to share. As I expressed my concerns, the nurse remained neutral in her judgements - giving me options, without pressuring me towards choosing what she considered to be the best choice.Throughout the conversation, the nurse did not focus on lecturing me, but rather

Acutely ill cancer clients are increasingly being treated as outpatients due to the increasing patient volume. Recently, the bulk oncology services shifted to outpatient settings, for example, physician offices, clinics, and cancer centers (Basic Infection Control and Prevention Plan for Outpatient Oncology Settings, 2016). According to Lee, Doran, Torangeau, & Fleshner, high quality interactions impact client care (2014). Therefore it is significant to gain insight on the interprofessional collaboration of outpatient oncology clinics.

According to the National Institute of Health (NIH, 2015), obesity has escalated to epidemic levels in the United States leading to dramatic increase in disease conditions and economic burden. As the prevalence of obesity varies by socio-economic groups, race and ethnicity, it creates health disparities in US population (NIH, 2015). The nurse practitioner (NP) with a focus on evidence-based and patient-centered care is in a unique position to provide obesity reduction treatment. This paper explains the background, significance, hypothesis and study variables of an NP-led weight reduction faith-based program for a group of African-American women attending the Lutheran Church in

Nurse Practitioners (NP) are known to generate a large portion of revenue into their practice, but their worth is more than just financial. NPs are valuable contributors to their workforce and bring with them expertise, knowledge, skills, compassionate care, high quality care, and holistic treatment plan to achieve their patient well-being. NPs contribute to the productivity in their practice, which can be measured in their clinical services and an increase in revenue. As stated by Packard (2014), NP’s contributions are at times hidden by coding and billing because of many reimbursement policies, which may bill physicians for services NPs provide.

The objective of this reflection is to explore and reflect upon a situation from a clinical placement on an orthopedic unit. The incident showed that I did not provide safe, timely and competent care for my patient when the oxygen saturation was low. Furthermore, this reflection will include a description of the incident, and I will conclude with explaining what I have learned from the experience and how it will change my future actions.

There is an interest in the benefits of telecare health care services, especially among patients who require hospice care. It is projected the number of elderly and terminally ill patient will continue to increase in the near future. Telecare is not a new phenomenon in the health care industry, it has evolved into an important aspect of health care and hospice. Thus, some of the important challenges facing the telecare team and the individualized field team included: inadequate knowledge on evidence based practices, lack of professionalism, and poor teamwork. The purpose of this essay is to assess three challenges faced in Telecare and apply my professional growth as it relates to these challenges. As I relate my co-op experience to the RN-BSN program I have noticed significant changes in my behavior and skills after the program. I have enhanced my knowledge on evidence based practices, I conduct myself in a more professional manner, and I have expanded my interpersonal skills to effectively work with interdisciplinary teams.

When you’re in a hospital, clinic, or nursing home you are constantly surrounded by nurses. However, you don’t really know what type of nurse’s you’re surrounded by, or maybe you do; but would you be able to tell what the differences between the two really are? I’ve heard many people state that Registered Nurses (RN’s) and Registered Practical Nurses (RPN’s) are the same, however, they are not. RN’s and RPN’s differ in many areas such as schooling, level of patient care, and salary due to ranking.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary (2015) defines mentor as “someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person”. Mentorship is sought as a long term one on one relationship between an experienced nurse and a newly registered nurse (Chen & Lou, 2013; Hodgson & Scanlan, 2013; Huybrecht, Loeckx, Quaeyhaegens, De Tobel, & Mistiaen, 2011). Mentorship is needed to encourage the success of the novice nurse and to retain new nurses (Hodgson & Scanlan, 2013; Race & Skees, 2010). Mentorship can also foster the growth of the novice nurse into a leadership role over time (Hodgson & Scanlan, 2013; Metcalfe, 2010; Race & Skees, 2010;). The relationship between the mentor and mentee benefit each other, as both

It is one of the models of nursing care delivery that originated between 1950 and 1960. It involves a team leader and various team members in rendering several health care products or service to the consumers in groups. A curse gives medications while bath and care are given by a nursing assistant under the supervision of a team leader who is a nurse. This has really helped in reducing the presence among health care workers especially the nurse.