Gap Between Nursing Programs And Textbooks

In a profession where others' health and well-being are priority, there leaves room for neglect of those who are delegated to care for these people. As a professional nurse, there are many obstacles that arise and affect the care provided to a patient, as well as the livelihood of the nurse. The current deteriorating and unsafe staffing conditions in hospitals and other institutions prompts workplace advocacy as the universally appropriate concept for maintaining professional nursing practice.  Common

Since the publication of “To Err is Human” in 1999, the nursing profession has become more focused and dedicated towards improving factors that contribute to the endangerment of patient safety. Since there are many fields in nursing, each with their own risks to patient safety, it may seem hard to improve as a whole. Fortunately, in the scope of nursing, nurses must acquire certain skills and techniques that not only help them within their specialty, but also ones that help them maintain their professionalism and ethical responsibilities. When some of the more basic but important skills are reinforced, it may help improve patient safety. All nurses are expected to give quality care, advocate for their patients, educate patients and their families,

Safety education should be included in core competencies and evidence-based principles in nursing schools curriculums (Perhats, et al., 2012, p. 547). This will help to better prepare students to handle the job hazards that come with nursing professions and promotes workplace safety. Furthermore, hospital administrations play an important role in creating a workplace safety. Prevention and de-escalation training programs need to be intensify to decrease the episodes of verbal and physical violence against nurses (Speroni, et. al, 2014, p. 227). In addition, the reporting structures needs to improve in

Safe Practices in health care are practices that reduce the risk of adverse impact on patients due to exposure to medical care. In the article, “Role of effective nurse-patient relationships in enhancing patient safety” it is argued that “Ensuring and maintaining patient safety is an essential aspect of care provision. It is important that RNs maintain an effective nurse to patient relationship, a good health care environment and working practices that promote safety to ensure optimal patient care” (Conroy, Tiffany & Feo, et al. 2017). Furthermore, teamwork and communication is vital for the implementation of quality, and safe patient care. A lack of communication may lead to inadvertent patient harm. Creating an environment where nurses can speak and express their concerns and also alert/inform team members concerning unsafe situations is essential, thus advocating for their patients.

The goal of a nurse is to promote holistic health and well-being for their clients as well as educate and carry out preventive measures to protect clients from illness and injury. Safety is an issue that can protect both nurses themselves as well as their clients and surrounding community. Ergonomics of nurses and performing in a manner of proper technique protects the nurse directly and the client indirectly. Training for terrorism also affects both nurse and client. Researchers and organizations spend large amounts of time and money to determine the most effective methods and technology to ensure safety and continue the vision of improved nursing care.

When determining what actions or interventions are included in the domain of nursing practice, one must first reference the standards of practice that is laid out within the individual specialty organizations.  According to the ANA, these are foundations “that provides the basis for further description and refinement by other entities”. Nurses are able to access numerous documents within these organizations that are helpful in defining the scope of practice within a specialty. (1)

(September 30, 2003). "Patient Safety: A Shared Responsibility". Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. Vol. 8 No. 3, Manuscript 4. Available:

Every academic discipline in any profession is governed by its rules and policies developed and prone to amendment from time to time after viewing or arises of an issue. Nursing as a profession practice and an academic discipline is however not an exemption to this (Lasater et al., 2015). The nursing practice has different policies governing the procedures, and that promotes health and wellbeing of the patients as well as creating a conducive environment for nurses and the people they interact with in delivery of their services such as medical therapists, technicians, among others (Blegen et al., 2007). These policies ensure that there is a smooth running of the activities for the nurses as well as the patients. There exists a broad array of policies, but in this paper, the registered nurse safe staffing Act system will be looked into particularly in Florida.

The article I choose, Associations of patient safety outcomes with models of nursing care organization at unit level in hospitals, depicts hospitals using nursing practice models and how it affects patient safety outcomes. First model, is nursing at the Professional level using the driving force of evidence based practice in and around patient care, and nurses with higher level of education supports higher patient satisfaction. The second model, Functional model uses nurses, with basic skills to include, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and nursing assistants in a team approach, to cope with nursing shortages and lower cost, and how the quality of nursing care affects the patient care, and safety. The indepenant varibles

Reflection paper: Who is ethically right? The charge nurse trying to ensure a high acuity patient has appropriate nursing care or you the nurse? The safety of nurses from hospital-induced injuries and illnesses is vital to nurses themselves as well as to the patients they are taking care of. The presence of healthy and well-rested nurses is critical to providing continuous monitoring, empathic patient care, and vigorous advocacy.

The nursing profession is one that is ever changing. As a profession that is created and based upon scientific research, the way in which nursing care is delivered is continually being modified and altered to reflect the latest and most up-to-date evidence based research findings. However, not all research findings are going to be applicable or appropriate for integration into nursing care. Consequently, the ability for nurses to be able to interpret and understand these research findings is also important, in order to make the most informed, educated, and knowledgeable nursing decisions before integrating such research findings into clinical practice. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to reflect on how nursing knowledge is dispersed and disseminated in both personal and professional nursing practice.

Nursing and healthcare continue to change on a daily basis. The one thing that has remained constant during these changes is maintaining the safety of our patients. By maintaining their safety, nurses must ensure that they are keeping up-to-date with the changes in technology now being introduced in healthcare, new and emerging diseases, new equipment, and changes in treatment modalities. One such responsibility is ensuring that nurses do not operate equipment they were not oriented to or trained to use in an effort to prevent patient injuries. Nurses and other healthcare professionals are being held accountable for practicing within their scope of practice based on their licensure regulations, and their company 's policies and procedures. Therefore, nurses are responsible for their own professional growth and practice by ensuring that they comply with the necessary standards required by their profession.

All across the world healthcare professionals and organizations are dealing with the same issue, nursing workplace hazards and the effects it has on nurses and healthcare. Nursing Hazards have been a significant topic of discussion for many health professionals and organizations. Nurses are continuously reporting the issue of injury and illness. The duties that nurses are tasked with put them at an everyday risk of different types of hazards. The safety of employees and health organizations depends on nursing hazards being identified and managed with knowledge, skill, and assessment. It is the fundamental right of health professionals to feel safe at work and to feel safe hazards must be identified and managed. Nurses face exposure to workplace hazards such as blood pathogens and other body fluids, chemicals in the form of solid, liquid or gas, needle sticks, latex allergy, spills, equipment malfunction, the physical strain of the body, and workload. These hazards are under the broad category of biological, chemical, physical, safety, and ergonomic and work organization hazards. The following paper is going to look at workplace hazards and the effects it has on nursing staff. It will also look at how this issue that is plaguing not only the United States but the world can be managed or resolved.

For nurses to obtain a license, they need to obtain a rigorous amount of classes which includes specific skills of teaching and learning, that gives them the knowledge, good judgment, and wisdom that they need in order to pass the board exam and to become registered nurses. Education is a vital tool to close the gap between knowledge and practice, with the only purpose of increasing quality of care and evidence based practice for the patients. Nursing students sometimes notices the difference between the demands of their tutor and the practicing nurses. When they go to clinical practice and they have to face the real situations on a daily basis in a regular floor, in which they are unable to come up with an answer from what they have learned in theory, that’s where gaps start to fill in. The discrepancy between nursing as it is taught in school and nursing as it is practiced by students in the clinical setting has been an issue for a long period of time, which concerns learners, teachers and practitioners. There has been proven that nurses who are excellent in paper and school lack knowledge in the field. Studies has shown that many graduated nurses who do very well in school, are unable to put the pieces together in the actual field. If this theory-practice gap is not caught on time, it will definitely have consequences in the future because the principles are not well stablished to operate in the workplace. Furthermore, this can cause the new graduate to feel overwhelmed

In a hospital setting, lives hang in the balance daily, so, it only makes sense that there are tremendous responsibilities that go hand in hand with working in healthcare. As with any healthcare worker, nursing is scrutinized with a focus on safety, performance, and effectiveness. The whole of nursing is based on evidence. What practices have had the best, most consistent outcomes? What habits make for the most effective nurse? What issues are we currently facing with our patients and how do we best solve them? I am currently a nurse in long term acute care and while I see evidence-based practice at work daily, I also see that there is much room for improvement in the quality of care that we provide. In this paper, I will focus on the