Registered Nurses Play A Big Role

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.

Nursing is defined as the promotion, protection and the prevention of illness and Injury, the treatment of a patient’s disease or diseases, the patient’s response to a disease, as well as one big thing that nurses are known for, and that is being a patient’s advocate nursing has been one of the fastest growing fields since the 1990’s (Mueller et al.,2012). Advocacy is defined as an action in which a person speaks out, argues a cause, supports and defends on the behalf of others. I believe that the role of being a patient advocate is one of the most important things a nurse can do because there are many patients that cannot speak on their behalf, I believe that it is up to the nurses to be those patients as well as all patient’s voices (Mueller et al., 2012).

As nurses we accept the responsibility of caring for the patient therefore, we have to be hold accountable for the care that we provide. It is important for nurses to use their own judgement in accepting responsibility, when to seek consultation and when and what to delegate to others. According to Battie & Steelam (2014), “a prospective nurse should hold themselves accountable for patient advocacy, continuity of care, lifelong learning, to colleagues, the nursing profession, and their organization”.

It is no secret that communication is key when providing direct patient care in a skilled nursing facility. However, there is a noticeable lapse in the communication between the care team when providing care to the individual or groups of individuals. Two main parts of any care team are the registered nurse and the certified nursing assistant, as these are the two people whom have the most direct and impactful roles with residents in a skilled facility. The Registered Nurse and the Certified Nursing Assistant play similar roles in providing patient care, but have different roles in its entirety. The role of the Registered Nurse (RN) is defined as having the competency and skill to provide direct and indirect health care to individuals, their families, and communities around them. Services are also provided designed to give out medications, to promote comfort or healing, promote healing, and to also provide the dignity of their patients and patient’s families (American College of Rheumatology, 2015).

According to American Nurses Association (ANA), (2010) “the nurse promotes, advocates for and strives to protect the heath, safety and right of the patient” (p. 6). Nursing responsibilities should be acted at the highest standard and must be based on legal and ethical obligations.

A nurse is given an opportunity to help patients, either if its by helping them through a very serious sickness or just helping a patient get to the bathroom on time, or a time when happiness is overfilling the room and a child is being born. Registered nurses provide a wide variety of patient care services (Mitchell, p.12). A Nurse must always know where to begin and where to stop, as any other career in the health field there is always something that cannot be done by everyone but only the certified person, a nurse must always remain inside her scope of practice to prevent any misunderstandings. A nurse must also follow a code of ethics , the code of ethics of the American Association of Medical Assistants states that a nurse should at all times render service with full respect and dignity of humanity, respect confidential information obtained by a patients file, uphold the honor and high principles the profession and accept its discipline, and last but not least always want to improve her services to better serve the health and well being of the community. (Mitchell, p.65).

I would define the nurse as the facilitators of patient care on all levels from management to direct patient care , unfortunately nurses aren’t always included in policy changes or changes in direction of patient care on the local and other levels . They may find it difficult to initiate or identify change when they identify problems due lack of support and training. I see great changes in nursing over the next 10 years. The affordable care Act will potentially change the paradigm of healthcare and offer many challenges to the nursing profession, as more people than ever in the history of our country now have access to healthcare, nursing shortages combined with struggles to get RN’s educated at a BSN or higher degrees will stress the healthcare system. We must embrace change , this includes education about policy and politics for our nurses , nursing students , and collaborate with other professions and disciplines to reach our goals as stated in the Future of Nursing report by IOM ( Hendren 2010 ) . Nurses we now have center stage due to Obama Care. Let’s take advantage of this opportunity and help decide how we will deliver healthcare to our patient’s .to the make a

Nursing is an ever-changing and growing profession. Tools such as, the scope and standards for nursing, state nursing legal regulations, code of ethics, and general principles of philosophy are used to set standards and promote growth within the profession. I use these principles and standards daily in my career as a registered nurse (RN). In this paper I will discuss the importance of these factors in my career, and how they all contribute to making outcomes successful for all involved.

The American Nurses Association (ANA) is the professional organization that represent almost 3.4 million registered nurses of the United States. The mission of the ANA is “Nurses advancing our profession to improve health for all” (American Nurses association [ANA], 2015). It acts as a voice of nurses and involve in advancing and protecting the profession of nursing. The ANA is focus in developing standards for nursing practice, and advocating for rights of nurses in the workplace. Apart from its involvement in enhancing the position of nurses, it also plays significant role in serving the public and the profession of nursing. In addition, the ANA is actively involved in the establishment of various health policies and practices that not only affects the public but also nurses. The health care policies and practices are generally implemented at state or national level. These policies and practices are often build on the foundation of nursing knowledge. The ANA has played a pivotal role in health care reforms such as Medicare reform, patients’ rights, nursing staffing ratio, safe needle practices, whistleblower protections for the health care workers, reimbursement for health care services and access to health (ANA, 2015). At present, the ANA is an avid supporter of the initiation of policy regarding

Though rare, infections in joints after surgery are potentially devastating. Healthcare providers must be especially vigilant to combat infection for the special reason that serious postoperative complications constitute a considerable emotional and financial burden for patients, surgeons, and healthcare systems (Bosco, Bookman, Slover, Edusei, and Levine, 2015).

Although many steps are necessary to prevent Surgical Site Infections, one important step is the use of perioperative antiseptics, which will be considered in detail below. According to the 2016 Surgical Site Infections guidelines from the World Health Organization, “SSI is the most common healthcare associated infection among surgical patients with 77% of patient deaths reported to be related to infection”.

There are different types of nosocomial or healthcare associated infections. These are categorized according to the site of infection and they include pneumonia, gastrointestinal illness, urinary tract infections, bloodstream infections, and surgical site infections (CDC, 2015). This paper seeks to review the current practice of surgical site infection prevention protocol as well as seeks to proffer recommended

Complications from surgery can cause an increase in patient suffering, increase the number of days confined in the hospital, escalation in health care costs and in serious cases, even cause death. Surgical site infections (SSIs) as a complication in surgery remain a serious concern for healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, hospital administrators and even insurers who are liable for health care costs incurred in the hospital. SSIs, which increases the risk of patient mortality, often requires prolonged treatment and results in economic burden, have dire implications for the facility, surgeons, and more importantly for the patient (Kapadia, Johnson, Daley, Issa, & Mont, 2013). Kapadia et al. (2013)

Surgical site infections (SSIs) remain to be a major problem among surgical patients.(Brown et al., 2007)(Mawalla et al., 2011) (Laloto, Gemeda, & Abdella, 2017) (Akoko et al., 2012). High prevalence of ssi has been noted associated with remarkable drug resistance leading to few choice of drug for treatment among clinician(Mengesha et al., 2014).Significant amount of SSIs occur after discharge from the hospital and majority of these patients are detected through telephone interview and other through questionnaire survey(Eriksen, 2003)(Petrosillo et al., 2008)

There are many different variations of healthcare professionals that assist people in regaining and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The career field of licensed nursing is often considered to be one of the most vital professions within the medical community. Registered nurses work to prevent and heal various different types of injuries, diseases, and illnesses. They are also responsible for administering a variety of patient services, consisting of individual patient care, analyzing and monitoring patient medical reports, and also possessing the ability to operate technical medical equipment. As well as, be able provide comfort and emotional support for both physically, and mentally ill patients. All Registered Nurses are responsible for providing patients with quality health care, in compliance with professional standards set forth by the American Nurses Association. As the field continues to rapidly evolve, an increase in responsibility is placed upon registered nurses to maintain a professional standard of care. With the increase in responsibility, the role of registered nurses consistently changes to accommodate individual patient needs. As a result, the rise in responsibility placed on registered nurses correlates to a higher probability of malpractice and negligence occurring within the community. The consequences of malpractice and negligence can