Issues and Trends Since the inception of the Nurse Practitioner (NP) role in the 1960s, NPs have thrived in the delivery of primary healthcare and nurse case management. Despite patient satisfaction with NPs ' style of care, nurses have been critical of NPs, while physicians have been threatened by NP encroachment on MD practice. Balancing assessment, diagnosis, and treatment with caring defines NPs ' success as primary care providers. Understand the role and Scope of Practice of NPs is sometimes
Thanks Xiaoning. The national competency standard for nurses that I have been assigned to talk about today number 10.4 which is “Collaborates with the health care team to inform policy and guideline development.” Slide 2: The guidelines and policies among others that are used to guide nurses include, competency standards, decision making framework, guidelines for registration standards, professional boundaries, professional practice guidelines & Social Media Policy. Slide 3 The first aspect of competency
occupation of being a nurse practitioner to see if this would be a suitable career option for me in the future. As a nurse, you can generally plan when you will work and for how long, but your day will be anything but routine. Depending on the area of specialty, nurse practitioners are employed in hospitals, clinics, physicians’ offices, nursing homes, mental health centers, hospices, prisons, and other health care settings (Nurse Practitioner Vocational,69).As you
when nurses were eager to get an education and had the opportunity to acquire it through a nursing program (Alligood, 2010). From this movement on, nursing has continued to change at a very rapid pace. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report describes patient needs and environment being much more complex in the 21st century versus the 20th century; not to mention all of the technological advances (Institute of Medicine, 2010). These factors make it vital for both current and future nurses to obtain
making decision. This case study discusses why does the registered nurses need to obtain consent from the patient prior to a medical procedures and what sort of action should the registered nurse take if she/he witnessed the nursing staff performing procedure without patient consent. This essay will also examine how the scenario in regard to failure in gaining consent disregards the National Competency Standards for the Registered Nurse and the legal and ethical ramifications that are lend weight to
the ACA outcomes and meet these challenges, nurses will need to be full partners with physicians and other healthcare professionals to develop healthcare strategies that will increase primary care services to satisfy the consumer need for safe and quality healthcare (Lathrop, B., & Hodnicki, D. (2014)). Other ways to accommodate this demand, as expressed by ACA, is to provide technological opportunities for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Nurse to meet primary care needs. Technological uses
prevent the occurrence of type 2 diabetes. Within the ACA there are several regulations that was created to support type diabetes prevention. These regulations include an increase in national availability of EBP lifestyle prevention programs, mandatory coverage for diabetes diagnostic screen exams, and lifestyle interventions (Nowinski-Konchak, Moran, O’Brien, Kandula & Ackermann, 2016). The DNP prepared nurse practitioner has the opportunity to join professional organizations such as the ADA and
Professional Regulation and Criminal Liability of Nurses Christopher Ponciano September 27, 2010 Legal Issues in Health Care: Regulation and Compliance (HCS/430) University of Phoenix Professional Regulation and Criminal Liability of Nurses The health care field is a very complex workplace environment and the terminology like malpractice encompasses the negligence of health care professionals. In the past, there is a division that existed between physicians and nurses. Additionally
know which details about them are will be kept with confidence (Hope, Hope, & Savulescu, 2008). As per University of Washington School of Medicine, there is no obligation of confidentiality to be mandatory under every circumstance (University of Washington, 1998). There are legal rules and regulations that protect the privacy of the patients as well as limit that privacy. Privacy can be breached under two circumstances. One is when there is a genuine concern for a person other than the patient.
The number one priority of the Registered Nurse should be to provide holistic, patient-centred, safe and evidence based care to every patient. Patients who are admitted into hospital or seek healthcare services externally through clinics or the community usually expect to receive the safest and the highest quality of care possible from that facility. Registered Nurses have a major responsibility to ensure that this is achieved. To help guide nurses and other healthcare workers in the right direction