Patients and their healthcare providers should consider the same criteria when planning the patient’s care. Aside from planning patient’s care together, it is important for patients and healthcare providers to have a “breakpoint discussion”, as mentioned in “Letting Go”. It is imperative to realize what patients are fighting for— more time or what they value. It is also important to sit down and think why we are doing what we are doing.…
A practical nursing student already knows the expectation that they must uphold the policy of how to conduct themselves in class as outlined in the Sprott Shaw expectations hand out. All nursing students will already uphold these values as a student but as nursing students we spend a year and a half with our peers and our facilitators. Although we all treat nursing school as a job with similar expectations in the classroom we will become close with our peers. While still being professional in the classroom there shouldn’t be the focus on judgment of our peer interactions in our classroom as well because our relationship with each other extends past professional and is a friendship. These friendships we build we will maintain professionally in lab but in class I think the environment should be more relaxed promoting us to build these lasting connections with one another so we can support each other and evaluating our participation in all aspects of the program could inhibit…
Choices need to still be an option for patients and the patients right to choice can often be over looked again when cure or stabilizing is the end goal by a physician, while the process is…
Health care professionals quite often must weigh up arguments over cost, the effectiveness of treatment and the benefit that patients gain from the proposed course of action. For example, the cancer drug Herceptin could cost £30,000 for one person – would this money be better spent on saving multiple heart attack victims? Empowerment and autonomy of the individual Empowering an individual means…
My professional status as a RN will be discussed based on the Behavioral Inventory for Professionalism in Nursing of Miler, Adams, and Beck. This instrument directs the RN to self- evaluate his/her professionalism and seek a higher degree of professionalism in nursing (Miller, Adams, & Beck, 1993). Regarding my educational background, I have an ASN degree and a BA degree in Sociology. I am continuing my education to receive a BSN. Having my ASN and BA, this will enable me to achieve my BSN in only one year.…
A professional organization handles concerns and issues that may arise for individuals that are practicing in a certain profession. There are many different professional organizations that are available to health care professionals especially nurses. Two of the more common professional nursing organizations in North America today are the National League of Nursing (NLN) and the American Nurses Association (ANA). In this paper, I will share with you what the American Nurses Association is, what goals and activities they perceive, how they meet, support, and advocate the evidenced based practice standards, and lastly I will clarify the concepts of professional nursing. American Nurses Association The ANA is the only full-service professional organization representing the interests of the nation’s 3.1 million registered nurses through its constituent and state nurses, associations, and its organizational affiliates (The Encyclopedia of Elder Care, 2013).…
Nursing is a profession, so being a student; I can learn to socialize in to professional practice. This learning will help me to develop myself to the professionalism of nursing. I will develop the characteristics of autonomous and accountable of my practice. Not only that, I will be committed to my work and profession. Being a member of a committee responsible for deciding which nursing research projects to provide fund for, I believe, who are the participants in the research have high priority.…
If the patient is truly at the forefront of patient care,…
The Foundations of Professionalism The world as we know it has changed and is still changing, some for good and some for worse. One point that cannot be altered is professionalism. So where does professionalism start and how do you create a professional out of a student? The foundation of professionalism in a university setting starts at the core roots with of course the staff members of the university which should be spread across the branches to the students.…
Conclusively, a patient has rights and those rights need to be…
I am requesting readmission to UC San Diego for the fall of 2017. Since my absence from UCSD I have taken 54 semester units at San Diego Mesa College and currently have a GPA of 2.94. I enrolled in the summer session at Mesa with 8 units and my trending GPA for this session is a 4.0. With these marks I will achieve a cumulative GPA of 3.08, meeting the requirement for readmission. I was suspended from UCSD by academic disqualification.…
I believe in caring. Caring for the students as a unique individual is the basis for the quality and richness that I bring to nursing education. Optimal learning takes place in a caring, safe, and non-threatening setting. The “Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education”, as defined by Chickering and Gamson (1987), is my practice guideline of being a nurse educator and is evident throughout my educational practices. It says that good practice in undergraduate education includes encouraging student-faculty contact, encouraging reciprocity and cooperation among students, using active learning techniques, giving prompt feedback, emphasizing time on task, communicating high expectations, and respecting diverse talents and ways of…
The concept of professionalism is a highly contextual construct that varies from individual to individual, influenced by many factors. However, professionalism may be generally defined as a “habitual and judicious use of communication, knowledge, technical skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, and reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the individual and community being served.” (Epstein and Hundert, 2002). Professional attributes describes a set of behaviours that encompasses professionalism, such as competence, commitment, confidentiality, autonomy, altruism, integrity and honesty, morality and ethical conduct, and trustworthiness (Cruess, Cruess, and Steinert, 2009). Hence, to exhibit professionalism means to possess professional…
Professionalization and professionalism are two very similar words but both have different meanings. Professionalism is considered more of an image because one demonstrates skill, good judgment, and a polite behaviour geared towards specific professions. Professionalization on the other hand is defined as the social process by which any trade or occupation transforms itself into a true profession. Without professionalization, standards would not be set for an individual to act professionally. Both professionalization and professionalism are key components to nursing.…
Define what type of leadership style best fits your abilities. The leadership style the best fits into my abilities is the coaching leadership. Developed by Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard in the late 1960s, Daniel Goleman in 2002 made it famous by including the coaching leader as one of the existing leadership styles (Boykins, Campbell, Moore & Nayyar, 2013). Coaching leadership style distinctively outline roles and tasks of followers, but the followers are included in the sharing of ideas and suggestions, and open communication style, but the leader still makes the ultimate decision (Boykins et al., 2013).…