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Discuss About The Core Professional Values Of Baccalaureate.
Description: A patient in palliative care was fighting with end stage of brain cancer. I have cared for this client during the past admissions. She wanted to know “do not resuscitate” policy and process in details. management, I had no knowledge and I failed to provide her any information.
Feeling: I was really feeling embarrassed as well as low on morale as I could not provide detailed information to the project about this policy. I was feeling sad that I could not meet up to the expectation of the patient in her ends stages. At the same time, I was also anxious about what the patient would be thinking about my skills, knowledge.
Evaluation: the bad part was that the patient might lose confidence on my skills and knowledge about treating her. The good part was that I understood that I need to develop knowledge on the do not resuscitate policies.
Analysis: this policy is extremely important for patients as they help to maintain their dignity, rights and economics and therefore, it becomes important for patients to know about theses details. Hence, professionals should develop knowledge on them as well as the different ethical guidelines need to follow them (Schimdt 2016).
Conclusion: when such situations arise again, I should be expert enough to provide proper details to the patient so that the patient feels satisfied and develop knowledge of the rights they have.
Action plan: I would ask my mentor about the details of the policy, go through authentic websites to develop more knowledge on it and undertake evidence based practices to develop ethical guidelines.
- I want to learn effective means of therapeutic communication including respect, empathy, genuineness, confidentiality and trust.
- In order to develop the idea about how to develop therapeutic relationship, I would undertake evidence based studies from the digital library of the healthcare centre and the university. I would also discuss the issues with my mentor who would help me to guide through my skills development planning.
- I will require journal articles that would have recommendations and evidences about the ways to develop therapeutic relationships. I would also go through books stated by my mentor to follow to develop this attribute.
- I will develop 2 to 3 months for this development of attribute.
- I can measure my own progress through the satisfaction that the patients develop after receiving my treatment. I can ask them to fill up a feedback form and thereby understand how well I am fairing in this attribute.
- I want to develop both verbal and non-verbal communication skills by which I can make my patients satisfied.
- In order to develop effective communication skills, I will join training sessions or workshop classes that will provide me the knowledge of effective communication skills required in nursing healthcare (Parandeh et al. 2015).
- I would require the support of the trainer as well as my mentor who would be helping me develop my communication skills. They will help to make me realise my mistakes and hence help me develop effective skills of communication.
- I would require three months to develop this skill.
- My mentors would take practical lessons and provide me with remarks and feedback suggestions that would help me to realise how well I have developed. Moreover, feedback of patients will also help me to develop idea about how I am communicating with them.
- I need to develop cultural competency in nursing practice
- I will go through different websites on the internet, evidence based articles, as well as go through the different experiences of my senior nurses so that I can develop cultural awareness. I need to reflect on my cultural biasness so that I can develop cultural sensitivity.
- Journal papers, internet connection, meetings with senior nurses would be required to develop the skills.
- Two to three months would be required
- I will ask my for feedback from my senior nurses and will also tend to measure patient satisfaction so that I can understand how well I have developed my cultural awareness, cultural knowledge and cultural sensitivity (Brown et al. 2015).
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Hand hygiene |
3.7.2018 |
I have learnt that hand washing is important not only before treating a patient but also after treating a patient. I have learnt six steps of hand washing that would kill germs effectively. Previously I did not know the six steps individually but now I am more confident of the ways of washing hands. I learnt that it would help to prevent spread of MRSA infection. |
1 month |
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Manual handling |
3.7.2018 |
With the help of the training, I came to understand all the 23 important points in manual handling. This manual handling policy by ANMF provided me a proper guidance about how to handle patients safely. Moreover, this training also helped me to realise that improper handling of patients not only harms them but we also need to care for our own health as improper handling may affect our physical health also (Kaya 2017). Therefore, the training provided us a drill session and made us understand the effective ways of patient manual handling. |
14 days |
“Sprangers, S., Dijkstra, K. and Romijn-Luijten, A., 2015. Communication skills training in a nursing home: effects of a brief intervention on residents and nursing aides. Clinical interventions in aging, 10, p.311.”
Effective communication by the nursing professionals helps to reduce verbal and physical aggression as well as depression in patients. However, communication training sessions helps to develop communication skills of nurses but it is also stated that such communication skill training sessions are time consuming and fairly difficult to implement. Such studies focus on benefits if patients but the benefits of nurses are neglected. Therefore, this paper shows that individually training the professionals during the times of morning care by using short instructions, positive speech, and biographical statements. This showed that the nursing professionals after this form of training experienced less stress, higher job satisfaction and better communication skills. In addition, providing effective feedback to the nursing professionals during care aids communication sessions also reduced their burden to great extent.
Learning needs Goal 1
I have learnt that I need to follow certain aspects in order to provide legally and ethically proper care to the patients. Therefore, I try my best to maintain the rights, confidentiality, dignity as well as respect of patients. I believe this to be the core of nursing practices as this would help me to maintain the human rights of every patient. In certain situations, I do suffer from ethical dilemma but my knowledge of bioethical principles help me to overcome them successfully without engaging in any legal obligation.
I effectively team up with the multidisciplinary team members and act collaboratively so that we can provide the best care to patients. I try my best to put patients in the midst of the decision making so that they feel cared and respected by the healthcare professionals. Putting patients in the centre of decision-making, makes them feel empowered and help them to comply with the interventions (Schimdt 2016). I communicate effectively with all patients but I often forget to document information about patients and I should wok more on this subject.
I know the importance of reflective practice in healthcare and therefore I try to reflect on any incident where I make a mistake either due to my lack of skill or due to my lack of knowledge. Therefore, whenever the organisation provides me the opportunity to participate in continuous professional development, I try my best to attend the sessions and develop my skills to become experts in the future.
Description: in the first aid course, I had learnt of the various ways by which patients suffering from different types of illness are handled successfully before the main treatment begins. I learnt during the course that my focus would be to preserve the life of the person, prevent further harm and thereby promote recovery. However, in the time of placement in the real scenario, I saw only clinical skills are not enough. Other skills are also required.
Feeling: I was quite astonished to see that eve providing pain relief to patient is not enough to make them calm down. They still felt anxious, fearful and tensed after an injury. Therefore, I was quite surprised to think that to these days I believed that a nurse who has high set of clinical skills could provide best care. However, it was wrong. More number of sets and core values are required to provide effective care.
Evaluation: the bad part was that in the placements I provided all set of clinical skills as taught. Although the patient was relieved of pain, they still felt anxious, tensed and nervous. The good part was I realised that some other skill sets are also important to provide high quality care.
Analysis: effective communication and therapeutic relationship development is essential to relieve the patients from fear, anxiety and stress besides relieving them from pain through clinical expertise (OHagan et al. 2015).
Conclusion: from next time onwards, while I would be providing first aid to patient, I will be also communicating with patients with empathy, sympathy and compassion so that the patients feel relieved and understand that their care providers are with them.
Action plan: I will develop the skills required for therapeutic communication and relationship building along with the providing of first aid care to patients. I will go through evidence based articles, and discussion sessions with mentors to develop the skills.
Reference:
Brown, S.S., Lindell, D.F., Dolansky, M.A. and Garber, J.S., 2015. Nurses’ professional values and attitudes toward collaboration with physicians. Nursing ethics, 22(2), pp.205-216.
Kaya, H., I?ik, B., ?enyuva, E. and Kaya, N., 2017. Personal and professional values held by baccalaureate nursing students. Nursing ethics, 24(6), pp.716-731.
O’hagan, S., Manias, E., Elder, C., Pill, J., Woodward?Kron, R., McNamara, T., Webb, G. and McColl, G., 2014. What counts as effective communication in nursing? Evidence from nurse educators’ and clinicians’ feedback on nurse interactions with simulated patients. Journal of advanced nursing, 70(6), pp.1344-1355.
Parandeh, A., Khaghanizade, M., Mohammadi, E. and Nouri, J.M., 2015. Factors influencing development of professional values among nursing students and instructors: a systematic review. Global journal of health science, 7(2), p.284.
Schmidt, B.J., 2016. Core professional nursing values of baccalaureate nursing students who are men. Nursing ethics, 23(6), pp.674-684.
Slatyer, S., Coventry, L.L., Twigg, D. and Davis, S., 2016. Professional practice models for nursing: a review of the literature and synthesis of key components. Journal of nursing management, 24(2), pp.139-150.
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