Nursing Management for Effective Care
Nursing professionals play the most important and key role in the healthcare context. They advocate as well as care for patient while supporting them throughout their illness and wellbeing. Nursing professionals observe as well as asses’ patients and also helps doctors for creating care plan and carrying them out with proper treatment and medication administrations (“Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia – Professional standards”, 2022). Adhering to the increasing demand and complexity of healthcare among patients, there has been a shortage of nursing professionals in healthcare workforce in comparison to the demand of patient at the modern healthcare context of Australia.
The registered nursing professionals who are recognised to be the crucial part under the Australian healthcare context for success of the patient care delivery is targeted to critically reflect on their role and responsibility in the healthcare context. The report will discuss major aspects of management, competence, care and compassion, communication and inter professional collaboration and teamwork factors.
Nursing management is critical for effective as well as high quality care together with strengthening the integration of safe approach towards patient well-being (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2019). Effective management practices in nursing professionals develops positive work environment while also promoting a pleasant patient outcome and experience (“Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia – Registered nurse standards for practice”, 2022). Among the several management styles adopted by the health care professionals in relation to their role and responsibilities towards the well-being of patient, transformational leadership includes the ability of influencing the attributes and behaviours of nursing professionals for stimulating the situation and address the ethical standards and ability of the professionals as the effective and trust worth the leaders for patients (Iqbal et al., 2019). Nursing professionals should adopt this skills since it is an effective approach. Standard 4 of NMBA states that it is a duty of the nursing professionals to accurately conduct systematic and comprehensive assessment and also analyse information and data for communicating outcomes as the fundamental basis for practice (NMBA Code of conduct for nurses and midwives, 2022). Under the management approach, nursing professionals should work in partnership for determining factors impacting the health of patience and also should conduct assessment which are holistic. Adhering the standard of practice, nursing professionals should can empower the new joiners and use management skill to prevent conflicts in the workplace for the promotion of harmony within the health care setting (Schot et al., 2020). Nursing professionals hence should follow management skills for determining the health care organisation priorities and also finally up the resources for significant safety initiative. Principle 2 -code of conduct states, person centre practice highlights the factors such as decision making and inform consent of nursing practice as significant management skills for enhancing the role of nursing professionals (NMBA Code of conduct for nurses and midwives, 2022). Nursing professionals can consider using transformational leadership management as an exemplary management practice in their daily physical practice. Kiwanuka et al., (2021) in the research study discusses about the impact of nursing management styles over the quality of intensive care unit measures highlighting the link on structural and outcome measures under nursing healthcare setting. Adhering to the research study, nursing professionals can guarantee in high quality care in the intensive care units by adopting this management and leadership approach.
Provision of Compassionate Care in Nursing
Provision of compassionate care in nursing leads to high rate of satisfaction among patient as well as since of effectiveness (Zhang et al., 2018). Care and compassion also lead to saving cost and time as well as open skills with effectiveness in high confidence rate (Tierney et al., 2019). Compassion in nursing ensures nursing professionals from competent care which includes required skills and knowledge for treating their patient in caring through actions that involve the emotional aspects of relationship (Andrews et al., 2020). Coster et al., (2020) in the research study discusses about the culture of ongoing change in the healthcare setting that is inclusive of care and compassion for nursing professionals. The study focuses on compassion being a significant effect of nursing care with mindfulness intervention which have potential to support care and compassion. It is important for nursing professionals to enhance engagement with intervention to ensure compassionate nursing care in delivery for patience support and patient well-being (Aquilia et al., 2020). Standard 6 of NMBA states that nursing professionals have the responsibility to provide comprehensive and quality practice for achieving outcomes which are responsive to the needs of people. The standard also highlights the importance of profiling effective timely direction as well as supervision for ensuring the delegated practice is correct and safe (“Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia – Registered nurse standards for practice”, 2022). Principle 3.2 under code of conduct discusses about the cultural safe and respectful practices under nursing role that is significant for the promotion of Health and satisfaction in patient outcome (“Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia – Fact sheet: Code of conduct for nurses and Code of conduct for midwives”, 2022).
Competence is considered to be the cornerstone of safe healthcare delivery practices (Poorchangizi, et al., 2019). Forsdike et al., (2018) in the research paper discusses the nursing practices for the development of careers in general which are often unsuported. The structural diversity of Australia enables nursing professionals to practice in the same arena without being flexible in their organisation governance. Understanding the context of competence, the research discusses the barriers of funding structure as well as non-supportive culture and inflexible governance structure of organisation which although having potential for assisting nursing professionals seems to be too difficult in implementation. Standard 2 states that it is the role of registered nurses to establish professional relationship within the organisation and setting and also to provide support to people with resources for optimising health related decisions (NMBA Code of conduct for nurses and midwives, 2022). Principle 4 – code of conduct states the importance of professional behaviour for nursing professionals and also to ensure the professional boundaries, conflict of interest, professional and advertising representation as well as financial gives an arrangement under the responsibilities in healthcare setting (NMBA Code of conduct for nurses and midwives, 2022).
Communication can be considered as the foundation and element of effective nursing profession that not only ensures the promotion of self-acknowledgement towards nursing role but also effectively address the satisfaction rate of patients in healthcare setting (Chater & Courtenay, 2019). Veenstra et al., (2017) in the research study focuses on the guiding principle of clinical governance stating that healthcare professionals are the leading contributories of safety and quality in healthcare with clear communication and good relationship among the stakeholders. The study discusses about the standards of created by nursing professionals within the environment that excels in clinical care approach. Adhering to the research study, nursing professionals should adopt the bottom-up approach which values overall perception of the professional. Nursing professionals in their daily work should ensure high quality and safe healthcare by ensuring shared responsibility and continuous learning and collaboration. Standard 5 under NMBA states that registered nursing professionals are responsible for communication and planning of nursing practice with the uses of assessment data and best available evidences for the development of plan. It is important for nursing professionals to document and evaluate as well as modify plan for facilitating clear communication and coordination of resources (NMBA Code of conduct for nurses and midwives, 2022). Principle 3.3 – code of conduct for nursing professionals’ highlights importance of effective communication under the cultural and respectful practice and relationship (NMBA Code of conduct for nurses and midwives, 2022).
Importance of Competence for Safe Healthcare Delivery
Inter professional collaboration ensures data sharing as well as effective communication among physicians and nurses. Inter professional collaboration requires all the care team members for engaging with patients and reduce inefficiencies in treatment (Li et al., 2018). Oldland et al., (2020) in the research paper explores the roles and responsibilities of nursing professionals that ensures quality health care and approach for the patients. The study concludes on the fact that there are overall seven domains under nursing professional’s role. These are medical and technical competence, management of environment, promotional safety, evidence-based practice, person centred care, clinical governance and management and interpersonal behaviour. Standard 3 of the NMBA standard states that it is important for nursing professionals, to provide information and education that are required enhance people’s control over health. Nursing professionals should also actively engage with profession, as well as the identifies as well as promotion of the integral role of the practice of nursing (NMBA Code of conduct for nurses and midwives, 2022). Principle 6- code of conduct ensures rights and responsivities of the profession for the promotion of wellbeing and health (NMBA Code of conduct for nurses and midwives, 2022). Aase et al., (2021) in the research study highlights the fact that interprofessional teamwork is extremely essential for the fostering of the healthcare performances under nursing role. Adhering to the research study, nursing professionals can ensure interprofessional collaboration and teamwork at workplace for the minimising of the adverse events.
Conclusion
Australia as per the current reports has been experiencing increase in the patient admission date as well as challenges in addressing the patient due to the shortage of healthcare workers. Significant other challenges like lack of proper professional attitude as well as understanding regarding the roles and responsibilities of registered nurse has been reported to be a factor contributing to the worldwide challenge of patient dissatisfaction and question on well-being. The study discussed the significance of this factors for nursing professionals for effective contribution of them towards successful patient care and modern Health care challenges in the Australian Health care context.
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