Professional Development in Nursing Professionals
Professional Development in Nursing Professionals
Nursing is a process in which include assisting clients (patients) in preventing illness, maintaining health, diagnosing disease process and treating appropriately. It also helps to prevent or minimize limitations. Standard of care is “what” and “how” of delivering care and professional responsibility and these are interconnected. Because of the quick changes in the health care system today the complexity of medical conditions of the clients, nurses needs to be highly educated to adapt the changes and achieve professional goals. In 2010, Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWF) did a research and made recommendations on “The future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”. The report stress on providing a safe, quality, patient centered care and make it affordable and accessible to the public. In order to accomplish this, the nurses should improve critical thinking, clinical judgment and evidence based nursing practice.
According to IOM report nurses shall practice to the full extent of their education and training. Education will expand the opportunities for nurses and it will provide new ways to practice client centered care, provide more primary care instead of specialty because of transferring clients from hospitals to community .Increasing the number of highly educated nurses will help to improve the work force of nurses. Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) can function in a primary care setting with Physicians. As the vital part in the care system nurses are educated to minimize the rate of infection and avoid medication errors. The Affordable Care Act of 2010(Public Law 111-148) offering the patient centered health care. In today’s health care system nurses needs higher education, clinical skills and competency to practice prevention of illness and promotion of health of the clients. Lifelong learning is an inevitable part of nursing practice to meet the challenges
Nursing is a process in which include assisting clients (patients) in preventing illness, maintaining health, diagnosing disease process and treating appropriately. It also helps to prevent or minimize limitations. Standard of care is “what” and “how” of delivering care and professional responsibility and these are interconnected. Because of the quick changes in the health care system today the complexity of medical conditions of the clients, nurses needs to be highly educated to adapt the changes and achieve professional goals. In 2010, Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWF) did a research and made recommendations on “The future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”. The report stress on providing a safe, quality, patient centered care and make it affordable and accessible to the public. In order to accomplish this, the nurses should improve critical thinking, clinical judgment and evidence based nursing practice.
According to IOM report nurses shall practice to the full extent of their education and training. Education will expand the opportunities for nurses and it will provide new ways to practice client centered care, provide more primary care instead of specialty because of transferring clients from hospitals to community .Increasing the number of highly educated nurses will help to improve the work force of nurses. Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) can function in a primary care setting with Physicians. As the vital part in the care system nurses are educated to minimize the rate of infection and avoid medication errors. The Affordable Care Act of 2010(Public Law 111-148) offering the patient centered health care. In today’s health care system nurses needs higher education, clinical skills and competency to practice prevention of illness and promotion of health of the clients. Lifelong learning is an inevitable part of nursing practice to meet the challenges
References: 2010 IOM Report on Future of nursing. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF ) Public Law 111-114 IOM National poll of Leadership 2009 0