Re: Topic 4 DQ 2

Professionalism in Nursing

Accountability is a critical element of patients’ safety and nursing practice. Battié and Steelman (2014) define accountability as being answerable to oneself and others for one’s actions. Nurses are accountable to themselves, their patients and families, their colleagues, workplace, and profession. Nurses should, therefore, hold themselves responsible for the advocacy of their patients, lifelong learning, and continuity of care. Depending on nurses’ formal obligation, three major accountability domains form the basis of nursing, and they include legal, deontological codes, and moral principles and values (Rubio-Navarro et al., 2019). Therefore, it is essential for nurses to be accountable in their services for provisional of better nursing care and improve patients’ outcomes.

One of the reasons for accountability in nursing is to enhance continuity of care. Nurses are accountable to patients and after their surgery (Battié and Steelman, 2014). As part of the continuity of care, nurses should be responsible for providing caring services to their patients. For instance, nurses should ensure that their patients receive safe and high-quality care after their surgery. Such care requires the nurse to report the patient’s existing health issues, risks of complications, and immediate care needs.

It is critical to expand the current clinical skill set and implement evidence-based practice findings for the world to meet the growing healthcare needs. The implementation of evidence-based practice findings will help guide nursing interventions (Davis, 2017). As such, clinical competency helps in active participation and maintaining the necessary skills to provide exceptional care for patients. The focused accountable interactions allow nurses to clarify critical points which may impact patients’ safety and outcomes. Acting as a mentor and offering assistance to junior nurses who are learning to perform new tasks to help raise their confidence will ensure the nursing profession grows into one which provides the best services possible. It will also help them embrace accountability in compliance with the nursing standards.

References

Battié, R., & Steelman, V. M. (2014). Accountability in Nursing Practice: Why It Is Important for Patient Safety. AORN Journal, 100(5), 537–541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aorn.2014.08.008

Davis, C. (2017). The importance of professional accountability. Nursing made Incredibly Easy! DOI: 10.1097/01.NME.0000525557.44656.04

Rubio-Navarro, A., Garcia-Capilla, D. J., Torralba-Madrid, M. J., & Rutty, J. (2019). Ethical, legal and professional accountability in emergency nursing practice: an ethnographic observational study. International Emergency Nursing, 46, 100777. DOI: 10.1016/j.ienj.2019.05.003

 Simply respond to the writer(student) post above supporting discussion positively using 200-300 words APA format with references.   

Instructions
Work as a team, beginning in Week 2 and compile all of the information included below in your own Word document. After doing so, send your completed work to your team leader so that they can upload one document that includes the work of all team members.

Complete the Leader Evaluation Form (linked in the Writing Requirements section below). This form is required by each member of your team. Failing to complete this form can result in a 20% deduction.

Scenario: Your Emergency Room Department has been short staffed for the last quarter. Patient satisfaction scores are dropping at a drastic rate (from a 9 out of 10 to a 6 out of 10). Employee morale is also at an all-time low. The Human Resources department has decided to form teams in the ER. However, there are a lot of varying personalities and some people are worried that their leadership style is not going to “mesh” well with others.

Your team was assembled by the HR director, but the CEO is concerned about the cohesiveness of the groups and is worried some of you may need to be transferred to different departments. Since you all love working in the ER, you need to convince the CEO that you can all work together as part of an effective team. Each team member will need to provide the following information to the team, and then all of this information will need to be compiled into one presentation:

1. Name, phone number, times available for phone calls, preferred email address.
2. How your Big Five Personality characteristics make you an effective team member (refer to text).
3. Describe your leadership type and how you will use these strengths to collaborate with the rest of your team.
4. Explain how you will navigate personality and leadership style differences as a team.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

• MS Power Point Format
• Title Slide: all members’ first and last name, team name
• 3 slides per person (not including Title and Reference slide)
• Reference slide
• Completed Team Evaluation Form
  • Each team member should save their file as: LastName_First Initial_Week# and email it to the Team Leader for that week by the team’s deadline.
  • When submitting your Leader Evaluation Form, the Team Leader must submit all forms with the Team Assignment.
  • When submitting the Team Assignment and Leader Evaluation Forms, the Team Leader should do the following:
    • Go to the assignment submission page.
    • Click on “Choose File.” Select the Team Assignment file.
    • Click on +Add Another File.
    • Attach each form individually.
    • After all files (Assignment & Forms) are attached, click “Submit.”
  • Do not submit your Leader Evaluation Form to your professor. It can NOT be accepted via email.

Important Reminders

1. Teams must choose a different leader for each assignment
2. ONLY the team leader can upload the team assignment each week
3. All team members must upload their completed Team Evaluation Forms in the “Files” section in their groups. The folder should be labelled for the appropriate week.

Post a brief summary of your Practicum Project focus, including the goal and objectives of your project (to serve as a reminder for your colleagues). Explain and justify your selected methodology. Include a detailed explanation of how you could meet each objective using this methodology. Also describe your evaluation plan, noting at which points during your Practicum Project formative and/or summative evaluation will occur.

Discussion Part 1

You are checking blood pressures at a senior citizen health fair. After you check the blood pressure of an older woman, she asks you about starting an exercise program. She has not been exercising, but some of her friends have told her that she should start to exercise regularly.

Directions:
Part 1:
• The original post must be at least 200 – 300 words in length
• What recommendations do you give her?
• What precautions do you include in your recommendations?

 Discussion part 2

Safety assignment

• The student will:
  • Apply critical thinking through the participation of selected topics
  • Engage in thoughtful discourse with peers
  • Incorporate topic discussion into clinical judgment and decision making within the setting
  Scenario: Safety
  A 77, year-old woman is hospitalized for the management of her diabetes. She has a history of functional urinary incontinence and poor vision from the diabetes. The nursing staff observes her climbing over the side rails on numerous occasions at night en route to the bathroom. She is quite agitated during this time. The nursing assistant requests that you obtain an order for a body restraint at night to prevent her from falling out of bed.
  Directions:
  Part 1:
  • The original post must be at least 200 – 300 words in length
  • Should this patient be restrained to prevent injury?
  • Would you request the order for a body restraint? Why, or why not?
  • What other information is relevant to this case?
  • What nursing interventions could be tried before considering a restraint?