NR 222 Unit 2 Graded Discussion Topic 1 - Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice
NR222 Unit 2 Graded Discussion Topic 1 - Scope and Standards of
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NR 222 Unit 2 Graded Discussion Topic 1 - Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice (graded, 25 points)
The American Nurses Association's Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (3rd ed.) discusses integrating the art and science of nursing. Describe how science and art are synthesized in the practice of nursing.
How is art and science synthesized in the nursing practice? Well, ideally a well-rounded nurse is one who can weigh both equally. Often, you need the art to get to the science. With regard to the professional nursing practice, a nurse should build on the art by establishing their clients trust, showing compassion, being responsive to their needs. The art of nursing is all about the qualities you enact on to your patient. Generally, the science aspect falls along the line of critical thinking; this helps to obtain the patients goal you are seeking. Its premise evolves around questions like what's wrong with your client? Why are they here? What information do you have to support your plan of care? Evolving around treating and making nurses diagnoses to the human response (ANA, 2010), the art and science of nursing both work hand in hand and is essential with patient care.
For instance, I work with cancer patients, these particular clients sometimes don't have the greatest prognosis (of course sometimes great). Nonetheless, all aspects of their treatment plan is important e.g radiation/chemotherapy. A nurse takes all aspects of their care seriously, i.e. explain their plan of care in a way that they are going to understand. It is about being responsive, putting one's self in the background and focus solely on how you are going to put a plan of care into action. (Johnson,2016) further indicates the key components of information, education and support to the person with who has been diagnosed with cancer and the barriers a nurse may cross in diverse practice settings. So, incorporating the integral aspects of both the art and science in your standards of practice again are the key components to the scope and standards.
American Nurses Association. (2010). Nursing's social policy statement: The essence of the profession (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: Author.
American Nurses Association. (2015b). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretative statements. Washington, DC: Author.
Johnson, C. (2016). Celebrating the science and art of cancer nursing through inspirational leadership. Australian Journal Of Cancer Nursing, 17(1), 2-3.
NR 222 Unit 2 Graded Disussion Topic 2 - Discuss where your personal values and beliefs are most or least aligned.
Discuss where your personal values and beliefs are most or least aligned with the ethics of nursing as described in one of the position statements from the American Nurses Association listed below.
According to (Hooten, Shipman, 2013) Society has allowed lethal injections to be one of the primary resources to execute prisoners. As most may know Lethal injections acquire medical knowledge and skill. Hence, it places ethical conflicts amongst the nursing profession with regard to our participation in the act. In many instances aside from the code of ethics of nursing it can also conflict with our personal values and beliefs. Additionally, Nurses are supposed to alleviate pain and suffering and help clients or society in general to maintain and restore optimal health, not solidify undignified death. Nurses participation in capital punishment is a contradiction to all things we stand for and by and our fundamental goals.
My personal values and beliefs are most aligned with the ethics of nursing as described in “Nurses role in Capital Punishment." That is to say that I too feel nurses should not have any participation in lethal injection. Capital punishment is a tough subject to discuss. However, aside from the pros and cons one may mention on the subject, whether it be they feel they deserve Capital punishment for the crime they committed. I feel no one should play GOD. I feel in the professional nursing practice, there is an ethical code to advocate, care, and protect regardless of the circumstances.
To add on, The ANA (2015b) Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretative Statements provides decision-making tools that are essential with regard to the professional nursing practices, to help guide nurses when they come across ethical dilemmas.
ANA's position statement elaborates that capital punishment is in fact a contradiction to the ethical code that is set forth in the nursing profession. Furthermore, ethically, is taking someone's life for the crime they committed, any different from their own? From my standpoint we are simply perpetuating the same crime against the perpetrator.
American Nurses Association. (2015b). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretative statements. Washington, DC: Author.
Edelman, C. L., Kudzma, E. C., & Mandle C. L. (2014). Health promotion throughout the life span. (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby.
Hooten, J., & Shipman, D. (2013). Comment: The ethical dilemmas of nurses’ participation in prisoner executions. Nursing Ethics, 20(4), 491-492.
NR 222 Unit 2 Content Question
Discuss the steps in the teaching-learning process. Why is it important to follow all of these steps?
The first step in the teaching-learning process is assessment. In this first step there are several factors to consider such as age, health beliefs, health risk, and external/internal barriers. During the assessment, the questions to ask yourself are what does the individual know about his or her illness, and if the individual is motivated enough to make a behavioral change. The next step is development of expected outcomes, in this step there are three goals to look for, and they are program goals, learning goals, and learning objectives. Program goals are long term goals that provide a sense of direction, learning goals are meant to see the changes an individual will make at the end of the program. Learning objectives are the steps that an individual will take towards meeting the learning goals. The third step is the development of a teaching plan. In this step the main idea is to figure out what effective method will be easier for the individual to comprehend the information being provided. Learning can be divided into three categories: cognitive, psychomotor, and effective. The fourth step is implementing the teaching plan whether it is in a lecture format, role-playing, or even in a practice-based setting. The last step in teaching-learning process is the evaluation of the expected outcomes. In this step the nurse will look to see what the individual has achieved with the program, and what teaching method was most effective for the individual.
It is important to follow these steps in the process, without the first step, which is assessment the program would fail to start. The nurse would not know where to address the patients needs, and where to set goals for the patient. So the teaching-learning process is very unique since one step clearly leads to another. There are many ways of educating the patient, and if learning process doesn’t work an individual has many more options to choose from. Lots of valuable information can be loss, if a section were to be skipped in the learning process. Therefore when implementing valuable information to a patient, always refer back to the teaching-learning process.
Reference
Edelman, C. & Mandle, C. L. (2014). Health promotion throughout the life span. (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby.
Unit 2 Content Questions
Student Version
Directions:
Content Question answers are to be posted no later than 11:59 p.m. mountain time (MT) on Wednesday to allow everyone time to utilize answers posted by all students when studying for exams.
Refer to the Content Question Assignments document in the Course Announcements to find which question you have been assigned to answer.
Review the grading rubric for content questions located in the Assignment link.
Compose the answer to your question and post the answer in the Week 2 Content Questions Answers discussion. Your answer should be posted directly in the dialogue box on the discussion. Do not post your answer as an attachment.
Your answer must be in your words and cited with a reference using APA format.
Keep in mind that answers should be succinct. The typical length of an answer is one paragraph, two at the most. Focus on identifying the essential concepts for everyone in your class. Although many of the questions could be addressed as an entire term paper, that is not the focus of this assignment.
1. What is health literacy? Please provide an example.
2. Please describe the different models of health (Clinical, Role Performance, Adaptive, and Eudaimonistic)
3. Please define and provide examples of the three domains of learning. Why are these important to patient teaching?
4. What are the two major goals of Health People 2020? Why are theses important to healthcare?
5. Define and discuss the levels of prevention. Please give examples of each.
6. Define and discuss the different levels of care. Please provide an example for each.
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7. Please define and discuss the Transtheoretical model of change. Provide an example for each stage.
8. Discuss the following roles of a nurses: educator, role model, researcher, advocate, consultant, and provide an example of each.
9. Define evidence-based research and its importance to nursing. Please provide an example.
10. Please discuss cultural sensitivity and communication. Why is this important in nursing? Please provide an example?
11. Describe the health belief model and include an example of how a nurse can use this model to help someone improve his or her health choices.
12. Discuss the steps in the teaching-learning process. Why is it important to follow all of these steps? Please provide an example.
See answer on a separate sheet in this folder
13. Discuss health education as a method for improving the health of individuals and communities.
14. Define and discuss the meaning of alteration in health and wellness. Please provide an example.
15. Discuss strategies for evaluation of the teaching-learning process. How do learning objectives relate to the evaluation process?
16. Describe three teaching strategies you would use to promote health education. What would be the primary domain of learning for each of the three strategies that you included?
17. Discuss and define one of Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns. Please provide an example.
18. Please explain the family as a set of relationships and please provide examples.
19. Discuss the different meanings of the term family. Please use in an example.
20. Discuss the primary purpose of social marketing in relationship to health education.
21. When the nurse is educating patients and families, what must the nurse first assess? Please discuss your rationale.
22. What are the nurse’s four central concepts when delivering care? Why are these imporatnt. Please provide an example of each.
23. Describe teaching strategies that are most effective for learning in the psychomotor domain of learning.
24. To prevent the onset of hypertension, Tom has decided to make some lifestyle changes. He eats a very healthy diet, has stopped smoking, and exercises daily. What level of prevention is Tom using? Please explain your answer and some test taking strategies you use.
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Tertiary
d. sub-acute
25. What are the steps in the nursing process? Apply the nursing process to a patient education situation. [Show Less]