Nursing Transition to Professional Practice: Reflection on Registered Nurse Standard of Practice

Running head: NURSING TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
NURSING TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
REFLECTION ON REGISTERED NURSE STANDARD OF PRACTICE
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Reflection on Registered Nurse Standard of Practice
Nursing is one of the important fields in health care sector that aims to provide adequate
care to the people with needs. The service provided by the nurse helps to individual in order to
recover from various health issues and maintain their health and well-being in an effective
manner (Christmals & Gross, 2017). In order to provide effective care it is important for the
nurse to have adequate nursing skills and knowledge. In this regards the Registered nurse
standard of practice provided by the nursing and midwifery board of Australia play an
instrumental role. In addition reflective practice is another important aspect that allows the
nurses to improve their skills and practice (Dubé & Ducharme, 2015). Reflection on own
practice allows the nurses to identify the mistakes and introduce effective strategies to address
them and improve their skills in order to avoid such mistakes in future practice (Goulet, Larue &
Alderson, 2016). The standard of practice provided by the AHPRA also helps the nurses to
reflect on their practice (nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au, 2018). In this critical reflection I will
reflect on two standard of practice such as thinks critically and analyses nursing practice and
engaging in therapeutic and professional relationships. It would help to understand the important
of using such standards in clinical practice to improve the quality of service.
Thinks Critically and Analyses Nursing Practice
According to Zuriguel et al., (2015) critical thinking is one of the most important skills of
the nurses that allows them to analyze a clinical situation critically by using their reasoning skill
and introduce adequate nursing interventions in order to manage the situation in an effective
manner. The ability of critical thinking develops based on the clinical problems that the nurses
need to deal with. Pitt et al., (2015) has mentioned that critical thinking is the process of utilizing
skilful reasoning. It is the ability of the nurses to question and reflect the reasoning process in

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order to ensure that the taken decision is effective enough to manage the particular clinical
situation. Hence it improves the decision making skill of a nurse as well (Rubenfeld & Scheffer,
2014). In order to think critically it is essential to have in depth understanding regarding the
ideas, concepts, contents and theories of nursing. Skills and capacities of critical thinking helps a
nurse to become self-directed. Thus, it is important to analyze the nursing practice by using
critical thinking skill in order to take appropriate decision and introduce effective care approach
for a particular patient (Pitt et al., 2015).
The registered nurse standard of practice provided by Nursing and midwifery board of
Australia describes the effective aspects that need to be consider in order to use critical thinking
for analyzing nursing practice. It has been stated in the guideline that it is required to analyze the
evidence based approaches in order to identify the best method for providing safe and high
quality service (nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au, 2018). Zuriguel et al., (2015) has described that
involving in relevant research to identify best evidences is important for quality improvement.
The standard also defines that it is important to take a decision while considering the
organizational and government regulations policies, legislations and guidelines in order to
comply with the ethical framework. On the other hand, the guidelines explains the importance of
reflection on own experience in order to improve the ability to think critically and analyze the
nursing practice (nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au, 2018). Pitt et al., (2015) has mentioned that
reflective practice is essential to enhance the knowledge, beliefs, skills and actions and helps to
understand the way in which critical thinking shapes the improved nursing practice.
The guidelines provided by the NMBA standard of nursing practice supports the ideas of
critical thinking and also complies with the guidelines of Australian Commission on Safety that
informs about the importance of providing evidence and consolidated standards for critical