Impact of Nursing Practices on Patient Care

This assignment delves into the profound influence of nursing practices on patients' lives. It highlights the crucial role nurses play in providing attentive care, meticulously documenting every detail of a patient's condition, and adhering to strict ethical guidelines. The author reflects on their personal experiences observing nursing practices, emphasizing the importance of sincerity, discipline, and clear communication between nurses and patients. They also recognize the significance of involving patients in the documentation process to ensure transparency and accuracy.

Running head: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

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Nurses have a crucial role in the healing of a patient as they provide medications,
intravenous lines management and monitoring the patient’s condition time to time. The
primary goal of the nurse is to take a good care of the patient. Nurses, nowadays, have other
goals to achieve.
My primary goal is to become a successful and most responsible nurse in future. I
have planned accordingly in order to achieve this goal. I could improve my handwriting
within this targeted period of time and could perform better in my nursing practices. I can
carry out my attempt in achieving my goal according to the plans and improving gradually
(Nakate et al. 2015). The journals, books and other resources that I am using as a guide to
improve my nursing practices are of much help and I could gather adequate knowledge from
them. I am attending seminars and projects relating to the reporting and documentation and in
the process improving my skills. My effort in becoming an efficient nurse is fruitful with the
help of these resources and helping me to become a responsible nurse in future.
I have taken guidance of various books and journals in due course and improved my
skill. I came to know about the ethics and laws that a nurse should follow while preparing a
report and documenting. I am following the guidelines of the acts and the laws relating to the
nurses practices and specifically those that are related to the reporting and the documentation
procedures (Kent and Morrow 2014). I have strictly followed the teachings of my mentor and
tried to improve my skills. I kept myself updated to the new nursing technologies and the
research works that has been carried out and tried to apply those in practical situation and
helped the patients accordingly. These approaches are of much help to me and I am gradually
improving to become an efficient and responsible nurse.
Clinical document Journal Article Book Policy/ procedure
Chemotherapy side European Journal of "European Oncology A working group is

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effects are assessed by
the toxicity criteria.
Oncology Nursing Nursing Society
breakthrough cancer
pain guidelines."
recruited and a
multidisciplinary
advisory board is
developed for the
guidelines
(Wengström, Geerling
& Rustøen 2014). The
purpose is to help the
oncology nurses to
understand and
recognise the BTCP.
The patient is assessed
by symmetric stiffness,
tenderness, swelling,
and temperature
changes in the joints.
Weight loss, fatigue,
enlargement of the
lymph node can also be
noted to assess the
disease by the nurses.
Journal of clinical
nursing,
Patients and nursing
staff views of using the
education needs
assessment tool in
rheumatology clinics: a
qualitative study
The clinical nurse
specialist takes the
details of the patient
and analysed the
problems accordingly
(Forbes & Watt 2015).
The nurse uses the
following methods to
assess the condition of
the patient. This
includes observation,
inspection, palpation,
percussion and
Jarvis's Physical
Examination and
Health Assessment.
The patient should be
observed thoroughly
and the problems are
analysed (Hardware et
al. 2015).

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auscultation.
The nursing theories help the nurses to develop the capability to understand and
explain their regular experiences. They become capable to understand the criteria of a nurse
to improve the nursing care. The documentation on nursing theory and its application in their
regular practices states that a nurse must be focused on her duties and provide safe and a
standard nursing care to the individual. She must keep record and maintain the documents
efficiently so that it would cause no harm in the treatment of the individual.
The identified theme from the above documentation is the caring of the patient as
well as learning of new nursing practices which includes the reporting and documentation.
Learning involves a complex process that deals with the personal, emotional and intellectual
change of the nurse. It is collaborative and evolutionary (Søndergaard et al. 2017). Nursing
on the other hand is the therapeutic relationship that is provided to help the patient by
promoting, reviving and maintaining the health of individuals and their families. These two
themes can be applied in this documentation.
The nurses are committed to human and provide a compassionate service and guide
them ethically when they are in need. Individuality is greatly valued by a nurse and they are
responsive to the needs of an individual. The nurses can take motivation from the nurse who
leads the team in improving the capability of record keeping.
This document helps to learn the different techniques of the nursing care approach.
The documents also helped to understand the methods of assessing different disease
symptoms and the ways of record keeping and documentation (Lavin, Harper & Barr 2015).
The documents help me to understand the various requirements of the patients suffering from
serious illness and the importance of assessing the symptoms accurately and keeping the

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record in a flawless manner. I have learnt from the above discussed documents that a nurse’s
position may be in a compromised state if she is poor in record keeping and documenting the
details of the patient. Her position is dependent on extent of her sincerity and the way she
serves her patient.
I am greatly influenced by this documentation as I got to know the various assessment
techniques of the diseases. The nurses play an important part in a patient’s life by taking the
required care and by keeping the record of every detail of the patient’s physical condition
(Paans & Müller‐Staub 2015). My future practice is greatly influenced by the sincerity of the
nurse and I have learnt the ethics of the nursing practices. The routine practice of the nurse is
influential in my life as I have learnt to be more disciplined and loyal to the patients whom I
will be serving in my nursing career.
The above discussion taught me about the various aspects of the nursing practices and
the importance of record keeping and documentation. I will follow the guidelines stated by
the ethics related to the nursing practices. I will apply my knowledge in the practical issues
that I will handle in future. I will improve my hand writing and at the same time will enhance
the communication among the nurses (Lavin, Harper & Barr 2015). I will accurately prepare
the record immediately after the occurrence of the event. This will ensure the patient and
enable me to maintain a good communication with my patient as well. I will involve the
patient when I will prepare the record. These approaches will help me to achieve my goal. I
will try to be trustworthy and keep all the records flawlessly in order to improve my position
in the nursing practices.
I have learnt that a nurse plays a role of an educator as she shares essential
information regarding the patient’s health and helps to promote and maintain their health.

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They act in a collaborative manner and help in care giving and recording every details and
pass it on to the other attending nurses.