Professional Identity Assessment: Personal Nursing Philosophy and Professional Nursing Standards

This assessment focuses on the personal nursing philosophy and professional nursing standards. It includes the importance of providing person-centered care, effective communication skills, and maintaining therapeutic and professional relationships with patients and other healthcare professionals.

Professional Identity 92434
Assessment 1: Professional e-Portfolio
Sections 3 and 4
Due: 12th August 2018
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Section 3: Personal Nursing Philosophy (250 words maximum)
Philosophy of nursing mainly helps in stating the thoughts of the nursing
professionals about what they believe to be true about the nature of the profession and
helps in providing the basis of the nursing activities.
One of the most important philosophy on which my nursing behavior is based is
PROVIDING PERSON CENTERED CARED that includes the maintenance of dignity
as well as humanity. I believe that as a nursing professional, I need to understand the
individual needs of the people and show them compassion and empathy. It is important
for all professionals to provide care in a way by which the patients feel respected and
cared as these ensures patient satisfactions (Dhanke & Dreher 2015). I always need to
be accountable about the decisions and actions I undertake and I need to answer for my
one judgment and actions. I believe in putting the patient at the centre of the care
planning procedures. This is important as providing person centered care and making
the patient an equal partner in taking decisions about his own health help them in
feeling empowered. This has positive impacts on his health (Master 2015).
One of my philosophies is to exhibit myself in way by which patients can easily
approach me with their concerns without any negative feelings. For developing this, I
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try my best to EXHIBIT EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS. These are are
very important as it enables development of therapeutic relationship with the patients.
Development of a bond with the patient basing on mutual trust and respect are very
important. Therefore, human dignity, integrity, autonomy, altruism and social justice are
some of the principles that would form the foundation of my nursing profession.
The above mentioned two aspects are my personal nursing philosophy that I
have developed following the “UTS Bachelor of Nursing Graduate Attributes”
Section 4: Professional Nursing Standards (500 words)
Engaging in the therapeutic and professional relationships is one of the most
important standards that need to be followed by nursing professionals. The standard two
provided by the “NMBA Standards Of Practice For Registered Nurses”
states “engaging in therapeutic and professional relationship with patients as well as
with other healthcare professionals”. By following the standard, I have realized that
every nursing professional need to maintain the boundary between professional and
personal relations and accordingly develop, sustain and conclude the relationship (Jones
& Wright 2017). Often in many scenarios, the patients might be happy with my service
and might want to gift me objects or might invite me to their houses and many others.
Accepting such gifts or invitations would result in breaching of the principle as this
might lead to different types of obligation, and so I have to be very careful in
maintaining this boundary. Moreover, the standard also speaks of the importance of
marinating effective communication with the patient in order to be respectful of the
dignity and autonomy of the patient (Richardson, Percy & Hughes 2015). Researchers
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are of the opinion that effective communication helps in developing therapeutic
relationship with the patient and this in turn ensures development of mutual trust and
bonding between the patient and the professionals (Haydon, Reit & Browne 2015). This
helps in increasing patient satisfaction. It is also important for recognizing that people
are the experts in their one life. Studies suggest that person centered care to patients
helps in putting them at the center of decision-making. This makes them feel
empowered and helps them to be an equal partner in the decision-making procedure in
their care planning. This enables them to practice their own rights over their own lives
that have positive outcomes on both their mental and emotional well-being (Robertson,
Fenton & Barnard 2015). In many cases, it might happen that the patients do not have
equal access to different community services due to their poor health literacy or due to
their social and economic condition. In such areas, it becomes the duty of the
professionals to provide support to them and help them in accessing resources and
helping them in optimizing different of the health-related problems (Registered nurse
standards for practice 2016). Often in many situations, I might have to handover
information about patients to other professionals who would be attending the next shift
or similar other scenarios. Therefore, I need to be very careful while delegating,
supervising, coordinating, consulting and referring patients to other professionals.
Ineffective delegation may lead to medication errors and suffering of the patients.
Effective supervision and coordination among the members within a multidisciplinary
team is also important in order to ensure effective care delivery. Coordination, effective
communication, collaboration, exchange of feedbacks is important to ensure every
members of the team are aware of all the conditions and progress of the patients and
goals and priorities set by the team for the betterment of the nurses are met. Though
evidence based practices and continuous professional developments, it is important for
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professionals to adopt all practices that would ensure a culture of safety in the
workplace by engaging with other healthcare professionals. Another very important
action that would be taken by me is to ensure development of an organizational culture
that would have a blame-free environment. This will help in reporting of unethical
practices, medication errors and different other types of legal breaches. This would help
in development of the quality of service for the future helping in releasing the training
requirements of professionals and accordingly taking interventions for them.
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Reference List
Dahnke, M.D. & Dreher, H.M., 2015. Philosophy of science for nursing practice:
Concepts and application. Springer Publishing Company.
Haydon, G., van der Reit, P., & Browne, G. 2015. A narrative inquiry: Humour and
gender differences in the therapeutic relationship between nurses and their
patients. Contemporary nurse, vol 50 no. 2-3, pp 214-226.
Jones, E.S. & Wright, K.M., 2017. “They’re Really PD Today” An Exploration of
Mental Health Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Developing a Therapeutic
Relationship With Patients With a Diagnosis of Antisocial Personality
Disorder. International journal of offender therapy and comparative
criminology, vol 6 no 5, pp.526-543.
Masters, K., 2015. Role development in professional nursing practice. Jones &
Bartlett Publishers.
Registered nurse standards for practice 2016, NMBA Retrieved from:
http://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Codes-Guidelines-Statements/
Professional-standards/registered-nurse-standards-for-practice.aspx retrieved on 8th
August, 2018
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Richardson, C., Percy, M. & Hughes, J., 2015. Nursing therapeutics: teaching
student nurses care, compassion and empathy. Nurse Education Today, vol 35 no 5,
pp. e1-e5.
Roberts, J.F., Fenton, G. & Barnard, M.C., 2015. Developing effective therapeutic
relationships with children, young people and their families. Nursing children and
young people, vol 27 no. 4, pp.30-35.
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