Professional Nursing Roles and Values

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Professional Nursing Roles and Values
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Part A
Florence Nightingale Environmental Theory of Nursing has influenced my professional values
and goals.
According to this theory, the health of an individual is strongly influenced by the surrounding
atmosphere or the prevailing environment. The nursing professionals mainly apply theory in the
nursing practiced by making the surrounding atmosphere comfortable for the health-care service
users. Making a comfortable atmosphere deals giving importance to patient’s comfort, this can
be done by interacting with the patients, developing therapeutic relationships with them and
thereby helping to generate a comfortable surrounding with a patient-centered
approach(Zborowsky, 2014).
The identified theory fits into my professional practice as it coincides with the healthcare
work environment with aligning with the individual’s professional values, beliefs and inter-
professional collegiality.
Part B
Two eminent nursing figures of the 20th century are Clara Barton and Mary
Breckinridge. Clara Barton is known as America’s “Angel of the Battlefield”. She is the founder
of the American Red Cross and gave immense importance to the importance of the medical
supplies availability at the site war field(Hutchinson, 2018). Mary Breckinridge is the registered
nurse in the United States during 1910. She was the first person to introduce the concept of
nurse-midwifery in the US after World War I within American Committee for addressing the
devastated France(O'brien, 2017).

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The Clara Barton influenced my nursing practice via making me understand the
importance of the availability of medical goods and equipment in the emergency department.
This can be done with the help of the computerized order entry and tabulation of the proper data.
Mary Breckinridge made me understand the importance of the midwives in the procurement of
the pre and post natal care. At present antenatal care is holding prime position in securing
successful delivery to pregnant woman.
Part C
The State Board of Nursing (SBN) is a non-profit independent organization in the US,
which holds the memberships of 50 states, Columbia districts and four different US territories. It
mainly looks after public health, safety and welfare of the population (National Council of State
Boards of Nursing 2018). American Nurses Association (ANA) looks after the professional code
of conduct of the nursing professionals operating in the US.
The SBN influences my nursing practice via helping me understand the importance of the
safety in healthcare and how the healthcare practice must be done in joint collaboration with
other reputed organizations and multidisciplinary team. The ANA guides me with professional
code of conduct like professional accountability, self-advocacy of the nurse and roles and the
guidelines of the nursing profession.
According to the Florida Board of Nursing (2018), the certificate or the license for the
practicing the nursing profession in Florida is required to be earned either by examination or by
endorsement.Both the avenues are open for Florida it is a member of the enhanced Nurse
Licensure Compact (eNLC). The a state which is a member of eNLC, a registered nurse licensed
in another compact stated is eligible for practicing in Florida without new license. However, if

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Floridais transformed into primary state of residence then the candidate will require new license
within 30days otherwise he or she will not be allowed to practice (Florida Board of Nursing,
2018). As long asFlorida is a compact state there is no stringency of the nursing license
requirement specific for Florida. The license for any other compacted state will be suitable
enough for practicing in Florida as opposed to other non-compact state which requires separate
license (Nursing License.org, 2018).
Part D
Centre for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS) (2018) is a federal agency
operating within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It administers
medicare programs by working in partnerships with the state government. The medicare
programs are directed towards providing proper insurance for the healthcare of children, adults
and maternity service. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is federal agency operated in
the United States under the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The
organization is responsible for protecting the public health through the controlled supervision of
the quality of the medical products, dietary supplements and other medical equipment and the
pharmacological drugs.
Both the organizations influence my nursing practice in the domain of professional
accountability. According to the professional accountability of the nursing professionals as
proposed by ANA (2018), it is the duty of the nursing professionals to perform advocacy on
behalf of the patients and to guide them with the best possible therapy which is cost effective and
this is what done by CMMS. The professional accountability of the nursing professional also