Neglecting RN Standards: Impacts on Individuals and Healthcare

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Introduction
Nursing is a health care profession that requires an approach and quality practices when interacting
with patients or working in a health care professional environment. However, nursing is a practice
that directly involves and focuses on a patient’s health. Nursing is a profession that serves a key role
in managing patient or individual care. It requires various methods of practice and a variety of
settings when involved in patient care. As the nursing profession is increasing globally, that has
resulted in the increasing demand for the nurse’s training and participating in contributing their
roles effectively. In this way, the nursing standards are set to fulfill the requirement of every
individual. However, the major role of the health care professional is to collaborating with doctors by
establishing a plan of care and focusing on the standard of care. The nursing profession has always
been the root of the healthcare sector as it is the most significant profession that helps in the
coordination of a patient and provides care throughout treatment. Advancement in nursing has
been reported as an effective development in the healthcare profession. This also provide also an
approach which is productive for the patient and their compliance and provide the additional factor
which help to access in the distribution of quality of health and quality of care o the patient
(Ahlstedt and et. al., 2019).
Experience
My practice in the health care profession has been brought my understanding in a manner that
when a patient seeks health, it is my duty as a nursing student to acquire every detail about the
individual’s problem and provide an answer to which is possibly related to their studying and
professional scenario. On the base of various experience this is well analyses that my professional
placement experience as a nursing student, I was responsible for delivering the medicines to the
patient on time and in an appropriate manner of dosages. However, it requires a lot of studies to
administer the right amount of dose that the patient is required to have. As medication serves a vital
role in the treatment of the patient and, on the other hand, patients are not well aware of these
medications and treatment, and sometimes they are reluctant to order to be treated and they
usually provide effective care. As per this, my knowledge and skill which I gain from the academic
session during pursing the nursing provide me proficient and productive knowledge for the caring of
patient. Being a nursing student, the administration of the drug is a practice where any mistake
could lead to severe consequences and therefore, with the help of standards of procedures and
practices. I was able to fulfill my duty effectively (Bulman & Schutz, 2018).
Registered nursing standard
Nursing is a dynamic health care profession that requires effective guidelines, and number of policies
which is adapted by the registered nurse in order to provide the effective knowledge and skill. This
skill and knowledge help to gain more decision-making power while the situation is arising. An
analysis of standard 1.4 requires a framework of policies and regulations in the matter of decision-
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making as each of these standards holds significance in nursing practice (Sweet et al., 2020).
However, in any health care profession, the essential practice is the technique of decision-making
under certain circumstances and that requires clinical reasoning skills. Therefore, under the
standards, registered nurses are responsible for making the decision and analysing the requirements
to perform a task that follows the nursing plan of care. These decisions are based on the
consideration that a registered nurse competent to perform the activity effectively under
supervision (Tong and et. al., 2018). This needs to establish a quality management framework with
the required clinical skills, including best practice methods. As a nursing student, the matter of
administering he right dose of medicines to the patient is a practice that cannot be performed
without these standards. Therefore, in the administration of medicines, an individual must be well-
trained and experienced. However, drug administration is a science that requires different routes of
administration depending on the nature of treatment under proper supervision. This all are used to
provide the patient care and proper caring in term of role and responsibilities. The role of nurse is to
provide the medication with proper time to patient which is prescribed by the physician and doctor.
As per this, the registered nurse is required to follow the general guidelines before practicing the
techniques. Decision-making is an important tool in the health care as it directly impacts the
individual’s mode of treatment. Professional placement experience provides the knowledge-based
decision-making strategies which is productive in the patient treatment and care which is regulated
by nurse. On the other practice, they acknowledgment helps in the development of better decision-
making skills and contributes to a quality health care practice. Therefore, the decision-making
technique aims to be responsible for planning or performing the activity effectively in a harmless
manner (Callander et al., 2021). However, in a dynamic health care sector, a decision-making tool to
establish a structure that requires time to time modification and advancement in the nursing
profession that provides quality and service-oriented practices in health care professions. On many
occasions, nurses are responsible for making a professional decision or consulting with the experts
or other team members to develop an understanding regarding the situation. This will ultimately
gain a where the practitioner would be able to make decisions in response to certain issue (Lan and
et. al., 2019).
As per this, the standard which is used to follow in this is 1.4, this helps me to gain more and
adaptive knowledge base factor. This standard is used to provide effective measurement and scope
for the nurse and from this standard I used to gain number of experiences which is based on the
patient safety. Some of the measurement which is adopted in this is to provide the knowledge which
is appropriate from the standard 1.4 and 3.4.
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Furthermore, the standards of practice provide the framework that maintains the system
management and contributes to the development of a better healthcare environment and
healthcare professionals, respectively. On analysis of standard 3.4 that reflects the individual
responsibilities in terms of their actions that they are capable of providing the care to the patient.
This, in turn, reflects that responsibility is fundamental to the registered nursing that every
healthcare professional is accountable for their actions and policies to do practice (Sweet et al.,
2020). Therefore, in the matter of accountability, the code of practice which help to plays a major
role that demonstrates the laws and regulations for action, decision-making, and behaviours (Turan
2020), as this practice will focus on gaining the patient’s trust and ensure the services to provide
care (Darch and et. al., 2017). However, in any mode of healthcare practice, a practitioner is
responsible for maintaining a trustworthy relation with the patient and monitored throughout the
care (Callander et al., 2021). For instance, in the matter of medicine administration where a patient
is not aware regarding the complication which is identified by the test which is used for the
diagnosing. Thus, this test report provides the ways that used for the decision while preparing
medication. In this case, the nursing practitioner is accountable to ensure the mode of treatment is
for the betterment of a patient’s health, following the procedures of standards, maintaining trust,
and providing answers and explanations to develop the understanding of the patient as it will
develop the concepts of trust and actions in the plan of care. Therefore, these standards are
required to set general rules of guidance and practices to perform an activity in a more accountable
manner. It requires critical thinking and evaluating outcomes in lifelong learning.
On investigation of previous literature, the first National Competency standard in the matter of
nurse practice was later modified under the name of Australian NP standards of practice. This led to
the establishment of several standards that were required to use for educational, regulatory,
employment, and providing quality healthcare services, focusing on the registered nursing. These
standards serve in a multipurpose manner to meet the requirement for the development of
standards for practice. However, this turned into the modification of terms such as the scope of
practice, advanced nursing practice, and extended practice in the manner of setting nursing
management and regulations (Sweet et al., 2020). However, the major finding was the use of
language and behaviour to get a better understanding of the individual’s problem. This led to the
development of a practice that language and behaviour in any healthcare profession is one of the
significant standards that are responsible for the advancement in the healthcare professions. And
thus, it helps in the matter of decision-making and conducting various practices for the betterment
of individual and nursing practice. Similarly, accountability is a major practice that determines the
individual’s action towards the standards and that either they are performing their activity in a
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