Standard Procedure: Ear Infections In Paediatrics

Running head: STANDARD PROCEDURE: EAR INFECTIONS IN PAEDIATRICS
Standard Procedure: Ear Infections In Paediatrics
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Ear infections: Standardised procedure
Policy
I. Functions performed by nurse practitioners
Ensure to provide quality care to patients with acute conditions (ear infections)
and provide drug medications to patients.
II. Circumstances under which nurses perform
Medication and drug furnishing should follow a standard operating procedure and
need to be done under the clinical supervision of a designated physician.
This is applicable to nurse practitioners working in paediatric settings.
III. Experience, training and education for nurse practitioner
The nurses should have a current Californian nursing licensure in order to practise
as a registered nurse and expand their scope of practice in nursing; the Registered
Nurse should have met all the requirements for able to be working as a registered
nursing official and must have a current furnishing number that is issued by the
Board of Registered Nursing (California Board of Registered Nursing, 2017). The
licensure for registered nursing needs to be certified by the State of California.
IV. Method of evaluation of nursing competence
The general competency of nursing professional should be evaluated during the
probationary training period under the supervision of a clinical physician to whom
the nurse is assigned. The registered nurse needs to be assigned and supervised by
the assigned physician supervisors. The designated supervisor has responsibility to
provide an evaluation on an annual basis about the appropriateness and accuracy
of nursing practice and decision making in clinical settings (Registered Nurse
Standardized Procedure, 2017). A quality assessment or QA review needs to be

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established to ensure that the compliance is maintained by nursing professional
according to standards of practice and standards of care to promote patient quality
care.
V. Clinical documentation
Clinical documentation needs to be maintained by nurses for the patients
according to standard protocol. The documentation needs to be maintained in an
outlined manner in each standardised protocol (Tamura-Lis, 2013). Patient
specific medical documentation is to be entered by the nurses in the patients’
medical record.
Development and approval of standardised procedure
I. The standardised procedure was developed by the nurse practitioner and the
designated clinical supervisor. This standard procedure was approved by the
paediatric department Chief, Director of nursing practice and Medical
administrator (California Correctional Health Care Services, 2017).
II. An annual review would be performed for the standard procedure.
III. Nurse practitioners perform under this standardised procedure to treat the acute
paediatric conditions.
Protocol
I. Rationale
To assist the general nurse practitioners in the acute paediatric settings to manage
ear infections and to develop guidelines for managing ear infections (Burns et al.,
2013). The protocol designing for ear infections encompasses all these principles
of standardised procedure.
II. Definition