Transition Into Professional Practise Assignment 2022

Running Head: TRANSITION INTO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
TRANSITION INTO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
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Prioritization and delegation
Nursing care and services are planned to give the utmost importance to the priorities. As
per the profession, various priorities are to be kept in mind during the treatment concerning the
patient's health and family members. It is also essential for a nursing unit manager (NUM) to
deliver the works and activities to the team members as per the patient’s requirements. The
priority to be kept in mind is patient priorities that indicate to give relief from any physical
distress. It suggests taking necessary arrangements to correct the disability or to cure the disease
with an emergency action (Mangin, Stephen, Bismah, & Risdon, 2016). Secondly, physician
priorities suggest to heal the pain or discomfort of the patient with an instant medication that the
nurse learned during her period of training and experience, which reduces time and work
(Tamirisa et al., 2017). Apart from that, institutional priorities are one of the essential and vital
priorities concerning the healthcare centre. A lot of time, it has been observed that the healthcare
centre delivers medications and treatments to the patient without giving clear transparency of
cost. Their main motive is to aim for the financial goals and achieve organizational expediency
that offers a clear indication that their institutional priorities are at the top without even bothering
the healthcare of the patient (Boland & Gasman, 2017). Lastly, Community or Social Priorities
that suggests avoiding disability, uneasiness or dissatisfaction, but their foremost goal is to
undertake the entire treatment at a meager cost. It recommends delivering the therapy and
medications by preserving the social influence within a society (Brown et al., 2016).
With respect to the community, Social and Community priorities overtakes all the other
priorities that to be kept with respect to healthcare centres, patients and physicians because in
practical situation people expect the cost of treatment to be as low as possible and along with that

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they believe a satisfied treatment (Deeny & Steventon, 2015). In such cases, primacies of
patients and healthcare experts must be fulfilled to a level to encounter the communal goals.
However, in the current scenario, institutional priorities are the one that overtakes all the
other priorities because it helps to achieve the institutional goals without even bothering the
communal priorities. Many situations have been observed during the recent past when the
medical practitioners admitted the patients with a minor cause (Smith, Mitton, Davidson &
Williams, 2014). This signals whether the institutions are supple enough to enhance and fulfil the
communal goals.
Moreover, delegation and clinical decision making is also an essential section of
prioritization because it involves a delegator and a delegatee to make a correct decision based
upon the current scenario. The delegator is a registered medical practitioner who allots a share of
patient maintenance to the delegatee (Yoon, Kim & Shin, 2016). Most of the time, nurses rely on
five crucial signs of health care and those are Amount of oxygen intake, Respiratory rate, blood
pressure, pulse and body temperature. It is essential for a delegator to take a clinical decision and
involve in a communication based upon a framework (Novosad, 2016). A nurse needs to
communicate with the patient regarding the patient’s current health, treatment and evaluation.
Being a delegator, she needs to assign these parameters of a patient to the delegatee to keep a
close eye on the improvement of health. Based on the parameters, a nurse decides which
priorities should be addressed first, whether Patient priorities or physician priorities.

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Collaborative and Therapeutic practice
(a) Multidisciplinary Team
This module communicates to three other vital sections of nursing care, Critical
Thinking, Professional Preparation, and Establishment and Management of care. As the
name suggests, the collaborative effort is the involvement of several healthcare experts to
achieve a specific goal. Participation of this practice is not new in the world of
healthcare; it is also applied to carry out the progress of institutional goals. Most of the
time, a successful result can only be achieved by implementing a collaborative effort
(Shaw, 2014). It is applicable by keeping the healthcare of the patient as their primary
focus. Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team comes in play when a patient is
suffering from the various dimension of illness such as physical, psychological or
emotional. It includes experts from different fields of health. Moreover, a therapeutic
practice involves treatment to report the origin and indications of a specific illness. It is
implemented to deliver the best possible outcome to cure the disease of a patient (Pfaff,
Baxter, Jack & Ploeg, 2014). The practice involves numerous range of nursing skills such
as knowledge, experience, attitude and communication.
(b) Grant Thompson Case Study
In the given study, Grant Thompson was involved in a major truck accident and
suffered from several leg injuries and a minor head injury. He was admitted to MVA
around six months ago, but since then his recovery was quite slow and most of them he
used to rely on his wheelchair. During the days of his treatment, several medical experts
were involved in addressing his medical condition such as a physiotherapist, professional

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therapist, a Nursing Unit Manager, a social worker and a psychologist. This indicates a
collaborative effort by a multidisciplinary team to cure his injuries with utmost
importance to his health. However, a team involves several groups of people with
different opinions and viewpoints. Similarly, in the case of Grant Thompson,
physiotherapist and professional therapist wanted him to stay in the hospital and indicated
that he would require further care to get quick progress in the health condition. However,
the social worker and psychologist suggested that he would need family support and they
wanted him to send home to stay closer to his family and to get quick progress in his
health.
The above situation gives a brief idea about the importance of collaborative
practice and multidisciplinary team to cure several illnesses. Moreover, it also includes
therapeutic of a nurse to report the cause of disease within her limits of knowledge, skills
and experience. The entire challenging situation is to be prepared for the role being in a
healthcare team to think and evaluate the health condition appropriately. Apart from that,
it indicates that after several phases of treatment, a patient requires emotional support
from his family to cure his illness completely.
Provision and Coordination of care
The module relates to the nursing segment while addressing the supervision of a patient.
It includes progress, execution and valuation of care based on the coordination. This section
offers various prioritization of nursing works during their profession (Scott, Matthews & Kirwan,
2014). Firstly, the tasks that should be completed within a definite period such as medications,
dressing, or taking a medical round on the floor. A nurse might be disturbed if the task remains
undone because to keep waiting might cause the patient to get distressed or discomfort.

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Secondly, the responsibilities that ought to be done as early as possible such as to be prepared
with the list of medications. Apart from that, there are specific tasks that do not have any time
limit but should be completed that might necessitate far ahead in the day. Lastly, nurses should
also address particular work that may not affect patients' health care even if left undone but being
beneficial and official, and those should also be completed with utmost importance. In order to
develop standard nursing practice, it is mandatory to practice professionally plus arrange and
manage time as per their works. The training of medical handover during the change of shift also
involves coordination of care. It is mandatory to exchange the required set of information
between the nurses, which is termed as updating in medical term, and it can be complicated
sometimes (Ferrell, Malloy & Virani, 2015). The module of nursing revolves between specific
conditions including Complete, Concise, Accurate, Clear and Timely. Complete indicates that
once you start the task, you should complete it even if someone causes interruptions. Concise
signifies to be specific with the statement that you make and must avoid any recurrence.
Accurate indicates to be precise with your reports, including data. Clear justifies using simple
and familiar words to understand the meaning more accurately and effectively. Timely defines to
be on time and not to delay any official or documentation works. These five principles are quite
beneficial and appropriate to maintain the professional standards of a nurse. In healthcare
scenario, information concerning the medical history of a patient can come from various sources,
and it is the responsibility of the nurse to collect and frame those in the proper order (Jones,
Hamilton & Murry, 2015).
During handover, it is essential to understand the health condition of a patient based on
documentation that the nurse prepares during the previous shift. It is recommended to provide
proper evidence about whether the patient is self-caring or liberated. Establishment of care also

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involves having an appropriate framework of data to be collected and to incorporate the
standards systematically. During the process of handover, a clinical communication must ensure
to have an improvement in safety, enhancement in the superiority of care, to make sure that the
patient does not stay for too long and lastly to augment patient as well as family fulfilment
(Anderson, Malone, Shanahan & Manning, 2015). Clinical communication involves both verbal
and documentation handover.
Time management and delegation
Time management and delegation are vital skills during the course of nursing to meet up
to the expectations. With a lot to do and take essential decisions, time management is a key to
manage all those according to the priorities. During the case of an emergency, the foremost
priority will be to address the patient's health and illness. Time management in nursing reduces
stress and anxiety that help the nurses to be more effective with their job. A nursing time
management comprises to plan the entire workday, prioritize the significant activities, decrease
and accomplish disturbances in the work area, to be organized at the workplace and lastly to
envoy at work. The delegation includes in the segment of time management, and it is one of the
least utilized technique of time management (Cherry & Jacob, 2016). It helps to increase the
efficiency of work. It is vital for a nurse to have clarity and transparency of work that she wants
to delegate, delegation to a wrong person can create a major issue, so it is vital to choose the
correct person to transfer the work. While delegating the task, an important to the fact to be kept
in mind is to discuss and communicate with proper language (Papathanasiou, Tsaras,
Neroliatsiou & Roupa, 2015). After delegating, it is the duty of the nurse to monitor and gain
valuable feedback.

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Nurses need to monitor and observe their subjective and proficient time resourcefully.
This necessitates assistance in objective setting, setting primacies, preparation and establishing
skills, and diminishing time killing. Determining the way a nurse employs the time is precisely
imperative to make a nurse more productive and organized. Incapability to prepare a strategic
plan or inadequate to prioritize, getting involved in excessive personal activities such as phone
calls or social media contribute lousy management of time. The standard nursing can only be
improved by the way they manage their time for the entire day (Aliyu et al., 2015). Time
management helps in the self-improvement of the nurse. Only proper time management will help
a nurse to spend the entire day without any disturbance or hesitation. Learning adequate
management of time is extremely useful during their professional practice and their career. Time
management during nursing is an essential tool to organize, which justifies the statement that a
nurse should not set her limitations extremely high, that, signifies as if she is still learning
professionalism and skills of judgment (Kong et al. 2014). Certain emergency cases do not
require judgment time because the decision should be immediate as per the patient’s conditions.
During the early days of nursing practice, newly graduate nurses find it quite challenging to
manage and arrange their entire schedule, but time management is like a habit that one needs to
adopt regularly. Once approved, it becomes elementary and efficient to manage the tasks based
on their priorities (LaMartina & Ward-Smith, 2014). There, time management and delegation are
the most vital tools of nursing, and one should adopt it as early as possible because these are the
only implements that will help to enhance their growth and progress to maintain the standards
and professionalism of nursing.

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