Article Analysis: Nursing and Professional Development Necessity

This report provides an analysis of an article focused on the necessity of continuous professional development (CPD) for nurses to maintain their professional registration. The analysis highlights the article's structure, including its introduction, detailed paragraph discussions, and conclusion, emphasizing the clear presentation of arguments. The student acknowledges the article's support for CPD, backed by NMBA standards and credible references, underscoring its importance for enhancing nurses' knowledge, skills, and patient care delivery. The analysis also addresses the challenges nurses face in managing the time required for CPD and counters the viewpoint that experience-based critical thinking is sufficient, advocating for a combination of critical analysis and modern techniques for optimal patient outcomes. The references cited are from reputable journals, supporting the evidence-based approach of the article and analysis.

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ARTICLE ANALYSIS
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ARTICLE ANALYSIS
The article which is provided is based on the topic of the necessity of continuous
professional development in the field of nursing profession to maintain nurse’s registration.
The paper sets with the right kind of tone and has a proper introduction where the author
mainly describes the concept of continuous professional development and also mentions
about what the reader can expect in the entire paper. This is indeed helpful for the reader as it
makes him or her know that what he or she is expecting in the coming paragraphs. Moreover
each and every paragraph explained in the paper distinctively holds proper discussion of a
particular point in detail. By this statement it is meant that each and every paragraph has a
discussion on a specific point and that the author has not mixed up all the points together
making it difficult for the Reader (Pool, Poell & ten Cate, 2013). The Reader can easily jot
down every points from each and every paragraph like that of a paragraph describing about
the different benefits of the course, another paragraph describing about the feelings of both
the modern and the traditional nurses about the course, another paragraph describing about
the NMBA standards and so on. Moreover the author has rightly described the conclusion by
mentioning all the points covered in the article paper thereby making the entire article paper
interesting and easily understandable.
The position statement is related to the topic completely as it mainly brought out the
summarised idea from the discussion of the entire paper. The paper has supported continuous
professional development as an important and significant course required for the nurses in
completing their professional registration and he had rightly written the position statement
providing a high degree of importance to the topic. At the same time in the position
statement he has also mentioned about the difficulty of nurses for managing the time required
for the course which cause issues in the professional field. Hence it can be stated that the
position statement matches entirely with the main idea of the entire paper and hence the
position statement is credible.

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The position statement has been backed up by the important standards of nursing
profession of the NMBA which thereby makes the statement of the author more supportable.
The NMBA codes of standard practices are published by the board so that they can cover as
well as promote the safe practise of nurses so that the patient can get the best care from
search professionals (Moon, 2013). After mentioning the importance of the course in the
first paragraph the writer had correctly backed his statement with the standards that mainly
show how the courses help the nurses in developing their knowledge and skill which in turn
promotes better service delivery and ensures better care and high patient satisfaction.
Therefore using the modern standards of nursing profession is an additional advantage in
establishing his point.
The references provided by the author are credible. This is said so because all the
references are taken from journal articles which are published in some of the renowned
journal of the nursing profession. Moreover, it is also seen that all the references are within
the last 5 years and are credible enough to be used in the paper and the information contained
in them can be applied to the recent year (McCormack et al. 2013).
According to me, the author had not eliminated any important information. The
information provided in the form of paragraphs usually show the positive evidences which
support the credibility of the courses and also states how these courses may bring out positive
impacts in the nurses profession as well as the pattern of the service delivery. In the later
paragraphs, it usually discusses about the issue nurse’s face with the management of time
required for the courses (Master, 2015). He also discusses about the beliefs of the senior
nurses who mainly believes that critical thinking is much more important than such courses.
He, in the discussion, is sticking to his main point of view about how the course may bring
out the best result in patient outcome. Therefore I believe that this evidences that enough to
support the position statement fully.

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I believe that critical thinking power which is used by the senior nurses to handle that
patients carefully which is developed due to their experiences in the field for long years are
not enough to provide the best care to the patient. Although they are being able to analyse
the situation of the patients but they will never be able to apply the new modern techniques
which are provided to the patient although they are being able to analyse the situation
successfully. Each and every nurse should strategically plan out the timings so that they can
get accommodated with the recent innovations in Medical Science as well as in technological
innovations. Thereby, they can combine both the critical analysing power as well as the
modern evidence-based practices to provide the best patient outcomes.

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References:
Masters, K. (2015). Role development in professional nursing practice. Jones & Bartlett
Publishers.
McCormack, B., Manley, K., & Titchen, A. (Eds.). (2013). Practice development in nursing
and healthcare. John Wiley & Sons.
Moon, J. A. (2013). Reflection in learning and professional development: Theory and
practice. Routledge.
Pool, I., Poell, R., & ten Cate, O. (2013). Nurses’ and managers’ perceptions of continuing
professional development for older and younger nurses: a focus group
study. International journal of nursing studies, 50(1), 34-43.