Analyzing Contemporary Professional Nursing Practice in Healthcare

This essay comprehensively examines contemporary professional nursing practice, emphasizing the nurse's role in patient safety and care. It explores essential values such as a positive attitude, compassionate care, effective communication, professional responsibility, adherence to nursing codes, ethical guidelines, teamwork, and integrity. The essay delves into the NMC codes, highlighting the importance of prioritizing patients, effective nursing practice, and maintaining safety while promoting professionalism. It also discusses legal suggestions related to nursing practice, the person-centered framework, and the implementation of patient-centered care within healthcare organizations. The essay emphasizes the significance of respecting patients' values, ensuring their engagement, and maintaining confidentiality to foster trust and improve patient outcomes. The author has provided detailed information, including the importance of nurse-patient relationships and the ethical considerations that guide nursing practice. Finally, the essay provides a thorough discussion of the importance of patient consent and transparency in treatment procedures.

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Contemporary Professional Nursing Practice
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Introduction
Section 1
Nursing is the most responsible and noble profession as it deals with patient safety
and care. So having a professional and positive attitude helps the nurses in providing better
health services to the patient and ensure their well being. It incorporates certain values for
evaluating the excellence of patient care by executing a positive attitude, compassionate
patient care, building a co-operative and therapeutic relationship(Leslie and Lonneman, 2016)
with the patients through enhanced communication and interaction, professional
responsibility, abiding by the nursing codes and standards as well as implementing the ethical
guidelines in their practice, teamwork and integrity. They should have proper knowledge and
adequate training before treating any patient and they should be accountable for their actions.
They should give respect to the patients along with the co-workers, work together towards a
common goal of treating people. They should be commited to deliver patient centered care
and make the patient’s needs as their highest priority(Shepherd, 2017). They should give
respect to their cultural values and religious beliefs, stay non-judgemental and avoid
stereotyping. They should always ask for the patient’s consent before initiating a treatment
procedure.
Section 2
The NMC codes guides the nurse with the professional standards which they should
follow or abide by for upholding themeseves to registered nurse. It mainly deals with
prioritizing the patients, effective nursing practice, maintain safety along with promoting
professionalism and reliance.

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 Prioritizing people – Nurses should show respect to the patient and treat them with
kindness and compassion, they should keep the patient’s requirements, values and
opinions as their highest pripority and treat patients as their preference. They need to
communicate effectively with them, listen to their concerns and issue, encourage
friendly interaction with the patients, build a strong therapeutic relationship with the
patients which will help the nurses to earn the trust of the patients. They should give
respect and support the decision of the patient, when they refuse or accept for a
particular treatment. They should always be dedicated and commited towards the
wellbeing of people(Dean, 2017).
 Practise effectively – The nurses should implement evidence based practice in their
profession, acquire adequate knowledge and expertise required for safe and effective
practice. They should have proper communication skills and should be able to
communicate clearly with the patients, in simpler terms and in native language so that
they can understand better. They should be aware of the cultural backgrounds of the
patients. The nurses should share these skills with the fellow nurses for the benefit of
the patients. They shoul be able to maintain patient records without any falsification
and take all steps to ensure that the records are kept secured(Ashurst, 2017).
 Preserve safety – The nurses should ensure proper patient and public safety and
should be ready to provide assistance whenever any emergency situation arises within
the clinical settings.
 Promote professionalism and trust – Nurses should be able to uphold the reputation
of their profession and should be committed towards the nursing codes and standards
proposed by NMC, and apply those within their practice(. They should show honesty,
dignity, integrity and justice in their actions which helps to earn the trust of the
patient. They should be a role model or an example for the other student nurses to

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aspire. They should provide leadership to ensure that the wellbeing of people is
protected and improve patient experience(Ozaras and Abaan, 2018). They should be
involved in identification of priorities, management of staffs and resources
effectively, so that high quality care is provided to the patients.
Section 3
The legal suggestions of nursing practise are associated with licensure, laws
implemented by the State and Federal government, sufficient scope and opportunity of
practice for the nurses and meeting with the patient’s expectation. The knowledge and
education of the nurse, license and the nursing standards provide a structural basis or
context for the nurses to follow. The framework of standards for the NMC aims to
improve the learning culture within the healthcare setting, providing an open, safe and
effective environment for the members to practice effieciently. They also look forward to
empower the student nurse, provide them sufficient learning opportunities and assistance.
The Person centered framework guides the nurses to provide effective patient-centered
treatment and care, by helping the nurses to connect with them as unique individuals
having their own strength, weakness, needs and goals(American Geriatrics Society Expert
Panel on Person‐Centered Care et al, 2016). It is dependent on the following factors such
as attributes of the nurse, provision of safe, compassionate and caring environment,
treating the patient as per their requirement and preference and lastly, ensuring their
wellbeing(Yoder, 2017).
Section 4
The practice of patient centered care is immensely popular in the healthcare
organizations nowadays. It has shown to improve health outcomes as well as ensure better
patient experience and satisfaction. For a nurse to provide person centered care, they

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should learn to give respect to each other along with the patient and their families, show
kindness in their attitude, treat with empathy and compassion(Groves, 2016). They should
show dignity, integrity and honesty within their practice, treat the patient as another
human being, listen carefully to their requirementsand concerns. They should understand
that every patient has different cultural values and religious beliefs, they should stay non-
judgemental and respect those without hurting their feeling or stereotyping their beliefs.
A nurse should encourage patient engagement, communicate and interact with them,
build a strong therapeutic relationship with the patients which will assure them that they
are in safe hands(Feo et al, 2017). Moreover, they will be able to trust the nurse and share
their personal informations without any hesitation. The nurse needs to maintain
confidentiality regarding the patient information and health reports, and ensure their
safety.Lastly, the nurse should allow the patient to take the decision about their life. They
should take the consent of the patient and their families before proceeding with any
treatment and inform them about the treatment procedure in detail to improve
transparency in the practice. They should respect the patient’s decision if they refuse or
accept for any particular treatment, and should not pressurize them. They should be
committed to deliver coordinated care and assistance to the patients.

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