Registered Nurse: Patient Care, Professionalism, and Best Practices

This report provides advice for Registered Nurses (RNs), emphasizing the importance of a positive attitude and professional conduct. It addresses the challenges RNs face, particularly in mental health and substance abuse contexts. The report suggests RNs maintain composure, showing empathy and understanding while communicating effectively with patients. It also highlights the significance of adhering to the standard of 'Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships,' which involves effective communication, respecting patient dignity, and guiding patients to necessary resources. The report references research on RN staffing levels, retention, and transition-to-practice programs to support its recommendations, ensuring a patient-centered approach and promoting best practices in healthcare.

Running head: Registered Nurse 1
Advice to Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse 2
The negative feelings or attitude of inexperienced RN could adversely affect not only the
patient but also the entire organization. It has been advised to inexperienced RN to do not show
negativity while performing duty, rudeness with patient may hamper the health of client as well
as yours (Griffiths, Ball, Murrells, Jones & Rafferty, 2016). Patient in mental health are not
aware about the surroundings and they do not have knowledge about the hazardous things. I
would suggest to RN to treat them calmly and should ignore their bad language because they are
already mentally upset. RN should provide the benefits and non benefits term related to the
services so that patient could choose the right service for them. RN should work in the
organization with positive attitude and share the situation of the patient with higher authority
instead of behaving badly with the patient (Mellor & Greenhill, 2014).
I would advice to RN that he or she should give proper time to his or her patient and hear
them carefully without reacting them. RN should have patience while talking with clients with
substance abuse disorder and make them calm and ask them about their issues. RN has been
advised to follow the standard 2 in proper way that is Engages in therapeutic and professional
relationships (Lartey, Cummings & Profetto‐McGrath, 2014). It defines RN should communicate
effectively with keeping the dignity culture and values of patients. He or she should present
sustain and directs people to resources to optimize health-related decisions.

Registered Nurse 3
References
Griffiths, P., Ball, J., Murrells, T., Jones, S., & Rafferty, A. M., 2016, Registered nurse,
healthcare support worker, medical staffing levels and mortality in English hospital
trusts: a cross-sectional study, BMJ open, 6(2), e008751.
Lartey, S., Cummings, G., & Profetto‐McGrath, J, 2014, Interventions that promote retention of
experienced registered nurses in health care settings: a systematic review, Journal of
nursing management, 22(8), 1027-1041.
Mellor, P., & Greenhill, J., 2014, A patient safety focused registered nurse transition to practice
program, Contemporary nurse, 47(1-2), 51-60.