This ensures to promote professional nursing practice and enable the patient with an understanding if the nursing care is adequate. As well as providing guidelines to nurse researchers in identifying and monitoring the relationships between nursing practice and patient care outcomes. Educational Institutes also use the nursing standards as a guide in creating curriculum. The nursing guidelines also present the foundation for the relative investigations. For example, a nurse can be penalized if the investigation proves that the nurse did not practice following the required nursing standards in the province the nurse is licensed. According to Lillies et.a (2005) the process of self-evaluation of nursing practice include the quality of practice, education, professional practice evaluation, collegiality, collaboration with the patients and others, ethical provisions, research and resource utilization. The nursing standards are responsible for providing safe, competent and ethical care promoting the patient's health and well-being, choice, dignity, and confidentiality. Also the nurses take accountability for one's own actions promoting justice and quality practice environments. The nurses must realize that they have the ability to determine and express their own moral choices (Krockrow and Christensen, 2003).

Nurses must promote the individuality of each person encouraging the patients to express their needs and values. Nurses must also protect each patient's confidentiality and dignity which if shared outside the professional relationship then only with the patient's consent. Nurses must provide the same level of equality and fairness to all patients in receiving health care service deriving social justice.
In conclusion, self-evaluation is an important process required by the nursing profession to establish proper care of the individuals. All standards of the nursing practice provide a guide for the nurse to enhance the decision-making, skills, knowledge and clinical experience needed to practice safely and ethically.

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