Healthcare Organizations and Health

Motivation for the Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner (PHCNP) Comment by babyliza: Part 2 of 3 not answered: How are NPs important in the delivery of primary health care to diverse populations?

In my opinion, the profession of nursing is more of a degree in changing habits. Nurses are essentially individuals who are extraordinarily enthusiastic when it comes to their own and others' wellbeing and health. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are individuals who apply appropriate knowledge to aid patients in identifying and adopting suitable health and food habits to suit their bodies' unique needs. I am personally keen on utilizing the established system to ensure patients develop healthy, lasting behaviors and habits with positive global health effects. I would proudly make a difference in people's life, effectively differentiating between theoretical knowledge on what is good and bad for people's health and practically applying my knowledge. Nurses function as guides, empowering individuals to achieve their health objectives. This forms my key motivation. I desire and aim to guide individuals to achieve optimal physical and psychological wellbeing. The end result of this optimization will be a happy and prosperous life. I intend to acquire mastery over the areas of leading edge psychology, transformational coaching, brain sciences, and healthy living with a focus on the areas of universal wellness, personal development, nutrition, and health. As a PHCNP, my nursing and clinical knowledge would prove a valuable asset when it comes to understanding health problems and targeting relevant interventions (Gagnon, 2016).

Nursing professionals ought to realize their duty to engage in constant learning at the workplace, corroborating, creating and furthering their professional and practical knowledge. To fulfill this, the support of better-experienced colleagues is imperative. I will need to choose among the available knowledge resources within my workplace. Workplace aspects like the workforce, organizational culture, personal relations and hierarchical structure will impact my learning. The nursing role is no mere collection of business skills and activities. I believe it is included in the socialization process entailing professional identity formation and internalization. Professional socialization proves vital to involving pupils in professional practice (Zarshenas, et al., 2014). My current understanding of workplace learning environments from my educational and professional life reveals the significance of concentrating on learning as a component of professional growth within a constantly evolving healthcare system.

Nursing professionals stress the inclusion of doctors in their colleague community and recognize their key contribution to the nurse learning environment. One may ask whether healthcare organizations must concentrate more on learning as one of the regular work activities. In my view, workplace learning forms a key element of professional growth when it aims at transforming the environment as well as learners. Nursing is an assorted, constantly evolving profession. Therefore, I believe learning processes within certain workplaces must be given importance by professional nurses (Skar, 2010). We need to develop workplaces which accept and support healthcare worker diversity and aim at promoting multicultural harmony in the organization. The absence of adequate diversity awareness, individual evaluation, sensitivity and background knowledge can potentially result in nursing staffs' interactions with colleagues negatively affecting the organizational climate, patient health outcomes and collaboration. Nurses encounter and interact with clients belonging to diverse cultural groups. By adopting cultural diversity and competence within healthcare organizations, nurses can enhance overall care quality (Jeffreys, 2015).