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Nursing Practicing Today
The purpose of this paper is to provide an explanation concerning how nursing practice has changed over time and the implications of these changes for nurses scope of practice and approach to treatment as well as a comparison of the differentiated competencies of nurses with an associate (ADN) and baccalaureate (BSN) degree and the corresponding practices changes between their scope of practice. In addition, a description of a specific client care situation and how nursing care, or approaches to decision making, differ between the BSN-prepared nurse and the ADN nurse. Further, the paper presents a discussion concerning the significance of applying evidence-based practice to nursing care and an explanation of how the academic preparation of the RN-BSN nurse supports its application. Finally, a discussion concerning how nurses today communicate and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and how this supports safer and more effective client outcomes is followed by a summary of the findings in the conclusion.
Explain how nursing practice has changed over time and how this evolution has changed the scope of practice and the approach to treating the individual.
In sharp contrast to the role that was played by nurses a century ago, professional nurses today serve as vital members of multidisciplinary health care teams, an evolution that has directly improved patient outcomes. The foundations for modern nursing began with Florence Nightingales seminal nursing work during the mid-19th century and womens heroic life-saving actions on the Civil War battlefields shortly thereafter. Over the succeeding years, these early contributions helped the nursing profession gain newfound respect and appreciation, but nurses were still primarily relegated to a helper role rather than an active health care practitioner. As the nursing educators at Texas Womans University point out, As one of the oldest occupations, nurses have faced and inspired an array of changes. The most remarkable not only raised the profession but patient outcomes and the overall state of health care (How the Evolution of the Nursing Profession Benefits Nurses & Patients Alike, 2019, para. 5).
One of the most significant changes in the evolution of the nursing profession has been the introduction of formalized nursing education programs. Although training programs for nurses began operation during the late 19th century, the early initiatives were formalized during the second half of the 20th century into the national network of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate nursing programming that is in place at present (How the Evolution of the Nursing Profession Benefits Nurses & Patients Alike,...…care settings
Discuss how nurses today communicate and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and how this supports safer and more effective client outcomes.
While face-to-face exchanges between health care practitioners typically produce the best results, nurses can also use a wide array of other communication tools to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams. Indeed, besides telephonic and email exchanges, nurses can also take advantage of virtual team applications that specifically support multidisciplinary collaboration. Moreover, most health care practitioners already possess the skill set that is necessary to use these tools effectively, and electronic health records combined with patient-centered, evidence-based interventions consistently provide optimal clinical outcomes.
Conclusion
The evolution of modern nurse practice from its origins nearly 200 years ago has been characterized by a gradual but significant increase in their education and expertise in patient care. The formalization of the nursing profession was facilitated by the introduction of nursing educational programming that has created the current ADN and BSN qualifications as well as their differentiated competencies. The research also showed that EBP represents an important trend in modern nursing which should start with appropriate academic instruction. Finally, nurses can use a wide range of communicate methods besides face-to-face exchanges, including most especially virtual platforms, to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to support safer and…
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