PROFESSIONAL ROLE

Professional role is the factor which the officer has progressed top over experience or academic coaching. However, it is noted that there is significant increase in professional role of nursing students after their first year of being posted. This is the position that the nurse has taken up in the operational running of wing, ward or hospital section involved (HM & MT, 1991).

Qualities, Skills, Behaviors and Knowledge Required In:

• Patient Advocating

It is to our interest to define patient advocacy as giving the patient a voice though not his own to air what he/she wants while being advised by a  professional, a nurse,. This is not intended to alter any medical administration to the patient but rather get them to accept them (Schwartz, 2002). That is, giving them the sense of being involved in their own treatment gives the patient enough confidence around the health care worker such that they can easily express themselves and what they feel.

This refers to the use of a medium to communicate hospital policies or to relay instructions to and from the patient. It is vital that the patient feels comfortable with the advocate that he/ has chosen. That is why in most cases the best suited advocates for patients not admitted are the primary physicians who have an already existing friendship with the patient (Bernay, 2001)

There are very many diverse situations where advocacy s used and is necessary. The end of life advocacy is the last and least exciting part of being a nurse, having to pass on the bad news to the family of the departed. This kind of advocacy and indeed all types require that the nurse be questioning of the patient’s wellbeing, monitor progress or change in the patient’s health,  be verbally open to the patient, that is, make the patient feel important and in control of the situation about them. The nurse must be up to the challenge and brave starting the dialogue that will break the family’s hearts plus to help by explaining about the nature of the disease state and help them to identify optional methods of care (Hebert, Moore, & Rooney, 2011).

• Practicing High Quality Care

High quality care is product of smooth transition from the old healthcare systems to the new technologically enhanced ones with improved services offered for cheaper prices on the staff and financially. It is to our interest that we note that proper training and competence of personnel are the duties of the individual in order to compliment the system that exists. Such a system is primarily a patient oriented system where the centre focus is on him/her and their wants  (Rao & Prasad, 2002). It is primary that any service offering institution/organization centre its entire existence of satisfying their clients. For our case, it is of paramount importance that exactly that is done because there is never a next time when dealing with human life, it has to be quick and sure delivery.

Although patient oriented system is user friendly, it is hard to achieve this in reality and thus most establishments adopt group practice to try and achieve quality health care (Freidson, 1963). It is an obvious fact that the ideal model is mostly only used to exemplify the situation but is not entirely practical.

• Assessing and Evaluating Patient Outcomes

Taking into account the end result of a patient’s medical experience is the most accurate method of assessing the condition of that particular patient. As for the case of the athletic society, they do not emphasis of end result analysis and this poor strategy has seen the cause of numerous injuries in the sport grounds (Snyder, Parsons, McLeod, Bay, Michener, & Sauers, 2008).

In this context we may focus more on ongoing Assessment and evaluation of a patient which is checking whether; the treatment is working, known symptoms are getting better or worse and if there are any newly developed and needs attention due to its state. Some mechanisms that might be used to evaluate an admitted patient or else include; MOI (stands for mechanism of injury), AVPU (used to classify the patients mental status,  that is, AVP (awake, alert and oriented, alert to voice, but not in right orientation and alert to painful stimuli only)) (definitions, 2013). These are just some of the techniques that can be used to assess and place an evaluation a patient.

A major cause of disparity in this section is non adherence to professional advice or prescription; forgetting and sometimes ignoring these advices. This is a major concern especially for people who have mental illness, their lack of consistent sing of prescribed drugs cause more complications to their already sick bodies thus they need a monitoring system to ensure that they do as they have been advised to do; a family member or  a medical advocate would work just fine.

• Providing Leadership in Improving health Care

As we are in the era of technology, technology can v] be considered as a method of improving health services provided in a health institution. For example the emergency rooms are almost purely operated from emergency calls called in from homes for simple things as a bean in the nose to serious emergencies like car accidents (Clancy & Ortiz, 2003).

Improvement of health care is propagated by full staffing and joining of unions so that the needs of the workers are catered for, thus quality services are provided (Clark, Clark, Day, & Shea, 2001). The stuff need also be protected by their unions and their voice heard across the board so that they too may be part of major decision making that affect them. This eliminates the

Coordination and authority run smoothly the service sector in order to provide best care for their client, customer or patient for the case of hospitals. The relationship between the working components in these institutions are categorized into two sections that have to work together for the effective success of the entire institution. In our case, the patients have to have a working relationship with the staff and the staff with the patients and again among themselves (Wilson, 1963). A divided fort does not last long under a siege, as can be demonstrated by an institution that has a staff that is not fully bonded in work. This cannot work to serve the patients in any way at all because the harmony at the workplace would be replaced by chaos and confusion for example; the nurse at wing 9 is on vacation, the doctor in the children’s section has refused to prescribe us the drugs we need, and so on.

The above chaotic scenario can be avoided by simply adhering to the institutional policies and work calendars designed to create harmony when working and systematic flow of power that minimizes time wasted while looking for this or that doctor.

From the very training, glitches in the system can cause hindrances to successful running of a healthcare institution. Training is essential but it should be incorporated with virtues that do not cause the cocooning of young apprentices in fear of blame, doing the wrong thing or having a heavy conscious, a young learner at an institution will naturally seek out the simplest of things and chores to engage in ‘safe’. This mental programming hinders full voluntary working by staff when they are actually in their working stations. It is thus a great idea that real work be presented to the learning band so that the reality hits earlier and they gain enough confidence as do those who have been working for over years (Mauksch, 1963).

Conclusion

This paper has highlighted the main issues that are primary to a successful career in major occupations. The focus of our paper was to outline the fields that make a nursing student exemplary and legitimate for any applicable section he/she might be willing to endeavor in. These skills are fundamental for a position which requires supervision of subordinates or that which requires issuing of directions which are not specific to a task but project t the entire institution. This implies that any decision made by the candidate with these skills is for the entity of the institution.

Group work or worker togetherness has been encouraged to emphasis that a strong front wins a war not by numbers but by sharing the load (Freidson, 1963). This can be applied in these conclusions as the issue of under-staffing has been addressed as a cause of poor performance. It is true to say that there is no single time that there will be full staff in any institution, many factors attribute to this point such as retirements and few or no young people interested in studying in this particular discipline due to low scores, tuition fee expected for the studies and other related factors. Then unity of the available stuff and proper programming of duties is all the present staff can hope for and with a good qualified head such as the one possessing the traits described above, it’s a successful venture.

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