Transition In Professional Nursing

Professional Nursing as a Core Value

Elizabeth Elderbaum

Chamberlain College of Nursing

NR-351: Transition in Professional Nursing

Spring March, 2017

The Core Value of Professionalism in Nursing My topic is professionalism, which is the quality that can make or break a person in the professional world. In the nursing profession we strive to provide ethics and morality while establishing a healthy relationship with patients to provide excellent care. Professionalism is the most important core value in the nursing field. Professionalism is essential because it establishes the ethical, moral and proficient manner in which our patients should be expected to be cared for without violating their privacy or quality of care. Patient care

We are the advocates for our patients, we care for them shift after shift, we will see them at their worst and hopefully get them to their best. We get the meet their family and sometimes friends. We develop a relationship with them the longer they are with us; and because of the relationship we build, we often strive hard for our patient’s to help them get better. “Because nurses have a distinct role in helping patients receive appropriate care and achieve optimal health outcomes, they must find ways to reach patients that allow continued meaningful relationships” (Henderson & Dahnke, 2015, p. 62). Every patient has autonomy; the right to refuse any type of medication or plan of care. This is the “individual freedom to make rational and unconstrained decisions” (Hood, Leddy, & Pepper, 2014, p. 27). With the nurse-patient relationship we should allow our patient’s this freedom but also be professional and give them more information regarding medication side effects, treatments, and plan of

We help and give our patients the knowledge and skill to change into a healthy lifestyle examples: smoking cessation and quitting alcohol consumption. The “nurse cares for, assists, or does something for the client to achieve client- desired health outcomes or to meet basic human needs” (Hood, Leddy, & Pepper, 2014, p.137). One process of obtaining outcomes is to communicate with the patient. What goal do they want during their stay? Do they want to walk fifty feet without a walker? Having a healthy relationship with our patient allows us to hear and see things that the patient may not be saying. Holding our patient accountable to their goals will help promote health outcomes; “accountability is the state of being responsible for agreements and answerable for the behaviors and their outcomes” (Hood, Leddy, & Pepper, 2014, p. 299). This can mean not letting a patient whose goal is to walk fifty feet lay in bed all day. Once a patient is back to baseline; or close; then the patient can move on.