Analyze an Action Plan to Avoid Negligence & Risk of Malpractice

The 6 characteristics of direct clinical care as presented by Mary Fran Tracy are:” Use of a holistic perspective, formation of therapeutic partnerships with patients, expert clinical performance, use of reflective practices, use of evidence as a guide to practice and use of diverse approaches to health and illness management.1According to Mary Ann Lewis (2014)“Advanced practice nursing is broadly defined as nursing interventions that influence health care outcomes, including the direct care of individual patients, management of care for individuals and populations, administration of nursing and health care organizations, and the development and implementation of health policy.”1 Medicine differs from NP practice in that NP practice is protocol driven practice while medicine is non-protocol driven.2

According to Mary Fran Tracy, holistic care means providing care that encompasses a person as a human being, mind, body and spirit. Holism involves a deep understanding of each individual patient, appreciating that the disease does not define the patient, but that the person is embedded in a transient unfolding life.2 I will apply this to my practice by integrating the Shuler Nurse Practitioner practice model which is based on a “holistic understanding of human health and illness in older adults that integrates medical and nursing perspectives.”3 I will apply this to my practice by attempting to understand why my patient is not taking their blood pressure medication instead of immediately labeling them as non-compliant. Some religions believe that disease is a punishment from God and only he can give or take away the illness. I will integrate the whole person, mind, body and spirit in order to better my practice and increase patient...

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...he treatment of obesity prior to seeking the most invasive measures. Behavioral modification has proven to yield positive, long lasting results in the treatment of some modifiable risk factors. I will seek those interventions and encourage my patients to participate and or incorporate them in their day-to-day lives. In order to improve my practice regarding complementary and alternative medicine, I plan on researching continued education classes that will allow me awareness on how to go about using this type of tool.

Works Cited

Mary Fran Tracy “Direct clinical practice,” in Advanced Nursing Practice: An Integrative Approach. 4th Edition, ed.

Ann Hamric, Judith Spross., & Charlene Hanson (St. Louis: Saunders Elsevier, 2009), 126.

1 Ibid, 150-151

2 Ibid, 151

3 Ibid, 151-152

4 Ibid, 153-154

5 Ibid, 156-157

6 Ibid, 163

7Ibib, 164-165

8Ibib, 166