HLT54115 Diploma In Nursing
Question
2. Identify two (2) rights and two (2) responsibilities of employers relevant to reviewing and improving work practices of employees.
3. Why is it important for nurses to understand the effect of their values, beliefs and behaviours on their professional practice?
4. Briefly describe the processes of professional reflection
6. Briefly describe how engaging with professional associations provides professional development opportunities for nurses
7. Briefly describe and provide two (2) examples of the informal ways of learning and developing for nurses
8. Briefly describe and provide two (2) examples of the formal ways of learning and developing for nurses .
9. Complete the following table outlining the principles and techniques for:
• Creating a personal development plan
• Personal goal setting
• Setting realistic timeframes
• Measuring progress and performance
a. Creating a personal development plan
b. Personal goal setting
c. Setting realistic timeframes
d. Measuring progress and performance
10. Provide three (3) examples of work methods that can help nurses to improve their performance
11. Briefly describe three (3) examples of work practices that can help nurses to improve their performance.
Answer
- Right to information: this is the right to access information for instance in the health sector. The health practitioner has a right to access the patents health records information.
- Right expression: within the health sector right to expression of a person’s opinion is one of the most important rights that needs to be observed within the health sector.
- The responsibilities towards delivering on one’s work: this results to one improving on their practice since they maser their profession.
- The responsibilities of following the set guidelines of your practice so as to improve in your practice
– The right to construct a salary and pension plan; this involves the right to pick the right salaries and pension for the workers that benefits them and motivates them. And also, the employer has the right to contact an employee who is absent from work.
– The main responsibilities of the employer are to ensure no discrimination is practiced in the workplace; this provides a healthy working environment that gives the employees the needed freedom to be more productive. The next responsibility being equal sharing of work, the employer ensures that the workload is evenly distributed among the workers so as to avoid over working by some workers while others are under worked. With the implementation of these practices the productivity of the employees or the workers is improved and it also becomes possible for the employer to review the work practices of the employees (Grossman, S. and Valiga, T.M., 2016).
3. It is important for the nurses so as ensure that they effectively meet their responsibilities. There work being to take care of the patients understanding their values, beliefs and behaviours becomes crucial when offering these services.
5. Industry networking broadens the exposure to which the professionals are exposed to. This leads to the development opportunities to the newly introduced fields within the profession hence acting as one of the main professional development stepping stones. The industry exchange gives one the chance to expand their knowledge on new fields the other industries covers. This exposure creates the exchange of information and new technology and more content in relation to the nursing field. This is very important in the health sector.
6. For nurses, this creates exposure to fields and cases they may have not yet encountered. With this happening the nursing profession is positively impacted with the knowledge accused hence making the professional grow. Professional associations provide the exchange of ideas forums as well as advancement in research in the medical field. This significantly impacts the nursing sector in relation to medical advancements among other sectors. This brings in new ideas in relation to challenges that the nurses may be facing and had lacked solutions. Engaging in the professional associations creates the more room for knowledge sharing.
7. Observation of healthcare practitioner at work: this involve the direct observation of other certified health practitioners specifically the nurses then learning from them and performing their tasks. This is an informal approach towards the nursing profession.
Family teaching: family members in the profession can pass down the knowledge to other family members: On the other hand this involves the learning of the health practices from the family members in the health sector.
- define the goals,
- Prioritize the goals
- Set deadlines are some of the important principles.
Techniques:
- write down these goals
- Provide a well laid out time frame how to achieve these plans
- Challenging goals
- Setting clear and specific goals
Techniques:
- Pick a mentor
- Reading more to get exposure on how to meet these goals
- Identifying the goals
- clearly defining the goals
Techniques:
- clearly identifying your path of interest
- Identifying your passion and sacrifice to fulfill it.
- Patients’ states
- identification of service quality offered.
Techniques:
- Keeping records to see your progress
- Challenging your self to see if you break those records you set
References
Cherry, B. and Jacob, S.R., (2016). Contemporary nursing: Issues, trends, & management. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Grossman, S. and Valiga, T.M., (2016). The new leadership challenge: Creating the future of nursing. FA Davis.
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