Decision-Making - Patient Handling - and Medication Efficiency

Question: Describe about the Decision-Making, Patient Handling, and Medication Efficiency ? Answer: Introduction: The profession of a nurse practitioner is highly acclaimed in the healthcare sector. It involves different specializations of various efficiencies as patient handling, medications and critical situation management (Naylor Kurtzman, 2010). This study provides a direction towards the achievement of the professional goal of becoming a nurse practitioner through the relevant strategic applications. Answer: Career goals: The career goal of my professional development is to become a family nurse practitioner. Segmenting the career goal into short-term and long-term goals can help in efficient and eases of fast achievement of the main career goals. Short-term goals- Efficiency of medical administration Efficiency of patient handling Decision-making capability Long-term goals- Efficiency of working as a nurse practitioner Providing high quality nursing service and knowledge as a nurse educator after gaining much clinical experience as a nurse practitioner. Action plan: Areas of development Strategy to implement Time Expected Outcomes Assessment Test Medical administration skill Exploring the relevant books, journals and internet to gain in-depth knowledge Joining classes regarding medicinal information as correct administration ways, side effects of certain drugs and details of medicines 4-6 months Efficiency in medical administration Medical knowledge assessment test Team handling skill Participating in small group projects with responsibilities to complete it within specified time 3-5 months Efficiency of handling patients and nurses Assignment of a team project to complete within time limit Decision-making skill Participating in workshops with qualified supervisors to gain evidence-based knowledge 5-7 months Ability to take correct decisions and complete assigned projects within time Assigning sudden obstructions and challenges in the projects to be handled and completed within time Table 1: Action plan (Source: Author) Professional practice components: Dynamic practice, clinical leadership, and professional efficacy are three major components of professional practice for a nurse practitioner. High level of clinical knowledge application on patients in the nursing practice is a representation of the dynamic aspect of the nurse practitioners. Leading the clients and professionals at health system level depicts the clinical leadership aspect (Carryer, 2015). Purpose, activities and research interests of a professional organization: The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) works with the purpose of analysis of issues encountered by the nurses during their nursing practice execution (Shea, 2014). It aims at improvement of the quality of health care service delivered to the patients. Its activities involve the providence of the necessary support required for the nurses to enable them the execution of an efficient and effective service to the patients. Training the nurses regarding information security about patients is another major activity conducted by AANP (Naylor Kurtzman, 2010). Standardized quality of medical services is helpful in development and implementation of the effective strategies to increase the quality of service to the patients. The AANP analyses the current practices and concentrates on patient-centered nursing framework implementation. It is potential to improve nursing competency level enabling the achievement of positive outcomes (Fairman et al. 2011). Conclusion: This study identified the areas of Decision-Making, Patient Handling, And Medication Efficiency as vital for attaining the goal of becoming an efficient nurse practitioner. The study of the organization Cedars-Sinai provides evidence to this fact. References: Carryer J, e. (2015).The core role of the nurse practitioner: practice, professionalism and clinical leadership. - PubMed - NCBI.Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 19 August 2015, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17880470 Fairman, J. A., Rowe, J. W., Hassmiller, S., Shalala, D. E. (2011). Broadening the scope of nursing practice.New England Journal of Medicine,364(3), 193-196. Naylor, M. D., Kurtzman, E. T. (2010). The role of nurse practitioners in reinventing primary care.Health Affairs,29(5), 893-899. Shea, M. (2014). Determined persistence: Achieving and sustaining job satisfaction among nurse practitioners.Journal Of The American Association Of Nurse Practitioners,27(1), 31-38. doi:10.1002/2327-6924.12119