Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice
The registered nurses and advanced practice nurses, professionals that have received education, professional titles, and maintain active nursing licensure.
Who is Who?
Collection of pertinent data relative to the patient’s health or situation.
What is Assessment?
An attribute that may be taught, modeled, learned, or mastered. Capable of being measured and analyzed.
What is caring?
▪ 3-Way Repeat Back & Read Back
▪ Phonetic & Numeric Clarifications
▪ Ask Clarifying Questions
What is Communicate Clearly?
A time nursing care, leadership, or expertise is needed.
What is When?
Based on the assessment and diagnosis, the nurse identifies outcomes and develops strategies to attain expected outcomes.
What is Planning?
Outlines the services that a qualified health professional is competent to perform and authorized to undertake.
What is The Scope of Nursing?
Use SBAR to handoff:
Situation
Background
Assessment
Recommendation
What is Handoff Effectively?
Any health environment in need of care, information, or advocacy.
What is Where?
Nursing care according to the care plan. The nurse coordinates care delivery and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
What is Implementation?
Based on caring and respect for human dignity. A compassionate approach to patient care embraces spirituality, healing, empathy, and respect. These aspects promote health.
What is the art of nursing?
▪ Cross Check
▪ Coach Each Other
What is Got Your Back?
The methods and manners that nurses use to practice professionally.
What is How?
Analyzing the assessment data to determine the patient's response to actual or potential issues.
What is diagnosis?
As defined by ANA “The protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities and populations.”
What is nursing?
Self Checking Using STAR
Stop
Think
Act
Review
What is Pay Attention to Detail?
Nursing’s response to the changing needs of society to achieve positive healthcare consumer outcomes.
What is Why?
Both the patient’s status and the effectiveness of the nursing care must be continuously monitored, and the care plan modified as needed.
What is Evaluation?
The authoritative statements of the duties that all registered nurses, regardless of role, population, or specialty, are expected to perform competently.
What is The Standards of Nursing Practice.
▪ Question & Confirm
▪ Escalate Safety Concerns when necessary by saying “Before we go any further…I need some clarity”
What is Speak up for Safety?