Extraordinary Nurses and Extraordinary Deeds. Patient safety

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Week 3 Paper
One of the features of Academic Writing is the use of academic peer-reviewed journal articles (PRJAs) as the source of information on a particular topic. In fact, most PRJAs have a “literature review” (from other published research) as evidence of credibility for their approach and ideas. Therefore becoming proficient at finding, reading, and utilizing PRJAs is an important component of academic writing.
Use your five articles from the week three paper along with two additional articles (total of eight) that you find this week, write a 5-7 page paper (not counting title page and reference list) which presents your point of view on your topic supported by the assigned articles. In week 2 you moved from summary to analysis. This week you will interject your own observations though NEVER using the first person pronoun. In academic writing we always write in third person. The objective of this exercise is not to describe each paper, but to identify the main points being made and connect them together. Later we will start to call this “synthesizing the literature”.
Post your paper by Sunday. NOTE: All papers are to be composed in the APA format.
Here is week 2 assignment that I did.
The topic of my interest is to emphasize the death of patients caused by nurses may be explained as an amalgamation of “extraordinary” nurses and “extraordinary” deeds within ordinary situations. When you hear about patients getting harmed or killed in hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care facilities, people cannot avoid saying that nursing is in the course of breaking down. Nurses administer care to patients as their professional obligation and as the laws and system requires of them. On a daily basis, these health care professionals establish the association of having a virtuous character and performing upright actions regardless of differing demands and time limitations. These nurses perceive the worthiness of their vocation when the health and wellbeing of patients improve. Majority of nurses are truly dedicated to the wellbeing of their patients and it is their purpose to provide care for people especially individuals who are ailing (Halldorsdottir, 2008).
However, there are a few nurses who may show dominating, infuriated, or unfriendly responses to patients. Others commit medical errors or inconsistent interventions in their work (Collins & Mikos, 2008). The difference depends on if the nurses behave in thoughtless and deliberate ways or committed errors and engaged in accidental incidences. In these circumstances, the likelihood of causing harm to patients is real.
Many organization or systems are put together on statewide, federal, and regional levels to understand more the issues that concern safety problems of patients and the places or situations they happen in administering care. The Agency for healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is one of them. It was presented huge monetary support for new contributions, projects, as well as other occupations to finance research efforts intended for the reduction of problems that concern the safety of patients and other medical blunders.
The method for the betterment of the safety needs of patients is collaborative and comprehensive. A single solution to the problem will not be able to address all significant issues. Although making a background check and psychological profile initially of individuals applying in such positions can do a lot. These types of problems in healthcare necessitate a number of solutions as well as systems that are guaranteed operational. This is to reduce the likelihood of putting patients at risk. They should not concentrate on pointing fingers but on learning from previous mistakes and avoidance of probable ones. The aim of healthcare providers must be to become skilled at the different methods and systems which are being set up and to make it possible for these systems to be operational by taking action. Definitely, putting patients’ health and life at risk in a healthcare system that is supposed to provide care and treatment to these individuals cannot be tolerated.
All nurses in the health care occupation may not be held responsible for the perilous actions of a few anomalous nurses who take the life of patients deliberately. However, there is accountability to figuring out how within hospitals and divisions melting pots are being developed in which crimes such as murder can occur. The important recommendations from the discourses encountered in preparing this paper involve both practice and research. Health practitioners and administrators are recommended to judiciously consider the structures and processes.
References
Collins, S.E. & Mikos, C.A. (2008). Evolving taxonomy of nurse practice act violators. Journal of Nursing Law, 12(2), 84-91.
Field, J. (2010). Caring to death: A discursive analysis of nurses who murder patients. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 16 (3), 301-309.
Halldorsdottir, S. (2008). The dynamics of the nurse-patient relationship: Introduction of a synthesized theory from the patient’s perspective. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 22, 643-652.
“Medical errors the scope of the problem, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality” (n.d.) Retrieved from
http://www(dot)ahcpr(dot)gov/qual/errback.htm
Pozgar, G. (2012). Legal aspects of health care administration. Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC.