The American Nurses Association’s Scope and Standards of Practice describes how
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The American Nurses Association’s Scope and Standards of Practice describes how registered nurses use the nursing process as the foundation for decision-making. Base your response on the ANA Standards of Professional Practice Nursing: Scope and standards of practice (You must be logged in to the College library to access this resource) Initial Discussion Post: Choose one of the six (6) ANA Standards of Practice and describe how the practice of an RN is different from your current role as an LPN in healthcare.
Discuss an example from your experience (as patient, family or professional) where an RN demonstrated one of the competencies from the ANA Standard of Practice.
Explanation / Answer
Scope of practice : The scope of nursing practice is demonstrated by answering a set of questions with 'who', 'what', 'when', 'how', 'where'. The profession of nursing has a scope consisting of full of challenges. The scope of nursing is dependent on the education, experience and patients served by the individual registered nurse.
Standard of practice : The standard of nursing practice are :
Standard 1 : Assessment
Standard 2 : Diagnosis
Standard 3 : Outcomes Identification
Standard 4 : Planning
Standard 5 : Implementation
Standard 6 : Evaluation
Standard 2 : DIAGNOSIS
The registered nurse first analyze the data that is collected and then go for diagnosis. She then with healthcare consumer or with family validates the diagnoses and further identifies potential risks to the patient's health and safety. In order to identify the diagnoses, she uses clinical decision support tools and standardized classification system.
LPN however, in order to diagnose, compares and contrasts clinical findings with normal and abnormal variations. During an interview and examination, they utilize the data provided and identify the diagnoses.
An example : Health teaching and health promotion :
An RN explains how to lead a healthy life style, needs for development, self care and activities of daily living. She demonstrates the health teaching which is appropriate to the consumer's situation and needs. She asks for the feedback and evaluation after the strategies being followed. Provides information to the consumer regarding disease prevention and health promotion by taking the help of information technologies. She also mentions the adverse effects of the therapies to be conducted.
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