Nursing has been acknowledged among the oldest and noble professions globally. Accurately, it entails provision of healthcare to individuals and to maintain a quality healthy life. Factually, the nursing process is a systematic problem solving method that directs Registered Professional Nurses (RNs) in meeting the needs of patients a process that has been created to provide individualized nursing care plans. However, contemporarily, practicing RNs verbalize that “care plans” are no longer used in clinical practice often.
Registered Professional Nurses (RNs) who fail to see the benefit of nursing care plans and view it as busy work must understand the profession of RNs as; diagnosing and treatment of human responses to actual and/or potential health problems. This is done through various services like case finding, health counseling, health teaching and provision of care that is supportive to well being, restoration of life, and execution of medical regimens that are prescribed by a licensed physician (McCrow, Yevchak & Lewis 127).
RNs implement the nursing process even when a written care plan is not required in a clinical setting in various ways. To begin with, RNs are bestowed with copious roles and responsibilities that vary with region and nurses’ specialization, as well as, hospital where they work from. Various roles of RNs include giving healthcare to the patients through provision of direct healthcare, comfort and counseling the patient. Notably, RNs act as teachers, wherever they provide Medicare information to patients (Hallin & Danielson 299). For instance, teaching the patients on the prescriptions and healthy lifestyle. In keeping with Deasy et al. (110) RNs also play a major role in counseling patients experiencing stressful and traumatic situations. Arguably, counseling is essential in provision of emotional, psychological and intellectual stability. RNs are also responsibility in creating self acceptance to patients who are diagnosed with terminal illnesses. This assists in changing behavioral conduct and attitude of such patients and enhances longer life. In conclusion, RNs act as change agents in the society especially in matters related to healthcare. RNs are the ones who go around the community teaching on healthy lifestyles and administering post clinical care to the outpatient.
Work Cited
Deasy C, Doody O & Tuohy D. An exploratory study of role transition from student to registered nurse (general, mental health and intellectual disability) in Ireland Original Research Article. Nurse Education in Practice, Volume 11, Issue 2, March 2011, Pages 109-113
Hallin K & Danielson E. Preceptoring nursing students: Registered Nurses’ perceptions of nursing students’ preparation and study approaches in clinical education Original Research Article. Nurse Education Today, Volume 30, Issue 4, May 2010, Pages 296-302
McCrow J, Yevchak A & Lewis P. A prospective cohort study examining the preferred learning styles of acute care registered nurses Original Research Article. Nurse Education in Practice, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 6 September 2013
