Nursing Practice And Decision-Making

Domain 3: Nursing practice and Decision-making
What?
My abilities to nursing practice and decision making are identified by appendix 1 (the self-review). Also, these abilities are supported by appendix 3 (nursing skill sheet) and appendix4 (the leadership self-assessment tool) Decision-making is an integral part of nursing practice and the decisions nurses make affect patient care, patient safety and patient’s outcome (Lauri et al, 2001). In appendix 4 shows 90 years old male patient admission with fall, urine track infection and delirium. After a week of anti-inflammatory treatment now I found out his news (National Early Warning System) score is 3 due to his temperature:39.6 and heart rate: 111/mins. And I noticed the patient had very dry
In this case, I delegated health care assistance to recheck patient’s OBS every 30 mins, also offered some water to prevent patient getting dehydration, administered paracetamol 500mg under supervision. Furthermore, I did a urine dip to confirm if patient regained urine infection and monitored patient’s fluid balance. In this nursing practice in consideration against Belbin team role theory (2014), I self-identified that I looked like a recourse investigation and team worker more. I worked collaboratively with other professionals to improve patient’s outcome more effectively by sharing ideas and effort (Walsh and Kahn,
Mentoring is a nurturing process, in which a more experienced person supports another’s professional development, a mentor and mentee have been identified the main factors related to effective education practice (Hodgson and Scanlan, 2013).The mentor should be approachable, knowledgeable, honest, friendly, experienced, enthusiastic and willing to spend time with the mentee and the mentee should be willing to learn and become competent. McCloughen, O’ Brien and Jackson (2011) further pointed out mentoring is used to identify, nurture, support and develop new