Team_Work,_Cultural_Diversity_and_Nursing_Care_Post

1. Team Work Post In the beginning of this course, l only had a limited knowledge about the importance of working as a team. I realise that this limited knowledge was a result of my past experience in observing how others interacted in the team. My knowledge about team work was limited to being either positive or negative towards other team members. Hackman 1987, Weindieck 1992 and Guzzo and Shea (1992) and sited Martin Hoegl, sees team work as to mean a social system comprising about three or more members within an organization and the people around sees them as team members and they perceive themselves to be the same According to Mosby (2010 p 1591, team nursing is a system in which patient care is being divided among other nurses working together for the best treatment of client and best outcomes. A charge nurse becomes the overall leader and appoints a nurse as a team leader to lead about 5 or more other nurses, dividing the client among them. As l progress from my earlier post, l now discover that team work is more than working with your colleague at work. It also includes other allied health professionals and information regarding client have to be shared with them in confidence. Some of the merits of team work is emphasized when there is quality of collaboration, among the members. 2. Cultural Diversity Post Germov ( 2002 p137), stated that Australia possess differing cultural diversity in the areas of class, gender, race and ethnicity. Prior to commencement of this course, my belief in health industry was only influenced by experiences l had while growing up and the observations l made which living close to other people from different cultural background. My health care practices have changed due to multicultural experiences l acquired, while moving away from my culture. As someone from different cultural background, l have enormous understanding of what it feels like when my cultural ways of life are violated by health care industry and this has prepared me well so l can avoid making the same mistakes they made and save client from being hurt and mistrusting. Health practices differ from culture to culture. Some cultures views health holistically while others focus only on the physical aspect of health. According to " (Leininger, M. M. 1995) cultural care theory aims to provide culturally congruent nursing care through "cognitively based assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling acts or decisions that are mostly tailor-made to fit with individual, group's, or institution's cultural values, beliefs, and life ways) Since the inaugural of my course as a nurse, my perspective in adhering to client’s cultural practices have deepened. I have now understood that every client values their cultural practices and might mistrust me as a nurse if l fails to practice within their cultural arena and expectations. The author who has recently influenced my cultural awareness is “Leininger Magdalene who defined nursing as a learned scientific and humanistic profession and discipline focused on human care phenomena and caring activities in order to assist, support, facilitate or enable individuals or groups to maintain or regain their health or well-being in culturally meaningful and beneficial ways, or to help individuals face handicaps or death." Nursing Care Post According to the Mosby dictionary, nursing is defined as caring for the sick, Florence Nightingale, saw nursing as caring for the well and sick in the services of those activities that contribute to health which the client could have done unaided had they got the necessary strength or will..Nurses do lots of things. They are future educators, they empathise with you, encourage you, caring for your emotional needs as well. They dispense medication to the sick, At the moment l have altered my original philosophy in nursing due to the new insight l have gained while pursuing this course. I now see nursing to incorporate being technologically knowledgeable in order to be able to record client information, write notes, and send emails to other allied health personnel. (Hughs et al (2009 p 22). Nursing is al so a broad spectrum job which includes practicing within the nursing code and ethics, adhering to the hospitals organizational philosophical expectations and being competent and knowledgeable with new technology, however the stigma still exist. Theideas come from stigma by the society, history, family, friends, doctors, media influenced, changing political, just knowing, and intuition. In my practice now as a nurse, l have to adhere to use and practice of evidence based practice. This is achieved by my ability to give quality care to clients, having the knowledge of what l am doing and why l am doing it. Like if l am giving panadol to any client, l have to know why l am giving it like for head ache or pain relief and how often, the side effects and the five R( right client, right drug, right dose, right route and the right time) associated with it. I have to be able to answer any questions client might ask. As nurses, we can achieve evidence based care by using and implementing patient centred approach, and implementing beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy and justice which are the four principles of healthcare ethics. The key elements of evidence based practice are as listed below 1. Evidence-based practice is integral to healthcare 2. It is a challenge for those providing nurse education 3. It means developing and supporting patient-centred care using the most current evidence 4. Nurses must be able to identify and evaluate evidence 5. 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