Emergency nursing relating to theory, ethics, and professional accountability.

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Emergency nursing relating to theory, ethics, and professional accountability.

The purpose of this research paper is to develop a working knowledge of nursing theory, nursing ethics, and professional accountability and apply these concepts to my professional clinical practice. You will be required to think about real-life scenarios and how they relate to nursing codes in my professional practice of emergency nursing.

Submission must be of original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. Turnitin will be used to verify.

You must use this rubric to direct the creation of your paper because it provides detailed criteria that will be needed in the paper. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect.

A. Identify a nursing theory that has influenced your values and goals.

1. Explain how nurses apply the identified theory from part A to implement excellent nursing practices.

2. Discuss how the identified theory from part A fits your professional practice.

B. Identify the contributions of two historical nursing figures in the nineteenth or twentieth century.

1. Compare the differences in contributions of the two historical figures identified in part B.

2. Describe how the contributions of the two historical figures influence your professional nursing practice.

C. Explain the functional differences between the State Board of Nursing and the American Nurses Association (ANA).

1. Define the roles of these two organizations.

2. Explain how these two organizations influence your nursing practice.

3. Explain the requirements for professional license renewal in Missouri.

a. Discuss the consequences of failure to maintain license requirements in Missouri.

4. Compare the differences between registered nursing license requirements in a compact state versus a non-compact state.

D. Discuss the functional differences between the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (see the web links below).

1. Discuss how the two regulatory agencies influence your professional nursing practice.

a. Describe your role as a patient advocate in promoting safety when a patient has requested to use an alternative therapy.

E. Discuss the purposes of the Nurse Practice Act in Missouri and its impact on your professional practice.

1. Discuss the scope of practice for a RN  in Missouri.

2. Discuss how your state defines delegation for the RN.

F. Apply each of the following roles to your professional practice:

a scientist

a detective

a manager of the healing environment

G. Identify two provisions from the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics (see web link below).

1. Analyze how the two provisions identified in part G influence your professional nursing practice.

2. Describe a nursing error that may occur in a clinical practice (e.g., clinical setting, skills lab, or simulation).

a.  Explain how the ANA provisions identified in part G can be applied to the error discussed in part G2.

H. Identify four leadership qualities or traits that represent excellence in nursing.

1. Discuss the significance of the four leadership qualities identified in part H in the nurses role as each of the following:

a leader at the bedside

within a nursing team or interdisciplinary team

2. Identify how your work environment impacts the following:

nursing leadership

decision making

professional development

I. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

J. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Medicare website: www.cms.gov
FDA website: www.fda.gov

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