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Aspects of Family Nurse Practitioner as a Nursing Specialty
Aspects of Family Nurse Practitioner as a Nursing Specialty
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Aspects of Family Nurse Practitioner as a Nursing Specialty
Definition, Purpose, and Rationale
A family nurse practitioner is an advanced registered nurse practice with advanced training and education to practice within primary care settings. Family nurse practitioners are important to the healthcare landscape as they provide necessary care services and wellness guidance to patients that require them. Family nurse practitioners assist in the management of patient caseloads in clinics, hospitals and medical professionals. They work alongside specialists and physicians in taking care of the injured, sick, and healthy patients. Currently, the practice of family nurse practitioners is the broadest scope of the nursing profession. Family nurse practitioners have training in providing care to patients ranging from 100-year-olds to newborns. This means that family nurse practitioners can diagnose, treat, and assess patients in the said range for nearly any malady that passes through the door. The place of a family nurse practitioner is becoming increasingly significant as patients continue to struggle to access care in some parts of the United States. The rationale for selecting this nursing practice is that family nurse practitioner is that it has the broadest scope. Additionally, professionals tend to be passionate about contributing to a high-quality and efficient care system. Additionally, the family nurse practitioner is interesting as they often find themselves as trusted primary care providers. A family nurse practitioner can attend to the same patients for decades and get to know their personalities, hopes, profile, and fears.
National and Local Organizations and Practice Standards
There are numerous professional organizations and associations that guide the family nurse profession. The International Family Nursing Association (IFNA) is one of them. It is an association for nurses that desire to boost their quality of care and overall health for patients. Other associations include the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), the Nurse Practitioner Associates for Continuing Education (NPACE), the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, the American Association for the History of Nursing, and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. As a profession, the family nurse practitioner profession is guided by various standards including qualifications such as having a license (Fowler, 2017). Other practice standards include process of care, care priorities, interprofessional responsibilities, accurate documentation of patient care and status, and their role as patient advocates. Other standards include quality assurance, the combined role of a nurse practitioner, and research as a basis for practice.
Training, Competency, and Specialization Expectations
To qualify as a licensed and certified family nurse practitioner, one must finish at least 500 hours of supervised clinical hours after a viable healthcare setting like a family practice center. The certificate and degree programs that family nurse practitioners undertake tend to incorporate clinical hours in the course requirements. The core competencies of a family nurse practitioner include international relations, communication, decision making, critical thinking, technology, organization, and leadership.
Exemplification and Contributions of the Family Nursing Practitioner Specialty
There are various individuals that exemplify the specialty of the family nursing practitioner professional. The top clinical focus for family nurse is urgent care, family, and primary care. These individuals mostly practice family nursing in private group practices, outpatient clinics and private physician practices. The contributions of a family nurse practitioner include providing preventative care services that prevent hospital admissions and emergency rooms and reduce hospital visits (Ainslie & Bragdon, 2018). Another unique contribution of family nurse practitioners is that they practice in various healthcare settings, including private practice, community health centers, universities and health care systems.
Patient Advocacy in the Family Nursing Practitioner Specialty
In line with provision three of the ANA code of ethics, family nurse practitioners are expected to promote, advocate for, and protect the health, rights, and safety of the patient. They offer invaluable service through safeguarding their client’s right to privacy. While patient advocacy has been deemed an integral part of nursing, experts posit the need to better understand its exact components (Collins, Broeseker, Cunningham, Cortes, Beall, Bigham, & Chang, 2017). An article “Patient Advocacy: The Role of the Nurse” for the Nursing Standard details various factors affecting advocacy efforts. The article also details the precise ways through which nurses can advocate for their patients in a healthcare setting including fostering collaboration, protecting them from harm, communicating patient preferences, supporting the patients voice on matters care and choices, and giving them important information critical for their decision making.
Professional Advancement in the Family Nursing Practitioner Specialty
In line with provision seven of the ANA code of ethics, family nurse practitioners are expected to advance in the profession in all roles and setting through scholarly inquiry, research, development of health and nursing policies and professional standards of development. One of the notable professional advancements has a lot to do with technology. With technology evolving rapidly, family nurse practitioners have shifted the way they carry out their mandate. They have shifted their patient records from paper to digital and are incorporating tools such as smart beds, mobile monitoring devices, mobile apps, and wearable devices.
Integrity and Social Justice in the Family Nursing Practitioner Specialty
In line with provision nine of the ANA code of ethics, family nurse practitioners are expected to demonstrate nursing values, maintain integrity, and incorporate principles of social justice in health policy and nursing. They can do this by being dependable, honest, treating their patients with respect, and holding themselves accountable. Further, they can exemplify integrity by giving credit to other people for their efforts, respecting equipment and property, following company rules, and setting a good example for other people to emulate.
References
Ainslie, M., & Bragdon, C. (2018). Telemedicine simulation in online family nurse practitioner education: Clinical competency and technology integration. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 30(8), 430-434. https://journals.lww.com/jaanp/Abstract/2018/08000/Telemedicine_simulation_in_online_family_nurse.4.aspxCollins, A., Broeseker, A., Cunningham, J., Cortes, C., Beall, J., Bigham, A., & Chang, J. (2017). A longitudinal online interprofessional education experience involving family nurse practitioner students and pharmacy students. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 31(2), 218-225. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13561820.2016.1255600Fowler, M. D. (2017). Faith and ethics, covenant and code: The 2015 revision of the ANA code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. Journal of Christian Nursing, 34(4), 216-224. https://journals.lww.com/journalofchristiannursing/Abstract/2017/10000/Faith_and_Ethics,_Covenant_and_Code__The_2015.8.aspx?context=FeaturedArticles&collectionId=1
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Validity Assessment
In my academic career, I have taken various standardized tests to assess my ability to succeed in college. One such test I have taken is the SAT and ACT. In my viewpoint, these assessment tests are not valid measures of one’s future success. I believe this is the cause as I do not see a direct correlation between the score that one attains and how successful one emerges in the future. I have witnessed people who scored lower on tests becoming successful than people who had high scores in these assessments tests. The fact that one scores high on test do not automatically translate into success because life is not all about academic success. Some people might score low on their assessment tests but this does not mean that they will end up poor and unsuccessful because afterall, there are many paths that a person can follow besides education. People that get low scores in their assessments also have other talents or skills. If put to use, they can use these skills to build wealth and become successful in life.
The scores that made on these assessments tests have little correlation to my success in college. I scored average marks in my assessment tests but I did not emerge as average learner later on in college life. I can say that while I am not at the top of my class, I am doing okay and content with the results that I get. I believe validity is more important than reliability because for any assessment to be valid, it must first be reliable. Validity is all about how accurate a measurement is, while reliability is about how much the results of a given assessment are consistent (Cypress, 253). While both are equally important for assessment, validity is more important than reliability.
The high levels of anxiety in the Beck Anxiety inventory predict anxiety in a person. A measure of 0-7 indicates minimal anxiety, 8-15 mild anxiety. 16-25 moderate anxiety, and 26-63 severe anxiety. The items on the suicide risk assessments sufficiently cover all aspects of suicidal thoughts. With these, it is easy to point out a depressed person. Faith and spirituality function therapeutically on people with suicidal thoughts and help them recover. Faith is helpful as it gives a person a sense of purpose which helps them avoid suicidal thoughts.
Works Cited
Cypress, Brigitte S. “Rigor or reliability and validity in qualitative research: Perspectives, strategies, reconceptualization, and recommendations.” Dimensions of critical care nursing 36.4 (2017): 253-263.
How a Member Decides to Vote
Our founding fathers created a system of government that relies on Representative Democracy. Many American voters do not understand exactly what our representatives do. Use the “Interactive Learning module” link HYPERLINK “http://congress.indiana.edu/how-does-congress-work”here
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learning modules. Using the material presented in each learning module, write a page or more on what you learned in each module. This should result in a total of a minimum of three to five pages in your paper. More information on what to include on each module in your essay is below:
How a Member Decides to Vote: In this module you need to report your experiences as you participated in the activity. Be specific. Describe the different viewpoints presented regarding the issue of the “flag amendment” that is presented in the module and report what you thought about those viewpoints. Be specific. For example your paper should report “Who said What and Why” regarding the issues. Your paper should also contain several sentences of analysis regarding each “Who said What and Why” presented in the module. How did you vote? Why? What viewpoints influenced you? Why? What did you learn? Did the activity cause you to become more concerned about the viewpoints of others? Do you have any comments about the process?
Public Criticisms of Congress: Describe the different Criticisms of Congress presented during the activity. Analyze each criticism and report your viewpoint regarding the criticism. Again, be specific. Each viewpoint presented must be reported, along with your viewpoint regarding the criticism.
The Dynamic Legislative Process: Compare the textbook version of how a bill becomes a law to the Dynamic Legislative Process presented in the module.
Note: In order to do a good job on this assignment, you should easily have five pages (but it can be more). Be specific and elaborate on the answers to the above questions. Put your information into your own words! Think! Writing Tip: Always assume that your audience knows nothing about the issue. A common mistake students make is leaving out critical information that they have learned, because they know that the instructor already knows the information. However, an instructor cannot give credit for knowledge that is absent from the essay. Your writing should be the evidence that you have the information, and have assimilated it into knowledge. (This was a mistake that I made in writing essays for college classes until an English teacher gave me this advice: “Always write as though the instructor were an ignorant fool that you were attempting to educate about the issue”.
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