Quality and Safety
Quality healthcare is the best available health results considering the available resources and current situation. The health results must also focus solely on the patient. Similarly, safety refers to minimizing the risk of harming a patient unnecessarily to the lowest acceptable level. Additionally, patient safety refers to minimum medical inaccuracies in general practice. I once instructed a patient diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis to take their medication without prior counseling. I had a busy schedule, and I forgot to counsel the patient. I later learned that the patient had skipped her medication twice in the first week. Consequently, I took time to counsel the patient on the importance of taking her medicine every day. I also informed her that her illness was not terminal and that she would be fine if she takes her medication for six months and eats healthy. The experience was relevant because it taught me to take every patient seriously. I also learned the importance of counseling and providing emotional support to patients when necessary. Counseling and emotional support help a patient appreciate the treatment they get and the importance of taking the prescribed medication.
Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-based practice involves using available evidence and medical experience to make clinical pronouncements. The method technique also focuses on patient expectations before making a clinical choice. A few years back, a fellow nurse and I were doing our rounds in the clinic when a patient started bleeding profusely. I reached for my gloves to attend to the patient but my colleague had already jumped in to help without protective gloves. The patient was stabilized, but further blood tests found the patient to be HIV positive. Luckily, my colleague was not infected, but she regretted forgetting her safety gloves. Attending to a patient without protective gloves poses a risk to the patient infecting the nurse or vice versa. The experience taught me to be cautious even during emergencies. As a nurse, I learned the importance of the proper dress code required before attending to patients. A nurse at a clinic where I worked decided to turn off patients distress buttons in because she was tired of the noise. The nurse in charge restored the volume of the distress buttons once she discovered they were off. The nurse responsible was informed of a patient that died three years ago because of such an action. The patient had tried to make a distress call to no avail. The nurse was warned against tampering with the distress buttons from that point forward.
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Applied Leadership
Leadership in nursing is the ability of a medical expert to use their expertise to guide nurses in providing the best patient care in a health facility. I was once selected as the nurse in charge of the night shift. The following morning, the nurses meant to report for the day shift ran late because the staff bus broke down. The nurses in the night shift started complaining and threatened to leave the health facility. As their leader, I managed to calm them down and convince them to wait for the day shift nurses. The experience taught me how to act as a leader during a crisis. Similar, nurses should take charge of every situation regardless of its difficulty. The experience taught me to make wise decisions when necessary to avoid a crisis. Another situation where leadership is displayed is when nurses threatened to strike in our clinic. The clinic had a shortage of nurses, and the few of us present were overworked. The nurse in charge calmed us down and promised more nurses by the end of the week. Leadership, in this case, was helpful to avoid a possible strike.
Community and Population Health
Community and population health involve providing the best quality of medical and nursing care to the population in a community. It involves focusing on particular communities and providing proper nursing care to them. We once went to the local community to encourage men to turn up for prostate cancer screening. The sensitization was necessary because cases of prostate cancer had risen significantly in that particular community. Similar most patients came to seek medical attention when the cancer was in its last stages. The sensitization enabled me to help the community and provide counseling where necessary. The cancer sensitization made me interact with the community I was serving. The community enables me to appreciate my job and provide the best nursing care possible. Working with patients that I care about gives me the motive to work harder every day.
