Nursing is considered a practice profession and needs various components such as patients, environment, and community. The practice involves nurses involving fellow healthcare workers and available resources for the optimum healthcare system provision (Allen, 2018). However, the lack of one aspect to be incorporated leads to alteration of the nursing practice. Additionally, the practice requires a nurse to be an advocate, researcher, and provider, bearing in mind the components of nursing practice.
The practice of nursing involves nurses using holistic approaches in the provision of therapeutic interventions to ill patients. In addition, nurses will also need clinical judgment through knowledge acquired in their careers to provide care to individuals and families in a community to achieve wellness. In the process, the nurses will need to cooperate and communicate with patients and their relatives for efficient care delivery (Allen, 2018). For instance, if the patient cannot talk, the family member will give a brief history regarding the patient to the nurse to provide care to the patient. Therefore, the nursing practice entails nurses’ ability to have communication skills and use all components to provide adequate care to patients.
For effective practice, the environment should be conducive for the nurse to provide services and the patient for optimal healing. Encouraging tidiness of floors, well-ventilated windows, and clean linens stimulate health activities to run smoothly. The environment entails the community’s beliefs, customs, and values. As the nurse provides services, the community’s culture and values should be respected. In return, the community will enhance a peaceful environment free from noise and other factors that can lead to disturbances (Hopkinson & Wiegand, 2017). In conclusion, the nursing practice is likened to an ecosystem that needs to incorporate nurses, people, the environment, and the community in order to enhance a practical and goal-oriented approach.
References
Allen, D. (2018). Translational mobilization theory: A new paradigm for understanding the organizational elements of nursing work. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 79, 36-42. Web.
Hopkinson, S. G., & Wiegand, D. L. (2017). The culture contributing to interruptions in the nursing work environment: An ethnography. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(23-24), 5093-5102. Web.