Nurses in our department have numerous activities concerning patients’ treatment and medical staff assisting. They check patients’ overall condition, take clinical charts, follow treatment plans, performing medical testing like blood draw, inform the doctors about critical observations. Moreover, nurses provide clarifications and all required information not only to patients but also to their relatives and caregivers so that to include all family and supporting community into collaboration.
One can notice that there are nurses who are seriously engaged in their work, while others seem to follow the instructions without being aware of what their actions mean within the whole system. Probably, the differences in the two main programs of nurse education, namely, ADN and BSN, could induce this discrepancy. This observation is consistent with Ghaffari’s study showing that BSN students get a more profound introduction to the concepts, and eventually, they are objectively more productive at their work (42). Therefore, a suggestion can be to provide activities engaging the nurses into the exposure of community health concepts, which can probably facilitate their work quality. It will take into account the effectiveness of BSN programs and apply it in practical settings.
Besides, it has got natural to see how exhausted nurses usually are, and this is likely to result in emotional and professional burn-out. They hardly have time to have a snack during their shifts, and yet they are obliged to provide a competent, careful, and thoughtful service. Furthermore, they have to be psychologically stable and show enduring disposition. All these circumstances may present weakness for the medical system, and therefore they should be addressed within effective management of clinics. For these reasons, another suggestion is to arrange special facilities for the nurses’ psychological health, which considers not only break times but also supplying sufficient materials and equipment for favorable conditions.
Work Cited
Ghaffari, Masoud. “Preparing Nurses for Community Health Care: A Comparative Study of the ADN and BSN Programs.” International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences Research, vol. 5, no. 2, 2018, pp. 32–45.