FUTURE, SCOPE AND PROFESSIONAL OBLIGATIONS

FUTURE, SCOPE AND PROFESSIONAL OBLIGATIONS

Introduction

In the future, advanced nurse practitioners will continue playing a vital part in enhancing the care and safety of the patient. The nurse has the responsibility of protecting the information of the patient with a lot of confidentiality. Through the applied practice, it is essential to sustain the wellbeing of the patient. This study aims to describe the future role of advanced nurse practitioners together with the professional nursing organizations, which nurses ought to join in enhancing their professional improvement.

1. A discussion of the scope of your future role as an advanced registered nurse, including any regulatory, certification, or accreditation agencies that define that scope

The scope of practice in nursing is a description of the services that qualified health professional practices because the profession considers him or her competent to accomplish and to carry out duties. The scope of nursing in the future will entail carrying out particular duties without the surgeon’s supervision as well as that of a physician. Using advanced technology is critical in healthcare research, and I will need to adopt it. Through advanced technology, I will be able to obtain data from the patient or a member of the public. In a vibrant profession like nursing, and with the changing health care demands, transformations in the scope of practice, as well as overlapping accountabilities, are inevitable in our current and future health care system.

Through one of the following bodies, an advanced registered nurse gets accreditation and regulation The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), The Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB) and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB) (Kangasniemi, Pakkanen & Korhonen, 2015). Nursing practitioners can get certification through organizations. As a nurse, my profession expects that I give priority to the interests of my patients. I have to collaborate with the other nurses and staff in my place of operation to ensure proper duty delivery. The patients must have access to quality services through my practices. The American Nurses Association requires that patients get the best served by a health care setting where there are diverse forms of qualified professionals. The world of healthcare provides that nurses offer their full potential with the experience gained in their education and abilities. At one point working in the Mayo clinic, I could see my fellow nurses committed to providing the best to their clients. Hence, the scope of practice needs to replicate a specialist’s real proficiency.

Advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) expects that through the body of evidence, it offers that there is safe and cost-effective delivery of care. It calls for everyone to remove each barrier to full practice authority. The American nurses association has commitments to regulating, advocating for legislative as well as regulatory changes associated with the scope of practice. Such is with the focus of alienating practice barriers for nurses and enhancing access to care. They should, at the same time, advocate, provide, and regard the wellbeing of the patients. Nurses should not only confine to healthcare organizations, but they should also act as community health nurses and educators of society. The involvement of nurses in evidence-based practice enhances the quality of care provisions to the patients. Hence, the professional nursing organization accomplishes the goals to improve the functioning area of the nursing profession.

2. A discussion of three professional nursing organizations that you think are most influential in advancing the scope and influence of advanced nursing.

The nursing profession expects that there is the existence of a professional culture. Such allows fostering of values as well as the ethos of the job among the members. Nurturing and maintenance of the professional culture is through the actions of the profession’s organizations (Morilla-Herrera et al., 2016). The enhancement of professional organizations is collectively advocating values on behalf of the nursing profession to others. One of the nursing professional organizations is the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses formed in 1893. In the contemporary world, the organization’s name is the National League for Nursing. The second one is the Associated Alumnae of Trained Nurses of the United States, Canada, formed in 1896, and today we call it the American Nurses Association (ANA). The third organization, established in 1899, is the International Council of nurses, which is the first international professional nursing organization (Cherry & Jacob, 2016). The three nursing organizations are active across diverse parts of the world and influence the nursing together with healthcare. Through the organizations, there is a constituted “voice of nursing” in a diversity of professional, regulatory, political, clinical, and educational matters.

Of these organizations, evaluate the one that you would most like to join. How do its goals and mission fit in with your worldview and philosophy of care?

In my case, I would join the American Nurses Association because it represents the nursing profession and interests of over 3.4 million nurses. The mission for ANA is “nurses advancing our profession to enhance the health of all” (Catallo, Spalding & Haghiri-Vijeh,2014). Through the stated purpose, I am then being able to focus on working towards the established mission and offer the best healthcare practices to my patients. Through professional nursing organizations, then there is a chance for the nurses to influence nursing practice, health policy, nursing education, and standards of healthcare.

How might membership in this organization improve your practice?

Through the diverse facets to the membership of the organization exist, I have achieved transformations in the profession. Through it, other nurses and I offer a collective means where we as nurses have a say in shaping healthcare policy. Personal membership in nursing organizations, besides aids me in staying current about regards that manipulate their specific practice area and nursing role. When one engages in professional organizations, he or she enhances leadership skills and offers networking opportunities for every member contributing to the advancement of the career. The ANA organization ensures that it fulfills its mission through enhancement of the nursing standards of practice, expanding the body of knowledge through research and evidence-based practice; thus, I have been able to enhance my general welfare as a nurse in the workplace.

3. A discussion of a controversial or evolving issue that is most likely to affect your scope of practice or role in the next few years.

Technology application in healthcare today is one of the crucial roles of advanced nurse practitioners. Technology is shaping the healthcare environment as fast as possible (Perry, Henderson & Grealish,2018). It is essential that then as an advanced nurse to ensure that I utilize the up to date technology in diagnosing, treating, and advising the public on concerns of wellbeing, chronic disease management, and involve additional learning to maintain relevancy in the field of nursing.

How do you think this issue could influence the profession and other stakeholders, and why does it matter to the advanced registered nurse?

Technology use in healthcare will improve efficiency as well as the success of the nursing practice. The nursing practitioners need to observe matters of privacy together with confidentiality in managing the data of the patient through technology use. Revealing of the patient’s data without the consent of the patient leads to compromising of the patient’s confidentiality. The data of the patient is sensitive; hence, it needs utmost privacy as well as confidentiality.