Question

The practice of Nursing has evolved greatly in the past 50 years. In order to take the Registered Nurse Boards (Exam), the education requirement is an Associates in Nursing Degree from an accredited school. Discuss whether the health care system is placing too much responsibility on nurses, and whether the patient suffers because of the expanded role of the nurse.

Answer 1

Nursing practice has evolved over the time dramatically. It has changed the major roles of the nurses of being just assistant for the patient daily needs to be a crucial part of their care planning and treatment managment system.

The health care system has placed nurses to be an integral member of the health and social care teams and have an appropriate say and opinion in their practice. This has somehow placed some burden on nurses to have knowledge and skills as per the standarda of care and develop practice for pateint centred care. On other hand it is also suggested that use of such certification and accreditions for nurses has developed their skills and practice and enables them to be a part of high quality service provisions.

Hence, these enhanced practice guidelines tends to emable nurses to develop better skills and patient outcomes with these skills are seen to improve in positive directions.