Channelizing Nurses Regarding Learning Area Specific Nursing Diagnosis for Delivering Quality Care Through a Leadership Approach
Abstract
Sarmad Muhammad Soomar, Sarosh Tahar Khymani and Mohsina Hussain
Nursing profession is diverse with variety of care and roles. Leadership is an effective role that nurses play in a professional and nonprofessional both capacities. To comply with quality protocols and best practices, the professional role of nurse is very evident. To examine and analyses this along with learning leadership role, the authors has identified area specific problems and brought interesting solutions of it. The designated leadership practice area was gastro-enterology and has variety of issues, from which one was prioritized for practice and improvement. Nursing diagnosis is very important part of nursing process which strengthens the process and helps to identify various care related issues of patients. This will also lead to better care plans and implementation of nursing process as guided by Florence nightingale. An effective identification and making of nursing diagnosis will support best practices of quality acre and will satisfy clients with holistic approach. The academic project was one of the best examples to implement this very interesting issues and also to learn the leadership roles and channelize nurses to work properly on nursing diagnosis and care plans as recommended. This also brought further opportunities of learning and research through various methods of assessing the nurses, evaluating their practices and educating them to improve further in their practice areas. In addition, the factors involved in not maintaining these activities during the specific patient care time, the fish bone diagram is used to highlight those factors as well.