Question

Describe the relationship between the AACN Essentials and your new-found knowledge about Patient Centered Care. Are there opportunities for you to improve?

Essential VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values discusses professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct. Review the Professional Integrity Module-Academics and Practice at the beginning of the course (the first module). Then reflect on your own beliefs and values as they relate to professional nursing practice.

Discuss implications of professional nursing integrity and academic integrity.

Answer 1

American Association of colleges of nursing created safer nursing system,it focus on all health professionals to provide health care delivery with high quality,safer and more cost-effective system..It increased the awareness in clinical practice to make better health care outcomes..It identified nursing shortage globally and it created entry=level baccalaureate nursing program to reduce the shortage and address the needs and educate nurses for future professionals to make patient-centered care by delivering interprofessional team,evidence -based practice, quality improvement approach and informatics..education and practice make better environment and it becomes diverse and global in nature..It improves our knowledge with providing culturally appropriate care..professional nursing need second language facilities and diversity..AACN focused on knowledge,skills and attitudes for nurses and new innovative models leadership role for making vision for nurses education..
Ethical dilemmas important for nursing professionals to develop and maintain professional identity..professional values are standards for action accepted by professionals and individuals it is useful to evaluate integrity and for reinforce professional person identity and performance..It is influenced by family,culture,religion ,ethnicity and environment..professional nursing practice increased quality care ,job satisfaction and promote ethical competencies to deal wit ethical issues and it help in decision making when there is ethical problem..
Professional nursing integrity have good clinical skills,ethical,accountable and respectful.. organization need nurses with ethic commitment ,interpersonal team work skills and the ability to solve problem..Academic integrity focus on nurses learning,behavior and professionalism..Teachers will be role model for academic integrity..Academic integrity resolves language barrier among students for easy understanding codes of conduct..It remains academic honesty and integrity policy..Establish judicial system avoid academic dishonesty and academic integrity policies should make tolerance,progressive disciplinary process as a core institutional values special attention needed for academic development programme to avoid a plagiarism on exams and make awareness to complete the programme with necessary skills to be as a safe nurse practitioner..