PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO

PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO

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The specific work in both my portfolio helps me to understand different concepts about the healthcare profession. My portfolio’s topic is community and health population. This works me to understand that community health is a modern and more contemporary approach to public health as conceived as early as early nineteenth century. The organizations of community health, heirs of the main mandates of previous public health organizations, answer in the context of today and in a perspective enlarged, to the same need: the protection of public health and the

health promotion.

My portfolio represents my professional strengths which helps me to succeed in life. My work highlight as a strength the work system of the nurse consisting of providing individualized care, which offers us a privileged position so that our professional messages, of health education, as of proper care, speak more directly. Individualizing the provision of care allows us to receive all the patient's feedback while transmitting all professional skills. Nursing and its organizational and functional characteristics make teamwork another of its great strengths, hence the importance of recognizing each of the professionals as an integral part of a team, with a sense of shared objectives and a strategic vision. Team work allows nursing to disseminate knowledge and evidence in the provision of care, which allows achieving great results in patient care (Barlow, 1996).

The capacity of management and self-management is seen as an important strength, given that the nursing professionals are accustomed to the management of material resources and to a good conscience in their management. In the same way, the work schedules, their severity and, as we pointed out earlier, teamwork, make the nurse also have a high recognition of the value of human resources.

My Professional Mission Statement explains how I conduct myself as nurse. I treat my patient the same way will like to be treated if I am in their position. I hold myself at highest esteem and standard. My mission statement also serves as a reminder to me on how to interact with my colleagues and work with them to achieve the greater good of caring for the patient. Collaboration with both higher and lower staff is key to having a good team. When communicating with fellow nurses or other inter-professionals, it is important to collaborate efficiently and effectively so as to achieve organizational goal. Collaboration with all stakeholders at the healthcare facility is very important as well. In my role as a leader, I will encourage collaboration with both vertical and horizontal colleagues. Poor collaboration will negatively affect both patient outcome and organizational goal. It would also be necessary to highlight as a strength the great adaptation to changes in the nurse, recognizing that changes are always difficult to implement; the nurse easily adapts them to be a professional committed to their profession. This commitment could also be another of the strengths, because without a high commitment cannot face a profession as sacrificial and demanding as is nursing.

This works me to understands the challenges of my professional life. The main challenge is that planning of human resources in healthcare as another great challenge for the future, pointing out that trade unions and professional associations are fundamental to face it.

There is a great need of improvement in the healthcare institutions. These standards form a strong health care structure that supports the public, providers, and decision makers by ensuring the delivery of high-quality health services where they matter most. Health standards are also useful to governments as they give decision-makers access to the best available evidence and expertise, which is critical to decision-making. Standards can also help health organizations to measure themselves against others in a variety of ways. Scientific evidence demonstrates that evidence-based practice improves patient care, but there is a gap between research findings and their immediate application in clinical practice. The implementation of evidence-based practice in nursing practice faces multiple obstacles, both for organizational reasons, individual or related to the choice of evidence-based practice implementation strategy.

Applied leadership is application of a theory or an idea to administration or work. The professional role and value course was beneficial in my professional mission statement. "to provide optimum care to all patients within the best of my ability as if I was caring for myself and family, without prejudice. To also care with conscience and be considerate of my patients’ privacy and well-being. To also be a good team player and uphold the best professional standard" . To improve direct patient care, nurses need access to the best available evidence and synthesis of literature. Nurses who are familiar with the principles of research, such as the SAIs in this study, could act as facilitators for nursing teams. Strengthening evidence-based decision-making and research culture should be a priority for health care institutions to strengthen nursing autonomy and clinical leadership.

Artifact has shown that knowledge alone is not a guarantee of changing practices and improving the quality of care. Support for the implementation of scientific results and transfer of knowledge in the workplace should be planned under the umbrella of the partnership between clinical, training and research areas.

With regard to care research, nurses require that the results of research be easy to find, understand and quickly transposable into clinical practice. Future research should seek to develop and test strategies that support evidence-based practice with nurses and demonstrate their contribution to patient outcomes.

Initial focus and diagnosis evolved after working with my population is that as health professionals, we are committed to the efficient and effective operation of our facilities. The tools we have are the bureaucratic structures, the rules, the regulations, the policies and, of course, the measures. There is nothing fundamentally pernicious about having efficient, effective and measured institutions, but we argue that humanity and authenticity are sorely lacking in this environment, at the cost of meaningful work. The solutions that we propose belong to the middle of the philosophy, and particularly to the sector which is based on fundamental principles: what is a nurse, what is a patient, what is a hospital?

Evidence-based practice is recognized for its benefits in improving the quality and safety of patient care, and for its contribution to health system economies. However, nurses lack knowledge and skills with EBP. To improve direct patient care, nurses need access to the best available evidence. Access to scientific journals specific to their clinical field, recommendations for good practice, guidelines and other summary literature would support the updating of knowledge and the spirit of openness. As argued by the literature, nurses who know the principles research, such as advanced practice nurses, could act as a facilitator for the updating of knowledge and for the development of the competence of nurses working in caregiving positions (Patrick, & Erickson, 1993).Valuing the contribution of nursing care at conferences or professional meetings and supporting evidence-based change initiatives helps to strengthen the research culture, nursing autonomy and clinical leadership.

The transfer of knowledge into clinical practice is a major issue that concerns the field of training. Scientific evidence has shown that knowledge alone is not a guarantee of changing practices and improving the quality of care. It is a question of thinking of strategies of accompaniment of the development of competences in the workplace and measuring their effectiveness. To ensure coherence and continuity of patient-friendly care, knowledge transfer should be considered under the umbrella of an alliance of clinical, training and research areas. With respect to care research, nurses require that research findings be easy to find, understand and quickly translate into clinical practice.

By my own work, I come to know the importance of the American Museum of Natural History in Genetics and Genomics Course. It helped me to better understand different methods are used by scientists to treated different diseases and expanded my knowledge on ways which diseases can be managed at a micro level. The influence of genetics on diseases was well explored and the study of genetics can help design management of diseases in an individualized way.

References

Barlow, D. H. (1996). Health care policy, psychotherapy research, and the future of psychotherapy. American psychologist, 51(10), 1050.

Patrick, D. L., & Erickson, P. (1993). Health status and health policy: quality of life in health care evaluation and resource allocation.