Nursing Standards Of Practice Essay

ANA Standards of Practice Journal Assignment

Nursing Standard

Standard 9: Communication:

The registered nurse meets the standards of professional practice by communicating effectively in all areas of their practice. The nurse meets the guidelines mentioned in the former by not only assessing their own communication skills, but also by maintaining communication with the entire interdisciplinary team. Additionally, the registered nurse displays communication styles which embody care, respect, listening, authenticity, and trust to all patients. Overall, the registered nurse strives to not only meet all communication competencies, but also ensures to endeavor towards continuous improvement of their overall communication skills (American Nurses

Typically, a trend I have noticed is that the parents do not have an elementary idea of the procedure going to happen to their child, yet, rather a more medically in-depth one. The skill of the registered nurse in terms of teaching ability truly comes into play in this case because it allows one to not only, again, meet the desired order of educating the patient, but also to convey accurate information and manage the overall quality of care being delivered to the patient. Specifically, an example of the situation mentioned in the former that comes to mind is when I had to educate my patient’s mother, foster mother, and grandmother about why the patient had to undergo an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). The patient’s mother had already signed consent for the procedure, but after speaking to all of them about it, it was clear that they all did not understand what exactly was going to happen to the patient, besides stating a highly intricate explanation of the procedure they wrote down- yet clearly did not understand. Using this specific example, it can be shown that the registered nurse can truly meet the standard of proper communication by not only “assessing the communication ability, health literacy, resources and preferences of the healthcare consumers”, but also by “demonstrating