RNs with 5 yrs or more experience!!!

I'm trying to make sense of question #1. "apply the role of professional nurse". Huh?

needing answers for homework, huh? :)

"1. How do you as the registered nurse apply the role of professional nurse in the work place? "

Are you asking what we do at work?

This sounds like someone is trying to get some homework done!!!

ahh everyone caught me trying to get some hw done lol

for question 1, i guess it's basically asking what RNs do at hospital

According to my textbook, it says nurse's professional role include caregiver, advocate, educator, communicator, manager, autonomy and accountability...such things.

so how do you apply these different types of roles when you work in the hospital...?

i have to admit the question is pretty vague...

Well, I use my professional skills daily as I assist the nurses with less experience in assessments and problem solving, educating patients about their illnesses, interacting with physicians, taking care of problems before they actually become a problem, acting as a resource for other areas of the hospital. For my role as charge nurse, communication is the key skill that I use every day and my mood sets the tone for the unit. I have to be in a good mood. I have to be in a helping, let's get it done mood. I have to be the leader of the pack or the entire day is shot and things do not get done properly. I have to be the coach.

Throughout my career I have had many times when I have had an ethical dilemma I had to deal with. They are too numerous to count and most are too long to go into. Let me just sum it up to say that you always make your decision by keeping the patient first in your mind. Nothing else matters. You focus on the patient and what is best for the patient as you make your decisions. When you do that, nothing else matters.