Critical Thinking 2- Week 2

• What do you consider elements of quality care when receiving healthcare services?
• Safety: I want healthcare workers to use proper techniques and have proper safety while caring for me such as washing their hands before assessments, using sterile technique with IV's and making sure that nothing bad will happen to me when I am under their care.
• Timeliness: When dealing with healthcare I do not want to be waiting for long periods of time for a thirty minute check-up.
• Effective: I want those caring for me to be sure I will benefit from the things they suggest. I also want them to be effective when I visit them. For example, I do not want to have to go back to the doctor multiple times for different tests, I would rather get it done all at once. 
• Equitable: I want to receive the same standard of care that every other patient receives when they walk into the doctors office. I do not want to receive less care because I am a nurse or because I do not make as much money as somebody else. 
• What do you consider elements of quality care as a professional nurse?
• Patient centered care: When I provide care to my patients that makes them feel respected and so they feel their needs are met based upon their values that, to me, is considered quality nursing care. 
• Advocacy: I want to be able to know my patient well enough that I can be an advocate for them and stand up for the things that they want as a patient and help other health care professionals know if I disagree with things they suggest or have the patient do. 
• Safety: I want my patients to feel safe when they are in my care. I also want to make sure that I am doing things to prevent harm to them, no matter how little these things may seem. Improving a patients safety is improving their health in my mind. 
• Are the two similar or different?
• When prompted with these two different questions it seems that different answers come to my mind. However, I feel like this is because I am on the opposite side of answer these questions, for one I am a patient and for the other I am a nurse. However, overall, I feel like the way I would want to be treated as a patient, would be the way that I treat my patients as a nurse. The priorities of these things might be different depending on the situation but ultimately if I listed every single detail I would want these lists to be the same.