The document discusses nursing standards and their importance. Standards provide guidelines for nursing practice and help ensure quality of care. They outline what the nursing profession expects, promote best practices, and provide accountability. Standards aid in developing competencies, understanding roles, and guiding decision making. They also provide a framework for research, communication, and legal implications of practice. Standards should be realistic, attainable, clearly defined, and periodically reviewed.

1. NURSING
STANDARDS
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2. INTRODUCTION
 Standards are helping to plan,
implement and assess the quality of
services and to show that nursing is
accountable to society, customers,
government as well as to the profession
of nursing. Standard is a broad
statement of quality. Standards are
powerful tools that can increase
productivity.

3. CONT.
 Standards may be defined as "Benchmark
of achievement which is based on a
desired level of excellence.
 They reflect a desired and achievable level
of performance against which actual
performance can be compared.
 Standards provide guidelines for practice.

4. NURSING STANDARDS
• Nursing Standards are the standards of
practice provide a guide to the knowledge,
skills, judgment & attitudes that are
needed to practice safely.

5. • S - Successful termination of helping
relationship for client.
• T - To have clear idea or conception of the
distinct goal, health needs of patients and
society.
• A - Assertive planning.
• N - Nature of client nurse interaction.
• D - Directing others.
• A - Analytical thinking.
• R - Respect status and policies.
• D - Data collection in accordance with
goal.

6. IMPORTANCE
 Outlines what the profession expects of its
members.
 Promotes, guides and directs professional
nursing practice.
 Provides nurses with a framework for
developing competencies
 Aids in developing a better understanding
& respect for the complimentary roles.

7. PURPOSES
• Communication
• Research –provides framework for
research activities.
• Legal implication- Practice care with the
norms settled by an organization.
• Professional accountability
• Standards helps in decision making.

8. CHARACTERISTICS
• Realistic
• Acceptable
• Attainable
• Clearly understandable
• Flexible
• Based on current practice
• Scientific
• Must be reviewed & revised periodically

9. STANDARD NURSING CARE
• In order to ensure quality care the
nursing care needs some standards. The
aim of standard nursing care is to
support and contribute to excellent
practices. The role of nurse is constantly
changing to meet the growing needs of
health services.

10. CLASSIFICATION
1. Structure standard -- Things we use
2. Process standard -- Things we do
3. Outcome standard -- The result

11. • Normative standards –it means a
standard for evaluating or making
judgments about behavior or outcome
of nurses by some authorities.
• Empirical standards- describe practice
observed in large number of patient
care setting. Standards describe high
quality performance.

12. • End standards – (patient oriented) They
describe the change as desired in a
patients physical status or behavior.
• Mean standards- (nursing oriented)
they describe the activities and behavior
designed to achieve the end standard .
They reflect nurses performance.

13. STANDARDs IN NURSING
PRACTICE
Professional Responsibilities
•Health team member
•Ethics
•Policies
Conceptual
•Health needs of society

14. Effective use of nursing process
•Data collection
•Diagnosis
•Goal
•Intervention
•Evaluation
Unity
•Planning individual patient care monitoring and
evaluating patient and environment
•Coordinating services to the patient

15. •THANX