How Professional Nursing Organizations Support The Field Of Nursing

PROFESSIONAL NURSING ORGANIZATIONS
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When it comes to the general wellbeing and healthcare of patients, professional nursing and medical organization play quite a pivotal role. Such organizations are quite important in the essence that they work in collaboration with other similar ones, so as to achieve the aforementioned goal. They also play a role in advancing the nursing profession through provision of further training with the aim of achieving additional skills for the nurses (Hegge, 2011). In the bigger picture, such organizations therefore support the field of nursing through advocacy as well as progressive improvement.
According to Matthews (2012), professional organizations play an important role in advocacy through pleading or lobbying for policies in the socioeconomic and political systems, which might in turn result in the betterment of the nursing field as well as patient outcomes. Such advocacy mainly hinges on resource allocation that generally promotes the profession. The process of advocacy is confined within ethical as well as moral principles, which are well enshrined in the nursing code of ethics as per the American Nurses Association (American Nurses Association, 2011). It sets the standards...