Limitations and Challenges

From providing ongoing assessments to monitoring for complications and facilitating recovery, advanced practice nurses who care for patients in perioperative environments experience a unique set of limitations and challenges. Reflecting on your experiences in this complex and critical environment will help you develop your professional competency and prepare you for your future role as an advanced practice nurse. In this week's Discussion, you consider limitations and challenges of clinical practice in perioperative care settings.

To prepare:

Reflect on this week's clinical experiences.

Consider one limitation or challenge you encountered.

Think about how you overcame this limitation or challenge and how this might affect your future practice in pre- and post-operative care settings.By Day 3Post a description of at least one limitation or challenge as Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner you encountered during your clinical experience this week. Explain how you overcame this limitation or challenge and how this might affect your future practice. Possible answers: 1. As an advanced practice nurse or nurse practitioner, I wanted to do a wound debridement on the patient because it was not getting better but I could not because I need to have specialization for wound care, trainings, etc.2. Patient is discharging to nursing home and needs narcotic pills like dilaudid tablet but Nurse Practitioners could not prescribe narcotic to patients without triplicate, only physicians could prescribe it.3. The patient in the hospital wanted to go home, but the nurse practitioner could not discharge the patient, it has to be the primary physician. (Please provide references)