Nursing Care Plan: A Panacea For Quality Assurance In Palliative Oncology Care In Nigeria

Abstract

Professionals in the healthcare sector take responsibility for practice in view of the pace of change experienced within the field of practice aiming at personal and professional advancement (Jasper, Rosser and Mooney, 2013).This is more challenging particularly in this era of amplified emphasis on providing evidence-based care in health and social care. Owing to this fact, clinical judgement and decision making are pertinent to delivery of high quality, client-centred nursing and inter-professional care (Holland, 2013). Thus, it can be said that professional development is strongly related to advancement in professional practice. Therefore, the aim of this opinion paper is to critically appraise the concept of change, leadership styles, decision making, decision making theories and models relevant to the proposed innovation in palliative oncology care with the aim of enhancing quality care for cancer patients and nursing practice in general.