DESCRIBE HOW THE NURSING PROSESSION IS VIEWED BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC NRS 430
DESCRIBE HOW THE NURSING PROSESSION IS VIEWED BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC NRS 430
Describe how the nursing profession is viewed by the general public. Discuss factors that influence the public’s perception of nursing. Describe ways to educate the general public on the professional nurse’s role and scope of nursing within a changing health care system.
The nursing profession has seen several modifications since it’s inception. Nursing was originally connected with female- dominant caretaking and caring roles. The women lacked formal schooling and nursing training . They were mostly housewives with skills and expertise passed down from family members who wanted to help the sick. Their profession was not hampered in any manner ( Salmond & Echevarria, 2017).
The roles of the nurse have definitely advanced and evolved. Nurses play a vital role in patient care and outcomes. A competent and well informed nurse could in fact be the difference between life and death with respect to patient care. As the training requirements for nursing have become more extensive so have the responsibilities. As nurses, we are the eyes and ears for the patient. We are trained to treat prophylactically and improve upon what we are able to with interventions coupled with patient education and advocacy. We have to understand clinical prioritization by being able to determine which scenarios require immediate attention and those that would not be drastically affected by delay of care. Unfortunately, this is not always understood by the public and may actually come off as non- competent and or negligent. It is up to us to display competence so that not only the public grasp better understanding of our roles but also our colleagues. We are a team and the physicians especially want to feel confident with respect to our competency so that we establish and maintain public trust.
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- Sade, I agree with you that nursing has evolved a lot and a smart and knowledgeable nurse can make a big impact in patient outcome and also improve quality of patient care.
Here is a video that I found that describes the importance of nurses and what they do. It is a good reminder of the importance of what we do.
· Thank you, was bery informative.
· Nursing has been defined as both science and art. Science as a discipline and art as the application of the knowledge,
Nursing is the study of human health and healing through caring” ( M. C Smith 1994, p.50 ) . You can translate this to mean, nursing is the study of people by taking care of them.
In 1978, Donaldson and Crowley sited that a discipline offers a “unique perspective, a distinct way of viewing phenomena, which ultimately defines the limits and nature of it’s inquiry ” [P 113]. This you can view at as to mean, environment has an impact on human being.
Some researchers have done theory-research-practice, comparing to the patient-nurse collaboration. According to Fawcett’s (1984) ‘the discipline of nursing is the study of the interrelationships among human beings, environment, health and nursing. Although majority have accepted this theory, others have defined it as the study of study of life process of unitary human beings, (Rogers, 1970, 1992).
As you can see, Nursing is a unique discipline. More attention need to be made to make nursing knowledge grow.
We site the co-existence of midrange theory and nursing discipline. You can compare and contrast different theorist’s in view to midrange theory as related to each other and describe it’s purpose, structure and evaluate it.
