N320 - W1 Introduction & Professional Role

definition of nursing

• American Nurses Association

  • proection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning

  • prevent illness and injury

  • facilitate healing and alleviation of suffering

  • diagnosis and treatment of human responses and advocacy

• International Council of Nurses

  • upholding everyone’s right to enhoy the highest attainable standard of health

  • nursing acts and advocates for people’s equitable access to healthcare

  • promotes health, protects safety and continuity in care and amanges and leads health care organizations and systems

  • science-based disciplinary knowledge, technical capability, ethical standards, and therapeutic relationships

Nursing as a Discipline

• core metaparadigm

  • person - recipiant of care

  • environment - internal and external surroundings

  • health - state of well being and functioning

  • nursing - actions taken by professionals to care and support the person

• Science vs Applied Science

  • academic discipline - focusing on the holistic, human-universe-health experience

  • goes beyond medical model

• Professional Discipline

settings for nursing care

• hospital, doctors office, home health care, clinics, public health spaces, non profit organizations, teaching, manager

• provider licensure, PhD Research, consultant, education development, adminstrators

Florence Nightingale

• improved sanitaiton and patient care during Crimean War

• 1860 established the Nightingale training school for nurses at St Thomas hospital, London

• emphasized hygeine, observation, and evidence based practice

profession

• body of knowledge

• scope of practice

• agreed upon values, ethics

• oath or code

• accountability

professionalism

• conduct - summary of your actions

• profession - practicing nursing

• summary of your actions when you are practicing nursing

how is professionalism judged

• against a set of expectations or standard

• form our own personal values set and understanding of what professionalism means

• may be situational in nature

• strongly influenced by culture

what is professionalism determinded by?

• our image, communication, competence, demeanor

viewpoints

• nurses to patients and their families

• nurse to nurse

• nurse to other disciplines