Question

1. Describe the status of nursing as a profession and as a discipline.

2. The focus of nursing is on the person receiving the care. Explain the aims of nursing as they interrelate to facilitate maximal health and quality of life for patients.

3. define nursing from your own personal perspective and experience. Be sure to include the importance of practicing self-care in relation to the demands of the nursing profession.

4. explore one of the aims of nursing as they interrelate to facilitate maximal health and the quality of life for patients assigned to them by the faculty member. Group members should write examples of the aim in practice from their own clinical experiences and note the appropriate nursing interventions that accompanied each example.

5. Prepare a list of interview questions that will help you learn about these programs and the reasons students chose them.

Answer 1

Status of nursing as a profession.. One way of defining a profession is by stating what it should do. So criteria are standards of judging something. Nursing is considered as a profession since it meets a following criteria. Intellectual, scientific, essential, self governing, service oriented, personal development and economic development and has opportunities for higher education. Though all these criteria are not met, in many countries it is definitely moving towards greater professionalism.

Aims of nursing.

Promote health.. These mainly covers aspects which include primary prevention.. Early diagnosis and health education.

Prevent illness.. These also include primary prevention.

Restore health.. Diagnosis and treatment and returning to the normal life.. That is secondary prevention

facilitates coping with death and disabilities... Tertiary prevention where patients are rehabilitated and coping with death if it is unavoidable.

Nursing in my perspective.

Nursing is a constant process through which nurses identify, understands and meet the health care needs of a dynamic society or a person through a attitude of selfless passionate and compassionate care which is supported by a highly scientific base of knowledge..