Question

Read/review the articles and websites posted in Module 2 prior to responding to the two questions below.

They are important and will help you in this course and your journey to become a professional nurse.

1) The differentiating factors between occupations and professions are education, theory and research, and a professional framework or model. There have been debates on whether nursing is a "profession" or a skill-based "occupation" has been ongoing for decades. Explain why nursing should or should not be considered a profession. Support your response with reliable, valid sources.

2) Compare and contrast the "nursing model" vs the "medical model". As a future professional nurse, why is it important to understand the differences between these two models/professions? Additionally, discuss why it is best to describe nursing as part of "healthcare system/health professions" rather than the "medical field/medicine".

Articles are

BaccEssentials08-2.pdfPreview the document Nursing Education 2010 Brief-2.pdfPreview the document Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (2010).

The future of nursing: Focus on education report. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Answer 1

1)Ans) Nursing should be considered as a profession:

Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system.

Nursing is the body of" abstract knowledge" arrived through scientific research and logical analysis.

Is the scientific knowledge and skills in assisting individual to achieve optimal health.Nursing as integral part of the health care system,encompasses the promotion of health , prevention of illness ,and care of physically I'll and disabled people of all ages ,in all health care and community settings.

why nursing should not be considered a profession:

Nurses strive to act professional and to present a professional appearance.physicians are embers of a profession.they write orders or they do it themselves.they are law unto themselves.architects are members of a profession.all two lines of work requires a professional licence.

Nurse require a professional licence as well.what are can't do it write orders independently.we don't get choose a patient's medicine or IV fluids.we follow orders .

So,nurses are subservient to physicians and that is why we are not a profession.

2)Ans) Medical model vs Nursing model.

The medical model has been used in both complimentary and derogatory way ,but it is generally the way doctors think.the medical model might consider this soft science.

Nursing model:

Nursing has some practice /model/theories that emphasize the more holistic approach to disease that is taken by nursing.