What are the Criteria of a Profession

Nursing as a Profession must satisfy an indispensable social need and be based upon well established and socially accepted scientific principle

A dynamic, caring, helping relationship in which the nurse assists the client to achieve and obtain optimal health.

Characteristic of Nursing

A key indicator of nurse's success.

Ability to effectively communicate with nurses, physicians, disciplines across other units, patients and their families.

Making a true effort to put themselves in their patient's shoes.

Deliver the highest quality of care.

Setting time aside for self care is also crucial component to time management.

A student nurse is an example of:

A nurse who has been on the job for 2 to 3 yrs and can demonstrate ability to prioritize client care requirements.

A newly qualified nurse

A nurse that can demonstrate holistic understanding of a client condition.

Performance is fluid, highly skilled, highly developed perceptual acuity, flexible, highly proficient and has an intuitively grasp of the situation.

Assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client's dignity.

The nurse helps clients to learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health.

Nurse help clients to speak up for themselves

Influences other to work together to accomplish a specific goal.

is the process of helping a client to recognize and cope with stressful psychological or social problems.

Nurse act as a __________ when assisting others, that is, clients, to make modifications in their own behavior.

Manages the nursing care of individuals, families and communities.

uses research to improve client care.

The nurse performs nursing measures that will meet the patient's physical, emotional, social and spiritual health needs while in the institution and helps him and his family plan for his further health care needs when he returns home.

Gives emphasis on the promotion of health and prevention of diseases rather than care of the sick.

A registered nurse who gives comprehensive nursing care to a client on a one-to-one ratio.

Nurses that make independent nursing judgments in providing health services to company employees.

Nurses who like to consider teaching as their field of expertise must be qualified for the position.

Nurses who have specialized education and experience beyond the basic nursing programs.

Nurse is self-employed and provides professional nursing services to clients and their families

Drilling a hole in the skull with rock or stone.

In this period they believed that illness was caused by the invasion of the victim's body of evil spirit and Shaman or witch doctor had power to heal.

In this period care was done by prisoners, crusaders, religious orders.

In this period, nursing evolved as an art and nurses should be taught in hospital associated with medical schools and that the curriculum should include both theory and practice.

It covers the period after world war II and scientific and technological development as well as social changes marks this period.