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NURSING AS A PROFESSION
1. The document discusses the criteria for a profession according to the trait approach, including specialized knowledge gained through higher education, high intellectual ability, individual responsibility, public service, and autonomy. 2. Nursing meets these criteria, with nurses using specialized skills and assessment techniques learned in institutions of higher education and demonstrating a high level of individual responsibility and accountability in patient care. 3. Nursing also exhibits traits of a profession such as developing a specialized body of knowledge through research, representing members' interests through organizations like the American Nurses Association, and requiring licensure to demonstrate competence.
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Overview of the nursing profession presented by Dr. Maheswari Jaikumar.
Definitions outlining the hierarchy of work: profession, occupation, job, and position.
Explains professionalism and introduces three approaches to understand profession: Process, Power, Trait.
Details on Process Approach focusing on public image and Power Approach emphasizing salary and political influence.
Reiteration of profession definition and introduction of Trait Approach with key contributors.
List of criteria defining professionalism, including knowledge, responsibility, service, and autonomy.
Modern nursing emphasizes specialized skills, accountability, and the legal and professional implications of clinical decisions.
Nursing evolves into a distinct discipline through research and continued education and specialization.
Importance of Evidence-Based Practice in enhancing nursing competence and quality of care.
Nursing embodies altruistic service, prioritizing client well-being over personal obligations.
Role of professional organizations like NLN and ANA in ensuring nursing quality and regulation.
Code of Ethics in nursing provides standards for practice, emphasizing fairness and beneficence.
Requirement for nurses to pass licensure exams for legal practice in their states.
Nursing involves collaboration with health professionals, with Nurse Practitioners gaining more independence.
Importance of dedication and commitment to the nursing profession for achieving true professionalism.
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NURSING AS A PROFESSION
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- 2. PROFESSION • A typeof occupation that meets certain criteria that raise it to a level above that of an occupation
- 3. OCCUPATION • A groupof job that are similar in type of work and that are usually found throughout an industry or work environment.
- 4. JOB • A groupof positions that are similar in nature and level of skill that can be carried out by one or more individuals.
- 5. POSITION • A groupof task assigned to an individual
- 6. PROFESSION • A typeof occupation that meets certain criteria that raise it to a level above that of an occupation
- 7. PROFESSIONALISM • Demonstration ofhigh level of personal, ethical and high level of skill characteristics of a member of a profession.
- 8. APPROACHES TO PROFESSION •1. PROCESS APPROACH. • 2. POWER APPROACH. • 3. TRAIT APPROACH.
- 9. PROCESS APPROACH • Thedetermination of the status of an occupation or profession depends upon the public image of the activities of that profession.
- 10. POWER APPROACH • Salarystatus of members, membership in organizations, political power decides the status of a profession.
- 11. PROFESSION • A typeof occupation that meets certain criteria that raise it to a level above that of an occupation
- 12. TRAIT APPROACH • Proposedby social scientist such as: 1. FLEXNER. 2. BIXLER & PAVALKO.
- 13. CRITERIA – TRAITAPPROACH 1. High intellectual level. 2. High level of individual responsibility & accountability.
- 14. 3. specialized knowledge. 4.Knowledge that can be learnt in institutions of higher educations.
- 15. • 5. Publicservice & altruistic tendencies. • 6. Public service valued over financial gain.
- 16. • 7. Highdegree of autonomy and independent practice. • 8.Need for well organized and strong organizational representing the members of it’s profession in their practice.
- 17. • 9. Strongprofessional identity and commitment to the development of the profession..
- 18. • 10. Demonstrationof professional competency and possession of a legally recognized license.
- 21. • Modern nursesuse specialized assessment techniques and skills. • They have the ability to reason and arrive at judgment depending on client’s condition.
- 22. • Professional nursesfunction at a high intellectual plane. • Nursing education is offered by institutions of higher learning.
- 24. • Today’s nursesare accountable and demonstrate a high level of individual responsibility for the care and services the render.
- 25. • The conceptof accountability has legal, ethical and professional implications that includes accepting responsibility for the clinical decisions and accepting responsibility for the consequences of her action.
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- 27. • Modern nursinghas developed into a separate discipline due to the efforts of several nurse researchers. • And in the days to come as more nurses undergo higher and specialized training the body of knowledge will increase.
- 29. • Evidence BasedPractice refers to performing nursing intervention based on evidence obtained from researches conducted in the practice settings.
- 30. • Evidence BasedPractice promotes a high level of professional competence and ensures the quality of the nursing services rendered.
- 32. • Nursing isviewed widely for its selfless service and it’s altruistic tendencies. • Nursing is composed of selfless individuals who place the well being of their clients above their personal obligations.
- 34. • Professional organizations representthe members of the profession and control the quality of it’s professionals.
- 35. • National Leagueof Nursing (NLN) & American Nurses Association (ANA) are internationally responsible for ensuring the quality of nursing.
- 36. • NLN isprimarily responsible for regulating the quality of educational programmes that prepare nurses for practice. • ANA is more concerned with the quality of nursing practice in the daily health care setting.
- 37. • The IndianNursing Council and the State Nursing Councils are the regulating bodies in India.
- 39. • Nursing Professionhas Code of Ethics that regulate and guide the nursing practice. • They are recognized standards that the professional members are expected to follow in the verge of their practice.
- 40. • Principles suchas obligation to be fair to all people, fidelity and beneficence, nonmaleficence are a few codes to be mentioned.
- 42. • Nurses mustpass qualifying exams such as NATIONAL LICENSURE EXAMINATIONS to demonstrate that they are qualified to practice nursing.
- 43. • The grantingof a nursing license is a legal activity conducted by the individual state under the regulations contained in the state’s nursing practice.
- 45. • In realitynursing is both an independent and inter dependent discipline. • Nurses’ in the health care settings must work with the physicians and the other health care members.
- 46. • Nurse Practitionerscan establish their independent practice. Nurse Practice Act allows nurses to practice more independence in their practice. • More independent practice must be established to become more professional and powerful.
- 48. • Today nurseshave excellent professional identity. • Therefore nurses’ need to fully devote themselves to their profession, be dedicated to it’s development to achieve a professional in it’s real sense.