For B.Sc nursing 4th year students

1. vidhyakirna college of nursing science Bangalore
Subject-
Nursing
management
Topic- nursing
as a
profession
Presented by
Mrs. sulekha
Dilliwar

2. NURSING

3. • The unique function of the nurse is that assist the
individual sick or well in the performance of those
activities contributing to health

4. Profession
A job that needs a high level of training and
education

5. Basic nursing
principle
Safety
Therapeutic effectiveness
Comfort
Use of resources
Good workmanship
Individuality

6. Role of nurse
• Care provider
• Educator
• Advocate
• Manager
• Collaborator
• Leader
• Researcher(systematic investigation into something)

7. Quality of nurse
• Character
• Connecting to and knowing patient
• Awareness of needs/ suffering
• Empathy(the ability to imagine how another person is feeling)
• Communication
• Body language
• Involving patient

8. • Having time for patient
• Small act
• Emotional strength
• Professional competence

9. Code of ethics

10. Definition
• A code of ethics is a set of
ethical principles that are
accepted by all members of a
profession
(potter and perry)
• Code of ethics is a guideline for
performance and standard and
personal responsibility

11. • code of ethics is a set of ethics principle that -----
A. Shared by members of a group
B. Reflects their moral judgment overtime
C. Serves as standards for their professional action

12. •Principles of
ethics

13. • Establish the relevant clinical facts
of the case
• Assess the wishes of the patient
and those important to them
• Consider the legal perspective
• Consider the ethical perspective
• Be aware of the processes needed
to support the decision making

14. Purposes

15. • Standard for the behavior of nurse and provide
general guidelines for nursing action
• Help to distinguish b/w right and wrong
• Enable correct decision
• Protect the right of individuals

16. Use of code of ethics

17. • Acknowledge the rightful place of individual in health care
delivery system.
• Constitute toward empowerment of individual to become
responsible for their health care and well being.
• Identifies obligation in practice, research, and relationship
• Inform the individual, family, community and other
professional about expectation of a nurse.

18. Function

19. • to inform the public about minimum standard of profession
• To provide a sign of the profession’s commitment to the
public it serve
• To outline the major ethical consideration of the profession
• To provide general guideline for professional behavior
• To guide the profession in self regulation

20. • INTERNATIONAL CODE OF
ETHICS

21. • An international code of ethics for nurse was first adopted by
the international council of nurses in 1953. it has been
revised and reaffirmed at various times and most recently. it
is reviewed and revised in 2005
• The INC code of ethics for nurse has 5 principle that outline
the standards of ethical conduct

22. INC CODE OF ETHICS

23. • Nurse and practice
• Nurse and profession
• Nurse and people
• Nurse and co-worker
• Nurse and society

24. Nurse and people
• The nurse primary professional responsibilities is to people
requiring.
• In providing care the nurse promotes the environment in
which the human right, values, customs and spiritual beliefs
of an individual, family and community are respected.
• The nurse insure that the individual receives sufficient
information related to the care and treatment.

25. • The nurse hold in confidence personal information and use
judgement in sharing this information
• The nurse shares responsibilities with the society to meet
the health and social needs of the public.

26. Nurses and practice
• The nurse carries personal responsibility and accountability
for nursing practice and for maintaining continuous learning
• The nurse maintain standard[safety, self care] of personal
health such as the ability to provide care is not compromised
• The nurse use judgement regarding individual competence
when accepting and delegating responsibility
• The nurse ensure that use of technology are compatible with
safety, dignity, and right of people.

27. Nurse and
profession
The nurse major role in determining and
implementing acceptable standards of clinical
nursing practice, management, research and
education.
The nurse is active in developing a core of
research based professional knowledge
The nurse participates in creating and
maintaining safe, equitable [treating everyone in
an equal way]and social working condition in
nursing.

28. Nurse and co-workers
The nurse sustain in co-
operative relationship with
co-workers in nursing and
other field
The nurse takes appropriate
action to safeguard
individual, family and
communities when their
health is endangered by co-
workers or any other person.

29. Nurse and society
• Participate and share responsibility with other citizen and
other health professional
• Recognize and perform the duties of citizenship
• Aware of laws and regulation which affect the practice of
medicine and nursing

30. Indian code of ethics

31. Professional responsibility
and accountable

32. • Appreciate sense of self worth [value ]
• Maintain standard of personal conduct reflecting credit upon
the profession
• Carries out responsibilities within the framework of the
professional boundaries.
• Accountable for maintaining practice standard by INC
• Accountable for own decision and action

33. • Responsible for continuous improvement of current practice
• Provide adequate information to individual that allows them
informed choice
• Practice healthful behavior.

34. Nursing practice

35. • Provide care according to the set of standards
• Treat all individuals and families with human dignity in
providing physical, psychological, emotional, social and
spiritual aspect of care.
• Respect individual and families in the contest of traditional
and culture practice and discouraging harmful practice.
• Present realistic picture in all situation for facilitating
autonomous decision making by individual and families

36. • Promote participation of individual and significant others in
the care.
• Ensure safe practice.

37. Communication
and IPR

38. • Upholds the dignity[ calm behavior that make others people
respect you] of team members and maintain effectiveness
and IPR with them.
• Appreciate and nurture [encourage]professional role of team
members.
• Co-operate with other health professional to meet the need
of individuals, families and communities.
• establish and maintain effective IPR with individual, families
and communities.

39. Valuing human
being

40. • Take appropriate action to protect individual from harmful
unethical practice.
• Consider relevant facts[important and useful] while taking
decision in the best interest of individual
• Encourage and support individual in their right to for
themselves on issue affecting their health and welfare

42. Indian nursing counsel
act enacted in 1947 and
amended in 1957
Torts – torts are
violation of person’s
private right.

43. Assault
• Assault occurs when a person puts another person in
fear of a harmful or offensive [unpleasant] contact

44. Battery
•It is an intentional
touching of
another’s body
without the other
consent

45. Negligence
It is described as lack of proper care and
attention

46. Malpractice
• Failure to meet the standard of acceptable care which
results in harm to another person

47. Fraud
It result from a deliberate deception
intended to produce unlawful gains

48. False imprisonment
• It occurs when a client is not allow to leave a health care
facility without any legal justification to detain the client .

49. Invasion of privacy
• It include violation of confidentiality of client’s private
information and sharing to other person

51. INDIAN NURSING COUNCIL
• The INC is an autonomous body under the
government of India, ministry of health and family
welfare was constitute by the central govt. under
section 3 of the Indian nursing council act 1947 of
parliament in order to establish a uniform standard for
nurse, midwives and health visitors

52. Goals of INC
• To accomplish and evaluate a fixed standard of nursing education
for the auxiliary nurse, midwives and health visitors.
• To recognize registered nurse and midwives belonging to
different nursing course
• To provide approval for registration of Indian and foreign nurse
• To frame the nursing syllabus, rules and regulation for nursing
programmes.
• To provide guideline to the state nursing council, examination
boards state .

53. Function of INC

54. • Recognize nurse as a separate branch of health service
• Regulates nursing training and sets uniform standards of
training for nurses through out the country.
• Construct syllabus for all nursing programs.
• Permits title, badges, uniforms for registered nurse.
• Withdrawal of recognition of nursing institution.
• To regulate nursing practice

55. • Power to make regulation.
• Maintenance of Indian nurse register
• Inspection of school/ college of nursing

56. State nursing council
State nursing council was established in 1948 with the purpose of
better training of nurse, midwives and health visitors.

57. Function of SNC

58. • To inspect school of nursing in their state
• To conduct examination for GNM AND ANM course
• To prescribe rules of conduct , take disciplinary action
• Registration of nurse and midwives and other.
• Maintenance of register of nurse .

59. • Issue duplicate certificate for loss of original certificate.
• Additional qualification registration
• Abroad verification
• Publication
• Construction of syllabus
• In service education program
• Research

60. •Current
trends and
issues in
nursing

61. • Current trends-
Refers to direction
toward which the
different nursing
events have moved
or are moving.

62. • Changing demographics and increase diversity
• The technological explosion
• Globalization of the work’s economy and society
• The era of the educated consumer, alternative therapies and
genomic and palliative care
• Impact of health policy and health programe.
• The growing need for interdisciplinary education for
collaborative practice

63. • More emphasis on evidence based
• Conduct on nursing research
• Computerization for patient care management.
• Decentralized approach to care management
• Higher education for senior position in nursing
• Specialization in nursing clinicals areas
• Nursing care standard

64. • Aging population
• Team nursing
• Health information system
• Telemedicine, telenursing
• Departmentalized administration
• Right to information Act.

65. Currents issues
A point or matter of
discussion debate or
dispute or a matter of
public concern

66. • Lack of knowledge in
management among
nursing administration

67. • Interference of non nursing personnel in nursing
administration
• Non written nursing policies or manual
• No proper job description for various nursing cadres
• No special incentive
• Not organized staff development programme
• Ineffective of nursing council of state and union to maintain
standard of nursing