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- 1. NURSING FOUNDATION UNIT 2 4/7/2022 1 Miss Akangshaw Anne Paiva
- 4. NURSING FOUNDATION Introduction •A profession is an occupation that requires extensive training and has ongoing research
- 5. NURSING FOUNDATION •Training is given in higher level institutions
- 6. NURSING FOUNDATION Definition • Profession is defined as an occupation with ethical components, that is devoted to the promotion of human and social welfare
- 8. NURSING FOUNDATION Criteria of Profession • To provide a needed service to the society. • To advance knowledge in its field. • To protect its members and make it possible to practice effectively
- 10. NURSING FOUNDATION 1. Body of knowledge •A profession has its own body of knowledge based on social and scientific principles
- 11. NURSING FOUNDATION •The members of a profession utilize this knowledge to identify and solve problems
- 12. NURSING FOUNDATION 2. service orientation •A profession has service aim as well as academic and theoretical aim
- 13. NURSING FOUNDATION 3. Ongoing research •A profession constantly enlarges its body knowledge through research in order to improve its services to the society
- 14. NURSING FOUNDATION 4. Code of ethics • A profession has a code of ethics • Ethical code change as the needs and values of society • Monitor the personal behavior of the members
- 15. NURSING FOUNDATION 5. Autonomy •A profession recognizes its responsibilities to develop educational programmes in cooperation with the educational institutions
- 16. NURSING FOUNDATION •A profession must satisfy social need and must be based upon well established and socially accepted scientific principles.
- 17. NURSING FOUNDATION •It must demand adequate pre-professional and cultural training.
- 18. NURSING FOUNDATION •It must demand the profession of a body of specialized and systematized training.
- 19. NURSING FOUNDATION •It must give evidence of needed skills which the public does not possess
- 20. NURSING FOUNDATION •It must have developed a scientific technique which is the result of tested experience.
- 21. NURSING FOUNDATION •It must require the exercise of discretion and judgment as to time and manner of the performance of duty.
- 22. NURSING FOUNDATION •It must have a group of consciousness designed to extend scientific knowledge in technical language.
- 23. NURSING FOUNDATION •It must have sufficient self- impelling power to retain its members throughout life.
- 24. NURSING FOUNDATION •It must recognize its obligations to society by insisting that its members live up to an established code of ethics.
- 25. NURSING FOUNDATION Characteristics of a nursing profession 1. specialized education •Nurses have specialized education and training validated by ‘’ professional licensure’’ in each state
- 26. NURSING FOUNDATION 2. Body of knowledge 3. Service 4. Autonomy
- 27. NURSING FOUNDATION 5. Code of ethics 6. Research orientation 7. Service orientation 8. Professional organization
- 28. NURSING FOUNDATION The Qualities of a Profession
- 29. NURSING FOUNDATION •A profession applies its body of knowledge in practical services that are vital to human welfare, and especially suited to the tradition of seasoned practitioners shaping the skills of newcomers to the role.
- 30. NURSING FOUNDATION •It constantly enlarges the body of knowledge it uses and subsequently imposes on its members a lifelong obligation to remain current in order to “do no harm”.
- 31. NURSING FOUNDATION •A profession functions autonomously in the formulation of professional policy and in monitoring its practice and practitioners.
- 32. NURSING FOUNDATION •It utilizes in its practice a well- defined and well-organized body of knowledge that is intellectual in nature and describes its phenomena of concern.
- 33. NURSING FOUNDATION •A profession has a clear standard of educational preparation for entry into practice.
- 34. NURSING FOUNDATION •A profession is distinguished by the presence of specific culture, norms, and other values that are common among its members.
- 35. NURSING FOUNDATION Professional nursing • It is an art and science, dominated by an ideal services in which certain principles are applied in skilful care of the well and ill and trough relationship with the client, significant others and other members of the health team
- 37. NURSING FOUNDATION A person who has completed a basic nursing education program and is licensed in his / her country or state to practice professional nursing is known as professional nurse
- 39. NURSING FOUNDATION • Good physical and mental health • Truthful and efficient in technical competence • Cleanliness , tidy , neat and well groomed
- 40. NURSING FOUNDATION •Intelligence •Open minded ,co-operative , responsible , able to develop good interpersonal relationships
- 42. NURSING FOUNDATION •Self-belief towards human care and cure •Convey cooperative attitudes towards co- workers
- 43. NURSING FOUNDATION •Responsible towards family and society
- 44. NURSING FOUNDATION Nursing as a profession •Nursing is the protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities • Prevention of illness and injury
- 45. NURSING FOUNDATION •Alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response and advocacy in the care of individual, families and communities and populations .
- 46. NURSING FOUNDATION •The services provided are vital to humanity and the welfare of society •There is a special body of knowledge that is continually enlarged through research
- 47. NURSING FOUNDATION •The services involve intellectual activities, individual responsibility (accountability) is a strong feature
- 48. NURSING FOUNDATION •Practitioners are relatively independent and control their own policies and activities •Practitioners are motivated by service and consider their work an important component of their lives
- 49. NURSING FOUNDATION •There is a code of ethics to guide the decisions and conduct of practitioners •There is an organization that encourages and supports high standards of practice
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