2. INTRODUCTION
• MSN is specialized and skilled branch of
nursing.
• MSN can be considered to be the
foundation of nursing because it has
served as a lunch pad to the several
interdisciplinary advanced specialization in
several vital area of nursing, such as:
- Cardiology
- Neurology
- Oncology etc.
3. DEFINITION
• Medical surgical nursing is a specialized
branch of nursing that involve the nursing
care of adult patients, whose disease
condition are treated medically, surgically
and pharmacologically.
- Sharon L Lewis
4. Con..
• Medical- surgical clinical nurses are
specialist who are involved in the direct
clinical practices and play a vital role at
several stages of treatment of the patient.
• They served the responsibility of caring for
the patient before, during as well as after
the surgical intervention for the treatment
of the disease.
5. Clinical Nurses Responsibilities
1. Collection of information and setting care
priorities
2. Applying novel method of care and
treatment modalities and their evaluation.
3. Planning in individual care
4. Taking patient histories and performing
physical examination.
5. Ordering laboratory test and diagnostic
procedure.
6. Criteria of MSN speciality
I. Criterion-A: “ MSN speciality defined
new competencies in the discipline for
nursing practice.”
II. Criterion-B: “ MSN speciality involve
designing of special procedure for
nursing care for the patients.”
7. ROLE OF MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSE
1. Get set of skills:
They must have sound knowledge of all aspect of
human health.
They must be competent enough to provide care to
individual, sick or well, utilizing the various nursing
processes.
They must be able to asses the nursing requirement of
patient from birth to death.
They must able to preparing plan in crisis situation.
They must be able to promote self care & practical
prioritization of skills.
They must be able to assist in research activities.
8. 2. Ability to advocate for the patients
• They must able to understand the importance of
measuring and improving the quality of care delivered.
• They must consider the safety of the patient as the top
priority.
• They must support patient to the best of their health
interests.
• They must be evaluate the effectiveness of the nursing
care.
• They must able to work as a team with the team of
health workers & must be use her knowledge of good
communication skills and relations at work.
9. 3.Ability to make a difference in a
patient’s life everyday
• To provide psychological and physical comfort to
the patient.
• They must use ethical values in professional and
personal life.
• To assist patient in rehabilitative activities.
• They must posses the basic skills of educating
and counseling of patient about the preventive
actions.
10. 4. Ability to become the backbone of
health care system of the society
• They must participate as member of the health
team in delivery of curative, preventive,
promotive and rehabilitative health care
services.
• They must able to utilize their administrative
skills and leadership qualities while working in
team for the cause of health and community
welfare schemes.
11. Concept of Health &
Concept of Health &
disease
disease
PREPARED BY: J.G SAMBAD
PREPARED BY: J.G SAMBAD
12. Dimension and Determinants of
Health
Health is difficult to define but easier to
understand. To many of us it may mean
absence of disease or infirmity and to many
it may mean sound body and sound mind
and sound function of the body.
13. • To an anatomist
Healthy body means it should
confirm to normal anatomical
structures.
• To a physiologist
Health means normal
body functions
14. • To a biochemist
It means normal biochemical levels /
values
• To a pathologist
It means normal cellular make up.
15. • To a geneticist
It means correct existence of genetic
potential
Similarly to a clinician it means no
abnormality in structure and function of the
body. When a clinician fails to detect
anything abnormal by his clinical wisdom
and laboratory tests he labels a person
no abnormality detected (NAD).
16. • To a psychiatrist
It means well adjusted and a balanced
personality
17. Definition
“Health is a state of complete
physical, mental and social well being
and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity”.
WHO’s 1991 member states have
endorsed this statement.
18. Physical Health
It means adequate body weight, height and
circumference as per age and sex with
acceptable level of vision, hearing, locomotion
or movements, acceptable levels of pulse rate,
blood pressure, respiratory rate,
chest circumference, head
circumference, waist hip ratio.
19. It means The body structure and functions
confirming to laid down standards within the
range of normal development and functions of
all the systems.
21. Mental health is defined “as a state of
well being in which the individual realized
his or her own abilities, can cope with
normal stresses of life, can work
productively and fruitfully and is able to
make a contribution to his or her
community”.
22. A mentally normal person has the ability to
mix up with others, he/she makes friendship,
behaves in a balanced manner, keeps himself
tidy and observes adequate personal hygiene,
well oriented to time, place and person and
environments and he is unduly not suspicious of
others.
23. He is cheerful and happy and enjoys life
with a purpose and he thinks positively and
has normal development and contributes
fully and is useful and productive to society
and nation.
24. Social wellbeing
It is the third dimension of health. It
means ability of a person to adjust with
others in his social life, at home, at work
place and with people. Men interact with
men and they inter-relate and inter
depend on each other and pay their
effective role in accordance with a
situation.
25. Essentially social wellbeing includes
inter-relation and interaction of human
beings.
Social wellbeing is a composite
function of income level, literacy,
occupation and working conditions
marital harmony, institution of a family,
social groups and have good cultural and
behavioral patterns of the society.
26. Social wellbeing can be measured on
scale by taking in to consideration of
indicators like income, literacy and
occupation (as discussed under socio
economic status of family).
27. Determinants of health
Heredity
Health services
Promotive,
preventive,
curative,
rehabilitative
Environment
Physical, social,
biological and man-
made
Behavior
Actions
Habits
Reactions
Belief,
attitudes
Practices
(Lifestyles)
Health
29. Man made environment
Health is influenced in the
man made environment or
artificial environment too.
It included items like
housing, transport,
industries and
communication.
31. Health indicators
It is some what easier to defined
health for an individual. But to define
“community health” it is some what
more difficult. “Community health”
parameters are different from health
parameters of an individual.
32. “Community health” can be measured
through indicators of economics, (gross
national product gross national income and
per capita income), life expectancy, under
five mortality, infant mortality, literacy
level, composite index of human
development, maternal mortality etc.
33. A community is healthy when it enjoys
sound health where disease and death rate
is acceptably low, it is not threatened with
bad environments and its economy is sound
and the health resources are
available, practices are sound and
based on scientific evidences.
34. Its literacy levels are high and
demographically it has balanced sex
ratio and people live long, quality of
life is good and human development
index is high.
35. A village is said to be healthy if it has:
safe sources of improved water supply, safe
method of waste water disposal, paved
streets, disposal of garbage refuse and
animal excreta by manure pits, people use
sanitary latrines, female literacy is high,
girls enrolment is universal, deliveries are
conducted by trained persons, birth rate and
death rate are within acceptable limits,
immunization coverage is high and housing
condition is good.
36. Health is a fundamental human right.
The attainment of highest possible level
of health is the most important world
wide social goal.
37. The meaning of “Disease” is “without ease”
(uneasiness)
Either a Physiological /Psychological dysfunction
What is Disease
38. Not only presence of disease but involvement
of individual's perceptions and behavior in
response to disease are included. Disease is
very subjective.
Sickness
includes a state of social dysfunction too. i.e.
The role, an individual assumes when ill.
Illness
Illness
39. The environment related
The environment related
to disease
to disease
This refers not only to the environment the man
lives. Various environmental factors are
categorized as follows.
40. 1.
1. Physical Environment
Physical Environment
Physical aspects of environment
Physical aspects of environment
Air, water, light, heat, radiation, gravity,
pressure, and chemical agents etc.
man tries a great deal to control these factors.
41. 2. Biological Environment
2. Biological Environment
Certain diseases do not occur in some areas
because agents or vectors can not exist in that
environment due to biological reasons.
43. 3. Social Environment
3. Social Environment
The social factors relevant to health include
socio-economic status, social customs,
traditional believes, etc.
44. Natural History of Disease
Natural History of Disease
Refers to the course of a disease over a
period of time, unaffected by treatment.
45. Disease occurrence is usually insidious. Chronic
diseases evolve over a long period and have their
own progression. The history and time period that it
spread is different from disease to disease. Most
of the diseases pass through the
following pattern.
46. Disease Impairment Disability Handicap
Impairment
“Any loss or abnormality of psychological,
physiological or anatomical structure or function”.
e.g. Loss of foot, defective vision, mental retardation.
Sequence of events
Sequence of events
47. Impairment will be
♦ visible or invisible
♦ temporary or permanent
♦ progressive or regressive
48. Disability
“Any restriction or lack of ability to perform an
activity in the manner or within or within the range
considered normal for a human being”.
49. Handicap
Definite disadvantages for a given individual
resulting from an impairment or a disability that
limits or prevents the fulfillment of a role that is
normal for him/her depending on his/her age,
sex, social and cultural factors or for that
individual.
e.g. Accident Disease
Loss of foot Impairment
Cannot walk Disability
Unemployed Handicap
50. Ten Major Health Issue For The Nation
1. Access to health care
2. Malnutrition
3. Immunization
4. Institutional maternity care
5. Childhood disease –diarrhea & respiratory infection
6. Control of communicable disease
7. Sanitation and safe drinking water
8. Increasing non-communicable disease
9. Injury and violence
10.Mental health Key: I AM 3i MSCc.
