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The document discusses the scope, functions, and qualities of nursing. It defines the scope of nursing as promoting health, preventing illness, restoring health, and facilitating coping with disability or death. It discusses the expanded roles nurses can have in areas like home care, schools, primary care centers, and more. The functions of nurses include being a caregiver, communicator, educator, counselor, rehabilitator, decision-maker, researcher, advocate, collaborator, leader, and case manager. Key qualities for nurses are being compassionate, trustworthy, alert, a good listener, resourceful, empathetic, honest, an effective communicator, and competent.

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Scope , Functions and Qualities of Nursing Mrs. Suman Lata Nursing Tutor HCN,SRHU
Scope of Nursing The scope of nursing practice is defined as the range of roles, functions, responsibilities, and activities which registered nurses are educated and authorized to perform. Nursing practice is directed toward the goal of assisting patients to achieve and maintain optimal health in order to maximize quality of life across the lifespan.
Scope of Nursing Aims of Nursing Promote Health Prevent Illness Restore Health Facilitate with disability or Death
1. PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELLNESS Health is a state of optimal functioning or well-being. • As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), a persons health includes physical, social, and mental components, and is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
1. PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELLNESS Nurses promote health by identifying, analyzing, and maximizing each patient's own individual strengths as components of preventing illness and restoring health, and facilitate coping with disability or death. The nurse considers the patient’s self awareness, health awareness and use of resources while providing care.
2. PREVENTING ILLNESS The objectives of disease prevention activities are to reduce the risk of illness, to promote good health habits and to maintain optimal functioning. Nurses prevent illness by: – Educational programmes – Community programmes – Literature, T.V, Radio, Internet – Health Assessment in Institution
3. Restoring Health Focus on the person with an illness and range from early detection of a diseases to rehabilitation and teaching during recovery. Activities include: • Performing assessments that detect an illness. • Referring questions and abnormal findings to other health care providers. • Providing direct care to the person who is ill. • Collaborating with other health care provider. • Planning, teaching, and carrying out rehabilitation. • Working in mental health , substance abuse programmes.
4. FACILITATE COPING WITH DISABILITY AND DEATH 1. Nurses also facilitate patient and family coping with altered function , life crisis and death. 2. Altered function decreases a person's ability to carry out activities of daily living (ADLs) and expected roles. 3. They provide care to both patients and families at the end of life, and they do so in hospitals, long term care facilities, hospices, and homes.
Extended and Expanded Role of Nurses Expanded role of nursing means "engagement of nurses role within the boundaries of nurse.“ A nurse beyond traditional functioning of the nurse and it is the scope of nursing services outside the hospital. Nurse in extended roles, work in a wide array of areas like school/college, private practices, military, primary care center, prison/ jail. home health agency, behavioral care company/ centers, and disaster management campus
Expanded Roles of Nurse Home care nursing Institutional nursing School health nursing Geriatric nursing Industrial nursing Nurse educator Nurse epidemiologist Rehablitation nurses Military nursing Disaster nursing Nurse researcher Nurse enterrpreneur
Extended Roles of Nurse Certified registered nurse anesthetist Nurse practitioner Psychiatric nurse practitioner Adult nurse practitioner Pediatric nurse practitioner Nurse midwife practitioner Oncology nurse practitioner Nurse informatics specialist Nurse researcher Registered nurse law
Functions of a Nurse Functions Caregiver Communicator Educator Counselor Rehabilitator Decision Maker Functions Researcher Advocate Collaborator Leader Case Manager
Qualities of a Nurse Qualities of Nurse Compassio nate caring Trustworth y Alert and confident Good Listener Resourceful Empathetic Honest and Sincere Effective communic ator Competent
References 1. Kathwal J. Textbook f Nursing Foundation. Mohali Punjab: Vision Health Sciences Publishers; 2021. p 29-42. 2. Taylor C, Lynn P, Bartlett J L. Fundamentals of Nursing The Art and Science of Person Centered Care. South Asian Edition. New Delhi:Wolters Kluwer;2021. p 27-49.