Topic - Scope of Nursing Subject - Nursing Foundation/Fundamentals of Nursing Short Notes for ANM, GNM, B.Sc.Nursing Students

1. SCOPE OF
NURSING
Prepared By : Mrs. Leena Sameep Sakpal.
Nursing Tutor

2. Florence Nightingale
12 May 1820 - 13 August 1910
Founder of modern nursing.

3. SCOPE
• Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of
individuals, families and communities so they may attain maintain or recover
optimal health quality of life.
• The scope of nursing practice is the range of roles, functions, responsibilities and
activities which is registered nurse is educated and has the authority to perform.
• Nurse may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to
patient care, training and scope of practice.

4. SCOPE OF NURSING PRACTICE
• Direct are giving
• Evaluation of care and its impact
• Advocating for patient and for health
• Supervising and delegating to other
• Leading and managing
• Teaching
• Conducting research
• Develop health practices and health care system.

5. NURSING PRACTICE IN DIFFERENT SETTING
Individual RNs –
The registered nurse is responsible and
accountable, professionally and legally for
determining his/her professional scope of
nursing.

6. The Nurse Manager & Nurse Executive –
The nurse executive in a changing and complex
health delivery system is knowledgeable regarding
changes in rules and regulation accreditation
standards and standards for care and practice in
addition to evaluation of boundaries specified in
nursing practice act.

7. Mobile Nursing Practice –
This practice reduces the cost and remains in their home for a longer
period of tune. Provides care during the day and night. These services
provide teaching and care for patient with varied needs and health
problems.
• Patient discharge from hospital.
• Patient suffering from acute & chronic disease.
• Patient requiring, I/V therapy.
• The elderly.
• Surgical patient

8. Military Nursing Services –
• During the mid of second world war 1943, Indian Army nursing services
separated from Indian military nursing service ordinance and redesignated
as Military Nursing Service (MNS).
• The MNS stands out as one of the oldest services when women have
contributed directly to notions war effort by providing care to the sick and
wounded soldiers.

9. School Health Nursing –
• School nurses are primary care nurses for school children.
• They work with individual children, young people and families,
schools and communities to raise educational standards.
• Promoting healthy lifestyle & school child and adolescent mental
health, chronic and complex health care needs in children and
young people immunization program, child protection health.

10. Nursing in Occupational Health –
CHNs are registered nurses who independently observe the
assess the workers’ health status with respect to job tasks and
hazard, using their specialized experiences and education, there
RN recognize and prevent health effects from hazardous
exposure and treat workers injuries/illness.

11. Tele Nursing –
Refers to the use of telecommunication and information
technology for providing nursing services in health care
whenever there is a large physical distance between patient and
nurse or between any number of nurses.
Telenursing may solve increasing shortages of nurses to reduce
distance and save travel time and to keep patient out of
hospital.