NURSING AS A PROFESSION AND AN ART Flashcards
An occupation that requires extensive education or a calling
Profession
Requires advance training and experiences in a body of knowledge
Profession
the process of becoming professional
PROFESSIONALIZATION
professional character, spirit, or methods; set of attributes, a way of of life that implies responsibility and commitment
PROFESSIONALISM
Means of entry into registered nursing include
- baccalaureate degree
- master’s degree
- doctoral degree
the hallmark of a profession; selfless concern for others
Altruism
Nurses must have the KSA;
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF KSA?
Knowledge
Skill
Attitude
Formulate/Creates the exam
questions for the Philippine
Nurses Licensure Examination
(PNLE)
PNA - Philippine Nurses Association
Conducts the PNLE`
PRC - Professional Regulation
Commission
CCNAPI stands for?
Critical Care Nurses
Association of the Philippines Inc.
ORNAP stands for?
Operating Room Nurses
Association of the Philippines
MCNAP stands for
Maternal and Child Nurses
Association of the Philippines
ANA
American Nurses Association
Defined nursing as “Act of utilizing the
environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery.” (1860- 1969)
Florence Nightingale
Defined nursing as “Assisting the individual, sick or well, in the performance of activities
contributing to health and recovery that he would perform unaided if he had strength…”
Virginia Henderson
Defined nursing as “Protection,
promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness, alleviate suffering
through diagnosis and treatment, and advocates in care…” (2003)
American Nurses Association
Defined nursing as “Encompasses autonomous and collaborative care, promotion of a safe environment, research,
shaping health policy, and systems management and education…” (2002)
International Council of Nurses
What are the 7 characteristics of nursing?
- caring
- An Art and an Applied Science
- Client/Patient-Centered
- Holistic
- Adaptive
- Health Promotion, Maintenance, and
Restoration - A Helping Profession
Implies valuing of some human
potential beyond the narrow concept of health taken as absence of disease
Well-Being
greater than the total sum
of all parts
More Being
Nursing acts can contain all responses that all humans experience
Human Potential
being kind and polite
Humaneness of nursing
Essential dimension beyond science; ”Quality of being that is expressed in the
doing”; Conversing of nurse and patient
Intersubjective Transaction
Presence and acts/procedure
respectively; One cannot exist without the other
Being and Doing
