TFN

• Nursing Process is a continuous rationale interacting process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Nursing Process demonstrates basic nursing skills in rendering safe and appropriate care utilizing the nursing process.
• According to Kozier et al., nursing refers to the art and science of caring.
• You need to be artistic while taking care of a patient. You need to follow rules and protocols supported and guided by scientific reasoning.
• Nursing is a holistic phenomena.
• Nursing also provides nonpharmacological remedies. For example, when you have a fever, the nurse will give you a tepid sponge bath instead of a medicine.
• Holistic - complete
• Fever is a condition characterized by abnormal increase in body temperature.
• Nursing is an art because it provides management to the patients with an art form.
• PNA - Philippine Nurses Association (Mother Organization)
• BON - Board of Nursing (Mother Unit; responsible for giving the Nursing Licensure Exam)
• ANA - American Nurses Association
• According to PNA (Adapted from ANA), profession is a calling where its members profess to have acquired a unique body of knowledge and skills to guide and serve others.”
• A calling is a vocation and profession.
• Members - Registered Nurses
• A unique body and skills - graduate of Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Others - patients
• Patients are our main recipient of care.