NRS 1101 - Midterms

• Nursing Process is a continuous rationale interacting process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• ADPIE stands for assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Who established the nursing theory?

  Florence Nightingale
• Who is the mother of nursing, the lady with the lamp, mother of modern nursing, and the one who created the environmental theory?


  Florence Nightingale
• According to Kozier et al., nursing refers to the art and science of caring.
• Nursing is a holistic phenomenon.
• Nursing is a science because you have to follow the rules and protocols supported and guided by scientific reasoning.
• Nursing is an art because it provides management to the patients with an art form
• Nursing provides nonpharmacological remedy (not medicine-reliant).

  For example, a TSB (Tepid Sponge Bath) will be used as a remedy to fever (a condition of abnormal increase in body temperature).
• PNA stands for Philippine Nurses Association

  • Our mother organization
  • Umbrella organization
  • You will immediately become a bonafide member once you pass the boards.
• BON stands for Board of Nursing.

  • It is our mother unit
  • The one responsible for giving the Nursing Licensure Examination.
• ANA stands for 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.
• According to PNA, professional nursing refers to the performance for a fee, salary, and other rewards and compensations in exchange for any professional services.
• Caring should be innate within ourselves.
• Nursing in Contemporary Period refers to the:

  • Current practices of nurses
  • Modernization
  • Ability to adapt to the current trend.
  • Development and innovation in the form of technology.
• Domains refer to areas of specialization and field of opportunities.
• What are the three domains and areas of specialization in nursing?

  1. Nursing Practice
  2. Nursing Academe
  3. Nursing Research
• What is the nursing law?


  Republic Act of 9173 or Philippine Nursing Act of 2002
• Holism means complete.
• Nursing practice is also known as clinical nursing.
• It is the area of specialization where the nurses completed their duty rotation in a given institution and hospital.

  Nursing Practice
• Areas in Nursing Practice:

  • Medical Ward
  • Surgical Ward
  • Medical-Surgical Ward
• Special Units in Nursing Practice:

  • Emergency Room
  • Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
  • Operating Room
  • Orthopedic
  • Intensive Care Unit
  • Oncology
  • Chemodialysis
  • OB
• Requirements to go on a duty rotation:

  1. License Holder
  2. Of legal age (21 years old and above)
  3. BSN program finisher
  4. Bonafide member of PNA
• Nursing Academe

  • The ability to facilitate teaching and learning experiences with college level students.
• Requirements for nurses to teach:

  • BSN program finisher
  • Registered Nurse
  • Should be a bonafide member of PNA
  • Holder of MAN (Master of Arts in Nursing) and MSN (Master of Science in Nursing)
  • Of legal age
  • Has clinical experience of 1-2 years
  • Principle of reciprocity (mutual grant of both nationalities.)
• Nursing Research:

  • Part of main practice in the Academe
  • Where nurses act as scientific investigators to fill in knowledge gaps to promote professional growth in the field of nursing.
  • Evidence-based Nursing Research
• Three services of Umbrella of practice under Nursing Research

  1. Nursing Academic
  2. Nursing Extension Services
  3. Nursing Research
• Research Methodologies:

  1. Qualitative

  • phenomenological study
  • observation
  • process of interview

  1. Quantitive

  • Statistically based
  • Math and numbers inclined
• Requirements in Nursing Research:

  • BSN finisher
  • Licensed
  • Of legal age
  • A bonafide member of PNA
  • Has a creative mind as a researcher
• Republic Act 9173 or the Philippine Nursing Act of 2002 defines the full scope of nursing practice in the Philippines.
• Three Nursing Interventions:

  1. Independent - able to initiate independently.

  • Vital signs

  1. Dependent - requires an order from another health care from another health care provider such as a physician.

  • Administration of medicines
  • All therapeutics (Ex. Giving of oxygen)
  • Administration of intravenous fluids
  • Administration or transfusion of blood

  1. Interdependent (Collaborative) - requires the participation of multiple members of the health care team

  • Surgery
• Nursing Specialization -

  • Certifications

  1. OR nurse
  2. ER nurse
  3. ICU nurse
  4. PICU nurse
  5. Hemodialysis Nurse
  6. Psychiatric Nurse

  • For competitiveness
  • Medical Health Allies
• Staffing refers to nurse-patient ratio

  1. Government and public

  • 1 nurse = 60 patients (pre-pandemic)
  • 1 nurse = 120 patients (pandemic)

  2. Private

  • 1 nurse = 50 patients
• What are the expanded roles of nurses?


  1. Educator
  2. Advocate - ability to advocate and use positions of trust to protect the rights, health, and safety of patients.
  3. Counselor - ability to listen to your patient's concern
  4. Parent surrogate
• Pandemic Situation 

  • Devised in a certain area 
  • Clean Area
  • general admissions 
  • Unclean Area
  • area who caters positive for COVID
• IDEA/IDEAS

  • Something, such as a THOUGHT or CONCEPTION, that is potentially or actually exists in the mind as a product of mental activity. 
  • Therefore these are anything we think, any product of our mind, any mental activity.
• CONCEPTS 

  • Are the vehicles of thought that involves images, these are impression  received by sensing our environment
  • Chin and Jacobs (1987) define it as complex mental formulation of an object, property or events that is derived from individual perception and experiences 
  • THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF THEORY
  • Concepts may vary from one person to another.
• WORDS THAT DESCRIBE OBJECTS, PROPERTIES OR EVENTS ARE BASIC COMPONENTS OF THEORY