overview of nature professional nursing care

• 1. caregiver 

  • Assist the client physically and psychology
  • Nursing process = framework
  • The nursing process provides nurses with a framework for providing care

  A nurse may provide care directly or delegate it to another caregiver.
• 1. communicator

  • Identify client problems 
  • Able to work with other professionals and people in the community.
• 1. client advocate

  • Protect the client
  • Represent the client needs
  • Exercising their rights and helping them speak up for themselves.
• 1. counselor

  • Nurses shall recognize and cope with stressful psychological and social problems
  • Provides emotional, intellectual, and psychological support
• 1. change agent

  • They make modifications
  • They changes the healthcare system, technological change, age of the client, population, and medication
• 1. leader

  • Nurse must be influential 
  • Need to understand the needs and goals that motivates people
  • They have to have knowledge and apply the skills to patient
  • interpersonal skills
• 1. manager

  • They must delegate, supervise, and evaluate co-nurses
  • Requires knowledge, organizational structure among others
• 1. case manager

  • As a case manager, you are working with multidisciplinary healthcare team
  • You also work with primary or staff nurses to oversee the care of a specific caseload
• 1. research consumer

  • Use research to improve:

  1. Awareness of the process and language of the research
  2. Sensitive issues related to protecting the right of human subjects
  3. Participate in the identification of researchable problems
  4. Be a discriminating consumer of findings
• 1. teacher

  • Learn about their health
  • Assesses client’s learning needs and readiness to learn, sets specific goals
  • Enacts learning strategies and measures their learning
• 1. EXPANDED CAREER ROLES 

  • Clinical nurse specialist
  • Forensic nurse
  • Nurse practitioner 
  • Nurse anesthetist
  • Nurse midwife
  • Nurse researcher
  • Nurse administrator
  • Nurse educator
  • Nurse entrepreneur 
• 1. PATRICIA BENNER

  • Born august 1942
  • Field: nursing education and nursing theory
  • Institutions: University of california, san francisco, USA.

  Notable awards: living legend of the american academy of nursing, 2011
• 1. : Novice

  • No experience
  • Performance is limited
  • Rules and objective attributes must be given to guide performance
• 1. Advanced beginner

  • Demonstrates marginally acceptable performance
  • The person has enough experience to grasp aspects of the situation.
• 1. Competent

  • 2-3 years of experience
  • Differentiates important factors from less important aspects of care

  There is an increased level of efficiency
• 1. Proficient

  • 3-5 years of experience
  • They can perceive situations as a whole
  • There is much more involvement with the patient and family
• 1. Expert

  • Performance is flexible
  • They are able to identify the region of the problem without wasting considerations.
• 1. NSNA CODE OF ACADEMIC AND CLINICAL CONDUCT

  • National student nurses’ association
  • 1952
  • Mission:mentor students preparing for initial licensure as registered nurses
  • Convey  the standards, ethics, and skills that students will need
  • Core values: autonomy and leadership, care, diversity, professionalism, and quality education.