Nature of Nursing

• Unit III of Fundamentals of Nursing NUR 210A includes a unit on "Nature of Nursing", which defines nursing as the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist them in their recovery, as per the definition of Florence Nightingale.
• Nursing, according to Henderson, is a unique function of a nurse to assist the individual, sick or unwell, in performing activities contributing to health or its recovery, and to do so in such a way as to help them gain independence as fast as possible.
• Nursing, according to the American Nurses Association (ANA) & Philippine Nurses Association (PNA), is goal-oriented, diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems, and protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities.
• Consumer is an individual or group that uses a commodity.
• Patient is a person waiting for/undergoing medical treatment or already sick, commonly used in hospital settings.
• Client is a person who engages the advice/service of another who is qualified to provide this, a general term used when unsure of person’s condition.
• The scope of nursing includes individuals, families, communities.
• Different fields in nursing include Community Health Nursing/Public Health Nursing (CHN/PHN), industrial/occupational health, clinic, private/special duty, school health, in-service, advanced practice, military, education.
• Nursing process is a systematic, rational method of planning and providing individualized nursing care, with steps including assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating.
• Outcome identification in the nursing process is usually the opposite of the problem identified.
• Assessment includes gathering data about the patient's health status through observation, interview, examination, and testing.
• Type of interaction that is prioritized

  Independent
• Type of interaction that is like by doctors medicine

  Dependent
• give the three types of interactions

  • independent
  • Dependent
  • Collaborative
• main focus of the scope of nursing

  Health promotion, and wellness
• Scope of nursing

  • Health promotion and wellness
  • prevent illness
  • Health restoration
  • Care for the dying