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• Characteristics of a Profession:

  • A profession requires extended education and a basic liberal foundation
  • A profession has a theoretical body of knowledge leading to defined skills, abilities, and norms
  • A profession provides a specific service
  • Members of a profession have autonomy in decision-making and practice
  • A profession has a code of ethics for practice
• Nursing:

  • Involves the delivery of health care to society
  • Is a helping profession
  • Is service-oriented to maintain health and well-being of people
  • Is an art and a science
• Components of a Good Personality:

  • Personal Appearance
  • Character
  • Attitude
  • Charm
• Role and Professional Responsibilities of a Nurse:

  • Caregiver: helps patients maintain and regain health, manage disease, symptoms, and attain a maximum level of function and independence
  • Advocate: protects patients' human and legal rights
  • Educator: explains concepts and facts about health, describes reasons for routine care activities, demonstrates procedures, reinforces learning, and evaluates client's progress
  • Communicator: identifies client problems and communicates them verbally/writing to other members of the health team
• • Manager: manages the nursing care of individuals, families, and communities
  • Change Agent: assists in making modifications in behavior and deals with changes in the health care system
  • Leader: influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal
  • Case Manager: works with a multidisciplinary health care team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan
• • Nurse Anesthetist: administers general anesthesia for surgery, assesses post-operative status of the client
  • Nurse Midwife: gives prenatal and post-natal care, manages deliveries in normal pregnancies, conducts routine Pap Smear, family planning, and routine breast examinations
  • Nurse Researcher: investigates nursing problems to improve nursing care and expand nursing knowledge
  • Nurse Administrator: manages client care delivery, may have middle or senior management positions, responsible for budgeting, staffing, and planning programs
• Extended and Expanded Role of Nursing:

  • Extended Role: responsibility assumed beyond the traditional role, scope of nursing service outside the hospital
  • Expanded Role: enlargement of the nurse's role within the boundaries of nursing practice
  • Nurse Practitioner: deals with non-emergency acute or chronic illness, provides primary ambulatory care, has advanced education
  • Clinical Nurse Specialist: expert in a specialized area of practice, provides direct client care, educates others, consults, conducts research, and manages care
• • Nurse Educator: has expertise in a particular area of practice, responsible for classroom and clinical practice
  • Nurse Entrepreneur: manages a health-related business, involved in education, consultation, and research
• Nurse Values:

  • Altruism: concern for the welfare and well-being of others in professional practice
  • Autonomy: the right to self-determination, reflects the patient's right to make decisions about health care
  • Human Dignity: respect for the inherent worth and uniqueness of individuals and populations
  • Integrity: acting in accordance with an appropriate code of ethics and accepted standards of practice
  • Social Justice: upholding moral, legal, and humanistic principles
• • Critical Nursing Organizations: Critical Care Nurses Association of the Philippines, Inc. (CCNAPI), Renal Nurses Association of the Philippines (RENAP), Operating Room Nurses Association of the Philippines (ORNAP), Philippine Society of Emergency Care Nurses (PSECN), Society of Cardiovascular Nurse Practitioners of the Philippines (SCVNPP)
• Nurse Professional Organizations:

  • Purpose: to improve the standard of practice, expand the nursing role, foster the welfare of nurses within specialty programs
  • Recognized Nursing Organizations: Philippine Nurses' Association (PNA), Association of Nursing Service Administrators of the Philippines (ANSAP), Association of Deans of Philippine Colleges of Nursing (ADPCN)
• • Specialty Nursing Organizations: Philippine Hospital Infection Control Nurses Association (PHICNA), Military Nurses Association of the Philippines (MNAP), Gerontology Nurses Association of the Philippines (GNAP), Association of Private Duty Nurses Practitioners of the Philippines (APDNPP)
• Fundamentalism is the belief that one's religion or ideology is superior to all others, leading to intolerance towards other religions.
• ER: Emergency Room
• OPD: Outpatient Department
• OR: Operating Room
• DR: Delivery Room
• NICU: Nursery Intensive Care Unit
• CCU: Coronary Care Unit
• PACU: Post Anesthesia Care Unit
• Gyne: Gynecology
• LAB: Laboratory
• EENT: Eyes, Ears, Nose, Throat
• Nsg: Nursing
• P.E: Physical Examination
• Rx: Prescription
• Pt: Patient
• TPR: Temperature, Pulse, Respiration
• R/O: Rule out
• S/P: Status Post
• OB-Gyn: Obstetrics Gynecology
• Ophtha: Ophthalmology
• AP: Attending Physician
• ROD: Resident - on - Duty
• RN: Registered Nurse
• NB: Newborn
• MD: Medical Doctor
• DOA: Dead on Arrival
• PTA: Prior to Admission
• T.O: Telephone Order