Fundamentals of Nursing (NCM 103)

• Nursing as an Art: art of caring sick and well individual; refers to the methods in assisting sick and well individual in their promotion and maintenance of health.
• Nursing as a Science: the "body of abstract knowledge" arrived through and logical analysis; scientific knowledge and skills in assisting individual optimal health; diagnosis and treatment of human actual or potential problem.
• Recipients of Nursing:

  Consumer, Patient and Client
• Consumer - an individual, a group of people, or a community that uses a commodity; people who use health care products or services are care.
• Patient: a person who is waiting for or undergoing medical; from a Latin word meaning "to suffer" or 'to bear"
• Client: person who engages the advice or services of another who provide this service; presents the receivers of health care as collaborators as people who are also responsible for their own health.
• Scope of Nursing:

  Promoting health and wellness, Preventing illness, Restoring health and Caring for the dying.
• Three types of clients:

  Individuals, Families and Communities
• Roles of the Nurse

  Caregiver - assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client’s dignity.
• Roles of the Nurse:

  Communicator - nurses identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the health care team.
• Roles of the Nurse

  Teacher - nurse helps clients learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health. Gives emphases on health promotion.
• Roles of the Nurse

  Client Advocate - nurse acts to protect the client
• Roles of the Nurse

  Counselor - process of helping a client to recognize and cope with stressful psychological or social problems, to develop improved interpersonal relationships, and to promote personal growth.
• Roles of the Nurse

  Change Agent - assisting clients to make modifications in their behavior; make changes in a system, such as clinical care.
• Roles of the Nurse

  Leader - influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal; requires understanding of the needs and goals that motivate people.
• Roles of the Nurse

  Manager - manages the nursing care of individuals, families and communities; delegates nursing activities to ancillary workers and other nurses, and supervises and evaluates their performance.
• Roles of Nursing

  Case Manager - work with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and to monitor outcomes.
• Roles of the Nurse

  Research Consumer - often uses research to improve client care.
• Criteria of a Profession

  Profession - defined as an occupation that requires extensive education or a calling that requires special knowledge, skill, and preparation.
• Criteria of a Profession

  Professionalism - refers to professional character, spirit, or methods. It is a set of attributes, a way of life that implies responsibility and commitment.
• Criteria of a Profession

  Professionalization - the process of becoming professional, that is, of acquiring characteristics considered to be professional.
• Professional Nurse - a person who has completed basic nursing education program and is licensed in their country or state to practice professional nursing.
• Nursing Organization

  International Council of Nurses (ICN), American Nurses Association (ANA), International Honor Society: Sigma Theta Tau
• Nursing Organization (Local)

  Alumni Association, Philippine Nurses Association (PNA), Association of Nursing Service Administrators of the Philippines (ANSAP), Association of Deans of Philippine Colleges of Nursing (ADPCN)
• Fields of Nursing

  Hospital or Institutional Nursing - Nursing in hospitals and related health facilities such as extended care facilities, nursing homes, and neighborhood clinics, compromises all of the basic components of comprehensive patient care; nurse cares for the patient in the hospital or in the out-patient department and plans for the nursing care needs of the patient bout to be discharged.
• Fields of Nursing

  Public Health Nursing or Community Health Nursing - Gives emphasis on the promotion of health and prevention of diseases rather than care of the sick.
• Fields of Nursing

  Private Duty Nursing - a registered nurse who undertakes to give comprehensive nursing care to a client on one-to-one
• Fields of Nursing

  Nursing Education - faculty members, teachers or educators
• Fields of Nursing

  Military Nursing - provides comprehensive and quality nursing care to all military personnel, their dependents and authorized relatives.
• Fields of Nursing

  School Health Nursing - responsible for the school's activities in the area of health education and environmental health and safety
• Fields of Nursing

  Clinic Nursing - performs nursing care in clinics of doctors
• Fields of Nursing

  Independent Nurse-Practitioner: The nurse is self-employed and provides professional nursing services to clients.