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• The left hemisphere of the brain is associated with logical thinking, language, and mathematics, while the right hemisphere is linked to creativity, imagination, and emotions

  
• Florence Nightingale, considered the founder of modern nursing, emphasized the importance of nursing as an art form and the dedication and preparation it requires

  
• Nursing is described as a profession that requires advanced training and usually involves mental work rather than manual labor
• Criteria for a profession according to Bixler & Bixler (1945):

  • Utilizes a well-defined and organized body of specialized knowledge on the intellectual level of higher learning
  • Constantly enlarges its body of knowledge and improves education and service through the scientific method
  • Entrusts the education of practitioners to institutions of higher education
• Structuring Nursing Knowledge:

  • Efforts to define essential knowledge, practice, and values for baccalaureate nurses
  • Nursing Knowledge by Schlotfeldt (1989) includes scientific subject matter, historical sphere, philosophic nursing knowledge, nursing's SATSAP, and knowledge of factors affecting human health status, assets, and potentials
• Sphere of Nursing Knowledge by Schlotfeldt (1989):

  • Includes scientific subject matter, historical sphere, philosophic nursing knowledge, nursing's SATSAP, and knowledge of factors affecting human health status, assets, and potentials
  • Nursing knowledge is structured as an expandable and permeable sphere of segments of varying sizes
• Characteristics of a profession according to Vandali (2017) and Udan (2004):

  • Education, theory, service, autonomy, and a code of ethics are essential for a profession
• Attributes of a professional person:

  • Concerned with quality, self-directed, responsible, and accountable for actions
  • Independent, with sound judgment and high moral standards
  • Dedicated to improving human life and committed to the spirit of inquiry
• Primary Characteristics of Nursing as a Profession (ETSAC):

  • Nursing is caring, involves close personal contact with the recipient of care, and considers humans as physiological, psychological, and sociological organisms
  • Nursing is committed to promoting individual, family, and community well-being
• The left hemisphere of the brain is associated with logical thinking, language, and mathematics, while the right hemisphere is associated with creativity, imagination, and emotions

  
• Florence Nightingale, considered the founder of modern nursing, emphasized the importance of nursing as an art form and the devotion and preparation it requires

  
• Characteristics of Nursing as a Profession:

  • Nursing is caring
  • Involves close personal contact with the recipient of care
  • Concerned with services that consider humans as physiological, psychological, and sociological organisms
  • Committed to promoting individual, family, community, and national health goals
  • Committed to personalized services for all persons without regard to color, creed, social or economic status
• Professional Nursing is an art and a science, dominated by the ideal of service where certain principles are applied in the skillful care of the well and the ill through relationships with the client, significant others, and other members of the health team
• Personal Qualifications of a Nurse:

  • Philosophy of life: basic truths contributing to personal growth and moral values
  • Good personality: distinctive individual qualities, deeper traits, warmth of manner, sincere laugh, genuine interest in others, complete sincerity, sympathetic grooming
• Components of a good personality:

  • Personal appearance: posture, grooming, dress & uniform
  • Attitude
  • Character
  • Charm
• Attributes of character:

  • Honesty, loyalty, tolerance, judgment, reliability, motivation, moderation, resourcefulness
• 1. Be Attitudes of a Nurse:

  • Acceptance, permissiveness, helpfulness, limit setting, friendliness, sincerity, firmness, competence
• profession


  -a vocation requiring advanced training & usually involving mental than manual work
• 3 criteria of the profession

  1. Profession utilizes in its practice a well defined and well organized body of specialized knowledge which is on the intellectual level of higher learning.
  2. profession constantly enlarges the body of knowledge it uses, and improves its technics of education and service by use of the scientific method.
  3. A profession entrusts the education of its practitioners to institutions of higher education.
• profession


  occupation that is not mechanical or agricultural and that requires special education
• profession


  an occupation that requires advanced knowledge and skills and that it grows out of society’s needs for special services-
• structuring nursing knowledge

  American Association of Colleges of Nursing (1986)

   “national effort to define the essential knowledge, practice, & values that baccalaureate nurse should possess”

   Baccalaureate program represents first-level professional preparation in nursing
• Nursing Knowledge, Schlotfeldt (1989)


  Sphere permeable & expandable membrane 

  Atleast 5 professional knowledge;
• 5 personal knowledge under Nursing knowledge

  1. Scientific subject matter
  2. Historical sphere
  3. Philosophic nursing knowledge
  4. Nursing’s SATSAP
  5. Knowledge of factors to human health status, assets & potentials
• Historical sphere


  a professional knowledge

  Knowledge of the heritage of the occupation, developing profession of nursing, knowledge of people, circumstances, and events that shaped the development
• Philosophic nursing knowledge


  a professional knowledge

  Professions accepted values & codes of professional behavior
• Nursing’s SATsaP


  a professional nursing knowledge

  Strategies,

  approaches, and

  technologies along with

  scientific and artistic principles 

  Knowledge of prevailing health care system
• Knowledge of factors to human health status, assets & potentials


  a professional nursing knowledge

  Favorably & unfavorably affect human beings 

  Knowledge of biological, physical, and cognitive abilities (natural endowment) 

  Knowledge of environmental factors, economic, social circumstances 

  Changes in normal development 

  Aging process
• Knowledge relevant to & essential for nursing practice

  professional nursing knowledge

  knowledge from relevant data concerning clients served obtained through observation 

  personal knowledge of individuals and groups of persons – needed to respect uniqueness of each client
• Nursing

  should be recognized as a learned helping profession & a respected academic discipline.
• Structuring nursing knowledge


  as expandable & permeable sphere of segments of varying sizes provides an approach to classifying & organizing nursing knowledge.
• CHARACTERISTIC OF A PROFESSION -


  EDUCATION-A basic profession requires an extended education of its members, as well as a basic liberal foundation. 

  THEORY-A profession has a theoretical body of knowledge leading to defined skills, abilities, and norms. 

  SERVICE-A profession provides a specific service. 

  AUTONOMY-Members of a profession have autonomy in decision making and practice. 

  CODE OF ETHICS-The profession has a code of ethics for practice.
• THEORY


  CHARACTERISTIC OF A PROFESSION

  A profession has a theoretical body of knowledge leading to defined skills, abilities, and norms.
•  SERVICE

  CHARACTERISTIC OF A PROFESSION

  A profession provides a specific service.
• AUTONOMY


  CHARACTERISTIC OF A PROFESSION

  Members of a profession have autonomy in decision making and practice.
• CODE OF ETHICS

  CHARACTERISTIC OF A PROFESSION

  The profession has a code of ethics for practice.
• 5 CHARACTERISTIC & ATTRIBUTES OF A PROFESSIONAL PERSON

  concerned with quality

  self-directed, responsible, & accountable for actions

  Independent, sound judgment high moral judgment

  dedicated to the improvement of human life

  committed to the spirit of inquiry
• noble profession-

  • nurses dedicate themselves 24/7 in patient care in their entire life; without so much expectation of benefits (salary & facilities)
• noble profession-

  • nurses dedicate themselves 24/7 in patient care in their entire life; without so much expectation of benefits (salary & facilities)
• PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE


  basic truths contributing to personal growth in the systematic fashion and with those principles that relate to the moral values that shape the facets of character ●

  every person must develop a personal philosophy of life & plan for expanding his personal life ●

  theories of nursing can be taught, but not a philosophy of life or a philosophy of service