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• Profession


  An occupation or calling requiring advanced training and experience in some specific or specialized body of knowledge which provides service to society in that special field
• Other definition of profession

  • A calling or a vocation requiring an intensive and specialized education in the field of science or the liberal arts and has a specialized training
  • A calling or vocation or undertaking in which its members should have acquired specific and distinct values, knowledge, training or by experience so that they may competently utilize it in the service of others
  • Any undertaking in which a person, whom for a tee or tree, provides a distinctive service using scientific and specialized body of knowledge and skills
  • Strives to compensate its practitioners by providing freedom to act on opportunity for continuous professional growth, and economic security
• Qualities of a profession (According to Genevieve K. & Roy W. Bixler)

  • Utilizes in its practice a well-defined and well-organized body of specialized knowledge which is on the intellectual level of higher learning
  • Constantly enlarges the body of knowledge it uses, and improves its techniques of education and service by the use of scientific method
• Professional nursing


  • A person who has completed a basic nursing education program and is licensed in his/her country or state to practice professional nursing
  • The performance, for a fee or salary, of professional services such as undertaking responsible nursing care, the observation of symptoms, accurate reporting and recording, supervision of other, execution of nursing procedures and execution of valid doctor's orders
• Qualifications and abilities of a professional nurse

  • Professional preparation
  • Personal qualities & professional proficiencies
• Professional preparation


  • Have a license to practice nursing in the country
  • Have a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing
  • Be physically and mentally fit
• Personal qualities & professional proficiencies

  • Interest and willingness to work and learn with individuals/ groups in a variety of settings
  • A warm personality and concern for people
  • Resourcefulness and creativity as well as a well-balanced emotional conditions
  • Capacity and ability to work cooperatively with others
  • Initiative to improve self & service
  • Competence in performing work through the use of nursing process
  • Skill in decision-making, communicating, and relating with others and being research oriented
  • Active participation in issues confronting nurse & nursing
• Roles of the professional nurse

  • Care provider
  • Communicator
  • Teacher
  • Counselor
  • Client advocate
  • Change agent
  • Leader
  • Case manager
  • Researcher
• Care provider


  Assists the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client's dignity. It involves full care for the completely dependent client, partial cafe for the partially dependent client, & supportive-educative care to assist clients in attaining their highest possible level of health
• Communicator


  Nurses identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the health team
• Teacher


  Helps client learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health
• Counselor


  Help the client recognize and cope with stressful psychological or social problems to develop improved personal relationships and to promote personal growth
• Client advocate


  The nurse acts to protect the client and his rights, promotes what is best for the client
• Change agent


  The nurse initiates changes and assists the client make modifications in their behavior & lifestyle to promote health
• Leader


  The nurse helps the client make decisions in establishing and achieving goals to improve his well-being
• Case manager


  The nurse work with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan & to monitor outcomes, gives directions, and delegates nursing activities to ancillary workers and evaluates their performance
• Researcher


  The nurse participates in scientific investigation and uses research findings in practice
• Expanded nursing roles

  • Nurse practitioner
  • Nurse specialist
  • Nurse anesthetist
  • Nurse midwife
  • Nurse researcher
  • Nurse administrator
  • Nurse educator
  • Nurse entrepreneur
• Nurse practitioner

  A nurse who has an advanced education and is a graduate of a nurse practitioner program (family nurse practitioner, pediatric nurse practitioner)
• Nurse specialist

  A nurse who has an advanced degree or expertise and is considered to be an expert in a specialized area (gerontology, oncology)
• Nurse anesthetist

  Carries out preoperative visits and assessments, administer anesthetics for surgery
• Nurse midwife


  Gives prenatal and postnatal care and manages deliveries in normal pregnancies
• Nurse researcher


  Employed in academic institutions, teaching hospitals and research centers
• Nurse administrator


  Functions include budgeting, staffing and planning programs (head nurse, supervisor, director of nursing services)
• Nurse educator

  Employed in nursing programs, educational institutions, and in hospital staff education. Responsible for classroom and often clinical teaching (Clinical Instructor)
• Nurse entrepreneur

  Manages health-related business (owner of a home care)
• Nursing as a profession

  An occupation or vocation with a unique body of knowledge, attitude, and skills acquired through advanced training and experience in order to provide specialized services and various care for others
• Key responsibilities of a nurse

  • Nursing process
  • Safe & quality nursing care
  • Health education
  • Legal responsibility
  • Management of resources & environment
  • Quality improvement
  • Research
  • Personal & professional development
  • Communication
  • Collaboration & team work
  • Record management
• Scope of nursing practice

  • A person shall be deemed practicing nursing when he/she singly or in collaboration with another, initiates and performs nursing services to individuals, families, and communities in any health care setting
  • It includes but is not limited to nursing care, during conception, labor, delivery, infancy, childhood, toddler, pre-school, school age, adolescence, adulthood, and old age
• Scope of nursing practice

  • Providing nursing care through the utilization of the nursing process
  • Establishing linkages with community resources, and coordination with the health team
  • Providing health education to individuals, families, and communities
  • Teaching, guiding, and supervising students in nursing education programs including the administration of nursing services in varied settings such as hospitals and clinics
  • Undertaking nursing and health human resource development training and research
• Fields of nursing

  • Hospital or institutional nursing
  • Public health nursing or community health nursing
  • Independent nursing practice
  • Advanced practice nursing
  • Nursing education
  • School nursing
• Promoting health & wellness

  Nurses promote wellness in clients who are both healthy & ill. Involves activities that enhance a healthy lifestyle. Wellness is a process that engages in activities and behaviors that enhance quality of life and maximize personal potential
• Preventing illness


  Activities that prevent illness, includes immunization, prenatal and infant care, prevention of STD. The goal of illness prevention programs is to maintain optimal health by preventing disease
• Restoring health


  Focuses on the ill client, and it extends from early detection of disease through helping the client during the recovery period
• Rehabilitating clients


  Involves comforting and caring for people of all ages who are dying, includes helping clients live as comfortably as possible until death and helping support persons cope with death
• Hospital or institutional nursing


  Nursing in hospitals and related health facilities such as extended care facilities, nursing homes, and neighborhood clinics, comprises all of the basic components of comprehensive patient care and family health
• Public health nursing or community health nursing

  The practice of nursing in the local, national, and city health departments which include health centers and public schools. It is community health nursing in the public sector
• Independent nursing practice


  The nurse is self employed and provides professional nursing services to clients/ patients and their families. While some independent nursing practitioners set up their clinics near a hospital (as in the case of the Psychiatric Nursing Specialists, Inc.), most of them are community-based
• Advanced practice nursing


  This field of nursing is synonymous with specialization. This advanced practice requires the knowledge skills and supervised skills obtained through graduate study in nursing (either master's or doctoral degree)
• Nursing education


  Teachers in the Nursing education programs