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Introduction to Nursing

Erica Adkins

DEFINITION OF NURSING

• Nursing is provision of optimal conditions to

enhance the person's reparative processes and

prevent the reparative process from being

interrupted.

• The practice of nursing is defined as diagnosing and

treating human response to actual or potential

health problems through such services as case

finding, health teaching, health counseling; and

provision of support to or restoration of life and

well-being and executing medical regimes

prescribed by licensed or otherwise legally

authorized physician or dentist.

• Nursing is directed toward meeting both the health

and illness need and man who is viewed holistically

as having physical, emotional, psychological

intellectual, social and spiritual.

• Nursing is a humanistic science dedicated to

compassionate concern with maintaining and

promoting health, preventing illness and caring for

and rehabilitating the sick and disabled

Characteristics of a socialized nurse

• Value her/his own beliefs and practice while respecting the belief and practice of others.
• Respect the culture and religious beliefs of individuals.
• Become aware of the client’s culture as described by the client and know client’s cultural values, beliefs, and behavior.

• Know what is right or wrong

  The socialization process therefore involves changes in perception, knowledge, skill, attitudes, and values. There are five levels of proficiency the nurse passes as the nurse progress and acquires the knowledge, skill, attitudes, and values of nursing.

Learning Objectives

• Define belief, value and philosophy.
• Discuss the impact of beliefs and values on nurses’ professional practice.
• Explain the importance of a philosophy of nursing.
• Explain the importance of theory to the nursing profession
• Recognize some of the commonly used theories in nursing Principled behavior flows from personal values that guide and inform our responses, behaviors and decisions in all areas of our life. Ethical decision making requires self-awareness and knowledge of ethical theories and principles. Such awareness of self includes knowing what we value or consider important. Personal values and moral development influence perceptions and decisions. This unit examines the relationship of beliefs, values, and philosophies to the practice of nursing. Therefore, readers are encouraged to examine their own values, perspectives and tendencies and of other people and the situation they are in on various decision making process.