Florence Nightingale

Professional Roles and Values Task 1 QUP1 A nursing practice is guided by both regulatory agencies and professional nursing organizations which differ in their focus. A regulatory agency oversees the integrity of the nursing practice. One example, the state boards of nursing, ensure the public’s health and welfare by assuring that competent nursing care is provided by knowledgeable and licensed professionals. These agencies collaborate through the National Council of State Boards of Nursing…

Although nursing today seen as an independent healthcare professional practice, its historical dependence on physician still lingers. I would say, nurses could not able to be psychologically free and independent from physicians influence. For instance, Boland, Boland and Buus (2010) in their research article titled “Autonomy, evidence, and intuition: nurses and decision-making”, discussed this very issue that nurses have in clinical practice. According to the researchers, nurses still have a…

Future Implications Quality improvement will also be imperative to excellence in the future of the nursing profession. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine (2010) jointly released The Future of Nursing: Focus on Scope of Practice to better prepare nurses to be active participants in healthcare reform and improved quality care. Among the report’s key messages for the future of improved quality in nursing care will include expanding and providing opportunities for…

Introduction The American Holistic Nurses Association or AHNA (2014) states that Florence Nightingale, who subscribed to the philosophy that care focused on unity, wellness and the interaction between human beings and their environment, is widely considered as one of the pioneer holistic nurses. But what exactly is holistic nursing? Is its definition and application different from how Nightingale understood and practiced it? As the AHNA (2014) continues to afford, holistic nursing can be…

Professionalism In Nursing And Implications To Patient Safety Professionalism is the core feature of all careers including nursing. Although there is some debate that nursing is not a profession, yet the need of professionalism in nursing job is indispensable. Nursing professionalism is exhibited through the use of cognitive, attitudinal, and psycho-motor skills. Nursing professionalism is a continuous, dynamic, variable, and a complex process that involves the use of nursing knowledge and…

Becoming a nurse is a challenging task. However male nurses face other obstacles which make pursuing a nursing degree even more challenging. Men in nursing are often classified as “Murses” meaning male nurses and sometimes distinctively mentioned as the “male nurse” instead of a nurse. The idea that nurses are supposed to be women has established a significant gender gap and subsequently has extended the expected shortage of nurses that are expected by 2020. Several research findings support…

In order to define Nursing as a distinct discipline, one must first identify the parameters for classification as a discipline. The word discipline in and of itself has been defined in multiple different ways. For example, Parse defines discipline as “a branch of knowledge ordered through the theories and methods evolving from more than one worldview of the phenomenon of concern” (McEwen, p.4) while the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines discipline as simply “a field of study” (Merriam-webster…

The career of nursing focus on the importance to take a good patient care. One’s a person heard the work nursing, always think about the patient’s well-being and comfort. Comfort and nursing are very relate with each other because it is the nurse’s desire outcome. Comfort have been used since the beginning of the nursing as a profession in which the most important topic was the ease of the patients. When Mrs. Kolcaba decided to create the theory of comfort, she always wanted us nurses to…

change to meet the growing needs of the society. Nursing has come a long way from the founder Florence Nightingale who established the first nursing training school in London in 1860 (Black 2014). During and after the American Civil War the need to train nurses to care for the sick and wounded soldiers became essential. Through this surfaced a leader, Dorothea Dix, and 3 nursing schools that molded the Nightingale school in England (Black 2014). Throughout the history of nursing, there has been…

Nursing is much more than providing direct patient care. Nurses serve in a variety of roles centered around positive patient outcomes. Prior to nursing school, I had no idea the diverse roles and opportunities nurses get to experience daily. Nurses participate in roles that involve direct patient care to assisting with transformation of the U.S. healthcare system. This paper will review eight pertinent roles nurses provide for patients and their communities. Caregiver Nurses spend more…