Nurse

Meaning

The word 'Nurse originated from Latin word "Nutrix meaning 'to nourish. The Literal meaning of the word 'NURSE

"A person who cares for the sick or infirm"

  • N-Nobility
  • U-Understanding
  • R-Responsibility
  • S-Sympathy
  • E-Efficiency

Definitions

Nurse-

"The nurse as a person who nourishes, fosters and protects and who is prepared to take care of sick, injured and aged people."

Professional Nurse -

  • "Professional nurse is a graduate of a recognized nursing schools who has met the requirements for a registered nurse in a state in which she is licensed to practice."
  • "A professional nurse therefore, is a person who has completed a basic nursing education program and is licensed in his country to practice professional nursing.

Qualities of Nurse-

  • Self confident
  • Honest
  • Loyal
  • Humble
  • Alertness
  • Cooperative
  • Good Listener
  • Dicision maker
  • Good Supervisior
  • Good Administrator
  • Good judgement
  • Intelligence
  • Competence 
  • Care giver 
  • Gentleness
  • Generosity
  • Good communication skills
  • Empathy
  • Quietness
  • Good physical and mental health
  • Problem solving skills

Professional Etiquette's of Nurses-

  • A Nurse should be Gentle, Polite and Courteous to all.
  • The Nurse should greet or her seniors, patients with appropriate words and according to his the time of the day. Eg. Good Morning, Good Evening, Good Night
  • Your should address the seniors with proper title. Eg: Sir, Madam, Sister, Miss etc.

  • A Nurse should stand up when people of higher work rank  enters her room.

  • Stand up when answering questions in the class room.

  • Excuse yourself when overtaking a senior person.

  • A Nurse should keep your dress neat and tidy.

  • A Nurse should be punctual always.

  • While on duty never use any jewellery.

  • Obey seniors without arguing.

  • Do not delay your answers to the questions.

  • A Nurse should give answers immediately and appropriately.

  • Keep eye contact and sit face to face when listening to someone.

  • A Nurse should never let others secret go out of you.

  • Maintain silence whenever necessary

  • She should avoid Thumb Sucking and Nail Biting.

Role and function  of Nurses-

1. Caregiver -

The caregiver role is traditionally and most essential role. The caregiver role has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the clients dignity. It is provides direct care and promotes comfort of client. Caregiving encompasses the physical, psychological, developmental, cultural and spiritual levels.

2. Communicator-

Communication is an integral to all nursing roles. Nurses communicate with the client, support persons, other health professionals, and people in the community. In the role of communicator, nurse identify client problems and then communicate these verbally. The quality of a quality of a nurse's communication is an important factor in nursing care.

3. Teacher- 

As a teacher, the nurse helps clients learn about their health and the health care procedures. Provides information and helps the client to learn or acquire new knowledge and technical skills. The nurse educate the client and their family regarding the disease condition, its treatment, prevention, restoration of health and maintains is health. They also may teach about the promotes of healthy lifestyle changes.

4. Advocate-

As an advocate acts the nurse to protect the client. In this role the nurse assists the clients to express their legal rights. Promotes what is best for the client ensuring that the client's needs are met and protecting the clients right.

5. Counselor-

Counselling is a process of helping a client to recognize and cope with stressful psychologic or social problems, to developed improved interpersonal relationships and to promote personal growth. It involves providing emotional, intellectual and psychologic support. Help the individual to develop new attitude, feelings and behaviours.

6. Change Agent-

The nurse acts as a change agent or assist clients to making behavioural modification in order to improve their health. Nurses also often act to make changes in a system such as clinical care, if it is not helping a client return to health.

7. Leader-

As a leader, the nurse helps the team members to work in cooperation. The nurse can act as a leader to individual client, family, colleagues, team members and community. Effective leadership is a learned process requiring an understanding of the needs and goals that motivate people.

8.  Manager-

The nurse manages the nursing core of individual, families and communities. The nurse as a manager delegates duties and responsibilities to other team members.

9.  Researcher -

As a researcher, the nurse participates in identifying significant researchable problems. The nurse have some awareness of the process and language of research, a sensitive to issues related to protecting the rights of human subjects. The participates in scientific investigation and must be a consumer of research findings.

  • Collect data to improve nursing practice
  • Provides info for evidenced-based practice
  • Studies are done on nursing practice, education & administration
  • Provides professionalism to nursing

10.  Rehabilitator-

Rehabilitation is the process of ensures that the client returns to maximal levels of functioning after illness, accidents or other disability.

11. Coordinator-

  • Coordinates and plans care
  • Piece together fragmented care
  • Prepares pt. for discharge
  • Liaison in health care team

12. Motivator

  • Motivation- Internal impulse that allows one to take action or change behaviors.
  • Nurses motivate patients to make changes by- having a positive attitude, listening to patient needs, encouraging, rewarding, and devoting time and energy to assist with changes.

13. Innovator

  • Takes action to make things happen
  • Initiates change
  • Sees a problem and looks for solutions. Instead of , “Oh well, there’s nothing that can be done about it” the innovator will be proactive.

Expanded Roles of the Nurses (Career Roles)- Expanded role of nurse means enlargement of nursing within the boundaries of nursing.

1.  Clinical specialists-

Is a nurse who has completed a advanced degree in speciality and has considerable clinical expertise in that speciality. She provides expert care to individuals, participates in educating health care professional and acts as a clinical consultant and participate in research.

2. Nurse Practitioner -

Is a nurse who has completed either as certificate programme or a advanced degree in a speciality and is also certified by the appropriate speciality organization. Various roles such as adult nurses, practitioner, family nurse practioner, school nurse practioner. Nurse practioner deals with acute illness, chronic illness and ambulatory care.

3.  Nurse Midwife-

Nurse midwife is a registered nurse who has completed a programme in midwife. The nurse provides prenatal and postnatal care and conducts normal delivery.

4. Nurse Anaesthetist-

A nurse who has an advanced education in an accredited programme in Anaesthesiology. The nurse assess the preoperative, postoperative assessment and administered general anaesthesia for surgery, under the supervision of anaethetist.

5. Nurse Educator-

A Nurse takes up the responsibility for clinical teaching, skills, educational setting and theoretical knowledge.

6. Nurse Administrator-

 A nurse who functions at various level of management in health setting. It is responsible for the management and administration of resources and personnel involved in giving patient care. They do staffing, planning and budgeting programmes.

7. Nurse Entrepreneur -

A nurse who has a advanced dgree and manages health related business.

8. Nurse Researcher -

A nurse have advanced education at level. The nurse researcher study of the nursing problems and solve problem based on the scientific study.

9. TRAVEL NURSING-

 Travel nursing and the travel nursing industry developed in response to the nursing shortage in which nurses are relocated for short term nursing positions.


10. NURSE ONCOLOGIST- Advance oncology nursing practice it means practice of expert and leadership in the provisional care to individual with an acute and potential diagnosis of cancer.


11. NURSE INFORMATICS/NURSE ANALYST -

  • The nursing analyst work within the management team to ensure high quality of performance and technical support to both the management and the nursing staff .
  • A nursing analyst must have a strong statistical background and be able to interpret data in a logical manner.
  • The nursing analyst must be able to work on multiple project at one time, focus on details. 

12. SPORT NURSE -

  • The nursing profession has yet to officially develop a specialty in fitness nursing or sport nursing on either the professional or academic level, a growing numbers of nurses become involved in these areas.
  • The connection between physical fitness, wellness and disease prevention is well documented.
  • Some nurses are involved in sport medicine on a full time basis while others work on a full time, contract basis for sport time.

13. HOSPICE NURSE -

  • The focus of hospice care is a comprehensive physical, psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual care to terminally ill person and their families.
  • Hospice providers promote quality of life by protecting patient from burden some intervention and providing care at home.

14. SPACE NURSE -

  • Space nurse provides a on the ground monitoring and a full range of health services to astronauts, who are screened to determine if they meet the NASA health requirement.
  • Flight medicine nurse also coordinate dietary and fitness services ; clinical nurse staff a sick call service for astronauts to use before and after flight.

15.  TELE NURSE- 

  • It carries out telephonic communication with patients thus providing response to medical care/treatment
  • Among its many benefits telenursing may help solve increasing shortage of nurses, to reduce distances and save travel time, and to keep patient out of hospital.

16 .CRUISE NURSE -

  • These nurses work on ships or resort to provide emergency and general care to passengers /vacationers, should it be required.
  •  Responsibility includes providing patient care in the health centre and dealing with onsite emergencies.


 17 DISASTER NURSE/BIOTERRORISM NURSE -

  • These nurses works in disaster areas that are the result of bioterrorist attack or a situation caused by natural disaster,war,or poverty, red cross nurse are often part of wing of nurses.
  • The skills include- emergency room and critical care experience, management skill, ability to meet the needs of the people in high crisis situation.

 18 NURSE AS AUTHOR-

  • An registered nurse who works in area of writing this written materials may be used in research education,training,sales and marketing, and other mediums and communication forums.
  • The quality of journals which publish to nursing practice, material concerning nursing issues depend on quality of material submitted.

19. EPIDEMILOGY NURSE -

  • A nurse epidemiologist investigates trends in groups or aggregates and studies the occurrence of diseases and injuries.
  • The information is gathered from census data and statistics and reportable disease records.
  • They identify population at risk monitor the progress of disease, specify areas of health care needs.
  • They don’t provide direct nursing care, but they do research and publish the latest trends in health care.

 20 ETHICIST-

  • A nurse who knows about legal/moral/ethical issues and provides services for patient and families is called nurse ethicist.
  • The nurse may work with an ethicist team to develop a detailed investigative plan .
  • The criteria is a master degrees in bioethics or related field along with a registered nurse certificate.

 

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