PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN
NURSING
Is Nursing an art or science? - correct answer ✔✔It is both because you have to be creative when
dealing with certain patients
Is nursing a gut feeling ? - correct answer ✔✔Nursing is 90% GUT
trust your intuition and instinct feelings
How does nursing possess a unique body of knowledge - correct answer ✔✔Because it is like no other
profession. Nursing is completely independent and focuses on the human response `
What is the status of nurses in relation to other members of the health team? - correct answer
✔✔Nurses are completely independent and responsible for their own actions.
EX: know correct doses, medications etc
Nurses are also interdependent of the physician in terms of caring for patients
nursing as a verb means - correct answer ✔✔to do
nursing as a noun means - correct answer ✔✔to know
The American Nurses Association definition of nursing - correct answer ✔✔Changed to the diagnosis
and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems in 1995
Nursing deals with - correct answer ✔✔the human response and the fall out
(cause and what brings them in)
EX: patient has surgery and is in pain. the nurse will make the patient comfortable and relieve pain.
,Distinguishing Nursing from Medicine - correct answer ✔✔In general, medicine is concerned with the
diagnosis and treatment (and cure, when possible) of disease
Allopathic vs Osteopathic vs Holistic Approaches
Nursing is concerned with caring for the person from a holistic perspective in a variety of health-
related situations
Allopathic - correct answer ✔✔4 year degree , med school, residency program , boards, specialty
fellowship
STRICTEST CLINICAL APPROACH
focuses on illness and injury and then fixes it
Osteopathic (DO) - correct answer ✔✔use a little allopathic and holistic
They believe that if the spines not lined up and crush those nerves then disease results
require students to take an extra 500 hours of manipulative medicine
Hollistic (nurses) - correct answer ✔✔deal with the human response
holism--> focuses on the whole person
focus on: physical
physiology
pathophysiology
mental/emotional health
pysco-socio dynamic (support system/ relationships)
occupational
spiritual (assessment required)
, how do you give a spiritual assessment? - correct answer ✔✔ASK patient how do you cope and what
gives you strength?
NURSES' job is to deal with the healing process
The Concern Regarding Foreign Educated Nurses - correct answer ✔✔For other countries nurses earn
wages here and send it back to their countries
HELPS the US with the nursing shortage
What are the requirements to work as a nurse in the US - correct answer ✔✔BSN
pass nclex
Foreign Nursing Migration...The Dilemma - correct answer ✔✔Looking for Learning opportunities;
Professional advancement; Personal safety
Ethical: Right to migrate & Right to equal opportunity, quality of life and a safe work
environment
Creates severe workforce shortage in their nations causing additional suffering
Creates wealth re-distribution to poorer nations
Who Do Nurses Care For? - correct answer ✔✔consumer
patient
client
Consumer - correct answer ✔✔An individual, family, or community that uses a service or commodity
nurses teach patients as consumers in terms of products, safety etc.
Patient - correct answer ✔✔An individual waiting for or undergoing treatment or care
NURSING
Is Nursing an art or science? - correct answer ✔✔It is both because you have to be creative when
dealing with certain patients
Is nursing a gut feeling ? - correct answer ✔✔Nursing is 90% GUT
trust your intuition and instinct feelings
How does nursing possess a unique body of knowledge - correct answer ✔✔Because it is like no other
profession. Nursing is completely independent and focuses on the human response `
What is the status of nurses in relation to other members of the health team? - correct answer
✔✔Nurses are completely independent and responsible for their own actions.
EX: know correct doses, medications etc
Nurses are also interdependent of the physician in terms of caring for patients
nursing as a verb means - correct answer ✔✔to do
nursing as a noun means - correct answer ✔✔to know
The American Nurses Association definition of nursing - correct answer ✔✔Changed to the diagnosis
and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems in 1995
Nursing deals with - correct answer ✔✔the human response and the fall out
(cause and what brings them in)
EX: patient has surgery and is in pain. the nurse will make the patient comfortable and relieve pain.
,Distinguishing Nursing from Medicine - correct answer ✔✔In general, medicine is concerned with the
diagnosis and treatment (and cure, when possible) of disease
Allopathic vs Osteopathic vs Holistic Approaches
Nursing is concerned with caring for the person from a holistic perspective in a variety of health-
related situations
Allopathic - correct answer ✔✔4 year degree , med school, residency program , boards, specialty
fellowship
STRICTEST CLINICAL APPROACH
focuses on illness and injury and then fixes it
Osteopathic (DO) - correct answer ✔✔use a little allopathic and holistic
They believe that if the spines not lined up and crush those nerves then disease results
require students to take an extra 500 hours of manipulative medicine
Hollistic (nurses) - correct answer ✔✔deal with the human response
holism--> focuses on the whole person
focus on: physical
physiology
pathophysiology
mental/emotional health
pysco-socio dynamic (support system/ relationships)
occupational
spiritual (assessment required)
, how do you give a spiritual assessment? - correct answer ✔✔ASK patient how do you cope and what
gives you strength?
NURSES' job is to deal with the healing process
The Concern Regarding Foreign Educated Nurses - correct answer ✔✔For other countries nurses earn
wages here and send it back to their countries
HELPS the US with the nursing shortage
What are the requirements to work as a nurse in the US - correct answer ✔✔BSN
pass nclex
Foreign Nursing Migration...The Dilemma - correct answer ✔✔Looking for Learning opportunities;
Professional advancement; Personal safety
Ethical: Right to migrate & Right to equal opportunity, quality of life and a safe work
environment
Creates severe workforce shortage in their nations causing additional suffering
Creates wealth re-distribution to poorer nations
Who Do Nurses Care For? - correct answer ✔✔consumer
patient
client
Consumer - correct answer ✔✔An individual, family, or community that uses a service or commodity
nurses teach patients as consumers in terms of products, safety etc.
Patient - correct answer ✔✔An individual waiting for or undergoing treatment or care
