PRAKASH INSTITITE OF PHYSIOTHERAPY, REHABILITATION ALLIED MEDICAL SCIENCES,

GREATER NOIDA

SUBJECT: ADVANCE NURSING PRATICE

LESSON PLAN ON NURSING AS A PROFESSION

SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY:

Ms. Grarima Mam MR. ROHIT PANDEY

M.Sc NURSING 1ST YEAR

(MENTAL HEALTH NURSING)

DATE-30/12/22

GENERAL OBJECTIVE;-
 At the end of the class the students will have some knowledge about the Nursing as a Profession.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE;-
At the end of the class the students will be able to:-
 To Introduce Nursing as a Profession
 To the Explain criteria of profession
 To Discuss characteristics of a profession
 To Define Nursing
 To Discuss the concept of nursing
 To Enlist Function of the Nurse
 To Enlist the trends of Nursing.
 To summarize the topic.

S.NO TIME SPECIFIC CONTENT A.V. STUDENT TEACHING EVALUATION

OBJECTIVE AIDS LEARNING
ACTIVITY
1. 5 min. To introduce INTRODUCTION WHITE The teacher What is the
nursing BOARD introduced nursing Nursing?
Nursing has been called the oldest
of the arts and the youngest of the
professions The term ‘Nurse’
evolve from the Latin word nutrix,
which means to nourish or to
cherish..

Today nursing emerged as a learned

profession that is both a science and
an art.

It is a body of knowledge.
Knowledge is an awareness or
perception of reality, which is PPT
acquired through learning or
investigation.

Science is defined as both a unified

body of knowledge concerned with
specific subject matter, the skills
and methodology necessary to
provide such knowledge.
Nursing as an art is the application
of knowledge and skill to bring
about desired results. It is an
individual action. Nursing art is
carried out by the nurse in a one-to-
 one relationship with the patient
and constitutes the nurse’s
conscious responses to a specific
and patient’s immediate situation.

DEFINITION
2 5min To define Profession: a type of occupation PPT Defined
Nursing as a that meets certain criteria that raise Nursing as a
profession it to a level above that of an profession
occupation.
Profession: is a calling that requires
special knowledge, skill and
preparation
An occupation that requires
advanced knowledge and skills and
that it grows out of society’s needs
for special services.
Professional: a person who belongs
to and practices a profession
Professionalism: demonstration of
high level of personal, ethical and
high level of skill characteristics for
a member of a profession.
Difference between Occupation &
Profession. According to Webster:
– Occupation: is defined as what
occupies or engages, one’s time,
business and employment.
 Profession:
is defined as a vocation requiring
advanced training and usually
involving mental rather than manual
work, as teaching, engineering,
especially medicine, law etc. What is the
Criteria of
To the High Intellectual Level Of profession?
Explain Functioning:
3. 10min
criteria of
profession Modern nurses use assessment skill
and knowledge, have the ability to
reason and make routine judgment
depending on patient’s condition.
Professional nurses functions at a
high intellectual level. Florence
nightingale raised the bar for
education and graduates of her
school were considered to be highly
educated.

High Level Of Individual

Responsibility And
Accountability:

Nurses must be accountable and

demonstrate a high level of
individual responsibility for the care
and services they provide. The
concept of accountability has legal,
ethical and professional
implications that include accepting
responsibility for action taken to
provide client care as well as
accepting responsibility for the
consequences of action that are not
performed.

Specialized Body Of
Knowledge:

Nursing has developed into an

identifiable separate discipline, a
specialized body of knowledge
called as nursing science. It was
compiled through the research PPT
effort of nurses with advanced
educational degrees. Although this
body of specialized knowledge is
relatively small, it forms a
theoretical basis for the practice of
nursing today. As more nurses
obtain advanced degrees, conduct
research and develop philosophies,
and theories about nursing, this
body of knowledge will increase in
scope.

Evidence Based Practice:

Almost all the currently used

nursing theories address this issue
in some way. Evidenced based
practice is the practice of nursing in
which interventions are based on
data obtained from research that
demonstrate that, the findings are
appropriate and successful. It
involves a systematic process of
uncovering, evaluating and using
information from research as the
basis for making decisions about
providing client care.

Public Service And Altruistic

Activities:

Individual is the focal point of all

nursing models and nursing
practice. Nursing has been viewed
universally as being an altruistic
profession composed of selfless
individuals who place the lives and
 well being of their clients above
their personal safety. Dedicated
nurses provide care for victims of
deadly diseases with little regard for
their own welfare.

Professional Identity And

Development:

Until nurses are fully committed to

the profession of nursing, identify
with it as a profession and are
dedicated to its future development,
nursing will probably not achieve
professional status.

4. 10min CHARACTERISTICS OF A
PROFESSION
To discuss
characteristics A basic profession requires an
of a extended education of its members,
profession as well as a basic liberal foundation.
A profession has a theoretical body
of knowledge leading to defined
skills, abilities and norms. A
profession provides a specific
 service. Members of a profession
have autonomy in decision-making
and practice. The profession has a
code of ethics for practice.

5 5min
DEFINITION

The unique function of nurses in

To define caring for individuals, sick or well,
Nursing is to assess their responses to their
health status and to assist them in
the performance of those activities
contributing to health or recovery or
to dignified death that they would
perform unaided if they had the
necessary strength, will, or
knowledge and to do this in such a
way as to help them gain full or
partial independence as rapidly as
possible (Virginia Henderson,
1977)

Nursing encompasses autonomous

and collaborative care of
individuals of all ages, families,
groups and communities, sick or
well and in all settings. Nursing
 includes the promotion of health,
prevention of illness, and the care
of ill, disabled and dying people.
(Short Version definition by ICN).

Nightingale defined nursing over

100 years ago as “the act of
utilizing the environment of the
patient to assist him in his
recovery”. (Florence Nightingale,
1860)

Nursing is the protection,

promotion, and optimization of
health and abilities, prevention of
illness and injury, alleviation of
suffering through the diagnosis and
treatment of human response, and
advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, communities and
populations.” (American Nurses
Association)
6 5min
CONCEPTS OF NURSING
The art and science of modern
nursing encompasses fundamental
To Discuss nursing concepts that include
health, illness, and stress and health
the concept of promotion. Nurses work with
nursing physicians and other medical staff
in a wide variety of medical and
community settings. • They provide
preventive, primary, acute and
chronic care for sick and injured
patients with health information,
restorative care, medication
administration and emergency care.
Nursing care focuses on protecting
and promoting physical and mental
health for patients and for the
community.

Health is the absence of illness,

injury and disease. Health as a
fundamental nursing concept
involves both mental and
physiological well being, and it
changes over a patient's lifetime.
Nurses work in health care to
promote and protect health by
instructing patients about self-care,
and about how lifestyle and
behavior affects their health. They
help people to recover from
physical and mental illness, and
they tend to sick and injured
patients to restore health.
Illness is a fundamental nursing
concept that defines a deviation
from health with three stages: the
onset of illness, the acceptance of
the state of illness and the
convalescence or recovery stage. A
nurse’s role in illness includes
monitoring and interpreting
symptoms, administering
medication and self-care
information, and caring for patients
who are incapacitated by illness,
such as administering intravenous
fluids to a patient dehydrated from
fever and vomiting.

Nurses work to make patients more

comfortable, and a big part of
nursing care includes reducing
patient stress. Nurses care for
patients who experience stress from
being weakened due to illness or
injury, being removed from a
familiar environment etc. Nurses
explain procedures to patients,
listen to patient concerns and
answer questions, protect patients'
privacy and ask how patients are
 feeling. The goal is to calm them
and make them feel more physically
and emotionally comfortable.

t’s the responsibility of every nurse

to promote better health by
informing patients of things such as
illness prevention methods, safe
health practices and healthy
lifestyle choices. Nurses promote
health by discussing weight and
exercise issues, nutrition, the risks
of drinking, smoking and drug use,
and other self-care that increases
their quality and length of life.

7 10min FUNCTION OF THE

NURSE

The caregiver role has traditionally

included those activities that assist
the client physically and
To Enlist psychologically while preserving
Function of the client’s dignity. Care giving
the Nurse encompasses the physical,
psychosocial, developmental,
cultural and spiritual levels.
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, nurses identify
client problems and then
communicate these verbally or in
writing to other members of the
health team. The quality of a
nurse’s communication is an
important factor in nursing care.

Teacher As a teacher, the nurse

helps clients learn about their health
and the health care procedures they
need to perform to restore or
maintain their health. The nurse
assesses the client’s learning needs
and readiness to learn, sets specific
learning goals in conjunction with
the client, enacts teaching strategies
and measures learning.

Client advocate Client advocate acts

to protect the client. In this role the
nurse may represent the client’s
needs and wishes to other health
professionals, such as relaying the
client’s wishes for information to
the physician. They also assist
clients in exercising their rights and
help them speak up for themselves.

Research consumer Nurses often

use research to improve client care.
In a clinical area nurses need to: –
Have some awareness of the
process and language of research –
Be sensitive to issues related to
protecting the rights of human
subjects – Participate in
identification of significant
researchable problems – Be a
discriminating consumer of
research findings
Expanded role of the nurse Clinical
Specialists Is a nurse who has
completed a master’s degree in
specialty and has considerable
clinical expertise in that specialty.
She provides expert care to
individuals, participates in
educating health care professionals
 and ancillary, acts as a clinical
8 consultant and participates in
research.

TRENDS OF NURSING

Basic nursing education in

To Enlist the community colleges and
trends of universities.
Nursing.
•A growing variety of employment
settings.

•Growing emphasis on the aspects

of nursing that characterize it as a
profession.

•Increasing political influence of

nursing.

•Nursing influences on health care

policy and practice.

2min
 I summarize the topic of
introduction, definition of nursing
and profession characteristics of a
summary profession concept of nursing To
Enlist Function of the Nurse, trends
of Nursing.

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