The calling of health care

provider
Health care profession
• Health care provider and professional a person
-who delivers proper health care in the
systematic way in health care services.

• Client- consumer seeking determination at

health disease continuum

• Health profession – aperson who helps

identifying ,preventing and treating disease
Certification for health care provider is needed in
terms of being a health professional.

Physicians, nurses,physicatl therapists etc..

Health care provider-client relationship.
• Establishing professional relationship and
maintaining appropriate boundaries.

• It is based on trust respect and therapeutic

relationship.

• When the nurse crosses a bounderies with the

clients –unprofessional manner such as
dating,physical contact favoritism,coercion,gift
giving
• Self assessment and seeking help from
colleague-enable to clarify bounderies of
therapeutic relationship.

• Nurses must be straightforward and honet which

is termed as therapeutic genuineness in their
interactions with clients.
Key terms:
• Client- composed of individual and families who
require nursing expertise

• Boundary-dynamic line of demarcation in the

nurse-client relationship

• Abuse- betrayal of trust,misuse of power

imbalance between nurse and client.
V. The qualities, responsibilities of the good
health cre provider to the client society and
profession
Health care Profession provides services
related to:
• Preservation or improvement of the health of
individal

• Treatment or care of individuals who are

sick,injured,harmed disabled or infirmed.
Health care professionalism
• Profession –public declaration with force of
promise that he members will act in a certain
way and may discipline those who fail to do so.

• It is also a society as a social benefits and society

accepts it and expecting it to serve impt social
goal.
• Code of ethics which specify the obligations
arising from this fiduciary duty.
Professionalism
• Altruism-health care professional is obligated to
attend the best interset of patients rather than self
interest.

• Accountability-accountable and liable for

patients,society and issurs on public health and to
profession

• Excellence-health care professionals are obligated

to commit to life long learning
• Duty-health professional should be
available,responsive and accepts commitment to
service

• Honor and integrity- health care professional

should be committed to being fair, tactful and
straightforward in their interactions with
patients and profession.
• Respect for others- for patients, family and other
members of health team.
Medical ethics
• Physician’s deceptions and violations of patient
confidentiality
• Rights of patients and surrogates in retaining life
sustaining treatments
• Drugs experiments to children
• Dementedor dying clients
• Incompetent and dsperate patients
• Bias- free definition of heatlh , death ,diseae and
treatment
• Removing viable organs from patients who are brain
dead
• Ground for fetal testing, selection and abortion
• Involuntary hospitalization and treatment
• Conflicts of interests between physician and
employers.public and private
Health care professions and society
• Increase scope and costs of hospital medicine
have prompted restraint and rationing in drug
prescriptions,elective surgery,inpatient hospital
stays,outpatient services
Quality of health care provider
• Open- accepts need for joint planning and decision
related to health care in particular situation
• Not resistant to change

• Tactful-does not embarrass but gives constructive

criticism

• Coordinator-brings consonance and harmony in

health care activity
• Objective-unbiased and unfair decision making
• Good listener-available for clients to voice out
sentiments and needs

• Efficient- knowledgeable about everything

relevant to practice

• Flexible- able to cope with different situation

• Critical thinker- decides on what has been
analyzed.