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Criteria of profession

Part 5

 Competencies and professional license

Nurses must pass a national licensure examination to demonstrate that they are qualified to practice nursing. Only after passing the examination the nurses are allowed to practice. The granting of a nursing license is a legal activity conducted by the individual state under the regulation contained in the state's nursing act.

Autonomy and independence of practice

In reality nursing is both an independent and interdependent discipline . Nurses in all health care setting must work with physicians, hospital administrators, pharmacist and other groups in the provision of care . In some cases nurses in advanced practice role eg. Nurse practitioners can do establish their independent practices. To be considered a true profession, nursing will need to be recognised by other disciplines as having practitioners who practice nursing independently.

Professional Identity and development

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

Criteria of profession

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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 we'll being of their clients above their personal safety. Dedicated nurses provide care for victims of deadly diseases with little regard for their own welfare.

Well organized and strong representation

Professional organization represent the members of the profession and control the quality of professional practice. In India TNAI and SNA are the two organization's that represent nursing in today's health care system. Many do belong to specially organization's that represent a specific area of practice.

Code of ethics

A code of ethics document may outline the mission and values of the business or organization,how professionals are supposed to approach problems, the ethical principles based on the organization's core values and the standards to which the professional is held. Some of the ethical principles are autonomy, justice,non-maleficence .

Criteria of profession

 CRITERIA OF PROFESSION

High Intellectual level of functioning

Modern nurses use assessment skill and knowledge,have the ability to reason make routine judgement 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 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 specialised body of knowledge called as nursing science. It was compiled through the research efforts 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. Although this body of specialized knowledge is relatively small, it forms a theoretical basis for the practice 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. Evidence based practice is the practice of nursing in which interventions are based on data obtained from research that demonstrates 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.

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Nursing as a profession

 Definitions

Profession:-a type of occupation that meets certain criteria that raise it to a level above that of an 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 specific.

Professional:- demonstration of high level of personal, ethical and high level of skill characteristics for a member of a profession.

Difference between occupation and profession

According to Webster:-

Profession:-is defined as a vocation requiring advanced training and usually involving mental rather than manual work,as teaching, engineering, especially medicine,,law etc.

Occupation:-is defined as what occupies or engages one's time , business and employment.

Nursing as a profession

          NURSING AS A PROFESSION

Introduction

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 nursing in an one-to-one relationship with the patient and constitutes the nurse's conscious response to a specific and patient and constitutes the nurse's conscious response to a specific and patient's immediate situation.

The term 'Nurse's' 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 acquired through learning or investigation.

Science is defined as a both a unified body of knowledge concerned with specific subject matter,the skills and methodology necessary to provide such knowledge.