ROLES OF NURSES

Understanding the Roles of Registered General Nurses and Health Care

Assistants in UK Nursing Homes

Understanding the Roles of Registered General Nurses and Health Care

Assistants in UK Nursing Homes

Introduction

Registered nurses (RNs) make up the largest health care occupation. There are about 2.6 million nursing jobs in the UK and 14.5 million worldwide. Even though, ninety seven percent of the population, who can effectively use nursing expertise, is not in an institution, sixty percent of nurses work in tertiary clinical nursing roles. When people think of nurses, they think of hospital care. The demand for nursing is growing. The largest area of growth or shortage is not in institutional settings. There is an increasing public demand for non-medical, holistic health strategies that can be appropriately and effectively filled by nurses. The nurse's role in healthcare has changed noticeably over the last decades. The article clearly describes the understanding of the differences of the functions and roles of RGNs and CAs working in the UK nursing homes. The last few decades have turned that stigma upside down. The main contribution of article was the study presented to differentiate the roles and functions of RGNs and CAs (Roux, 2009, 56).

Discussion

Roles of Registered General Nursing

The article highlights the points that distinguish the RGNs job responsibilities with the CAs. Hot politics and the chronic global nursing shortages all threaten the future of health care delivery. In addition, diseases in many war-torn regions clearly place all humanity's health at risk. How can nurses possibly address these larger "global" challenges? To consider this question and what nurses might do to contribute solutions this article looks at the wider horizon of health care problems and how Florence Nightingale faced similar bigger health issues in her time. The health problems of today need transformed vision and the contribution of dedicated people who take an active role in the promotion of human health care both locally and globally. By learning more about Nightingale's legacy, nurses attain a significant breadth and depth of knowledge and skill to share in these endeavours. The purpose of nursing is to help and assist people in getting and staying well through educating, advocating for and collaborate with the health of the public. This definition covers a variety of roles from consultation, health education and screening to primary, secondary and tertiary care. The largest expanding need for nurses is not in hospitals. It is in the community. Health care trends indicate that the aging population desires more knowledge on how to stay or become well, continue to live independently and use less restrictive or expensive health treatment. Increasingly people are paying out of pocket for alternative solutions to get and stay healthy (Kalisch 2003, 44). The article revolves around these major assumptions of interview related to healthcare of the residents. The data used in this article is through interviews involving nine RGNs and 12 CAs working in four different nursing homes in England that identifies the roles and responsibilities (Hansten 2006, ...