ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL NURSE

Role of Professional Nurse

Role of Professional nurse

Introduction

I am obliged to be assigned the role of a nurse who has to look after Mrs. X who is 40 years old and planned for admission. My initial duty will be to serve the lady irrespective of the fact that she is old, my basic task will be to help her as it is the responsibility of every individual to serve humanity.

Discussion

The role of nurse is to help individuals and families to cope with illness and chronic disability, or during times of stress, by spending a large part of their time working in patients homes and with their families. Such nurses give advice on lifestyle and behavioural risk factors, as well as assisting families with matters concerning health. Through prompt detection, they can ensure that the health problems of patients are treated at an early stage. With their knowledge of public health and social issues and other social agencies, they can identify the effects of socioeconomic factors on a patient health and refer them to the appropriate doctor. They can facilitate the early discharge of people from hospital by providing nursing care at home, and they can act as the lynchpin between the patient and the patient health physician, substituting for the physician when the identified needs are more relevant to nursing expertise.”

This multifaceted role ensures that the nurse will be in a position to contribute significantly in recovering the patient, the exception being target which is focused exclusively on the role of governments.

European Forum of Nursing and Midwifery Associations and WHO, saw the Nurse as having a role along the whole continuum of care, including health promotion, disease prevention, rehabilitation and providing care for those who are ill or in the final stages of life. While the title Nurse suggests that the focus of the nurse is only on people who are the patients, as this concept is generally understood, the role embraces much more than that and includes all people in the community, whether they are living with others or alone, whether they have a home or are homeless and/or marginalized in some way, and it also includes the community itself. The Nurse will also have important roles to play, in empowering communities and working in partnership with them to foster their own resources and potential, and to find their own solutions to issues of concern. Nurses are the basic unit of society where health care providers will be able not only to address patient's somatic physical complaints but also to take into account the psychological and social aspects of their condition. It is important for the providers to know the circumstances in which patients live: their housing, family circumstances, work, and social or physical environment may all have a considerable bearing on their illness. Unless care providers are aware of these circumstances, presenting symptoms may be misinterpreted and conditions may go unrecognized and untreated. The result may be unnecessary diagnostic and treatment procedures, thus increasing costs without ...