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Nurses used to be known as the "handmaiden" to doctors. Their roles were limited, except to do what the doctor ordered, to look after patients, make beds, give patients food, help with bandages, help get them out of bed, etc.
However, much has changed since the mid-1800s and since the mid-1950s. Nurses are skilled professionals with a separate and distinct professional function from physicians.
Physicians still write orders. But, nurses are expected to know when an order, a medication, a dosage, etc., is wrong and to be able to effectively communicate to a physician the reasons the nurse cannot follow the order as given. For example, there are big differences in the amount of medication given by mouth, versus by injection, versus by intravenous. A nurse has the legal responsibility to know it's wrong if a doctor mistakenly orders a dose higher than medically advisable to give by a particular route of administration.
A nurse also has specific nursing duties that include assessment, development of a nursing plan, patient and family teaching, medication teaching, treatments, dressing changes, catheter management, and to re-assess every patient every day. Besides knowing medications, chemistry, Biology and body systems, normal and abnormal signs and symptoms, nurses must also know how to correctly use every piece of equipment used in patient care. As much as a nurse is required to know, he or she must also be able to "know what he/she does not know" and to seek instruction through a supervisor before attempting to do the task.
In specialties (surgery, recovery, OB/GYN, Med-ICU, Cardiac-ICU, Neonatal-ICU, renal, cardiac, orthopedic, etc.), nurses working in those areas have specialized knowledge and continuing education (all nurses are required to do CEUs but specialized nursing means nurses must continually upgrade their skills).
No longer do nurses only make beds, clean bedpans, wash laundry (1800s-early 1900s), ambulate with patients, etc. These tasks are typically done by nursing assistants and by departments within the hospital (for example, the laundry department). Nurses cando all of these tasks but the trend has been to hire Master's level nurses, or what's called Nurse Managers. Diploma R.N.s and B.S.N.'s still work on hospital floors/units, but Nurse Managers often have more bookwork education, do more paperwork on duty, and are viewed as more skilled than traditional RNs or BSNs (this view is not held among all in the profession).
Medicine and nursing has become highly technical, much more than 10, 20, or 30 years ago. In fact, technological advancements and ever-changing equipment means that nurses must be highly educated, willing to continue to learn, and must take on numerous roles throughout the work day.
A typical day for a nurse might go like this:
Nurses have many roles. Although very few wear their white caps now, nurses will always wear many "hats".
Patient care used to be relatively authoritarian. Now nurses are part of a health care team, and nurses have many responsibilities. Patient care and documentation, certainly, but also teaching both the patient and family, reinforcing care taught by other disciplines, such as respiratory or physical therapy, referral to social services or pastoral care as needed, providing emotional support, refrain from appearing judgmental, include and assist patient in his/her own health care decisions, write nursing care plan - include the patient - and update as appropriate. This is by no means all inclusive.
Nursing isn't just about kids. It's about people of all ages. Nursing is important to society because how else and who else could properly operate on or heal us? Without nurses all we have as a society is a bunch or think we know-it-alls.
Nurses are expected to deliver medicine to their patients, keep them clean and ensure that they are comfortable. Different nurses are responsible for different things.
the roles of a nurse depend on the setting, hospital, nursing home, mental ward, etc. it also depends on what type of nurse you are talking about CNA, LPN, or RN.
A nurse provides skilled care and comfort for ill persons.
they make people better in hospitals and become midwives when women are pregnant. :)
role model to the community educator
The role of district public health nurse is to assist in treating community health issues, immunizations, and sexually transmitted disease transmission education.
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Its imp to knw abt d role of pediatric nurse. She is d first care giver to a baby especially to first child bearing mother.
we have a great role in the community, the role is to believe in the lord our god
we have a great role in the community, the role is to believe in the lord our god
Community health nurses take a proactive role in community health education. These nurses provide and distribute information to the community about health related issues.
nothing is the role of a school towards community.
The role of "Nurse" can be occupied be either a man or a woman.
their is no role of nursing staff in the OPD
The role of a nurse within the healthcare system is an admirable position. It takes a special person to be a nurse. A nurse displays qualities such as compassion, excellent problem solving skills.
Niche! is a special role of an organism that plays in a community