Nursing Has Evolved from Being an Occupation to Being a Profession and an Academic Discipline.

The nursing profession is probably one of the most prominent and important sectors of health care in the United States today. According to the Institute of Medicine (2010, p. 1), the profession includes more than 3 million members. With a workforce of such size and strength, it follows that the effects of the nursing profession upon health care should be both significant, evolutionary, and highly beneficial to the population it serves. However, it has been found that a number of barriers prevent…

Being an only child has both advantages and disadvantages... This statement shows how complex this issue can be, yet it reflects only a certain percentage of the factors we may take into consideration. The experience of being an only child is lived in various ways, in different kinds of home environment. Also, when it comes to current political and economical situation in various places on our planet, every child with no siblings may grow up with different memories and perception concerning his position…

Nursing as a Profession The Purpose of this paper is to discuss whether nursing is a profession based on Pavalko’s eight dimensions describing a profession. Firstly, we must understand the definition of a profession before one can accurately judge the validation of the nursing profession. According to Webster dictionary, the definition of a profession is “a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long academic preparation” (Webster dictionary, 2008). The nursing profession is one…

Nursing as a Discipline: It’s Interrelationship with Philosophy, Science and Ethics Raymund Christopher R. dela Pena Saint Louis University The discipline of nursing is concerned with how nurses interact with people in relation to their health and within their total environment. Nursing at its core is caring for people within their health experience. The effective nurse is able to think critically, feel deeply, communicate clearly, interact meaningfully, assume responsibility…

Being Googley Has Its Perks In 1998, Google Inc., “a company that did not actually exist,” (“Google Inc.” 2012 ) received their first investment of $100,000. This small startup company, originally named Backrub, was founded by two Stanford University PhD students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in 1996. What started out as an internet search engine utilized by the students at Stanford University, became the world’s largest search engine in 2000. In just 4 years these two students took a research project…

(Barrow & Reddock, 2001). There are scholars who believe that men are being marginalised and that it is a growing issue within the Caribbean context. Men are said to be treated insignificantly in Caribbean societies and are losing their dominant roles within the educational, social, political and economic spheres of life. The idea of male marginalisation was coined by Errol Miller who states that Caribbean men are indeed being marginalised. “In an unjust gender system there is unequal access to and…

Concepts Central to the Discipline of Nursing In order to critically examine the concepts central to the discipline of nursing it is important to clarify my understanding of what constitutes a discipline. Nursing literature has led me to understand that a discipline can be, in simple terms, thought of as a field of study with a unique perspective which gives rise to the nature and scope of inquiry of that field and therefore leads to a specialized body of knowledge (Parker, M & Smith, M, 2010).…

The right to education is a recognized fundamental human right of every human being. Every individual irrespective of his language, nationality, gender, race, religion or age is entitled to free elementary education. The right to education has been recognized as a universal human right by UDHR’s and is also incorporated in number of international conventions such as International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966, The Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination…

Nursing as a Profession Lisa Renfrow Oklahoma Wesleyan University Nursing as a Profession The question of whether the practice of nursing is considered a profession or an occupation is an ongoing debate, much like the ongoing debate over what defines a profession. Several scholars have outlined criteria for considering an occupation to be a profession. Given a list of scholars and their criteria for what characteristics define a profession, I have chosen the list…

Nursing as a Profession From the dawn of time nursing has existed, in one form or another. Because healthcare varies between cultures, nurses have historically taken on many different roles: a folk healer, a healer with religious ties, and that of a servant (Ellis & Hartley, 2012). Because of these various roles, some may not realize, or accept, that nursing has evolved into a much needed profession. This essay will discuss what a profession is, the criteria needed to be present in order to be…