The Field Of Nursing Care For The Ill Patients

Nursing care was unscientific and consisted of assisting patients with usual body functions; and was typically administered by women of a religious order or by women who by nature of their lifestyle frequented hospitals. Hospital care was for the poor and destitute; since home based medical care was better than risking additional infections in the dirty, crowded, and disease-ridden hospitals. During the typhus epidemic of 1852, hospital staff and patients suffered the greatest morbidity and mortality. (Ranade , 199817-19)

Nursing got defined according to the meta-paradigm for its ability to develop and sustain a connection and concern, which gets exhibited through the existence of a strong relationship between the patients and the nurses. According to Masters, (206), nursing gets views as the nature of care and the research into the illness, health and disease, and the relationship between the three aspects of a patient’s body. In my position as a Registered Nurse, we engaged in various missions aimed at checking the wellness of patients and the sustainable healthcare of the patients.

For the purpose of the paper, famous philosophies and a personal nursing philosophy is presented, including the personal definitions of the four phenomena of nursing namely person, environment, health, and nursing. The said philosophy will then be compared to other professionally-acclaimed philosophies. Included in the discussion is the importance of a nurse’s role in providing health care to persons, family, and the society and how it is able to address problems in the face of cultural and spiritual differences.

This is a comparative essay of the Christian and Buddhist worldviews. First Sire’s seven questions will be introduced, whose answers will then construct a worldview. This paper will evaluate two differing worldviews, how they might be devised and their implications on the nursing profession. Both religions/philosophies, Christian and Buddhism respectively, having differing interpretations of the truth. The author will explore whether one person may hold pieces from each view or if the worldviews are mutually exclusive. The paper will conclude with a personal statement of beliefs from the author

Health is a big area of human life and it is freedom from disease and sickness. Without health, we cannot do any work and we cannot improve in life. So, health is the primary need for every one of us to achieve.

In today's’ era, nurses have more responsibility than before. They are held responsible for their actions. Today’s nursing is based on basic needs of patients. Critical thinking plays an important role in nursing. Nurses are required to think and act immediately in the emergency situations. A good communication between provider is must. This could avoid the incidents to happen. Although technology has been improved as well in the past years. Now a day hospitals are more equipped than past years. The science has gone beyond the inventions to cure untreatable diseases. The art of nursing depends on how to promote wellness, to prevent illness, to facilitate coping, and to restore health. Nurses can achieve all those goals by taking a role of caregiver, educator, collaborator, advocate, and manager (Dewit O’ Neill. 4th Ed. Pg. 3-4). No one else beside nurses can better know their patients.

Nursing may be one of the oldest known professions in human history. It is a well-respected profession that revolves itself around the care and comfort of patients who are in need of service. Since its establishment and the beginning of medicine, it has been an important component of patient care and recovery. There are many different types of nurses and nursing fields but they all share a common goal—the betterment of their patients.

Christian Nursing in Shelly’s view treats people as the whole person and deliver the compassionate care. In addition, nursing as the religion heals wounded minds, bodies, and spirits. Nursing includes care of the needy, the sick, the sick and the disenfranchised as a ministry.

Health can be defined as an individual’s quality of life in addition to an understanding of how their own body functions and responds to the given surroundings. Health concerns more than just illnesses because it is also dependent on the individual’s life choices that impact their physical and mental behaviours. Furthermore, it may vary between people since values, beliefs and socioeconomic status can differ from person to person, however lacking one component may prove to be unfavourable.

Throughout the time period from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, the world has developed speedily with the improvements of human civilization. Nowadays, there are more than seventy percent of the world have been urbanized into developed countries, which contain advanced technologies and a highly developed economic system. Along with the transforms of society, people put the personal health at the first place and concern the health issues more seriously. In the increased phenomenon that people start attaching the importance of being healthy, health care system has performed as an important role in human’s life circle: birth, growth, illness, and death. Health care system is defined as a system “to include all the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore or maintain health” (Musgrove et al., 2000, p. 5), with the functions of service delivery, resource production, financing, and management. It covers different health care services, for example public and private hospitals, health care insurance, medical supplies, health information, and human resources in medical field. The purpose of having the health care system is to “improve and maintain the health levels of the populations and individuals” (Walley & Wright, 2010, p. 145).

Health and healing was an integral part of faith communities connecting all the way back to Biblical times. New Testament Deaconess Phoebe is noted for opening her home to the sick and needy in Romans 16. Pioneering in parish nursing is deeply rooted in the practice of the renowned Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who advocated that healthcare must be holistic and practical. Florence Nightingale belief that God is the Creator of all things and that God and nature causes healing is what steered her crusade. (1) Throughout her work she is notable due to her compassion to the poor and diligence to patient care. (3) She is famous for her contribution during the Crimean War in 1854. With medical conditions deplorable and hygiene being neglected deadly inflection were rampant. Nightingale along with 38 volunteer nurses cleaned the hospital and reorganized patient care reducing wounded mortality rates from forty percent to two percent. (3)

Health is a condition that conveys and explains people’s state of being. Thus, it is highly subjective. Having good health means different kinds things to different kind of people and its meaning changes according to person and community prospects and environment. Most of the people think that they are healthy if they are free from all kind of disease or disability. In some cases, people who are suffering from disease or disability may consider themselves being in good health if they could manage their situation so that it does not effect on their quality of life.

With this task, we provide a brief view of the most important events of the past that directly influenced the development of the current nursing and that molded system wide health care, related to nursing. With this paper, we can demonstrate how throughout the history of nursing, have been necessary changes related to the overcoming of the nurse; the need to implement titles and different categories to make effective the intellectual grade of our nurses and the effectiveness of its work. We will also try the differences and importance of different levels of nursing and how both the prevention and the promotion of health in the health-disease process can be exercised.

In hospitals where nurses are majorly based, there are several problems that the patients face thereby giving the nurses an excellent opportunity for understanding the human health concerns. Given the natural compassion I have for the suffering, I was self-propelled to end up in a profession that would enable me to interact and associate with the sick. Comparatively, nursing as a profession is related to proper conduct and positive practices as taught in their ethics. I admire both individual and public reputation of the nurses.

Nursing is a very important and interesting job to humankind. This profession has been around and helping people for many years going way past the Civil War; nursing is also noticed in the Bible. Nurses can be found in many different places including Hospitals and Elderly Homes. In this paper there is going to be information about the history of nursing, all the types of nursing, also very important people in nursing such asnamed Clara Barton, Christiane Reimann, and Florence Nightingale. Also were nursing can be found, the career of nursing, and other facts about nursing that is very useful.