Nursing is a challenging, rewarding and a very exciting career. The nurse's role is not limited to changing bandages, giving needles and offering support, as the past has indicated. In fact, the role of the nurse in the present, is now one of advocate, caregiver, teacher, researcher, counselor, and case manager. The role of the nurse is limitless and it's importance to our health care system is vital in providing quality care. According to Pépin (1999), "nurses make up the largest body of health care providers in the system-.
In nursing, according to Kozier, Erb, & Blais (1997), "the caregiver role has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client's dignity-, (p.129). In order for a nurse to be an effective caregiver, the patient must be treated as whole. The caregiver role, is vital in providing direct quality care to a patient and is greatly influenced by the attitude of the nurse. By treating the whole person, the nurse can build trust between the nurse and client, thus promote healing and peace of this individual. Everyone is an individual and a caregiver must consider this in order to deliver quality care and love. A nurse must do this by following the code of ethics. By following the code of ethics, and providing care to the individual, the client feels that he or she is viewed as a whole and complete person, regardless of their illness or disease. Being a caregiver encompasses the physical, developmental, psychosocial, and also the spiritual part of a client. In today's fast growing technology, medical science, and the goal of "curing- a patient seems to be cold and calculative. This is where the nurse takes on the role of caregiver, by not doing for the client, but the nurse takes into account what this patient is living through, feels what they must be going through, and finds ways for the client to help him or herself.
I can't even begin to describe how astonished I was to be so up close with the doctors and nurses who were operating. ... I feel that if I did not live in such a grand and multifaceted city, I would not have been afforded an opportunity such as observing surgery. ...
Hence, the role of the community health nurses became indispensable in the provision of preventive health care. ... The community health care nurses have a duty to care and partner with the community at home setting. ... In this regard, the client must learn to trust the nurses before providing sensitive information. Thus, building rapport between the nurses and the client is a significant step in this process. ... Evaluation may be easier for nurses dealing with one-on-one client setting, where changes can easily be identified. ...
This assessment deliberates the multifaceted contributing factors that subsidize ED crowding and discovers helpful methods that may help to improve this paralyzing situation. ... Respectively more patients with multifaceted illness are being alleged in healthcare today. ... Many hospitals and old age homes in Canada are in need of physicians and nurses to work more than the maximum amount of shifts, which is 12 hours or more. ...
Treatment for the illness is often multifaceted; incorporating pharmacological, psychological, and rehabilitative approaches (Nevid 2000). ... A counselor may be a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, nurse, or rehabilitation therapist (Whitehorn 2002). ...
After having the experiences of his youth and the experiences of urban life, when he is granted the "power" to interpret and eventually integrate the "sublime" purpose of Nature in his multifaceted being. ... The language then used to describe Nature is more metaphysical and humanistic: In nature and the language of the sense The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul ...
Draft Strategy for Elimination of Falciparum Malaria from the Greater Mekong Subregion prepared for a workshop on falciparum malaria elimination arranged by WHO in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 20-21 November 2014 by a team of consultants (Sean Hewitt, Kamini Mendis, Kevin Palmer & Allan Schapira) in collaboration with WHO's Global Malaria Programme, Regional Offices for Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific and the Emergency Response to Artemisinin Resistance Hub on the basis of a feasibility study prepared in September 2014 by Roberto Garcia & Caroline Lynch Conte...
