DEFINITION OF NURSE..

DEFINITION OF NURSE..In various aspects..

1.Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

Health-care profession providing physical and emotional care to the sick and disabled and promoting health in all individuals through activities including research, health education, and patient consultation. Nursing gained recognition in the 19th century with the activities of Florence Nightingale. Many nurses have specialties (e.g., psychiatry, critical care). Nurse-practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse-anesthetists, and nurse-midwives undertake tasks traditionally performed by physicians. Nursing degrees go as high as the doctorate, and staff positions include administration. In addition to health-care settings, nurses practice in schools, the military, industry, and private homes. Community (public health) nurses educate the public on topics such as nutrition and disease prevention.

2.Sci-Tech Encyclopedia:

The application of principles from the basic sciences, social sciences, and humanities to assist healthy and sick individuals and their families or other caring persons in performing those activities that contribute to the individuals' physical and mental well-being and that they would perform unaided if able to do so. Nursing includes providing physical and emotional care, promoting comfort, serving as patient advocates, assisting in rehabilitative efforts, teaching self-care and health promotion activities, and administering treatments prescribed by a licensed physician or dentist. Patient-care activities are conceived and coordinated so as to help individuals gain independence as rapidly as possible or maintain an optimal level of function. When multiple health-care providers are involved, nursing coordinates patient-care efforts to improve the quality of care.
Nursing practice is conducted in a variety of settings, including hospitals, community facilities, private homes, nursing homes, schools, industry, physician's offices, the military, and civil service arenas. Standards for nursing practice and licensure are governed by state nurse practice acts and are directed by professional nursing organizations.
Two types of nurses are legally recognized in the United States: the registered professionalnurse and the licensed practical nurse. Licensed practical or vocational nurses (LPNs or LVNs) are trained to perform uncomplicated patient-care tasks in hospitals or other health-care facilities under the aegis of registered nurses or physicians.  

3.Dental Dictionary:

1. the performance of those activities that contribute to the health or recovery of a patient (or to a peaceful death). n 2. the application of prescribed therapies and the management of the patient and environment to assist in healing.

4.Wikipedia

Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from birth to death.
Nurses work in a large variety of specialties where they work independently and as part of a team to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care. Nursing Science is an established field of knowledge based on the contributions of nursing scientist through peer reviewed scholarly journals and evidenced-based practice. It is a dynamic field of practice and research that is based in contemporary culture and concerns itself with both mainstream and marginalized subcultures in order to deliver the most culturally sensitive and competent nursing care.

The roles of a nurse

The Roles of a Nurse...

•Care Provider
•Communicator
•Teacher
•Counselor
•Leader
•Manager
•Researcher
•Case Manager
•Collaborator

Care Provider
The nurse supports the client by attitudes and actions that show concern for client welfare and acceptance of the client as a person. The nurse is primarily concerned with the client’s needs.

Communicator
The nurse communicates with clients, support persons and colleagues to facilitate all
nursing actions.

Teacher
The nurse provides health teaching to effect behavior change which focuses on acquiring new knowledge or technical skills. This role gives emphasis on health promotion and health maintenance.

Counselor
The nurse helps the client to recognize and cope with the stressful psychologic or social problems, to developed improved personal relationships and to promote personal growth. This role includes providing emotional, intellectual and psychologic support.

Leader
The nurse through the process of interpersonal influence helps the client make decisions
in establishing and achieving goals to improve his well-being.

Manager
The nurse plans, gives directions, develops staff, monitors operations, gives rewards fairly, and represents both staff members and administration as needed. The nurse manages the nursing care of individuals, groups, families and communities. The nurse manager delegates nursing activities to ancillary workers and other nurses and supervises and evaluates their performance.

Researcher
The nurse participates in scientific investigation and uses research findings in practice. The nurse helps develop knowledge about health and promotion of health over the full life span; care of person with health problems and disabilities; and nursing actions to enhance people’s ability to respond effectively to actual or potential health problems.

Case Manager
The nurse coordinates the activities of other members of health care team, such as
nutritionists and physical therapist, when managing a group of client’s care.

Doctors vs. Nurses

This is the most popular but stinking title between nurses. I know by my experience that these two categories are more enemies to each others than friends but neither of them shows it outside.
Doctors are more keen to keep there superiority in the health sector and as they know that these nurses are the biggest challenge for them and the category which is working more closely with them than others. So they always trying to prove they are better than nurses and are the superiors. They even trying to push nurses as far as back as possible.

Nurses on the other hand always had to fight there way to up and to keep what they already have they can never quite fighting. Former nursing leaders had to fight a lot to gain what they should have had already. The education of nurses shouldn't be conducted by doctors and that is a vital point. Nursing practice must be develop indipendantly to physician practice. Or else the doctors will step over nurses.

But doctors always trying to block nurses ways to the up and that is why nursing education is progression this much slowly. But what everyone should understand is doctors and nurses are equally important for patients and no one specially doctors shouldn't try to cross there way for a better care for patients.

Few nursing jokes!

Though it is better for you all to laugh once in a while...
After all it is the best cure that nature could ever provide..


Three wishes..
A nursing assistant, floor nurse, and charge nurse from a small nursing home were taking a lunch break in the break room. In walks a lady dressed in silk scarfs and wearing large polished stoned jewlery.

"I am 'Gina the Great'," stated the lady. "I am so pleased with the way you have taken care of my aunt that I will now grant the next three wishes!" With a wave of her hand and a puff of smoke, the room was filled with flowers, fruit and bottles of drink, proving that she did have the power to grant wishes before any of the nurses could think otherwise.

The nurses quickly aurgued among themselves as to which one would ask for the first wish. Speaking up, the nursing assistant wished first.

"I wish I were on a tropical island beach, with single, well-built men feeding me fruit and tending to my every need." With a puff of smoke, the nursing assistant was gone.

The floor nurse went next."I wish I were rich and retired and spending my days in my own warm cabin at a ski resort with well groomed men feeding me coccoa and doughnuts." With a puff of smoke, she too was gone.

"Now, what is the last wish?" asked the lady.

The charge nurse said," I want those two back on the floor at the end of the lunch break."


Five Minutes

A hospital posted a notice in the nurse's lounge saying: "Remember, the first five minutes of a human being's life are the most dangerous." Underneath, a nurse had written: "The last five are pretty risky, too."



Baby Names

A pregnant lady was in an accident and she woke up in the hospital.

She noticed she was not pregnant anymore and asked the nurse what happened to her baby.

The nurse said, "You have two healthy babies, a boy and a girl!"

The lady said, "Oh, I must name them," but the nurse said, "You were unconscious, so we called your brother, and he named them!"

The lady said, "But he's as dumb as a box of rocks! So what are their names?"

The nurse said, "The girl is called "Denise."

The woman replied, "Well that is a pretty name, so what did he name my boy?"

The nurse replied, "Denephew!"




Getting Even

Four nurses all decided to play a joke on the doctor they worked for, whom they all felt was an arrogant jerk.

Later in the day, they all got together on break and discussed what they had done to the doctor.

The first nurse said, "I stuffed cotton in his stethoscope so he couldn't hear."

The second nurse said, "I let the mercury out of his thermometers and painted them all to read 106 degrees."

The third nurse said, "Well, I did worse than that. I poked holes in all of the condoms that he keeps in his desk drawer."

The fourth nurse fainted.




A Routine Physical

A man goes to a doctor for a routine physical. The nurse starts with the basics.

"How much do you weigh?" she asks.

"Oh, About One-sixty-five." he says.

The nurse puts him on the scale. It turns out that his weight is 187. The nurse asks, "Your height?"

"Oh, About six feet," he says.

The nurse checks and sees that he's only 5 feet 8 3/4 inches. She then takes his blood pressure, and it's very high.

"High!" The man explains, "Well, what did you expect? When I came in here, I was tall and lanky. Now, I'm short and fat!"

tracheoplasty = plastic surgery on the trachea

Around this time there are three tracheoplasty patients in our units. The privilege of this particular surgery is that this surgery re-instate those patient's talking ability.
One of those patient is Mr... who was a clerk before he met an accident and had to undergo a trachiostomy surgery. He is only 25 years and imagine what miserable his life could have been with an artificial airway to breath and a mouth which produce no sound at all. As far as I am concerned he is the lukiest among those three. Yes, others are also benefited. But they were suffering from cancers and over 50 years of age.

tracheoplasty = plastic surgery on the trachea