NSE 11A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychiatric And Mental Health Nursing, Ear Pain
8 Sep 2014
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Nursing is a profession that meets health care needs in society. All professions have two characteristics: contribute to the good of society, educated to use specialized knowledge to meet specific need of society. Nursing has developed knowledge of the life patterns and processes of people and their interactions with the environment to promote health and full life-potential for individuals, families, groups, and society as a whole. The special need is for understanding people to help them manage their health. A young mother takes her child to see a physician because the child has an ear ache. The physician writes a prescription for medication that can be filled by the pharmacist at the local drugstore. Thus: we need to understand the place of people on our earth and how health is affected by our changing world. Knowledge and skill and sensitivity in using knowledge are required to meet the complex needs in contemporary society.
