Nursing profession deals with offering health care to individuals in the society to maintain and reduce family and community health crisis. This profession is critical special in academic and social life. Health care profession is wide and covers a wide array of courses for instance, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, surgery, and eye science. Nurses however, are differentiated from other health professions in terms of services delivery specifically, patient care, scope of service, curriculum, and training. Nursing professionals have bestowed nurses with duty to offer care to the sick without discrimination and favor. Further, sick people need quality attention in health centers, and hospitals since this is the prerogative of nurses to ensure attention is awarded to the sickest people who may succumb if not easily attended to. Conversely, nurses are put closer to the ailing people due to their ability to prevent injuries, and illnesses through diagnosis and vaccination. Nursing has been in existence since long time ago but it underwent gradual development from traditional to modern services owing to technological advancement. Traditionally, military, and religious agents for instance, nuns and priests offered services to the ailing and underprivileged members of the society. Modern nursing anchored on the discovery of medicine, and availability of instruments that can detect diseases providing a chance of early immunization.
Nursing designs are done in consideration of putting people’s needs at the forefront. Nurses put patients in parental-care mode where all needs of patients are adhered to in the right time to avoid further atrocities. More similarly, nursing entails bestowing etiquette and resilience to patient illness conditions. Patients have diverse reactions to illnesses that at times may discourage them, and nurses need to be able to convince and provide a solution to the patient before they leave health center premises for example, patients diagnosed with Human Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Nurses operate in the premise of patient-care, and satisfaction of their needs. Nevertheless, hospital environments should be clean and odor free to reduce spread of diseases. Toilets more so, are located near patient rooms to avoid over straining of sick people who may find it hard to walk. Protective gears are priorities for nurses in order to protect them from contagious and borne diseases. Health profession aims at maintaining good relationship between nurses and patients to reduce cases of deaths when nurses boycott duty due to poor facilities and low pay (Billings & Halstead, 2011).
Nursing curriculum is a prescription of units and time duration that one needs to fulfill before they are crowned nurses and permitted to practice. Curriculum depends on the level of education for instance; diploma takes three years and bachelors four years. All units of nursing must be done with aim of getting good grades and failures are barred from offering services to patients. Design and curriculum mutually conglomerate to arm nurses with desirable skills that are discerned in solving health calamities. Curriculum guides operations of practitioners while design creates a nexus between service delivery and personal development of nurses and this leads to development of self actualization. Teaching learning strategies are pursued to enable health care practitioners indulge in activities within their scope of profession. Nonetheless, strategies are geared towards improving of service delivery, positive change and adherence to complains and suggestions (Keating, 2011).
Nursing however, has played an instrumental role in saving human society from diseases and ailments that threaten effectiveness and self actualization. Diseases are contracted in daily chores and nurses are needed for treatment and provision of diagnosis to save human race from extinction. One cannot imagine a society devoid of health care services, serene environment, and attention to the sick. Modern nursing development is attributed to good and precise design and curriculum that ensures that individuals undergo proper training.
References
Billings, D.M., & Halstead, J. A. (Eds.). (2011). Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty (4th ed.). St. Louis: Saunders Publishers.
Keating, S.B. (2011). Curriculum Development and Evaluation in Nursing (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Publishers.