Definition of Core Elements
Environment- The physical, social, cultural, spiritual, and emotional climate or setting in which the person lives, works, plays, and interacts.
Health- the focus for the particular type of nursing and specific care provisions needed.
Nursing- defined by its activities, goals and services. People need the nursing care I provide when they are toosick to care for themselves. Nursing means providing and caring for a person so they can return to a holistic state of health.
Assumptions
The concept of people signifies in nursing who the person is as a client or recipient of nursing care, where the person and,the caregiver are seen and are influenced by others, why the person needs professional nursing care, and hoe the nurse functions as a provider of care. The characteristics nurses demonstrate include education, experience, knowledge and skills. Registered nurses treat patients and educate patients and the public about various medical conditions. RN’s teach patients and their families how to manage their illness or injury, explain post treatment and home care needs. RN’s might also run general health screening or immunization clinics, blood drives, and public seminars on various conditions.
The authority for the practice of nursing is based upon a social contract that delineates professional rights and responsibilities as well as mechanisms for publicaccountability. The goal of the nursing community worldwide is for its professionals to ensure quality care for all, while maintaining their credentials, code of ethics, standards, and competencies, and continuing their education.
Discuss Awareness of issues involving provisions of patient care
Managing and providing care
*Healthy initiatives* for at-risk population
The two major health initiativesbegan in the last decades: Healthy people and Healthy communities. A planning process began to create 10 year objectives for disease prevention and health promotion....