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1 NURSING

Over the years, anyone who provides care has come to be identified as a nurse.
The assumption that nursing is an innate art for any woman has hindered the development of a concept of nursing.
as a profession that has an organized set of knowledge and requires its own specialized skills.

According to Dorothea Orem's theory, nursing is especially concerned with the man's needs to act.
taking care of oneself and one's provision and direction continuously in order to maintain life and health, recovering from the
disease or injury and cope with its effects.

- Según la teoría de virginia Henderson, la enfermería es la ayuda al individuo, enfermo o sano, para la realización de aquellas
activities that contribute to your health or to your recovery (or to a peaceful death) that you could do by yourself if you had the
sufficient strength, will or knowledge, and to carry it out in such a way that it helps acquire independence as quickly as possible
possible.
(3)

Nursing is perceiving, thinking, relating, judging, and acting face to face.

with the behavior of individuals who come to need their care. The
nursing is defined as a process of action, reaction, and interaction in which the nurse and the patient share
information about your perceptions of the nursing situation. (4)

nursing for me is the unique care given to people, but it is not just simple care, it is putting all our effort in.
All our acquired knowledge is to put ourselves in the individual's place in order to understand what they feel, since before
Being a sick person is a human being who needs our services not only to heal a wound but also to provide
moral support

1.2 PROFESSION

Profession is defined as an occupation that involves in-depth training, or a vocation, that requires certain knowledge.
special capabilities and training. (5)

The dictionary of educational sciences defines profession as: 'Job, faculty, or trade that each person has and practices.'
publicly. It has certain characteristics: specific training, directed and sanctioned in its validity; monitoring of
certain rules; acceptance and compliance with a specific code of ethics.

The profession is a position, a right exercised by people who have completed their higher education and are qualified.
to practice it in their country or in others, and that have specific knowledge and in-depth training, which will lead to
I end up applying the theory in practice.

NURSING AS A PROFESSION

a nurse is a professional who has completed basic nursing studies and is trained and authorized to
assume in your country, and in others the responsibility of nursing services that require the promotion of health, the prevention of
the disease and the presentation of assistance to the sick.

This chapter informs us about the performance of the nurse in their various functions which are: Caregiving,
researcher, manager…

- Assistance function: In this function, two types of activities can be distinguished:

Independent and self-directed activities: These are the tasks performed by nursing staff in the fulfillment of
responsibilities of his profession, for which he is trained and authorized.

Derived or dependent activities: These are the actions carried out by nursing professionals based on the
instructions from other health professionals. (6)

Research function: from the moment of caregiving practice, a theoretical framework is conceptualized and constructed that
the foundation, the development of that theoretical body and the practice itself requires a methodical reflection on the problems with
those who face that professional exercise, that is, it requires incorporating a research practice on the facts and objects of
the profession. (6)

Management Function: Applied to nursing services, they aim to ensure that the functions and activities that must be
developed by professionals in different fields of action are carried out systematically, rationally, and orderly,
responding to some needs and ensuring the efficient and appropriate use of resources.

A nurse is a professional because she has had adequate university training, so that she can apply her
scientific knowledge at the time of performing the practice; she is also a professional because she has a code of ethics and follows
a scientific method that will help you throughout this career.

2.1 EDUCATION

Education is considered a social right and, therefore, is directed to all citizens on an equal [Link]

absence of anydiscriminationFor this reason, a common basic training is conceived for everyone, which is organized in a way

understanding. At the sametimethe need to adapt to the existing differences in the interests of the students, their

capabilities and needs, advises the implementation of a progressive diversification in the content.

By education, we primarily understand the intentional and systematic influence on the young being with the purpose of shaping it or

develop it. But it also means the general, diffuse action of a society on younger generations in order to

to preserve and transmit their collective existence.

Education is an integral, essential part of human life and society, and it has existed since there have been beings.

humans on earth. It is a component as fundamental to culture as science, art, or literature may be; without
Education would not be possible for the acquisition and transmission of culture.

Education is a right that concerns all of us, without discrimination of race, gender, and social status, since from the moment

we are in the womb, we are acquiring knowledge, although it may seem surprising what our mother...

What can be instilled from the time we are in the womb will reflect a lot in our future.

2.2 TEACHING AREA IN NURSING

The nursing professional can develop their activity as an educator in different fields depending on who the subjects are.

recipients of that teaching.

Professional futures: In this case, the teaching role is performed by professionals such as tenured university school professors.

or as associate professors. The teaching conducted at this basic level of nursing must cover the objectives in the three areas.

related to intellectual, professional, and human relationship training.

Teaching aimed at individuals and non-professional groups: it is an orienting work on habits and customs that have

a direct relationship with health.

Teaching directed at other nursing professionals or collaborating in the training of other health team professionals.

It is the teaching that is usually given in postgraduate or continuing education courses.

Nursing educators work in nursing programs, in educational centers, and in the training of staff.

hospital. The educator nurse usually holds a bachelor's or higher degree and is often a specialist in a particular area.

from practice. The nurse educator is responsible for teaching in the classroom.

Nursing education is very important as these health professionals will train us according to their
scientific knowledge, acquired in their higher education and research, and thus it will be easier to apply their scientific methods to
moment to carry out your practices for the better understanding of students and other health professionals.

2.3 DIMENSIONS OF THE NURSING TEACHER

The nursing teacher considers three dimensions: the nursing teacher as a person, as an educator, and as a researcher.

NURSE TEACHER AS A PERSON

the personal characteristics one must have are:

To have a balanced, open, sensitive, and extroverted personality that allows one to act with human judgment.
understanding, optimistic and kind, considering that he is not only a trainer of other people but that his subject of attention is
another person.

Possess self-control over one's own reactions, what is known as emotional intelligence that allows one to develop
sympathy and empathy towards the people they work with and those they assist.

To have an adequate self-concept and self-esteem that gives him confidence in himself and enables him to develop relationships.
constructive with others, becoming a positive role model for their students.

Having coherence and clear definition of the principles, beliefs, and values that inform and guide one's own life; that is to say, it must be
authentic and coherent between what one says and does; to have a scale of values and defend it since one cannot guide who does not have it
defined their own values and show respect for the values of others. You must remember that there is no neutral education anymore.
that is always imbued with the values of those who impart it.

He/She must be a person who can be trusted, generating a climate of trust with his/her students, becoming a
support for the student.

A nursing teacher as a person must possess an appropriate personality that allows them to act with judgment, taking into account
It accounts that it is not only the training of individuals, but also that its subject of attention is another person. It must also have a
appropriate self-concept and self-esteem and must be a person in whom we can place our trust.
a.1) PERSONA

It is an individual substance of rational nature, a substance that exists by its own right, and is perfectly incommunicable.
A person is characterized by their own way of acting or having nature. The word person carries the idea of a being.
thoughtful and intelligent, capable of reasoning and reflecting, who can consider himself as himself, as the same
thing, which thinks in different times and different places that it does solely through feelings and actions.
(10)

This name is given to the individual of order, spiritual. He is, therefore, an individual endowed with a spiritual nature in his peculiarity.
incommunicable. To the essence of the person belongs only the capacity for intellectual self-awareness and, correspondingly,
para disponer de sí mismo. (11)

A person is any individual of the human species.

Man of garments, ability and wisdom.

The person is a unique being who feels, thinks, and acts on their own, relating to others in a social, intellectual, etc. context.
If the person is under our care, we must provide our support and trust for their recovery or maintenance of
health.
b) THE NURSE TEACHER AS AN EDUCATOR

Traditionally, great educators have possessed three types of skills, the first of which is innate and the other two
they require training, they are:

Charisma or the power of a magnetic personality,

Knowledge of the relevant subject,
Pedagogical capacity.

To be a nursing teacher, our training itself and the nursing care we provide benefit us, but it is
It is necessary to undergo a training period: teaching in nursing due to the role that requires developing these skills, must
be a facilitator of learning and the development of your students as individuals and as professionals by creating suitable environments
for the group's learning experiences, trying to be an active member of it, expressing their ideas, experience, and
intellect as a member of the group without trying to impose it but presenting it as a contribution to share.

To possess technical solvency that allows him/her to act confidently in patient care, conveying this to his/her students.

Getting to know the students by finding out what knowledge they bring, what their interests are, their learning styles, their habits.
attitudes and values.

to be a critical promoter and advisor committed to the educational task by constituting coherent knowledge and actions
with innovative didactic and methodological principles that facilitate the Teaching-Learning process, which requires a
permanent training that equips them with the new advances in educational science and with the advancements in their area of expertise
assistance practice. (9)

A nurse as an educator must have a code of ethics, scientific knowledge for better understanding, must have
his own learning methods for better understanding by the students, must be a person
understanding and respectful of their students to find out how much they know about this professional career.

c) THE NURSE TEACHER AS A RESEARCHER

The integration in nursing generates the knowledge used in practice, while

that practice generates ideas for research.

One must master the theory and methodology of research, developing attitudes,
skills and knowledge related to research.

Be open to the various alternative research options that may arise.

Being committed to the action of discovering the foundations of research as a way and
objective of understanding and explaining reality by generating proposals for
transform it.

Investigative action aimed at collective research with other professionals

from the health team or related sciences within a climate of exchange, collaboration and
search for our interpretations of reality from both theory and practice
assistance as a teacher.

Base your teaching on the knowledge obtained from research on our

reality revaluing traditional knowledge about health and cultural wealth of
our towns.

Develop strategies that facilitate the Teaching-Learning process of research,

how to integrate students into research tasks simultaneously with their
training to promote a research culture. (9)

A nurse as a researcher must continuously conduct scientific research,

and thus that knowledge is undoubtedly put into practice; since based on this
The investigation will be prepared to face any critical situation.

Characteristics of the Nursing Profession

1Escriba cuatro características de la profesión de enfermería

INTELLECTUAL
It is based on a set of knowledge
Uses the scientific method in practice
Use knowledge with analytical thinking
Critical and creative
PRACTICE
Must possess skills and abilities
ACADEMIC
The practice of nursing is characterized by the strength of its theoretical training.
Nursing staff must specialize in order to improve the quality of care.
users.
TECHNICAL SKILL
The nursing practice is based on scientific principles or foundations that guide practice and in turn
provides the basis for the legitimacy and autonomy of the profession.
THEORETICAL BASES
Nursing is practiced within an ethical framework. These values are outlined in the Code of Ethics.
of Nursing.
ETHICS
Ethics comes from the Greek word 'ethos' which means character, way of being.
Systematic study of the fundamental problems of human behavior. (León, 1999)
Describe the basis on which people, individually or collectively, decide that certain
actions are right or wrong, and whether it is a person's duty to do something, or if they have the right to
do it. (Rumbold, 2.000)
Ethics studies human actions, their effects, and the value of those actions. Likewise
determine what is right and what is wrong.
Ethics is a normative science, as it deals with an ideal, that is, not with what behavior
it is human, but with what it must be.
CHARACTERISTICS
It implies action in accordance with moral standards.
It deals with the study of theoretical-moral problems.
It is equivalent to knowledge
It is based on a philosophical plan (what is good, what is virtue, what is happiness, etc.)
It deals with human values
PROFESSIONAL NURSING ETHICS
The ethics of nursing examines the reasons for behaviors in the practice of the profession, the...

Characteristics of the nursing profession

INTELLECTUAL

It is based on a set of knowledge

Employ the scientific method in practice

Use knowledge with analytical thinking

Critical and creative

PRACTICE

Must possess skills and abilities

ACADEMIC

The practice of nursing is characterized by the solidity of its theoretical training.

Nursing staff must specialize in order to improve the quality of care for users.

TECHNICAL SKILL

The practice of nursing is based on scientific principles or foundations that guide the practice and in turn provides the
basis for the legitimacy and autonomy of the profession.
THEORETICAL BASES

Nursing is practiced within an ethical framework. These values are outlined in the Nursing Deontological Code.

AUTONOMY

Nursing as a profession controls its own functions, has independence and responsibility for its actions.

SOCIAL

Its principle is to help people maintain their health.

It must be sensitive to human needs and aware of its responsibility in contributing to well-being.
the others

There is a strong motivation or vocation in the choice of career that suggests a commitment to the profession.
service of society
During the exercise of their profession, it is important for nursing staff to possess or acquire the ability to:

To form judgments about reality that lead to acting with full knowledge

Working in inter and multidisciplinary teams

Serve and help those in need

Communicate cordially and effectively with the user, colleagues, and other members of the health team.

Show security and self-confidence (or)

Conduct social projection research

Apply the meaning and value of ethical and legal standards of the profession

Participate with influential organizations in the development of the profession

What is nursing? It is the profession responsible for the management of the care of people in everything.
that which relates to the promotion, maintenance, restoration of their health and the prevention of
Diseases and injuries; includes actions derived from medical diagnosis and treatment and the
management of the necessary resources. (according to Gonzalez 1997).
Nursing is considered a science because it has a body of its own scientific knowledge.
from the sciences of Nursing, and is aided by the medical sciences and other related sciences such as:
psychology, biology, medicine, social sciences, communication sciences, among others. In addition to that
Nursing uses the scientific method, as well as the observation and judgment of its members.
NURSERIL - 2010).
Contribution:

Nursing is the art of caring. This profession is eminently humanistic, that is,
worries about the man from a holistic integral viewpoint that meets certain characteristics that are
they are clearly appreciated and others not so much, being predominantly a service profession to the individual
community and family of a collective nature that has adequate knowledge for the exercise of it.
It is a profession that should only be studied and practiced by a person with vocation and love for it.
career.

The mentioned fact leads us to briefly analyze at this instance what are, according to Teresa Alfonso Roca
(prestigious Spanish nurse), the relevant functions of the profession. In this regard, we can identify 4
basic functions to know:

• Assistance function: characterized by the provision of direct comprehensive care to the patient, client, family
or community. Nursing is responsible for maintaining, promoting, and protecting health, the treatment of
the sick and their rehabilitation. It deals with the psychosomatic and psychosocial aspects of life that affect the
health, illness, and death.

• Teaching function: it consists of the set of activities that nurses carry out to achieve the
following objectives:

a)- To train their own professionals at all levels: basic, specialized, higher education, and continuing education.

b)- Teach individuals and groups in order to achieve the highest possible level of health.

c) Collaborate in the training of other health team professionals.

• Management Function: applied to nursing services, aims to ensure that the functions and
activities that must be developed by professionals in the different fields of action are carried out
systematic, rational, and orderly manner, responding to certain needs and ensuring the proper use of the
resources.

• Research function: the set of activities carried out by nursing professionals to

achieve the following objectives:

a) Expand and deepen professional knowledge.

b) To seek, through experimentation, solutions to problems and nursing situations, trying to

improve methods and techniques that raise the quality of care.

c) Disseminate and apply the improvements obtained from the research results.

d) To achieve, through research, a distinct field of knowledge that definitively clarifies our
identity.

Criteria for identifying a profession:

1) it is intellectual: it is based on knowledge
It is practical and dynamic, it entails personal responsibility.
It is academic, requiring a relatively long period of training.
4) has technical skill based on general principles
It has ethical bases that regulate the practice
It has internal organization: it works to deliver quality services.
It has autonomy, the control is generated with elements of its own regulation.
It is eminently social: due to the quality of the service.