NCM 103: Fundamentals of Nursing Practice

Study Notes

Direct Care Provider: provides total care using the nursing process to develop an appropriate plan and methods to evaluate its effectiveness.
Client Advocate: speaks for the client who cannot or will not speak for themselves.
Case Manager: oversees all aspects of care.
Client/Family Educator: involves instruction regarding medications, health promotion, disease prevention, and discharge.
Caregiver
Communicator
Counselor
Change Agent

Nursing as an art: delivers care with compassion, caring, and respect for each client's dignity and parenthood.
Nursing as a science: based on a body of knowledge that is always changing with new discoveries and innovations.

Novice: no experience, performance is limited, inflexible, and governed by context-free rules and regulations.
Advanced Beginner: demonstrates marginally acceptable performance.
Competent: has 2-3 years of experience, demonstrates organizational and planning abilities.
Proficient: has 3-5 years of experience, perceives situations as a whole rather than in parts.
Expert: performance is fluid, flexible, and highly proficient, no longer requires rules, guidelines, or maxims to connect an understanding of the situation to appropriate action.

Definition of Nursing by ANA: protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
Unique function of the nurse: assists the individual, sick or well, in the performance of activities contributing to health or recovery (or to peaceful death).

Philippine Nurses Association (PNA): organized in October 22, 1922, upon the initiation of Anastacia Giron Tupas, with Rosario Delgado as the first president.