At the moment we are talking about the health care profession, we can not deny the importance of nurses. Medical science has made significant progress and there are significant advances in nursing education, so now things have changed because of necessity. Now there are doctors, medical assistants help doctors, then there is a registered nurse who examined each of the characteristics associated with patient care. Then we have licensed practical nurses who perform duties ordered by registered nurses and certified nursing assistants also supervise that helps patients in hygiene, eating and checking vital signs.
When talking about nursing education because of different responsibilities as well as education. The certified nursing assistants are trained to work in hospitals and can also visit patients to their homes. They will take care of people with long-term illness, physical disabilities, children with mental weakness, senior citizens and people recover. A certified nursing assistant job is to give them mental support and assist them with cleaning, bathing, changing clothes, and also cooking (while following the prescribed diet). A certified nursing assistant is responsible for taking prescriptions for patients with stroke, with a physical disability and when necessary.
The licensed Practical Nurses care for people who are injured , and healing any physical disabilities as ordered by a registered nurse from the doctor . They will check the patient's blood pressure , temperature , respiratory rate , dress wounds and give injections and help patients stand and walk by following all the necessary procedures . Then collected blood samples and also , bring them to the lab to do some simple tests , cleaning and monitoring of medical devices . While working at the doctor 's office they will also take care of the administrative work , they will make an appointment , perform administrative tasks and maintaining patient records .
Registered Nurse is one overseeing both Licensed Practical Nurses and Nursing Assistants. High nursing education for registered nurses because they must complete a four-year undergraduate program, called BSN Nursing Degree you could become a registered nurse with a diploma and a 2-year associate degree major responsibilities of a registered nurse is supervising and conducting research for nursing.
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The Importance of Critical Thinking in Nursing Education
In nursing education and the nursing profession, critical thinking skills are very important. Responsibilities of a Registered Nurse have increased over the years . In correlation with this increase in responsibility comes an additional increase in educational prerequisites and core requirements necessary to achieve a degree in Nursing . ANA ( American Nursing Association ) Standards has established the necessary framework for critical thinking in the application of the " nursing process ".
Nursing process is the means by which all nurses can equally become proficient in critical thinking . The nursing process contains the following criteria :
1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
In this case, the application of each of these processes that nurses can become proficient in critical thinking. It is important to look at the components that describe critical thinking in nursing.
Components in Critical Thinking
Require objective, information, results focused thinking, which requires a careful identification of specific problems and other physiological and psychological factors that influence the position of the client in the continuum of health and well-being.
This process is driven by the client, the client's family and other health team members are also collaborating in ensuring essential client care.
Special education knowledge base and level of experience in applying that knowledge in client care. ( School of Nursing graduate nurses experienced nurse ) As the level of experience of the nurse increases so that basic scientific knowledge that nurses apply.
Proficiency in the application of agency standards, policies and procedures. Standard application of humanistic care in conjunction with the nursing process, to holistically treat the client's response to actual or perceived illness.
Constant evaluation and re-evaluation of the nursing process to determine the level of client health.
Nursing process is the means by which all nurses can equally become proficient in critical thinking . The nursing process contains the following criteria :
1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
In this case, the application of each of these processes that nurses can become proficient in critical thinking. It is important to look at the components that describe critical thinking in nursing.
Components in Critical Thinking
Require objective, information, results focused thinking, which requires a careful identification of specific problems and other physiological and psychological factors that influence the position of the client in the continuum of health and well-being.
This process is driven by the client, the client's family and other health team members are also collaborating in ensuring essential client care.
Special education knowledge base and level of experience in applying that knowledge in client care. ( School of Nursing graduate nurses experienced nurse ) As the level of experience of the nurse increases so that basic scientific knowledge that nurses apply.
Proficiency in the application of agency standards, policies and procedures. Standard application of humanistic care in conjunction with the nursing process, to holistically treat the client's response to actual or perceived illness.
Constant evaluation and re-evaluation of the nursing process to determine the level of client health.
The Role of Higher Education in Nursing
There are 4 critical role of higher education in nursing :
1. Fostering an outlook attitude and professional skills
Higher Education in Nursing was instrumental in fostering the attitude, outlook, and professional skills, graduates. Nurses are expected to be able to act, and have a professional outlook, nursing a broad-minded, and have sufficient scientific knowledge of nursing, and master the professional skills is good and right (Husin, 1966).
As a profesional nurse, obtained job satisfaction which in turn foster the achievement of performance capability through better working again. Critical thinking skills to make decisions and be able to account for the decisions and actions taken is one of the main factors to achieve job satisfaction (Jones and Beck, 1996). Nurse job satisfaction will result in satisfaction of the nursing service users, both societies and institutions of employment.
2. Improve the quality of care / nursing care and health
Nursing education to be able to produce professional nurses include intellectual skills, interpersonal, and technical, able to account legally, decisions and actions taken in accordance with the standards and code of ethics, and can be a role model for other nurses.
Nursing theories and models can be said to be useful, if it can be applied to services, as well as the management system of nursing is learned during training. Service facilities that can be used as an educational resource that is expected is conducive to the learning process of learners (Hamid, 1997).
3. Resolve nursing problems and develop science and technology of nursing through nursing
With the cooperation between the educational institutions and services, enabling the transformation of science and technology, including the identification of health problems, particularly on issues related to nursing for nursing research that aims to produce an answer to the question, resulting in a solution of the problem, either through product form technology or new methods or products and services based on the theory test conditions or new facts. (Leddy and Pepper, 1993; Mayer, Medden and Lawrence, 1990)
4. Improve the lives of professionalism through professional organizations
Higher education in nursing, will facilitate the development of nursing organizational life, for more professional. With profesional education, nurse as a member of a professional organization will better understand and appreciate the roles, responsibilities, and rights as a member of a professional organization that has a nature, views, and professional capability, it is possible nursing organizations act as quality control of nursing care services to the community through regulation of rights, responsibilities, and authority of each nurse based on their competence (Schmale, 1996).
In addition, professional organizations will be instrumental in the process of developing and fostering professional skills and implement a code of professional conduct for each of its members through the provision of setting up and continuing education system and to control the use and development of nursing science and technology (Husin, 1999).
1. Fostering an outlook attitude and professional skills
Higher Education in Nursing was instrumental in fostering the attitude, outlook, and professional skills, graduates. Nurses are expected to be able to act, and have a professional outlook, nursing a broad-minded, and have sufficient scientific knowledge of nursing, and master the professional skills is good and right (Husin, 1966).
As a profesional nurse, obtained job satisfaction which in turn foster the achievement of performance capability through better working again. Critical thinking skills to make decisions and be able to account for the decisions and actions taken is one of the main factors to achieve job satisfaction (Jones and Beck, 1996). Nurse job satisfaction will result in satisfaction of the nursing service users, both societies and institutions of employment.
2. Improve the quality of care / nursing care and health
Nursing education to be able to produce professional nurses include intellectual skills, interpersonal, and technical, able to account legally, decisions and actions taken in accordance with the standards and code of ethics, and can be a role model for other nurses.
Nursing theories and models can be said to be useful, if it can be applied to services, as well as the management system of nursing is learned during training. Service facilities that can be used as an educational resource that is expected is conducive to the learning process of learners (Hamid, 1997).
3. Resolve nursing problems and develop science and technology of nursing through nursing
With the cooperation between the educational institutions and services, enabling the transformation of science and technology, including the identification of health problems, particularly on issues related to nursing for nursing research that aims to produce an answer to the question, resulting in a solution of the problem, either through product form technology or new methods or products and services based on the theory test conditions or new facts. (Leddy and Pepper, 1993; Mayer, Medden and Lawrence, 1990)
4. Improve the lives of professionalism through professional organizations
Higher education in nursing, will facilitate the development of nursing organizational life, for more professional. With profesional education, nurse as a member of a professional organization will better understand and appreciate the roles, responsibilities, and rights as a member of a professional organization that has a nature, views, and professional capability, it is possible nursing organizations act as quality control of nursing care services to the community through regulation of rights, responsibilities, and authority of each nurse based on their competence (Schmale, 1996).
In addition, professional organizations will be instrumental in the process of developing and fostering professional skills and implement a code of professional conduct for each of its members through the provision of setting up and continuing education system and to control the use and development of nursing science and technology (Husin, 1999).
Purpose of Education In Nursing
The purpose of education is often very general nature, such as a good human being, responsible, devoted to God, to serve the community, the nation and the state, and so on.
In the world of education, recognized a number of attempts to decipher the very general purpose. One of them was Herbert Spencer (1860) who analyzed the educational purpose in five sections, namely to:
Educational goals set forth by Herbert Spencer, based on what is considered the most valuable and necessary for every person to life in society.
Bloom cs distinguish three categories of educational purpose, namely:
I. Cognitive (head)
Purpose of Cognitive regarding the ability of the individual to know about the world, which includes intellectual or mental development. Purpose of cognitive divided into 6 sections, namely;
a) Knowledge
Includes information and facts that can be mastered through memorization to remember.
b) Comprehension
Is the ability to express a definition, formula, interpreting a theory.
c) Application
An ability to apply or use a sense, concepts, principles, theories that require the acquisition of knowledge and deeper understanding.
d) Analysis
Namely the ability to decipher something in elements such as analysis of the relationship between people and nature, and the universe.
e) Synthesis
Namely the ability to see the relationship between the number of elements.
f) Evaluation
Judgment based on the evidence or specific criteria.
II. Affective (heart)
Purpose of Affective regarding the development of attitudes, feelings, and values or emotional and moral development. Affective objectives is divided into 5 sections, namely;
a) Receiving
Receive, pay attention to a certain value.
b) Responding
Which showed a reaction to certain norms, shows willingness and readiness to respond, feel satisfied in response.
c) Valuing
Ie accept a norm, a norm of respect, and bind themselves to these norms.
d) Organization
Forming a concept of a value, develop a system of values.
e) Characterization by Value or Value Complex
Embodies personal values in making a person's character, it becomes part of the norm personally.
III. Psychomotor (hand)
Purpose of Psychomotor development involves an element of motor skills.
The role of nurses not only caregivers but also as counselor, educator and consultant, so with the role of a nurse requires knowledge of education in order to provide appropriate education in a systematic manner, methods and media education are true and correct to the client, so that the results of education given to the client can be achieved on target and appropriate.
Nurses must master the field of education, for study of science education, a department of nursing students are expected to give and receive information that will be needed in the face of the patient (others) so as to lead to the achievement of professional competence.
In the world of education, recognized a number of attempts to decipher the very general purpose. One of them was Herbert Spencer (1860) who analyzed the educational purpose in five sections, namely to:
- Activities for survival.
- Attempt to make a living.
- Children's education.
- Maintaining relationships with the community and the state.
- Use of leisure time.
Educational goals set forth by Herbert Spencer, based on what is considered the most valuable and necessary for every person to life in society.
Bloom cs distinguish three categories of educational purpose, namely:
I. Cognitive (head)
Purpose of Cognitive regarding the ability of the individual to know about the world, which includes intellectual or mental development. Purpose of cognitive divided into 6 sections, namely;
a) Knowledge
Includes information and facts that can be mastered through memorization to remember.
b) Comprehension
Is the ability to express a definition, formula, interpreting a theory.
c) Application
An ability to apply or use a sense, concepts, principles, theories that require the acquisition of knowledge and deeper understanding.
d) Analysis
Namely the ability to decipher something in elements such as analysis of the relationship between people and nature, and the universe.
e) Synthesis
Namely the ability to see the relationship between the number of elements.
f) Evaluation
Judgment based on the evidence or specific criteria.
II. Affective (heart)
Purpose of Affective regarding the development of attitudes, feelings, and values or emotional and moral development. Affective objectives is divided into 5 sections, namely;
a) Receiving
Receive, pay attention to a certain value.
b) Responding
Which showed a reaction to certain norms, shows willingness and readiness to respond, feel satisfied in response.
c) Valuing
Ie accept a norm, a norm of respect, and bind themselves to these norms.
d) Organization
Forming a concept of a value, develop a system of values.
e) Characterization by Value or Value Complex
Embodies personal values in making a person's character, it becomes part of the norm personally.
III. Psychomotor (hand)
Purpose of Psychomotor development involves an element of motor skills.
The role of nurses not only caregivers but also as counselor, educator and consultant, so with the role of a nurse requires knowledge of education in order to provide appropriate education in a systematic manner, methods and media education are true and correct to the client, so that the results of education given to the client can be achieved on target and appropriate.
Nurses must master the field of education, for study of science education, a department of nursing students are expected to give and receive information that will be needed in the face of the patient (others) so as to lead to the achievement of professional competence.
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