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7. To help in the realization of objectives of education as laid down by the experts
according to their selected vocation or profession.
8. To bring harmony between and the tasks.
9. To make maximum use of all educational facilities in order to attain the desired
objectives and to help minimize the wastage.
10. To provide healthy atmosphere for experimentation and research.
-it concentrates on present and informs you about the desired level of performance.
-it will be achieved.
-it reflect the purpose or broader for being in existence in the profession.
-it serves as an ongoing guide without a time frame.
-the mission can remain same for decades, if crafted well.
-it provides a path to realize the mission in line with its values.
-it directs bearing on the bottom line and success in profession.
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IN NURSING PROFESSION
Basic to any philosophy of nursing seems to three concepts1. -Reverence for the gift of life.
2. -respect for the dignity, worth, autonomy and individuality of each human being.
3. -Resolution to act dynamically in relation to ones belief.
IT HELPS IN
-To provide best possible patient care with minimum inputs to obtain the maximum
results.
-To provide high quality care based on strong commitments to practice, education,
research, innovation and collaboration.
-To strengthen staff development programme to improve the standard of patient
care.
-To facilitate inter and intra departmental coordination for efficiency of hospital
administration.
-To be a leader in providing excellence in nursing practice and service to community.
-To assist individual in disease prevention, promotion of health, health maintenance
and restoration.
EXAMPLE- According to FAYE GLEN ABDELLAH (1960)
Nursing is helping profession. Nursing care is doing something to or for the person or
providing information with goal of meeting needs, increasing or restoring self help ability.
Here 21 problems is the main focus of nursing, and fulfilling these is the mission of nursing
profession.
GOAL
1. To provide health services to the individuals, families and society.
2. A nurse should not only be kind and caring but also intelligent, competent and
technically well prepared to provide this service.
VISION STATEMENT
-Outlines what the profession wants to be.
-It concentrates on the future.
-It is a source of inspiration.
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Specific
M Measurable
A Achievable
R Relevant
T
Time bound
IN NURSING PROFESSION
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-To achieve the goals of the department of nursing services and patient care of
hospitals and clinics.
EXAMPLE- NIGHTINGALE, 2005 . To address the seemingly insurmountable problems she
saw her lifetime, she allowed her own sense of calling and saw health as not onlyto be well,
but to use well every power. Nurses from all specialties and perspectives can also focus
their collective visions to sustain the health and the wellbeing of our species to secure a
vibrant future for all future generations.
She said look for the ideal, put it into the actual
Every nurse practicing today needs to appreciate that healthcare is a business and the
success of healthcare business depends on nursing participation in changing the systems
for delivering cost effective and caring strategies to ensure that clients receive quality care.
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and introduces Nightingales initiative for Global Health and this calls to action to
demonstrate the power of nursing ideals to guide humanity for the future of our
planet.
-Today, nurses once again find themselves in the midst of a crisis by following
quotation by Mae Burgess 1928 Nurses do love nursing but they want nursing to in
far as possible. A profession and the things they stress when they talk about the
economic conditions in which they work are apparently those things which other
professional workers take for granted.
-Reasonable hours
-Adequate income
-Constructive leadership
-Opportunity for growth
Thus there is an opportunity to renegotiate the realities of health care and to advance the
contribution of professional nursing to health care outcomes.
Modern nursing involves many activities, concepts and skills related to basic sciences and
other areas of nursing. Now nurses have many roles such as caretakers, decision makers,
advocates and teachers etc. Because of diversity of nursing role nurses need a mission and
vision statement for nursing to guide their practice.
PROCESS TO BE FOLLOWED
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PROBLEMS FACED BY NURSING PROFESSION TODAY
Nursing shortage
Image and status of nursing profession in society
Lack of commitment towards profession
Lack of leaders, models, teacher s and faculty.
Lack of education facilities and method for recruiting students.
Working conditions
Exposure to contagious environment.
Lack of autonomy, accountability, recognition and rewards.
Low salry and more work responsibility
Lack of legal and political support.
Lack of efficient regulatory and policymaking bodies and agencies.
Complexity of rules and regulation (more paper work than patient care)
Lower licensure standards leading to unsafe, illegal and unethical practices.
APPROACHES
Professional hallmarks such as higher education, theory and knowledge
development, ethical codes and professional journals are a testament to nurse
perseverance and tenacity.
Nurses should work together and with policy makers to advance the potential of
nursing centers underserved and to support more autonomous nursing practice in
community settings.
Nursing should collaborate and look to other profession for models of change.
More healthcare providers are needed.
A prime event in the advancement of any profession is initiation of a journal to
communicate the ideas, knowledge and skills of discipline.
Evidence based practice and researches in various areas which forms the bridge
between the knowledge and the nursing practice and fills the gap.
A renewed relationship between spirituality and nursing would require that
spirituality be better recognized in the work that nurses do. This can be partnered by
Reflective practice.
Standard licensure committee.
Leaders have the responsibility of communicating the vision regularly, creating
narratives that illustrates the vision, acting as role models by embodying the vision,
creating short term objectives compatible with vision and encouraging others to
craft their own personal vision compatible with professions overall vision.
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Credentiality and privileging members by Accountability
Autonomy
Collaboration
Coordination
Cultural competence
Practice management
Responsibility
CONCLUSION
Mission is the and commitment for the vision and vision is the product of critical,
intellectual thinking.
Tribute is paid to all nurse professionals who are Pacesetters in clinics, hospitals, academics,
private practitioners in every day of their professional life. Those of us now White haired
are grateful that you are where you are and are doing what you do.
The future is really ours as it was years ago.
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