NURSING

According to willesky, profession is a job that needs science as basics to a sistematic theory development to face new challenges, takes education and training for a long time, and has ethical code with service as the main focus. So is nurse, nurse is also a profession. To be a professional nurse, she / he must be abe to give nursing service based on the nursing ethical code. Beside that, a nurse has to be a college graduate and able to manage the nursing field.

Nursing is a study abaut how nurse gives health services to the patient. It can be said that nursing is an activity done by nurse to the patient on the purpose of giving health service. There are four components in nursing that can’t be separated from one another. There are people / patient / client, environment, health, and nurse. On nursing view, people / patient / client is a nursing central focus, where later on nurse has to understand and treal them wholeheartedly, unique, and humane. The environment is said as external condition that involves somebody’s life, influences life and the growth of organism, human, and society behavior. The environment also influences body health. Healthy describe a whole someone’s condition which is multidimensional and involved five dimensions. They are physical health, mental health, social function, and common perception about well being. At this time the role of nursing is needed.

Now days, many people still think that nurse is a doctor’s assistant. Actually, it is not true and this paradigm should be changed. Basically, doctor and nurse have different task and field. Maybe it is true that there are some nurse help doctor’s doing their job. But, it actually means that nurse helps the patient indirectly, not the doctor.

Basically, the nurse job is to give services to the patients basic need. According to Virginia Henderson, there are 14 human’s basic needs, they are :

1. Breathing normally ;

2. Enough food and drink ;

3. Throwing out body unimportant substances ;

4. Acting, moving, and positionizing comfortably ;

5. Sleeping and taking rest ;

6. Fulfilling clothing needs ;

7. Paying attention to the body temperature ;

8. Keeping the body clean ;

9. Preventing from danger and hurt ;

10. Communicating with other ;

11. Defending him self / her self ;

12. Working ;

13. Playing and recreating ;

14. Studying and adventuring.

But actually a nurse job is just to help all the things. Which really can’t be done by the patient. So, if the patient is still able to do things, such as eating by him / her self, than the nurse shouldn’t help him / her. It doesn’t mean that the nurse doesn’t take care of the patient, but at the time the patient is trained to be independent and hopedto be able to do all the basic needs by him / her self, without depending on others. We can conclude that nurse in nursing practical has it is own purpose to keep the patient stay able to do his / her own self care based on his/ her ability, increase patients ability and fulfilling self care need and take care of the patient by giving self care need help if the patient is not able to do it by his / her own.