Nursing, simply complicated

From a very young age, we played doctors and nurses. Back then, society was positive that a nursing profession existed. Now, is society's vision adequate? Evidently not. But, Why does this distortion exist? Fundamentally this occurs because the professionals themselves do not have a clear identity regarding their profession. And Why is this? Because the education transmitted has important lacks, the sanitary system dampens innovation and creativity, there are no appropriate leaders, lobbies transform into "wolves", and neither do we have a tradition which facilitates association and cooperation amongst professionals. These are some of the factors which the author develops in this deep, brave analysis about the reality of the nursing profession in order to arrive at the conclusion that we must have clear in our minds what nursing power is, a power which interacts with the community, and that this is important not only as a power in itself but rather as a means to increase the intrinsic value of nursing, none other than providing care.     

Integrating Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes in Public Health Nursing Practice

TOPIC. Applying standardized nursing language in public health nursing practice.
PURPOSE. To develop a charting format to document public health nursing practice based on standardized nursing language.
SOURCES. Literature review of documentation systems for public health nursing practice.
CONCLUSIONS. A task force of public health nurses developed a charting format based on Taxonomy I of Nursing Diagnosis (NANDA), Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC).     

Integrating Nursing Acuity,NANDA, NIC,and NOC Into an Automated Nursing Documentation System

PURPOSE To investigate which NIC interventions are used by nurses in the urologic unit in order to establish a nursing documentation system for an electronic patient record. METHODS The NIC Use Survey questionnaire, developed by the Iowa Intervention Project Team, had been translated into Icelandic by a group of nurses within the Directorate of Health. Some changes were made to the questionnaire in concordance with the up‐to‐date version of NIC; it included 450 intervention labels and their definitions grouped into 27 classes of interventions according to the NIC class structure. Respondents (a convenience sample of 19 nurses who worked in the urological units) were asked to rate how often they performed each intervention. Six responses are possible: never, rarely, about once a month, about once a week, about once a day, or several times a day. FINDINGS The respondents were 15 nurses (response rate 79%). Most of the subjects had >5 years of experience in nursing (93%) and most had >5 years of experience in urologic nursing (73%). On the urologic unit, 299 (66%) of the 450 interventions were used rarely or more often by >50% of the nurses. Of those 299 interventions, 153 (34%) were used monthly or more often by more than 50% of the nurses; 151 interventions (34%) were never used by more than 70% of the nurses, and of these interventions 71 (15%) were never used by 100% of the urologic nurses. CONCLUSIONS The NIC Use Survey was a useful tool to determine which interventions should be included in the computer software of specialities. However, the interventions that are most frequently used by urologic nurses cannot be called core interventions because they include a lot of common nursing interventions and therefore do not define the nature of the speciality.     

介入性心脏病学与护理和康复

近年来 ,心导管技术的发展远远超过诊断的范围 ,形成以心导管技术为基础 ,以治疗心血管疾病为主要内容的新兴学科即介入性心脏病学[1] 。这一新兴学科的发展给护理及康复工作提出了新的课题。我院从 1986年开始开展介入性心脏病的诊断和治疗工作 ,现结合介入性心脏病学与护理及康复的实践探讨如下。1　介入性心脏病学中的基本护理工作内容1 1　术前护理工作1 1 1　心导管器材等物品及有关药品的准备 :护士应根据介入性诊断或治疗的不同目的 ,为操作医生准备相应使用的全部器材、物品和药品。平时应该做好心导管器材的登记、整理和补充保养工…