Nursing In The Twenty First Century

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Introduction
Over the last two decades we have seen the worldwide health system advance. People’s life expectancy has increased with better management of people co morbidities which increases the amount of people using our health care system. According to Gimenes and Faleiros (2014) this come with challenges, the major challenges is not being up to date with these advances in chronic treatment, but providing safer care in a complex, over crowed and under resourced health care environment. Patients’ necessities and healthcare settings have become even more difficult and nurses need to accomplish a higher level of skills, competencies and attitudes to meet these needs with efficiency, quality and safety (cited in Gimenes and Faleiros (2014) no …show more content…

What is nursing in the twenty first century?
Traditionally, nurses are viewed as support staff for the doctor; they provide the bigger fraction of frontline care to make sure the patient is safe and comfortable. In the 21st century medicine without nursing is an unsustainable concept. According to Shields and Watson (2007), doctors could not practice without highly educated, knowledgeable and competent nurses as part of the health care team. From this we as nurses are changing our boundaries and responsibilities and taking on task that have never been a part of nursing’s role in the past e.g. prescribing. But nursing roles have also extended into psychosocial support, not only seeing the patient …show more content…

It includes obtaining insight to specialised functioning, creating qualified ideals and values. It can be described as attitudes, values, knowledge, beliefs, and skills that are common among a professional group (Yazdannik et al, 2012). Professional identity in nursing is connected with professional roles as a nurse can take in their profession. Professional identity is where nurses’ concept of nursing and functioning as a nurse. This identity includes individual’s experience and feeling of oneself as a nurse (self-concept), and others’ image of that person as a nurse (social image) (Yazdannik et al,

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