Nursing

Nursing according to Florence Nightingale (1860) is the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery. Virginia Henderson defined nursing as the unique function of the nurse to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to a peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge, and to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible. The American Nursing Association (ANA) in 1980 defines nursing as the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems.

Vital Signs

Vital Signs are a group of physiological measurements used by health care professionals to assess the body’s functions. Vital Signs taking is an essential part of nursing care because it data obtained will be an integral part of the health care team’s provision of care.

Pain

Pain is a highly subjective sign and is expressed by the client. It is an unpleasant sensory emotional experience with awareness to stimuli or harm. Tenderness is an objective sign and is commonly used in medicine to describe pain or discomfort. In tenderness, upon palpation there is complaint of pain, facial grimace, and guarding behavior.

Lung Sounds

Lung sounds are a set of sounds identified through auscultation of the respiratory system. It can tell us an existence of a disease if identified correctly. It can also give us information on the disease’s intensity, extent, progress, complications, and sometimes its nature.

Safe Environment: Fire Safety

Fire safety refers to precautions taken to eliminate or decrease the probability of the occurrence of a fire. As nurses, we all ought to be patient-centered and be knowledgeable enough to preserve the safety of our clients as well as ourselves.

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