Contemporary Nursing Practice
Jane A. Hardley
Grand Canyon University
NRS-430V-0102: Professional Dynamics
Mrs. Barbara Hennie
June 27, 2021
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Contemporary Nursing Practice
Changes, Evolution in Nurse Scope of Practice, and the Approach to Treating Individual
Nursing has been around before the Crimean war became well prominent during era of
Florence Nightingale in 1854 rendering assistance and care to the wounded soldiers in a
companionate way and progressed to the public. Most people see nursing as a well-respected and
highly recognized profession, some sees it as lack self-directions, relies on the decision of
another profession, and with poor pay. Some see nursing as an honest, well reputable, well
rewarding that they will recommend to a student or a family depending on one’s perspective.
Nursing is the largest part of the nation’s healthcare system, with more than three million nurses
in the U.S., according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Nurses serve as both
the backbone, the eyes, and the ears of the healthcare industry.
Archie Cochrane introduced the concept of applying randomized controlled trials (RTC)
and other types of research to the nursing practice in 1972, since then with new technology,
increase research, bring about evidence-base practice (EBP), this evolution has concept of
nursing. In 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change,
Advancing Health.” The report charged nurses to take a greater leadership role in healthcare,
noting that nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other healthcare professionals, in
redesigning the U.S. healthcare system.
Nursing serves in a wide range of areas in the community from the delivery to respite,
and palliative care, and so on. In the era we are, nursing is the cement in the relationship between
health care provider and the patient. Virginia Henderson (1978) stated ‘nurses self-image is often
at odds with the public's image and what nurses do is at odds with what nurses and the public
think they should do’..
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