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Nursing in the Contemporary World
Nurses as the Most Highly Trusted Health Professional
Recent studies indicate that nurses are the most highly trusted health professional group.
Recent studies indicate that nurses are the most highly trusted health professional group.
Discuss the components of nursing's contemporary image that places nurses in this position of trust
Nursing profession has undergone tremendous development to attain the respect and valuation within the society. The current trend states that nursing ranks as the highly trusted health professional group. One of the components for this development is the tremendous efforts put by women to wrestle the profession from men in the historic periods. This struggle towards development of the profession reflects on different perspectives: environmental, political, cultural, and social. Extensive nursing education in the contemporary world supplements the efforts of nurses in their service provision (Im & Ju, 2012). This helps to put nursing professional group at the top of other institutions. Implementation of technology also propels nursing to the top of the group of professionals thus building the efficient and effective reputation and image of the health caring unit. Technology improves the public trust on nursing professional group thus component for the development of the profession. The other reason for the development of nursing in the current setting is the improvement of clinical practices (Cherry & Jacob, 2011). This supplements the efforts of development of theory, education, and extensive research methods to improve the health condition of the nation. The development of caring practice...
One of the problems or factors threatening this position involves lack of respect from society members seeking health assistance. The second problem is the media portrayal of the nursing profession thus damaging the image of the professional group. This revolves around production of movies and programs aiming dangerous blows to the profession of nursing. Some of these portrayals are cultural in nature since they seem to attack women rather than the nursing profession (Ku, 2005). This approach tends to undermine the efforts of the nursing profession in enhancing the health profession within the nation. The other threatening position involves poor and adverse working conditions in some cases. Some nurses still endures longer working hours, mandatory holiday working hours, and ill treatment during their service delivery. This results from understaffing within the profession thus crucial to the development of the future health condition.
If you were going to conduct a research project that examined the perception of nursing competence among consumers, how would you do it?
Name and discuss the type of research design used
In order to study the perception of the nursing competence among the consumers, I would adopt the use of cross-sectional research design. This type of design involves studying different groups of people possessing similar characteristics thus would be ideal for this situation. Cross-sectional research design…
References
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