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THE CALLING OF THE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER
IRIS G. DIMACULANGAN, RN, MAN
CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR
What is Health Care Profession?
• HEALTH CARE PROFESSION is an occupation requiring advanced, specialized and systematic study and training in the knowledge of health care designed to provide services to society in that particular field.
Who is a Health Care Practitioner?
• HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL or PRACTITIONER is a person who has acquired an advanced, specialized and systematic training and experience in the knowledge of health care along with its various specific scientific specializations and techniques including those of medical doctors, nurses, midwives, medical technologists and the like.
What does it take to be a Health Care Practitioner?
• To be a health care practitioner is to be a man or a woman for others, i.e., the clients in need of health care services in one way or another
The Calling of the Health Care Provider
A nurse is highly esteemed among those in the medical profession, well-known throughout the world for his/her contribution to medicine, and greatly admired for the dedication of his/her life to the sick and afflicted, confided the inspiration of his/her life.
Nursing is a vocation just like priesthood and the teaching profession, because the person who embraces the profession of a nurse responds to the call of Christ’s charity: “I am ill and you comforted me…I assure you, as often as you did it for one of my least brothers, you did it for me (Matthew 25:36;40)
Why are you a nurse?
The years of training that a nurse must undergo are calculated to equip him/her to carry on the tasks efficiently, and competently.
Nursing is more than a profession. It is a vocation, a dedication, a consecration. It is your mission and vocation in life.
VOCATION
means God’s own way of life in which a person will best serve
God and neighbor
One becomes a nurse or should at least in the last analysis, not because of glamour, not because of money, not even merely because he/she likes the life.
A person becomes a nurse because God wants her/him to serve Him as a nurse; because he/she convinced that nursing is the field where he/she can best fulfill the will of Christ, serve him/her neighbors, and in so doing attain a measure of happiness here and eternal happiness hereafter.
As a nurse one may be tempted to become overly professional and callous.
It is an understanding heart that will see you through in times of difficulties.
A nurse’s
understanding heart
is the patient’s
spiritual wonder drug.
THE CLIENT/PATIENT
1. The one receiving the therapy
2. Has a health problem or need which must be accurately identified through diagnostic procedures so that due health care may be given
The THERAPEUTIC INTERACTION
is CLIENT-CENTERED
along with its being a
GOAL-ORIENTED one.
3. The needs of the client and NOT of the health care practitioner that are being served.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CLIENT/PATIENT
1. The client should be encouraged to take active role in the therapeutic process
2. The patient should be open and amenable to the interaction along with the competence of the health care provider and the effectiveness of health care services.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CLIENT/PATIENT
3. The client should be the one to make a decision to give his full consent manifested by his openness and responsiveness to pertinent questions.
4. The client should be cooperative in therapeutic activities and submissive to health care instructions and suggestions.
THE HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
Since the HCP-client relationship is therapeutic, the interaction must also be therapeutic.
This interaction is processive in nature and character.
It may develop even at a more meaningful level transcending what is merely mechanical into commitment and accountability with love, trust, concern and care for each other.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CLIENT/PATIENT
3. The client should be the one to make a decision to give his full consent manifested by his openness and responsiveness to pertinent questions.
4. The client should be cooperative in therapeutic activities and submissive to health care instructions and suggestions.
