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 Christs charity: I am ill and you
comforted meI 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 Gods 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 nurses
understanding heart
is the patients
spiritual wonder drug.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.