An Ideal Professional Nurses

A nurse is someone who has completed a nursing education program, the

authorities in the country concerned to provide services and are responsible for
improving health, prevention of disease and service to patients. Nurses work with
doctors and other health care workers to make patients well (not sick) and to keep
them fit and healthy. Nurses also help with end-of-life needs and assist other family
members with grieving.

Professional nurses have an attitude of involvement with patients, respect,

empathy, sincerity, responsibility, patience, trust and independence. one of the
characteristics of professional nurses is being able to behave or behave humanistly
towards patients. It is mean that the patient must be treated as a human being who
must be cared for, guarded and served with sincerity so that the healing process will
be faster. To make a professional nurses, a good education system is needed, which
is oriented towards the development of knowledge and the needs of the community.
The education system should be able to give birth to professional nurses, who not
only have intellectual abilities, but also have the ability in terms of emotional,
spiritual and psychomotor (skill). Therefore in the process of nursing education
must pay attention to input, process, output or outcome of the education process.

In my opinion, one way to be able to produce professional nurses is to

improve the quality of the teaching and learning process on campus from all the
learning materials or methods. Lecturers must be able to transfer to students the
essence of the philosophical values of the nurse profession with this knowledge and
understanding it is expected to be internalized in nursing students.

There are several characteristics of ideal nurses consisting of several

components, that are cognitive (knowledge), Affective (psychological),
psychomotor (skill), spiritual, and Physical. From that information, I think that the
ideal nurse must have extensive knowledge, especially those related to the field of
health and nursing practice. The ideal nurse acts according to the established rules
of knowledge.

Based on the results of research conducted by (Agung, 2012) at the

University of Riau against a number of 7th semester nursing students regarding
ideal nurse characteristics, mentioning that emotional factors can describe the
ideal characteristics of nurses, there are there are five characteristics that can
affect the emotional of nurses, that are friendly, patient, disciplined, kind, and
humble. So, I think that the ideal nurses must have good emotional management.

Psychomotor (skill) is something that is absolutely necessary in nursing

services. Skills are not only related to nurses 'competency standards (hard skills),
but also the ability to understand nurses' psychological conditions (soft skills). In
my opinion, a nurse who has good ethics, has courtesy in performing nursing, will
certainly receive respect from his patients. If this condition can be maintained it
will benefit both parties (nurses and patients).
 Spirituality is all forms of behavior and guidance that direct humans to
always be with God. One source of spirituality is Religion. Religion teaches
humans how to interact with God, humans and the environment. In the Indonesian
context, the role of religion is very important especially in interacting with other
people. Likewise in service to patients. So, nurses must have adequate religious
understanding to assist in the implementation of nursing tasks. Very often
religious advice helps patients deal with their illness.

The last characteristics of ideal professional nurses is phisic, this is

important because nurses are related to service to patients. If nurses look
unattractive, or dirty and less neat, it will certainly cause distrust of nurses. This
has an impact on the quality of service, especially patient comfort. Even patients
may not want to be served by nurses who do not pay attention to their physical
appearance.

In general the ideal nurse construction is more to the psychological

aspects or soft skills Ideal nurses according to the nursing student perspective
consist of several aspects or components, namely cognitive, emotional, skill,
physical and spirituality. The five components have important contributions and
are interrelated with each other. That is, every component must exist in an ideal
nurse.
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AN IDEAL PROFESSIONAL NURSES

By :

Nabila Marsa Dhiya Ulhaq

Student Number : 22020117140021
Class : A17.2

DEPARTMENT OF NURSING

FACULTY OF MEDICINE

DIPONEGORO UNIVERSITY
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