SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH

REG NO: 1176-FSS/BSSOC/S20

SUBMITTED BY: SAMAN FAROOQ
SUBMITTED TO: Ms. NEELAM FAREED

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QUESTION:
Critically analyze the role and importance of nursing in sociology?

SOCIOLOGY AND HEALTH:

Health is a state of complete well-being: physical, mental and emotional. This definition
emphasizes the importance of being more than disease free, and recognizes that a
healthy body depends upon a healthy environment and a stable mind.
Sociology helps us look more objectively at our society and other societies. It directs
attention to how the parts of society fit together and change, as well as makes us aware
of the consequences of that social change.

Importance and role of nursing in sociology:

The area of health sciences medicines and nursing plays an important role in sociology
with the common goal in preventing illness and restoration of health. Nursing is
responsible to society through its mission to serve the public interest: especially, the
overall health of society. Both nursing and sociology are interlinked with each other
because nursing deals with the people living in the society. Nursing plays a very
important role to maintain a balance of health in society. No other professional has such
a broad and far-reaching goal.

Nursing plays a very important role in sociology in the following ways:

• The primary role in nursing lies in the care process.
• Nurse play a central role in delivering health care.
• Nurses advocate for health promotion in society, educate patients and the public
on the prevention of illness and injury, provide care and assist in cure, participate
in rehabilitation and provide support.
• Nursing is important in sociology because nurses help people and their families
cope with illness, deal with it, and if necessary live with it, so that other parts of
their lives can continue.
• They work with doctors for the people to maintain their lives healthy.
• Nurses provide their round-the-clock presence for the patients.

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 • Nurses help families learn to become healthy by helping them understand the
range of emotional, physical, mental and cultural experiences they encounter
during health and illness.
• With the help of sociology, nurses are able to understand the sociological
knowledge which would help nurses to do their job.
• Because of sociology, nurses are able to understand the knowledge of culture
and social life of patients which helps nurses to make good interaction with
patients.
• Nurses maintains the friendly relationships with patients at different level.
• Due to sociology, nurses identify the psycho-social problems of patients, which
helps important the quality of treatment.
• Nurses understand those forces and pressures which affect patients adversely.
• This is sociology from which nurses gets the information about socio-cultural life
of the patient, that is important for the planning and implementation of the
treatment.
• Nurses learns the techniques of adjustment from sociology that can be used in
nursing.
• As our country biggest drawback is illiteracy, a nurse can educate people about
cleanliness, balance diet and also guide mother and child health and vaccination.
• Many lives have been saved because an attentive nurse picked upon early
warning signs of an upcoming crisis like cardiac arrest or respiratory failure.

CONCLUSION:
Nursing is an important profession in the field of science, as well as for the whole
society. Because nursing help to keep people aware of diseases and keep them healthy,
so if people are healthy, society will automatically become healthy. In short nursing help
and aware people by completing their tasks as a caregiver (providing physical and
psychological care), communicator (communicate with patient and support people),
teacher (teach patients about health and health care problems), client advocate (protect
the client), counselor (help in recognizing health problems), change agent (change in
health care system), leader (understand the needs and goals of patient), manager
(manages the nursing care of patient in hospital or community), case manager (deals
with multidisciplinary team to deal a patient) and as a research consumer (use research
findings to improve client care).

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