Curative Nature of Nursing

 Nurses Round takes you on the Curative and or the healing nature of Nursing care. Most arguable subject in the nursing profession.

"Curative care is a treatment and therapies provided to a patient with and intent to improve symptoms and cure the patients medical problem e.g Antibiotics, chemotherapy , a cast for broken limb"-Trisha Torrey April 22 2014.

Recently i have interview most of the medical and or health care practitioners and questions if Nursing care is Curative, Well the answers i got even from the nurses themselves seems to be no different as I was always greeted with the NO answer!

It always starts when a quest is asked if nursing is curative or management care. Often times this kind of question remains unanswered even from the nursing families, hence the need to have an in-dept look into the curative nature of Nursing care.

Nurses Round wishes to provoke the opinions of the readers that nursing is the most curative aspect of care received by patients in the hospital. Yes one may not admit it in hurry, but it is indisputable hence patients well being is concerned.

Student as well as the practicing nurses finds it difficult to assert the therapeutic aspect of nursing care or how to equate activities performed by nurses to patient as being therapeutic or curative.in the three basic aspect of nursing care i.e preventive, therapeutic and rehabilitative in most of their definitions did not point out the curative nature of nursing care.

knowing that curative in order words mean "healing" and in nursing world it is all about healing with the tools of nursing such as counseling, Nurse-patients relationship, timely delivery of prescribed regimens, application of the techniques required to ensure quick healing of wounds as well as ensuring comfortable death, nurses may now be seen as the group who delivers the actual curative aspect of care in every health care settings more than the others.

With Counseling, the nurse heal;ts the mind and makes a patient come into terms with accepting his current state of anatomy and  physiology, this is the first step of every healing process and is delivered by the nurses alone.The nurses delivers the prescribed regimens to the patients when ans where necessary , the nurse feeds the patient and with the help of the dietician plans the meal both routine and special diets which build up the patient body and immune system to accept the prescribed drugs and any other procedure to be carried out on a patient such as surgery.

One may argue that patients can be build up through IV lines , but without the nurse ensuring the field is sterile, the patient ends up being infected.

Hence the nursing approach to a patient well being , be it holistically or individualized , is curative and nurses should rise to acclaim the mental balance as this is the mental edge other healthcare providers like physicians have over nursing as a profession.

"Nurses heal and create the environment for healing to take place through nursing approached and procedure"

Article is written by NursesRound