The Versatile but Undermined Role of the Nursing Profession Needs the Attention of Health Planners and other Stakeholders

Abstract

In our society, nursing up till now could earn its role as a vocation instead of being a profession. By definition, a profession is the set of activities that persons perform to earn money, and the rules are prescribed by a society knowledge and skills attained based on by 1 training . Actually, the nurses have been struggling hard for many years to achieve professional status. The existence of a body of knowledge distinct from other disciplines is a distinguishing feature of a profession. Several sources of knowledge laid down the foundation of nursing and their practice for better quality of care including tradition, authority, borrowed knowledge, trial, and error. However, recently they directed their efforts to establish an overt body of knowledge so that nursing can be undoubtedly recognized as a diverse profession.