Understanding The Human Services

Understanding The
Human Services

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Description of the main duties, responsibilities and tasks of nursing.........................................3
How and why the occupational group of nursing emerged.........................................................4
Analysis of policies and legislations relate to nursing................................................................5
Address changes to society which might be linked to the emergence, development of nursing
profession....................................................................................................................................5
Address the successes and downfalls related to profession of nursing.......................................6
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS............................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Human services refers to a kind of widely defined concept including unique approach to
meet objectives of requirements via an interdisciplinary knowledge bases. It focus on the
prevention as well as remediation of issues along with maintaining quality of overall life quality
of entire population living in the country (Benton and Shaffer, 2016). It includes number of
human services providers such as teacher, health visitor, social worker, mental health worker,
child abuse workers, police officer, probation officer, medical doctor, psychologist, speech
therapist, nursing, midwifery and many more. This report is based on the profession of nursing
which provide care to diseased people as per instructions of licensed physician. It will focus on
main duties and responsibilities of nursing along with related policies.
MAIN BODY
Description of the main duties, responsibilities and tasks of nursing
Nursing can be defined as an important medical profession in which a registered nurse
provide care and medical services to diseased according to the instruction of physician. They
have a role to monitor the condition and remain 24*7 with the patients. Main duties in nursing
includes to conduct assessment and plan to fulfil nursing care needs. Nursing staff is required to
provide pre and post operation care to the patient. Basically, it consist the criterion of monitoring
and administering the medication as well as intravenous infusions. Meanwhile, they have a duty
to take patient samples, pulse rate, temperatures and blood pressure to examine entire medical