Nursing Activity is High Risk Profession

Nurses is a front line profession who closely with the patients 24 hours. Nurses in the Health Care Provider who work in Hospitals, clinics or other are front line profession who have to help patients that facing health problem. Nursing daily activities in workplace such as bedridden, giving injection, inserting IV, helping patient for personal hygiene, Patient lifting, travel patients from bed to the wheelchair or from bed to bed, accompany patients doing X-ray all are activities with so many risk.

The risk of nursing activities including getting cross infection from the patients, muscular disorder diseases, LBP (low back pain), getting risk from radiation exposure, needle pricking and so on. Low of nurses safety behavior and also no safety supervisor result in most of Nurses getting accident in the workplace in the period of work time.

To reduce to the nursing injury and accident need participate from Safety Department and Hospital Manager in order to make safety procedure and always supervisor control to daily nurses activity to avoid injury or accident happen.

Here state of safety procedure when nurses doing daily activities:

• Alway using Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) such as mask, glove, google, safety coat when do high risk activities like inserting IV, drawing blood sample, carried out specimen.
  
• Read to the safety procedure before taking action to patients.
  
• Use any device tool when travel patient from bed to wheelchair, bed to bed with strecher or other device tool to avoid injury or other accident.
  
• Do not ignore safety procedure if you don't want getting accident.
  
• Be carefully and keep your self always safe.

Be Safety First, safe your self.

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History Nursing Education In Indonesia

Indonesia is developing country with populations more than 22o millions that encounter health problem some with other Asian countries. These condition result in government to be provided Health Care Services to Indonesian Community to serve community health care. Therefore Indonesia Government provide Nurses through Nursing education to cover urgent Health Care Necessity . Indonesia Nursing Education primarily conducted from post graduated at Junior High School as long as 3 years similar with Senior High School called nursing School without any title degree. The alumnae from Nursing School may be handle as doctor assistance or placed in many Health Care Provider such as Hospital, Clinic, Public Health Service to perform Nursing Health Care.

Nursing School graduated is the basic Nurse who have few skill of nursing health care because the curriculum simple including, Nursing Procedure, Nursing Technique, Nursing Implementation it was reflected most of nursing school graduated capable only for nursing practical such as daily routine job, giving injection, routine vital sign, administered of IV, bedridden and doctor assistance . These condition made low to patient health care services and made nursing at that moment is depending on doctor order. Lack of nursing knowledge influence to nurses can not implementation well when they are work and low of Health Jobs Competitor.

Indonesia Government aware but they can do more because at that moment Indonesian is need more health care services to require high of health problem demand and after word the early of 1980 Nursing Diploma had opened. Nursing Diploma conducted post graduated from Senior high school as long as 3 years was degree title Diploma III (Ahli Madya Keperawatan).
The curriculum was different with the Nursing School that including aspect Comprehensive Care Bio, Psycho, Socio, Cultural Spiritual. They had already Nanda adopted nursing care plan and more skill than nursing school.

Nursing Diploma was doctor partner and other Health Care provider relationship to build nursing care in many hospital and other Public Health Care. They work not only depending on doctor order, but they have already mind set to perform nursing care plan even though not progressive as well as Registered Nurse in other countries, Nursing Diploma had capable to handle nursing care with nursing assessment, Intervention and Implementation to patients.

Finally Indonesia Nursing was improve to lead the Nursing Skill to become equal with other country and August 1985 Faculty of Nursing generation was established University Of Indonesia with degree title of BSN. Faculty of Nursing is the youngest faculty at University of Indonesia.
See and compare to the America Nursing . The Nurses' Associated Alumnae of United States and Canada was established in 1897 and renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911.
The America nursing history was long ago and so difference far from the Indonesia Nursing History, so it's made Indonesian Nurses is far leaved back.

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