MISSION STATEMENT
Pre-Nursing Society at Cal seeks to support all UC Berkeley pre-nursing students both academically and socially by providing opportunities to learn about nursing specialties, academic and career pathways, and nursing schools through guest speakers. Pre-Nursing Society offers students a network of peers with shared motivations and provides solutions to pre-nursing challenges through social support and educational interaction. The goal of PNS is to raise student awareness and establish nursing as a critical and rewarding occupation in health care.
WHAT IS NURSING? |
Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
What defines nursing and sets it apart from other healthcare professions, particularly medicine with which it has long been considered part and parcel? It is nurses’ focus – in theory and practice – on the response of the individual and the family to actual or potential health problems. Nurses are educated to be attuned to the whole person, not just the unique presenting health problem. While a medical diagnosis of an illness may be fairly circumscribed, the human response to a health problem may be much more fluid and variable and may have a great effect on the individual’s ability to overcome the initial medical problem. It is often said that physicians cure, and nurses care. In what some describe as a blend of physiology and psychology, nurses build on their understanding of the disease and illness process to promote the restoration and maintenance of health in their clients. -American Nurses Association |
WHAT WE DO? |
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