What is the primary goal of nursing?

“The nurse's goal is to assist the physician in restoring optimal health to the patient.” Textbook, legal, and essentially that with which nurses are charged with doing. However, there is so much more quietly lurking between the words! read more

The primary goal of nursing as I see it, is to improve the quality of life of the patients we take care of both physically and psychologically. This is accomplished in several ways. As nurses we provide the medications and treatments ordered by the physicians in timely and efficient manner to improve the patients condition and help cure whatever has made them ill. read more

Advance excellence, innovation, and integrity in nursing education. Be the primary source of data for legislation, regulations, or decisions about nursing education and the nurse educator workforce; and that inform teaching practices across all types of nursing education programs for diverse student populations. read more

A goal for improving patient care could include dedicating "X" number of minutes per patient, per shift, for providing comfort measures; assigning certified nursing assistants to perform this function; or, introducing trained, vetted volunteer staff to help non-medical, non-critical patient interaction. read more