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The human need for the healthy life and welfare is not a privilege but a basic right to the people in all walks of life. The system of health care has had both strengths and weaknesses. A strength, for instance, is fact that we have had the most technically excellent medicin. The weakness, however is that we are not meeting the basic health care needs despite of the excellent medicine, hospital care and a large amount of cost in health care system. In order to solve this problem, the health care system is changing and directing toward disease prevention, health maintenance and health premotion. When we see health care as encompassing not only care of the sick, with all the complex techniques that are possible, but preventive medicine as well, it is no longer enough or one profession to ask itself. Now, as never before, health care delivery calls for the closest cooperation and the widest understanding from all the health professions. Under these situations, the role of the nurse have to be reconsidered. The main purpose of this study is to gain some of conclusions about how the nursing is going to change, the nurse’s changed role in health care delivery and the nursing’s tasks to prepare for the newly changed nurse’s role. The following statements are the conclusions of this study. 1) The professional nurse is expected to function as a responsible member of a health care team by interpreting and carrying out the instruction of others, by collabrating with professional collegues in the planning and delivery of health services, and by acting independently. 2) The professional nurses is expected to assume considerably greater responsibility for delivring primary health care services and longe term services. 3) In the special areas of nursing practice for primary care, the family nurse practitioner, pediatric nurse practitioner, the school nurse practitioner, the psychiatric mental health nurse specialist and nurse midwives are to be acted as the main health care providers in rural area and community. 4) The role of the physician’s assistant is no more extended role of the professional nurse. The professional nurses to be physician’s assistant should be limitted. 5) The nurse practitioners for primary care should rather be educated in the baccalaureate program than the graduate program or postgraduate program for master’s degree after deep investigation and experimentation. 6) The representatives of the nursing profession have to participate in enacting the laws related to the nursing and inform the extended nursing activities in details to the public.
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