DISCUSS, IN REFERENCE TO NIGERIAN SYSTEM, WHY DO YOU THINK SOCIOLOGY IN NURSING IS IMPORTANT?

Incorporating sociology into the study of nursing emphasizes the social nature of health care and helps nurses understand their role as a social agents whose job requires interaction with and understanding of many different types of people from a variety of different backgrounds

 

Sociological knowledge also allows nurses to enhance the quality of patient care. Understanding individual patients' social context provides a significant insight into how they experience the world, in particular their experience of health and care

 

Nursing and sociology professions are tightly connected with each other because nursing is a profession that is focused on helping patients, their families and whole communities in recovering optimal health whereas sociology is the study of society and how people should live in it.

 

In Nigeria, the activity of nursing inevitably involves the social interaction of human individuals. As a consequence, if nurses are to do their job properly, they require an understanding of the nature of those interactions, and of the context in which they take place. In other words, they require a knowledge of sociology.

 

Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management, and education are also key nursing roles.

 

This shows us that the essence of nursing profession is to take care of people and help them not only when they ill, but also when they are healthy but need some help.

 

Sociology can be understood as the science of society, certain social institutions (government, law, morality, etc.), social processes and social communities of people. It is a science in which focused social communities, their origins, interactions and trends. Sociology is the science of generic properties and fundamental laws of social phenomena.

 

Sociology in the nursing context studies a not person in general, and his concrete world, but it studies social environment, communities which he is interested in and live in, the way of person’s life, social connections, social actions.

 

These incorporation of sociology in nursing also open new opportunities in patients’ care, because it allow nurses to understand not only personality of the patient, but also circumstances of his existence and his reaction on surrounding world and surrounding reality.