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AFTERIMPORTANCE OF CHEMISTRY TO EVERYDAY LIFE
It started when organic compounds were discovered. In middle ages you can see alchemists who experiments with turning metal to gold. You can actually see that chemistry has been a part on the lives of people in the past.
Chemistry is everywhere. The air we breathe, the ground we stand on, the seas we sail, and the variety of living things including our own bodies--all these are made of substances that we call chemicals. These chemicals interact with one another, and, in many cases, these interactions produce new substances through processes known as chemical reactions.
Chemistry has been a part on the food, a drink like the manufacture of soft drinks is also rich in chemistry, such as in the use of ingredients that produce special colors and flavors. One type of sweetener used in diet sodas is sucralose, which is made from sucrose (table sugar) and is advertised as containing "no calories.".
On Medical mysteries, today’s surgeons use sutures made of synthetic, biodegradable polymers that ensure biocompatibility, tensile strength, and dissolution by the body's natural action. Some of these polymers degrade by reacting with water, others by reacting with an enzyme in the body. The degradation products are carbon dioxide and water, which are produced in minute quantities that do not affect the body. In addition, a plastic bottle is preferred over a glass one because glass contains trace amounts of metal ions.
Chemistry on cleaning, household cleaners containing bleach or ammonia are quite useful as disinfectants, deodorizers, and stain removers. But the chemistry of these products dictates that you never mix bleach with ammonia cleansers. Mixing them leads to the formation of toxic gases called chloramines, characterized by acrid fumes that can burn mucous membranes. Scented bleaches can mask our natural ability to detect these harmful fumes.
Chemistry is a broad field of science most of us enjoy the benefits of it and some does not enjoy the effects of it. But how can we avoid that? It has been part of our life and continues to grow and develop. Many Chemists are expanding the possibilities on research works on this field to accomplish new products and inventions to help people.
IMPORTANCE OF CHEMISTRY TO YOUR PROFESSION
Chemistry for its part has been an important branch of science with numerous applications in the human area. It is a preparatory in nursing students to the actual performance in the hospital. You are dealing here with drugs and chemicals that you should know. The aim was to reflect the educational preparation of the individual. Nurses, particularly those who are working in community settings, make strenuous to prevent illness with the help of education and community programs designed to suppress transmittable diseases, violence, obesity, drinking, and tobacco use. Etc.
Nursing, in the most general sense, refers to the process of caring for, or looking after another individual. Looked at from a more specific point of view, the word nursing underlies the functions and duties carried out by persons who were given formal education and training in the arts and science of nursing.
If a nurse is equipped with the theory, knowledge and research of Chemistry, she can go to great lengths in serving the patients and/or people left under her care. If a nurse knows how to prepare various solutions at short notice this can be tremendous help both for the doctors and patients. This is particularly true in case of emergencies in which both doctors and nurses have to work under a lot of strain.
Knowing a lot in chemistry helps a nurse that has sufficient knowledge about the contents of substances in common use, they can be innovative, resourceful and responsible their knowledge of Chemistry can either make or mar the situation. Innumerable accounts exists of nurses saving the lives of patients in the eleventh hour and in some cases of being unable to provide the necessary care and leading to the loss of life of the patient.
Given the tremendous research underway in various fields of Chemistry, any study course for nursing must be flexible enough to make amends in itself as soon as the society needs it and the technology introduces new tools. This does not mean to make a compromise on the academic needs. Rather the program must be taken forward in a certain progression and sequencing.
The nurses must be exposed to as much clinical training as possible so that they could play their due roles the practical field. The nurses who have attended various programs testify that their knowledge of Chemistry stood them in good stead in the field.
Some might say that chemistry is a complicated subject but to tell you, if you give importance to chemistry in your profession (nurse) can ensure you to become a functioning nurse.
In the light of these facts, it becomes apparent that an understanding of chemistry is very important in the field of nursing both at a conceptual as well as in the practical domain.
