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2. Nursing - Wikipedia

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   Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence". [1] Nurses practice in many specialties with ...

3. Health care - Wikipedia

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   Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry ...

4. Health education - Wikipedia

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   Society portal. v. t. e. Health education is a profession of educating people about health. [1] Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health, as well as sexual and reproductive health education. [2] [3] Health education has been defined ...

5. Physical Examination: Purpose, Preparation, and Procedure

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   Procedure. Follow-up. A physical examination is a routine test your primary care provider (PCP) performs to check your overall health. It’s also known as a wellness check. You don’t have to be ...

6. What Is a Nurse Practitioner? What They Do, When to ... - WebMD

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   A pediatric nurse practitioner, PNP, focuses on children ranging from birth to age 18. They work as general nurse practitioners do, focusing on child health and wellness. They can do physical ...

7. Medical Assistants: What do they do? - WebMD

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   Medical assistants are health care professionals who help doctors in clinics, medical offices, and hospitals. They may make your appointment, take your vital signs, and draw your blood. A medical ...

8. Health professional - Wikipedia

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   Health professional. A health professional, healthcare professional, or healthcare worker (sometimes abbreviated HCW) [1] is a provider of health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. The field includes those who work as a nurse, physician (such as family physician, internist, obstetrician, psychiatrist, radiologist ...

9. What Is a Physician? What Do They Do and When to See One - WebMD

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   Physicians work to maintain, promote, and restore health by studying, diagnosing, and treating injuries and diseases. Physicians generally have six core skills: Patient care. Physicians have to ...