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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. History of nursing - Wikipedia

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   The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...

4. Why Become a Nurse? 7 Reasons to Consider a Nursing Career

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   The bottom line. Nursing is a rewarding career with good opportunities for advancement, stability, and compensation. It’s not without drawbacks, though. Working as a nurse can be both physically ...

5. What Is a Registered Nurse? - WebMD

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   Nursing programs are offered at both the associate (ADN) and bachelor (BSN) level. Although the licensure level is the same for both programs, the BSN requires more general and medical coursework. ...

6. Nursing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Nursing in the United States is a professional health care occupation. It is the largest such occupation, employing millions of certified professionals. As of 2023, 3,175,390 registered nurses were employed, paid a median income of $86,070. [ 1 ] Nurses are not doctors' assistants and practice nursing in a wide variety of specialties and ...

7. History of nursing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Nursing professionalized rapidly in the late 19th century following the British model as larger hospitals set up nursing schools that attracted ambitious women from middle- and working-class backgrounds. Agnes Elizabeth Jones and Linda Richards established quality nursing schools in the U.S. and Japan.

8. Nursing Interventions for COPD: How Nurses Help Treat COPD

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   listening to your lung sounds. asking about your cough and any mucus that comes up. asking what kinds of exercise or activities you can tolerate. checking your legs for swelling. checking the size ...

9. Registered nurse - Wikipedia

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   Registered nurse. A registered nurse (RN) is a nurse who has graduated or successfully passed a nursing program from a recognized nursing school and met the requirements outlined by a country, state, province or similar government-authorized licensing body to obtain a nursing license. [1][2] An RN's scope of practice is determined by ...