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It is difficult at times to distinguish nursing from medicine, since there are so many ways in which they interrelate. Though some people think that nursing began with Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), it is in fact as old as medicine itself. Throughout history, there have been periods when the two fields functioned interdependently and times when they were practiced separately from each other. It seems likely that many of the seeds of medical knowledge were sown by the natural remedies used... więcej
Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health, 2023. 3p.
Sphere of Work. Nurse practitioners work in the medical field, providing healthcare to people from infants to older adults. Nurse practitioners have completed licensure as registered nurses as well as graduate-level training and additional certification, which enables them to perform health assessments and other specialized tasks. They are able to provide more autonomous, specialized, and advanced medical care than those with just a registered nurse degree. There are proposals under... więcej
Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.
Sphere of Work. Nursing aides, also called nursing assistants or patient care assistants, provide basic health services and patient care to patients under the direct supervision of licensed medical professionals. The range of services provided by nursing aides includes preventive care, routine medical care, personal hygiene care, and medical appointment transportation. Nursing aides are generally paid hourly and are employed by hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, insurance... więcej
Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.
In the broad field of applied ethics—that is, classroom disciplines in which specific difficult real-life situations and possible courses of actions are weighed against moral imperatives as part of the process of training professionals—nursing ethics looks particularly at the relationship levels of nurse–patient care, specifically the nurse’s role in the variety of difficult decisions that are part of day-to-day recovery care and rehabilitation. The field of nursing ethics reflects a... więcej
Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 2p.
Although often considered a women’s profession, men have served as nurses for centuries. From the early 1900s until the mid-1950s, however, men were banned from serving as military nurses, which fueled the present-day general misconception of nursing as a mainly female profession. From the 1970s, when men comprised less than 3 percent of all nurses in the United States, to the early 2020s, the number of male registered nurses (RNs) quadrupled, to over 13 percent of the nursing population.
Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 2p.
