Nursing  

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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice. Nurses practice in many specialties with differing levels of prescription authority. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope of physicians, and this traditional role has shaped the public image of nurses as care providers. However, nurse practitioners are permitted by most jurisdictions to practice independently in a variety of settings. Since the postwar period, nurse education has undergone a process of diversification towards advanced and specialized credentials, and many of the traditional regulations and provider roles are changing.

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Nursing may refer to:

• Breastfeeding and wet nursing.
• Nursing, the medical profession. An individual whom does nursing is a nurse.
• "Nursing" may refer to "healing"

Namesakes

• Nurse with Wound, band
• "Night Nurse (song)"
• Nurse with Wound list

See also

• Advanced practice registered nurse
• Deaconess
• History of hospitals
• History of medicine
• History of nursing
• History of Nursing in the United Kingdom
• History of nursing in the United States
• History of Philippine nurses in the United States
• Index of nursing articles
• Licensed practical nurse
• List of nurses
• List of nursing specialties
• Men in nursing
• Nightingale Pledge
• Nurse uniform
• Nurse–client relationship
• Nurse scheduling problem
• Nursing care plan
• Nursing ethics
• Nursing school
• Stereotypes of nurses
• Nursing theory
• Registered nurse
• Transcultural nursing