Nursing

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What is Nursing?

Nursing is a discipline focused on assisting individuals, families and communities in attaining, re-attaining and maintaining optimal health and functioning. Modern definitions of nursing define it as a science and an art that focuses on quality of life as defined by persons and families. Nursing is not only concerned about health and functioning but with quality of living and dying, lived experience, and universal lived experiences of health.

Nursing is an applied science which has a unique body of knowledge that utilizes principles from the physical, biological, and behavioral sciences. The central concern of nursing is the holistic person. The focus of nursing is health promotion, maintenance, curative, restorative, supportive and terminal care to individuals and groups of all ages, taking into consideration the factors that influence them in the total environment

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Acute Care	Community Health	Mental Health
Admin. of Educational Programs	Community/Mental Health	Mental Health Ethnic Specialist
Admin. of Nursing Services	Correctional Health	Midwife
Adolescent Nurse Specialist	Critical Care	Neonatal
Adult Health Care	Delivery of Services- Staff Development	Neurological
Ambulatory Care	Developmental Disabilities	Nursing Health Policy
Ambulatory Child Health	Diabetes Nursing	Occupational Health
Family Nursing	Oncology	School Health
Anesthesia	Gerontology	Pediatric
Cardiovascular	Maternity Nursing	Physiological Nursing
College/University faculty	Pulmonary	Spinal Cord Injury Nurse
Psychiatric	Rehabilitation	Transcultural Nursing
Psychosocial Nursing	Respiratory	Trauma
Public Health	Emergency Surgical Nurse	Nurse Researcher
Staff Development/Educator	Hospital Administrator	Medical-Surgical
Primary Ambulatory Care

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