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nursing

[′nərs·iŋ]
(medicine)
The application of the principles of physical, biological, and social sciences in the physical and mental care of people.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

nursing

See HOSPITAL.
Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2000

Nursing

Eira
Frigga’s attendant; taught science of nursing to women. [Norse Myth.: LLEI, I: 327]
Irene
(fl. 3rd century) ministered to St. Sebastian, who was wounded by arrows. [Christian Hagiog.: Hall, 162]
Lellis, St. Camillus de
improved hospitals; patroness of sick and nurses. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 78–79]
Nightingale, Florence
(1820–1910) English nurse; founder of modern nursing. [Br. Hist.: NCE, 1943.]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The early years of the parish nursing ministry prove that it takes time and firsthand experience for congregations to get to the point where they understand and appreciate their parish nurse and are willing to pay for the ministry the nurse provides.
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As things stand as of press time, no RHIO has yet incorporated regular, active data exchange involving nursing homes, according to Clement J.
Many educators now advocate that nursing and allied health disciplines employ faculty with doctorate credentials specific to their discipline (guess, 1995; Sullivan, 1996).
This association and demoralisation hindered males while choosing nursing as their career.
Nurse Life Care Planning serves the basis for many emerging areas within the nursing practice.
My roommate had more nursing needs than I did, and I know that his opinion of the weekend staff shortage would be expressed in stronger terms.
Siegel also cites the sociological problem of communities opposing mental health facilities' being placed in their areas or permitting nursing home residents with mental illnesses to be allowed to go out unaccompanied--in other words, the NIMBY (not in my backyard) phenomenon.
La Salle School of Nursing (SON) is the La Salle Neighborhood Nursing Center (LSNNC), a nurse managed health center.
(2) A relatively new field in the criminal justice arena, forensic nursing originated in the early 1990s.
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