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    Nursing encompasses the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and care for people of all ages in all health settings. It includes responding to health issues, assisting people to perform daily activities and gain independence. Nurses also work with other health professionals to plan, implement and evaluate health systems to ensure quality care for promoting health and treating illness.

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    Nursing encompasses the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and care for people of all ages in all health settings. It includes responding to health issues, assisting people to perform daily activities and gain independence. Nurses also work with other health professionals to plan, implement and evaluate health systems to ensure quality care for promoting health and treating illness.

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    Nursing encompasses the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and care for people of all ages in all health settings. It includes responding to health issues, assisting people to perform daily activities and gain independence. Nurses also work with other health professionals to plan, implement and evaluate health systems to ensure quality care for promoting health and treating illness.

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    DEFINITION OF NURSING

    Definition of Nursing (long version)

    Nursing, as an integral part of the health care system, encompasses the promotion of health, prevention of
    illness, and care of physically ill, mentally ill, and disabled people of all ages, in all health care and other
    community settings. Within this broad spectrum of health care, the phenomena of particular concern to
    nurses are individual, family, and group "responses to actual or potential health problems" (ANA, 1980,
    P.9). These human responses range broadly from health restoring reactions to an individual episode of
    illness to the development of policy in promoting the long-term health of a population.

    The unique function of nurses in caring for individuals, sick or well, is to assess their responses to their
    health status and to assist them in the performance of those activities contributing to health or recovery or
    to dignified death that they would perform unaided if they had the necessary strength, will, or knowledge
    and to do this in such a way as to help them gain full of partial independence as rapidly as possible
    (Henderson, 1977, p.4). Within the total health care environment, nurses share with other health
    professionals and those in other sectors of public service the functions of planning, implementation, and
    evaluation to ensure the adequacy of the health system for promoting health, preventing illness, and caring
    for ill and disabled people.

    Definition of Nursing 2 (short version)

    Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and
    communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness,
    and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research,
    participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management, and education are
    also key nursing roles.

    Definition of a Nurse

    The nurse is a person who has completed a program of basic, generalized nursing education and is
    authorized by the appropriate regulatory authority to practice nursing in his/her country. Basic nursing
    education is a formally recognized program of study providing a broad and sound foundation in the
    behavioral, life, and nursing sciences for the general practice of nursing, for a leadership role, and for post-
    basic education for specialty or advanced nursing practice. The nurse is prepared and authorized (1) to
    engage in the general scope of nursing practice, including the promotion of health, prevention of illness,
    and care of physically ill, mentally ill, and disabled people of all ages and in all health care and other
    community settings; (2) to carry out health care teaching; (3) to participate fully as a member of the health
    care team; (4) to supervise and train nursing and health care auxiliaries; and (5) to be involved in research.

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