Nursing Definitions and Responsibilities

Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy, patient and health systems management, and education.

To place the patient in the best possible condition for nature to act.

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

During the height of the Roman empire, around 300 A.D.

Florence Nightingale

The purpose of nursing is to promote health, healing, growth and development, and to prevent disease, illness, injury, and disability.

Nursing encompasses the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

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.

The focus of nursing is the individual, family, and group 'responses to actual or potential health problems.'

The purpose of nursing is to promote health, healing, growth and development, and to prevent disease, illness, injury, and disability.

Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy, patient and health systems management, and education

The goal of nursing is to place the patient in the best possible condition for nature to act.

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

It is believed that the nursing profession had its inception during the height of the Roman empire, around 300 A.D.

Florence Nightingale

To promote health, healing, growth, and development, and to prevent disease, illness, injury, and disability.

Protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

A person who is trained to care for sick or injured people, promote health, healing, growth, and development, and prevent disease, illness, injury, and disability.

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Individual, family, and group responses to actual or potential health problems.