Nursing is a profession within the healthcare
sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so
they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life - WIKIPEDIA
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. - ICN
Nursing the provision, at various levels of preparation, of services essential
to or helpful in the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health
and well-being or in prevention of illness, as of infants, of sick and
injured, or of others for any reason unable to provide such services for
themselves. - Medical Dictionary
Henderson defined nursing in functional terms: “The unique function of
the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance
of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to a
peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary
strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a way as to help him
gain independence as rapidly as possible.”
Florence Nightingale defined
nursing over 100 years ago as "the act of utilizing the environment of
the patient to assist him in his recovery( Nightingale,1860).
Nightingale considered a clean,well-ventilated, and quiet environment
essential for recovery. Often considered the first nurse theorist.
Nightingale raised the status of nursing through education. Nurses were
no longer untrained housekeepers but people educated in the care of the
sick.
Martha Rogers defined nursing as a humanistic science for
maintaining and promoting health, preventing illness, caring for and
rehabilitating the sick and the disabled.
Imogene King: Nursing is a process of action, reaction, and interaction whereby nurse
and client share information about their perception in the nursing
situation.
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