1. A position paper on nursing.
- Author
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Hall, Dorothy C.
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NURSING , *MEDICAL care , *NURSE-patient relationships , *MEDICINE , *MEDICAL personnel , *REHABILITATION - Abstract
Nursing, as a profession in its own right and a discrete health discipline, is responsible for planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating nursing services as a distinct segment of health care, and for educating practitioners to provide these services. The primary responsibility of nursing is to provide care direct to the patient, client, family or community. Like medicine, it is concerned with maintaining, promoting and protecting health, treating the sick and providing rehabilitation. It deals with the psychosomatic and psychosocial aspects of life as these affect health, illness and dying. In modern health services, nursing care is often best given by a nursing care team which usually consists of two or more categories of workers. These workers together make up the nursing personnel subsystem, which is a distinct entity within the overall health personnel system of a country.
- Published
- 1977
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