nursing is
-:- caring, an art, a science, client centered, holistic, adaptive, concerned
with health promotion, health maintenance, and health re storation,
helping profession
nursing can be defined as
-:- science and art
science component of nursing
-:- uses the nursing process: the qu...
✓ -:- care provider, educator and counselor, client advocate, change agent,
leader and manager, researcher, coordinator of the interprofessional
health care team
RN demographics as of 2013
✓ -:- approximately 3 million RNs in the US;
average age: 44.6;
male RNs increased to 9.1%;
25% of RNs are nonwhite;
55% nurses have a minimum of BSN;
hospital opportunities
✓ -:- infection control, quality management, specific client services,
coordinator positions
variations on traditional roles in nursing
✓ -:- - hospice nurse: care for patients with a progressive terminal disease
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