DEFINITION OF NURSE..

DEFINITION OF NURSE..In various aspects..

1.Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

Health-care profession providing physical and emotional care to the sick and disabled and promoting health in all individuals through activities including research, health education, and patient consultation. Nursing gained recognition in the 19th century with the activities of Florence Nightingale. Many nurses have specialties (e.g., psychiatry, critical care). Nurse-practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse-anesthetists, and nurse-midwives undertake tasks traditionally performed by physicians. Nursing degrees go as high as the doctorate, and staff positions include administration. In addition to health-care settings, nurses practice in schools, the military, industry, and private homes. Community (public health) nurses educate the public on topics such as nutrition and disease prevention.

2.Sci-Tech Encyclopedia:

The application of principles from the basic sciences, social sciences, and humanities to assist healthy and sick individuals and their families or other caring persons in performing those activities that contribute to the individuals' physical and mental well-being and that they would perform unaided if able to do so. Nursing includes providing physical and emotional care, promoting comfort, serving as patient advocates, assisting in rehabilitative efforts, teaching self-care and health promotion activities, and administering treatments prescribed by a licensed physician or dentist. Patient-care activities are conceived and coordinated so as to help individuals gain independence as rapidly as possible or maintain an optimal level of function. When multiple health-care providers are involved, nursing coordinates patient-care efforts to improve the quality of care.
Nursing practice is conducted in a variety of settings, including hospitals, community facilities, private homes, nursing homes, schools, industry, physician's offices, the military, and civil service arenas. Standards for nursing practice and licensure are governed by state nurse practice acts and are directed by professional nursing organizations.
Two types of nurses are legally recognized in the United States: the registered professionalnurse and the licensed practical nurse. Licensed practical or vocational nurses (LPNs or LVNs) are trained to perform uncomplicated patient-care tasks in hospitals or other health-care facilities under the aegis of registered nurses or physicians.  

3.Dental Dictionary:

1. the performance of those activities that contribute to the health or recovery of a patient (or to a peaceful death). n 2. the application of prescribed therapies and the management of the patient and environment to assist in healing.

4.Wikipedia

Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from birth to death.
Nurses work in a large variety of specialties where they work independently and as part of a team to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care. Nursing Science is an established field of knowledge based on the contributions of nursing scientist through peer reviewed scholarly journals and evidenced-based practice. It is a dynamic field of practice and research that is based in contemporary culture and concerns itself with both mainstream and marginalized subcultures in order to deliver the most culturally sensitive and competent nursing care.

The roles of a nurse

The Roles of a Nurse...

•Care Provider
•Communicator
•Teacher
•Counselor
•Leader
•Manager
•Researcher
•Case Manager
•Collaborator

Care Provider
The nurse supports the client by attitudes and actions that show concern for client welfare and acceptance of the client as a person. The nurse is primarily concerned with the client’s needs.

Communicator
The nurse communicates with clients, support persons and colleagues to facilitate all
nursing actions.

Teacher
The nurse provides health teaching to effect behavior change which focuses on acquiring new knowledge or technical skills. This role gives emphasis on health promotion and health maintenance.

Counselor
The nurse helps the client to recognize and cope with the stressful psychologic or social problems, to developed improved personal relationships and to promote personal growth. This role includes providing emotional, intellectual and psychologic support.

Leader
The nurse through the process of interpersonal influence helps the client make decisions
in establishing and achieving goals to improve his well-being.

Manager
The nurse plans, gives directions, develops staff, monitors operations, gives rewards fairly, and represents both staff members and administration as needed. The nurse manages the nursing care of individuals, groups, families and communities. The nurse manager delegates nursing activities to ancillary workers and other nurses and supervises and evaluates their performance.

Researcher
The nurse participates in scientific investigation and uses research findings in practice. The nurse helps develop knowledge about health and promotion of health over the full life span; care of person with health problems and disabilities; and nursing actions to enhance people’s ability to respond effectively to actual or potential health problems.

Case Manager
The nurse coordinates the activities of other members of health care team, such as
nutritionists and physical therapist, when managing a group of client’s care.

Doctors vs. Nurses

This is the most popular but stinking title between nurses. I know by my experience that these two categories are more enemies to each others than friends but neither of them shows it outside.
Doctors are more keen to keep there superiority in the health sector and as they know that these nurses are the biggest challenge for them and the category which is working more closely with them than others. So they always trying to prove they are better than nurses and are the superiors. They even trying to push nurses as far as back as possible.

Nurses on the other hand always had to fight there way to up and to keep what they already have they can never quite fighting. Former nursing leaders had to fight a lot to gain what they should have had already. The education of nurses shouldn't be conducted by doctors and that is a vital point. Nursing practice must be develop indipendantly to physician practice. Or else the doctors will step over nurses.

But doctors always trying to block nurses ways to the up and that is why nursing education is progression this much slowly. But what everyone should understand is doctors and nurses are equally important for patients and no one specially doctors shouldn't try to cross there way for a better care for patients.