Nursing It is not easy to describe nursing because of the complexity, but the World Health Organization calls nurses indispensable contributors to worldwide health programs and praise nurses for their cost effective high standards that promote quality care. They work in the legislature, the Centers for Disease Control, in law offices, foreign schools, villages, the mountains, and the beach. Nurses often save people's lives through emergency care or the recogniton of disease or mistreatment. They work with people who are dying and who are being born. They work with babies, children, teenagers, adults and elders.
Many nurses work in research, teaching, and administration.
More and more nurses with excellent clinical and communication skills are needed as case managers in preventative health and in health promotion. Nurses are different from doctors. Nursing's philosophy is based in care that promotes health in all areas of a person's life. This includes cultural, social, and psychological consideration. The field of medicine focuses more on what doctors do in diagnosing illness and prescribing treatment.