Talk:Nurse

message: Any chance that we could get a photo of a male nurse in the article? There are certainly enough men (even masculine, heterosexual, basically asterotypical type male nurses) that are serving in this profession to warrant at least one photo to acknowledge their existance. Does anyone have a photo to contribute to this article? Please add it if you do. Thanks. (By the way, I want to say that I am not implying that there is anything wrong with other than heterosexual nurses, I am just attempting to make a point about the persistance of the sterotype and thought that all nurses are female or gay which male nurses contend with on a regular basis- personally, I wish they would change the name of the profession from nurse to something more gender ambiguous, I'm not quite sure exactly what that might be though but I think it should be based on the professional's focus, career level, and education- just a thought).
I would upload one of me but I am one of those stereotypes.  'Nurse' is not gender ambiguous merely society expects nurses to be female, once more males enter the profession maybe the misconceptions will disappear Panthro (talk) 08:33, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's actually peach/apricot. Someguy1221 (talk) 05:44, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Male Nurses

message: I have noticed that there is excessive capitalisation in this article. I do not think that registered nurse, health care assistant or similar terms should have a capital letter. If you refer to any nursing dictionary you will find that these terms do not have a capital letter. The only time you might use a capital is when you are using it as a title such as Nurse Jones. I would like to replace all of these capitals but as it is quite a major job I thought I would canvas opinion on it first. --Vince 10:46, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalisation 

message: I have created a nursing portal in progress at Portal:Nursing.  The first step should be to get the primary articles in good condition:  mainly "Nursing" and "Nurse". 
-THB 02:58, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nursing Portal

message: I started a timeline of nursing history as there is no nursing history article (or good section of an article.)  I chose this approach as it gives an overview, links to many other articles, and can serve as the outline for a regular article later.  Please feel free to contribute.-THB 16:57, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Timeline of nursing history]]

message: In the future, add a section discussing a list of cartoon nurses by looking through any cartoon nurses. The section will be titled "Cartoon Nurses."
*Bad idea.  A separate article entitled Cartoon nurses would be fine. -THB 05:25, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed addition to this article:cartoon nurses 

message: I pared down the U.S. section in this article since there is now a main article Nursing in the United States.  The UK section could use a little nip and tuck here and there, too. -THB 00:01, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Country articles

message: The long-standing (and recently intensified) friction between nursing and the other healthcare professions is probably worthy of mention if someone can do a good lit review on it. However, I don't see any need to have what is effectively just a list of a very small number of the wider spectrum of healthcare providers with an explanation of what they do - that surely belongs in an article such as "Healthcare Professional" or similar. If there are no objections, I'll remove. --John24601 16:52, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The original intent of that paragraph, I believe, was to explain that a lot of the health care workers people assume are nurses, such as aides or techs, aren't.  In the U.S. a lot of hospitals have been adding non-nurses and even putting them in similar uniforms (usually scrubs) in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to confuse the public about how few nurses there really are in the hospital. Maybe the paragraph should be more about how nurses are part of the health care "team". -THB 20:02, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other healthcare workers 

message: This article has really improved because of the effort so many people put in it as "collaboration of the month". It has a consistent framework, a more even distribution of information, REFERENCES (some, anyway!), and reads better. -THB 18:42, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Looks much better

message: Discussion prior to September 2005 has been archived and may be accessed from the archive box at the top of the page.-THB 23:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old discussion

message: Why are the contents on the right and the infobox or illustrative pic on the left? This the exact opposite of general Wikipedia Protocol. Quadzilla99 20:39, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Format

message: what is the african information about nurses? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.229.193.101 (talk) 14:13, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  African information 

message: I see some bright spark has added various requests for citations; maybe they should do it for the lot as there are only five or so very dubious refes throughout! Ianguy 04:05, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: The entry should be shortened, and some sections removed into separate parts. I'll do a quick fix, but somebody else should clean up a little more. MadMaxDog 12:19, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lede

message: Can anyone add information on ILO Convention 149?  Among other things, they distinguish between professional and auxiliary nurses.  I know that these terms may not be used in all or even many countries, but there must be some corespondence between the terminology in the ILO convention and that used by signatory countries. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 15:05, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The International Labour Organization's 149th convention was conceived in 1977.  A lot has changed in nursing since then and to be honest I think it adds little to the article.  The article explains the difference quite clearly between a registered and non-registered nurse.  And in any case after reading the convention; it doesn't explain the difference between a professional or auxiliary nurse.  Panthro 17:58, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  International Labor Organization 

message: G'day all.  As I posted on the WP:NURSE talk page, I am interested in getting the nursing WikiProject active again and improving the quality of the Wikipedia nursing articles.
I have watched the Nurse page for awhile, and I understand that it has gone through many revisions.  It is not an easy article to write.  How on earth do you describe what we are, what we do?  More importantly, how do you do so succinctly and for an international audience?
I feel strongly that the article has structural problems, and I see from #Country articles (above) that I'm not the only one.  I believe that the Nurse article tries to do too much, that it should concentrate on describing our profession to an excellent standard.  I feel the current structure tends to be a laundry-list of nations rather than an encyclopaedic description of a profession.
Therefore, my first proposal for this article is that most or all of the country-specific information be moved into separate articles (current examples of which are Nursing_in_Australia and Nursing_in_the_United_States), as describing nursing practice in countries around the world is too much to ask of any one article.
My goal: feature article status for Nurse.  If I were to attempt to raise your competitive hackles, I'd point out that of Pharmacist, Physician, Physical_therapist, and Occupational_therapist, none rate a good article flag, let alone a featured article.  We could be the first ;)
I welcome your comments.  Cheers, Basie (talk) 06:17, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I am beginning the process of moving country-specific information to other articles.  Cheers, Basie (talk) 17:29, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

text: Thanks! Absolutely, there is much more to be done.  I'd love to find a better image for the head, but don't have one at present so will focus on text for now ;)  Cheers, Basie (talk) 21:01, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Nurse article and WikiProject Nursing: getting back to basics 

message: Image:Newborn-incubator-toronto.jpg|New image
Image:Altenpflegerin D1824.jpg|Old image
Image:Krankenschwester Janine01.jpg|Old image
I have changed the picture associated with the head of the article to the one at above left, which used to be buried at the end of the article.  Why?
*It depicts direct patient care
*The figure is clearly identifiable as a nurse and nothing else
*The expression on her face, and the way she is holding her patient, say a lot about our profession.  She's obviously careful, gentle, caring, watchful.
*Gives the article a sense of history
I don't have anything especially against the other two nurses, but the pictures feel a bit posed and the third in particular is like a publicity shot, with the background edited out.  The article has a large number of pictures and I'd like to pare that down a bit.
Also, the second picture has a rather dodgy comment attached to it which I don't feel happy with as being associated with the article.  I won't repeat it here, click the image and scroll down if you're curious. Cheers, Basie (talk) 08:32, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That vandalism was reverted, see this diff. Basie (talk) 19:33, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

text: Oh, and I agree with posts made some time ago about the need for at least one image of a man, and for modern pictures.  If you've got 'em, and they're in commons, go for it! Basie (talk) 08:35, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a rubbish picture, to be honest.  However, is much better than the previous. "The figure is clearly identifiable as a nurse and nothing else"  Not true.  Midwifery is a distinct profession here in Britain and elsewhere.  Saying that, until a more appropriate image is found, it should remain Panthro (talk) 12:24, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I meant in the sense that visitors to the page are unlikely to think, "Oh, that's a midwife!"  Or for that matter, "Oh, that's an insurance salesman!"  Still, point taken.  Not sure what makes it a rubbish picture, but then I'm no photographer. Cheers, Basie (talk) 19:25, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New head image 

message: Image:2june 2007 484.jpg|Nurses June 2007
Image:Georgina Pope.jpg|Georgina Pope
Image:Nursing students.jpg|Nursing students
Took this one down as well, at least in the meantime... running out of room!  Does anyone have any information on where this was taken, or what they were doing?  Cheers, Basie (talk) 09:27, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Put Georgina Pope here for now too.  I imagine the discussion as to which pictures are best could prove lively, but for now I'm focusing on the text. Basie (talk) 12:41, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed image 

message: I realise that the term is now  likely to be depreciated in many countries, but bearing in mind that there is a link here from the "sister" disamb page, I think some discussion about the term would be helpful. Thehalfone (talk) 09:31, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have realised that the use of the term "sister" may be restricted to the UK, in which case it doesn't belong here. In this case however we need to change the link from the disamb page. I don't know which is the right thing to do. Thehalfone (talk) 09:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sister 

message: I changed this section a lot. It seemed to be original research and contained too many weasel words. I removed the following:
* It is commonly agreed that the term "nurse", despite the overt change in usage, carries with it the connotation of breastfeeding and "wet-nursing." - weasel words that could never bee supported by a citation. Also probably not true. Most english speakers are probably unaware of any link between the word "nurse" and the concept of breast feeding. 
* This lack of male interest may thus contribute to the shortage of nurses —a serious problem in the medical profession. - this is just (prbably correct) speculation.
Thehalfone (talk) 09:45, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: The Russian nurses in the picture are Empress Alexandra and her daughters, Olga and Tatiana. I thought they should be identified.71.66.230.44 (talk) 09:52, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Russian nurses

message: is a nurse more caring then a doctor  i say yes  baecause doctor are stupid.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.255.60.67 (talk) 17:34, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is a nurse more careing then a doctor.  

message: I was thinking an infobox for the top of the article. Any objections? Any comments?
Gemty (talk) 19:44, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  infobox 

message: how can i be one of your student  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akinmade mariam (talk • contribs) 14:49, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  nursing