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Nurse
* Are responsible for the dispensing of medication and caring for the sick and injured.
* Many nurses go into health care out of a desire to help people get better and minimize suffering
  - have the potential to be exposed to hazardous drugs in the workplace
  - say that loss of clinical control is visible in their daily work
  - work in research, teaching, and administration
* Most nurses work for an agency, but some nurses work independently and are self-employed.
* Most nurses work in centers
  - well-lighted, comfortable health care facilities
  - overtime to increase their salary
  - with families
* Some nurses care for women
  - concentrate in a specialized field, such as surgery
  - even give health counseling on nutrition, chronic illness, and disease prevention
  - focus on women
  - follow the traditional role of working in a hospital setting
* Some nurses have bees
  - medical conditions
  - serious medical conditions
  - participate as investigators in organized research using animal or human subjects
  - prefer to work with patients in a particular age group such as children or older adults
  - publish books
  - train and work to help during surgery
  - use volunteer positions as a way to gain clinical experience in a new area
* Some nurses work as legal consultants
  - nurse consultants
  - with children.
  * work in many places. Nurses work in hospitals, in doctor's offices, and in the community, and they even visit people at home.
  * Like doctors, nurses can specialize in what work they do. Some nurses train and work to help during surgery. Nurses can do many different jobs to help people
* achieve excellent outcomes
* act as advisers and consultants to the health care and insurance industries.
* actually work in clinics, hospitals, health centers, and schools.
* alone constitute the single largest category of health workforce across Europe.
* also help doctors perform diagnostic tests
  - maintain health records
* also play a key role in the management of chronic diseases and disabilities
  - significant role in politics
  - provide education to promote health and prevent injury and illness
  - suffer from societal tolerance of violence
  - teach in schools of nursing, in colleges and universities throughout the world
  - work in patients' homes, and nursing homes
* are a special type of people
  - advocates and health educators for patients, families, and communities
  - also at risk for violence and abuse in the workplace
  - among few groups of professionals whose mistakes can cost lives
  - care givers
  - client advocates
  - different from doctors
  - engaged in duties
  - experts in community health care, from assessment to decision-making to evaluation
  - frequently the ones who interact with patients in clinical trials
  - frontline providers of health care
* are health educators, clinical specialists, family advocates and health policy makers
  - human beings with normal sexual emotions and desires, as are patients
* are increasingly critical to health care
  - healthcare
  - key to the healthy functioning of any community
* are located in clinics
  - major providers of health services
  - medics
  - members of a global community with no borders or boundaries
  - often the front line in healthcare and the first to see a patient
  - patient advocates
  - specialists in humanness, as well as experts in health and illness
  - synonymous with a sense of caring and compassion
  - teachers, technicians and artists of touch
* are the backbone of the American health care system
  - whole health care system
  - core of the health care system
  - foundation for providing care to hospital patients
  - front-line managers of medical care
  - health care workers most at risk, with female nurses considered the most vulnerable
  - heart of health care
* are the largest group of health care professionals
  - professionals employed in prisons and jails
  - single group of healthcare providers in the United States
  - second mothers of the Zambian people
  - very special people with special skills
  - vital contributing members of the nation's healthcare system
* assist in crime scene examinations
* assist individuals and families when illness impairs their ability to cope with daily life
  - groups to achieve and maintain optimal health
* become resources.
* believe that pay reflection of how they are valued.
* belong to a single profession.
* bridge the gap between the needs of individual patients and the healthcare system.
* can also reduce afterload by helping patients control pain and anxiety
  - be role models, demonstrating the results of a healthy lifestyle to patients
  - have a major impact on health-care legislation
  - specialize in nursing education or nursing administration
* can work in clinics, in the home, in offices, schools, and in businesses
  - with any age group of people from babies to the elderly
* care for and care about other people
  - people who are facing great disruption in their lives
  - the sick and injured and help people stay well
* collaborate with physicians and care managers to optimize all aspects of patient care
* comprise the largest number of health professionals in the United States.
* confirm facts.
* consume nuts.
* contact physicians.
* coordinate care
* deal with pain and death in the very young and very old
  - the human response to illness at every stage of life
* develop outcomes.
* diagnose and treat a person's response to illness.
* discuss care
  - kangaroo care
* draw blood samples
* embrace reality.
* encourage patients.
* enter labor markets
* examine individuals.
* expose to chemicals.
* find patients.
* focus on caring, coupled with understanding and purpose
  - how individuals and families respond to actual or potential health problems
* follow guidelines.
* function with responsibility and accountability in a variety of roles and settings.
* get flu
  - meager wages, work under insanitary conditions and are vulnerable to sexual abuse
* go to communities.
* have a key role in ensuring blood safety
  - pivotal role in reaching individuals and communities about health issues
  - significant role to play in primary healthcare and health promotion
  - social contract to respect and protect human life
  - career opportunity
* have many career opportunity
  - power in knowledge and in numbers
  - values
* hear stories.
* help patients to recover from illness and learn to care for themselves
* improve equity and access to health care and add quality to the outcome of care.
* includes adult bodies
  - body substances
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - heads
  - legs
  - necks
  - nuclei
  - personality
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* increase resistance.
* instruct parents.
* know health
  - indicators
* look after patients in hospitals.
* maintain care facilities
* make a large contribution to the health and wellness of society today
  - effort
  - significant contributions to the quality of a person's life
* manage the contexts in which care and treatment occurs.
* monitor and support persons with long-term conditions.
* observe hands
  - neck veins
* often coordinate the team of healthcare professionals who care for patients
  - have a different focus than physicians, in part because they see patients more
  - utilize systems theory to assess family units
* often work in multi-disciplinary teams
  - with multiple patients with various health needs
* plan care.
* play a key role in planning and providing quality, cost-effective care
  - major role in the recovery of severely burned patients
* play a vital role in educating people in how to avoid illness and promote good health
  - our health care system
  - the health care industry
  - an important role in the practice of using physical restraints in children
* practice in many settings and assume a vital role in health care.
* protect and preserve dignity and the sanctity of life.
* provide care
  - details
  - health care which means that employment opportunities always exist
  - nutrition counsel
* pursue education.
* read instruction.
* recognize incidents
  - symptoms
* record arm blood pressure
* represent the largest body of health-care providers.
* see babies
  - birds
* sometimes fall into a pattern of self-neglect by placing others' needs ahead of their own.
* support nursing research and the development of holistically oriented nursing theories
* take care.
* teach nutrition to parents, making follow-up home visits to monitor family meals
  - people to promote and maintain their own wellness and to prevent illness
* treat the whole person, interacting in holistic ways that promote optimal health.
* use advance technology
* wear gloves
  - wristwatches with cigarette brands on the face
* work as researchers in laboratories, universities, and research institutions
  - for years
* work in any setting where there are clients requiring care
  - collaboration with physicians and members of other healthcare disciplines
  - the community, in rural and remote areas and in hospitals
  - on a primary nurse system
  - primarily in bureaucratic institutions
  - to promote health, prevent disease, and help patients cope with illness
* working in rural settings can integrate sexual health care into community health care.