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  2. History of nursing - Wikipedia

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    The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...

  3. Timeline of nursing history - Wikipedia

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    2002 – The Nursing and Midwifery Council takes over from the UKCC as the UK's regulatory body. 2003 – Primary Health Care framework document is released by New Zealand Ministry of Health. [12] 2004 – The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) recommends that all advanced practice nurses earn a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree ...

  4. History of nursing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For textbooks, many schools used: A Manual of Training (1878); A Hand-Book of Nursing for Family and General Use (1878); A Text-Book of Nursing for the Use of Training Schools, Families, and Private Students (1885); and Nursing: Its Principles and Practice for Hospital and Private Use (1893). These books defined the curriculum of the new ...

  5. Timeline of nursing history in Australia and New Zealand

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    Nursing, The Finest Art: An Illustrated History (3rd ed. 2010), includes over 400 illustrations; 416pp; Harris, Kirsty. Girls in Grey: Surveying Australian Military Nurses in World War I History Compass (Jan 2013) 11#1 PP 14–23, online free, with detailed bibliography; Papps, E., (2002). Nursing in New Zealand.

  6. Nursing - Wikipedia

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    Nursing practice is the actual provision of nursing care. ... nurses was 45.4 per 10,000 full time employees, while nursing aids came in at 145.5 compared to the ...

  7. Nightingale's environmental theory - Wikipedia

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    She stated in her nursing notes that nursing "is an act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery" (Nightingale 1860/1969), [3] that it involves the nurse's initiative to configure environmental settings appropriate for the gradual restoration of the patient's health, and that external factors associated with the patient's surroundings affect life or biologic ...

  8. Nursing in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the transfer of nursing education to the university sector, nurses were trained in accordance with the British model of a three-year apprentice style course of theory and practice instruction in hospital nursing schools and on the wards commencing [15] with a 6-week preliminary training school (PTS) with the earliest accepted entry age ...

  9. Nursing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Nursing history (9153) online; Judd, Deborah and Kathleen Sitzman. A History of American Nursing: Trends and Eras (2nd ed. 2013) 382 pp excerpt and text search 1st edition; Kalisch, Philip A., and Beatrice J. Kalisch. Advance of American Nursing (3rd ed 1995) ; 4th ed 2003 is titled, American Nursing: A History