nurses

     

A nurse is responsible—along with other health care professionals—for the treatment, safety, an recovery of acutely or chronically ill or injured people, health maintenance of the healthy, and treatment of life-threatening emergencies in a wide range of health care settings. Nurses may also be involved in medical and nursing research and perform a wide range of non-clinical functions necessary to the delivery of health care. Nurses also provide care at birth and death.

Trivia about nurses

  • In June of 1861, Dorothea Dix was appointed to supervise the female ones of these
  • A Hallmark card for these professionals' day, near Mother's Day, refers to their "patient, giving ways"
  • The Golden Lamp awards are bestowed for the best protrayals of these health professionals in the media
  • On October 6, 1955 the U.S. Army comissioned its first male one of these
  • These hospital employees have their patron in St. Agatha
  • A 2001 government report warned of a shortage of these people, of whom 40% will soon be over age 50