Nursing

Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice. Nurses practice in many specialties with differing levels of prescription authority. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope of physicians, and this traditional role has shaped the public image of nurses as care providers. However, nurse practitioners are permitted by most jurisdictions to practice independently in a variety …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 16 July 2024 English

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. …

returned, even after she had graduated from the nursing school. Staring at her now, her eyes told me only


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

many of the country’s history of medicine and nursing organizations, and offers fellowships and grants erasure of the less miraculous and even mundane nursing work at the time by the patient’s mother. The theme


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to …

many of the country’s history of medicine and nursing organizations, and offers fellowships and grants the capital had organized a scheme of parochial nursing. Significantly, a few of the parish nurses of 1650–1725) appear to have created and maintained nursing enterprises; that is, they ran establishments time as domestic healing work – both medical and nursing – was increasingly commercialized. Women were paid accommodation. Better provisions of medicine, food, and nursing would be at hand, and “the thronging of weak men


NSP: New Society Publishers · 25 June 2024 English

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge …

careers beyond teaching, secretarial work, and nursing. Now, more girls in the US attend college than


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879–1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 – a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland’s union with …

Washington, dc NONia/Nonia Newfoundland Outport Nursing and Industrial Association Obe Officer of the launched, a cottage hospital system organized and nursing ser- vice made better, relief administration improved active supporter of the Newfoundland Outport Nursing and Industrial Association (Nonia), the Nurses’ Nurses’ Special Need Association was to “assist the Nursing Service of Newfoundland by the supply of special


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …

elements such as drugs, knowledge, bleeding, and nursing’.86 Without this, practitioners would have found cultural representations of health, illness and the nursing/care practices associated with these’.25 Peter


CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 18 June 2024 English

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include both direct and indirect costs, including nursing and staff complement costs, but exclude physician


DDN: Dundurn Press · 11 June 2024 English

An anarchist online group sets out to assassinate the corporate elites they believe have turned culture into a digital nightmare.“A blistering look at what our online and offline lives have …

brunch because of undone prep work for my seminar, nursing the Bloody Mary that I didn’t need. I listened


CHB: Coach House Books · 4 June 2024 English

Rocky meets Elmore Leonard meets Miranda July as Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue. Boxer ‘Pillow Fist’ Pete Wilson should be preparing for …

happened yet. You’re embarrassing your- self in a nursing home that hasn’t been built yet in front of a


DDN: Dundurn Press · 4 June 2024 English

A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to …

she would rise suddenly and stumble over the nursing puppies who fell from her teats. We needed someone


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