"Nursing is the protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human response", this is nursing according to the American Nurses Association.
According to Florence Nightingale who is considered the first nurse theorist over 100 years ago defined nursing as the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery(Nightgale,1860) has not changed.
There are 3 main types of nursing and these are Registered nurses( RNs.), Advanced Practice Nurses and Licenced Practice Nurses.
Work Cited
http://www.nursingworld.org/.
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