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  2. Teachable moment - Wikipedia

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    I am determined that this be a teaching moment." [8] On July 4, 2011, Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, used the term in an article [9] in Campus Review, describing the Australian Higher Education Base Funding Review as a rare opportunity to educate a wider public about how public tertiary education is supported. Davis ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Timeline of nursing history - Wikipedia

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    1951 – National Association for Practical Nurse Education and Service [69] (NAPNES) along with professional nursing organizations and the U.S. Department of Education created Vocational Nursing standards for education and the LPN / LVN level of nursing was created in the United States.

  5. Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery

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    The faculty is the world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medical school (St. Thomas' Hospital). [3] Established on 9 July 1860 by Florence Nightingale , the founder of modern nursing, it was a model for many similar training schools through the UK, Commonwealth and other countries for the ...

  6. History of nursing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It grew rapidly and in 1896 became the School of Nursing, University of Texas; it was the first nursing school to become part of a university in the state of Texas. [19] In recent decades, professionalization has moved nursing degrees out of RN-oriented hospital schools and into community colleges and universities.

  7. Nurse education - Wikipedia

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    Nurse education consists of the theoretical and practical training provided to nurses with the purpose to prepare them for their duties as nursing care professionals. This education is provided to student nurses by experienced nurses and other medical professionals who have qualified or experienced for educational tasks, traditionally in a type of professional school known as a nursing school ...

  8. Nursing - Wikipedia

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    Nursing A nurse checks a patient's blood pressure. Occupation Activity sectors Nursing Description Competencies Caring for general and specialized well-being of patients Education required Qualifications in terms of statutory regulations according to national, state, or provincial legislation in each country Fields of employment Hospital Clinic Laboratory Research Education Home care Related ...

  9. Mary Eliza Mahoney - Wikipedia

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    Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.