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  2. Patricia Benner - Wikipedia

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    Patricia Sawyer Benner is a nursing theorist, academic and author. She is known for one of her books, From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice (1984). Benner described the stages of learning and skill acquisition across the careers of nurses, applying the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition to nursing practice.

  3. Florence Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    St Thomas' Hospital[1] Nightingale's voice. Recorded to wax cylinder on 30 July 1890, to raise money for veterans of the Charge of the Light Brigade. [2][3] Signature. Florence NightingaleOM RRC DStJ(/ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statisticianand the founder of modern nursing.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Hildegard Peplau - Wikipedia

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    Army Nurse Corps, Rutgers University, World Health Organization. Hildegard E. Peplau (September 1, 1909 – March 17, 1999) [1] was an American nurse and the first published nursing theorist since Florence Nightingale. She created the middle-range nursing theory of interpersonal relations, which helped to revolutionize the scholarly work of nurses.

  6. American Nurses Association - Wikipedia

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    The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a 501 (c) (6) professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911. [3] It is based in Silver Spring, Maryland [4] and Jennifer Mensik Kennedy [2] is the current president.

  7. Registered nurse - Wikipedia

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    A registered nurse (RN) is a nurse who has graduated or successfully passed a nursing program from a recognized nursing school and met the requirements outlined by a country, state, province or similar government-authorized licensing body to obtain a nursing license. [1][2] An RN's scope of practice is determined by legislation, and is ...

  8. International Council of Nurses - Wikipedia

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    ICN. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of more than 130 national nurses associations. It was founded in 1899 and was the first international organization for health care professionals. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization's goals are to bring nurses' organizations together in a worldwide body, ic ...

  9. Nursing - Wikipedia

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    Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence". [ 1 ] Nurses practice in many specialties with ...