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2. Home health nursing - Wikipedia

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   Home health care is a cost efficient way to deliver quality care in the convenience of the client's home. [2] Home health nurses create care plans to achieve goals based on the client's diagnosis. These plans can include preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitative actions. [1] Home health nurses also supervise certified nursing assistants.

3. Timeline of nursing history - Wikipedia

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   1–500 AD (approximately) – Nursing care palliative needs of persons and families. Religious organizations were the care providers. [1] 55 AD – Phoebe was nursing history's Christian first nurse and most noted deaconess. [2] 300 – Entry of Christian women into nursing. [3]

4. History of nursing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Nurses were now hired by strangers to care for sick family members at home. These changes were made possible by the realization that expertise mattered more than kinship, as physicians recommended nurses they trusted. By the 1880s home care nursing was the usual career path after graduation from the hospital-based nursing school. [2]

5. History of public health in the United States - Wikipedia

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   It set the stage for future federal involvement in maternal and child health care. It set up 3,000 child and maternal health care centers, many in rural areas. It funded millions of home visits by nurses to mothers and their infants. One result was the infant mortality rate dropped from 76 deaths per 1000 live births to 68 in 1929. [83]

6. Nursing home care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Specifically, the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act is a part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 which gives guidelines to regulate nursing home care in the United States. The act was intended to advance nursing home residents' rights. The Nursing Home Reform Act provides guidelines and minimal standards which nursing homes must meet.

7. History of health care - Wikipedia

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   History of hygiene; History of water supply and sanitation; History of universal health care; Timeline of nursing history; History of mental disorders; Timeline of medicine and medical technology; History of psychology; History of psychiatry; History of psychosurgery; History of nutrition; History of veterinary medicine; Timeline of history of ...

8. 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 ...

9. Home care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In-home medical care is often and more accurately referred to as home health care or formal care. Home health care is different non-medical care, custodial care, or private-duty care which refers to assistance and services provided by persons who are not nurses, doctors, or other licensed medical personnel. For patients recovering from surgery ...