The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowlge
- Virginia Avenel Henderson
The use of clinical judgment in the provision of care to enable people to improve, maintain, or recover health, to cope with health problem, and to achieve the best possible quality of life, whatever their disease or disability, until death.
- Royal College of Nursing
Nursing is the protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human responses; and advocacy in health care for individuals, families, communities and populations.
- American Nurses Association
A nurse is a healthcare professional, who along with other health care professionals, is responsible for the treatment, safety, and recovery of acutely or chronically ill or injured people, health maintenance of the healthy, and treatment of life-threatening emergencies in a wide range of...