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nursing

vr.tr.nursing · INF.KNW

Let an agent explain nursing as a profession and its specialties, describe education, licensing and scope of practice by country, support career questions and understanding of nursing care, and route personal health questions to clinicians.

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Research draft, second pass

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain nursing as a profession and its specialties, describe education, licensing and scope of practice by country, support career questions and understanding of nursing care, and route personal health questions to clinicians.

The profession and practice of caring for individuals, families and communities to attain, maintain or recover health and quality of life, encompassing bedside and intensive care, community and preventive nursing, long-term care, mental health and forensic nursing, midwifery in some systems and culturally grounded practice such as Maori nursing; nursing is regulated by licensing bodies, based on education and evidence, and is the largest health profession worldwide.

What it is for: The profession of health care nursing.

It can be explain the profession and specialties; describe education and licensing; support career questions; route personal health questions.

Distinguishing features

Care-centred

Regulated

Many specialties

Largest health workforce

What it looks like

Not physical; a profession and its practice.

How it is recognised

Care for health and recovery

Licensed profession

Medicine as a profession diagnoses and prescribes under a different scope

Related models

is a kind of - category

medicine

is a kind of - category

care

is related to - a nursing setting

hospice

is related to - nurse educators

educator

In practice

Families and kinds

hospital and intensive care nursing

community and public health nursing

long-term and aged care nursing

mental health and forensic nursing

advanced practice and specialist nursing

Standards and regulation

Nursing licensing and registration laws

Codes of ethics and practice standards

Education accreditation standards

Failure modes and hazards

Workforce shortages and burnout

Agents giving personal medical advice

Scope of practice confusion across countries

Also called

long-term careLong-term care in Melillaforensic nursingMāori nursingintensive care medicinepreventative nursingcommunity health nursingcritical care nursing simulationWound Care Simulationhome visitingholistic nursingmaternal-child nursingevidence-based nursingCottage nursingnursing assessmentcare dependencyoral hygiene careobstetrical nursingterminal carePerson-centered carecritical care nursingnursing processmilitary nursingneonatal nursingemergency nursingGenetics nursingCorrectional nursingwound carerehabilitation nursingmedical-surgical nursinghospice and palliative care nursingnursing specialtyneuroscience nursingsupervisory nursingoffice nursingmoving and lifting patientsorthopaedic nursingperioperative nursingprimary nursingprivate duty nursing

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.nursing

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What nursing is.

Profession.

Profession

Profession and scope.

Profession

Profession.

  1. What do nurses do, and how does scope of practice differ across roles and countries? provenance
  2. Is the user asking for personal health advice, which needs a clinician? boundary

Specialties

Specialties.

Specialties

Specialties.

  1. What are intensive care, community, long-term care, mental health, forensic and other nursing specialties? definition
  2. Which entry fits a specific specialty? action
Career Becoming a nurse.

Practice.

Education

Education and licensing.

Education

Education.

  1. How are nurses educated and licensed here, and how are qualifications recognised across borders? provenance
  2. Which entry fits nursing education? action

Work

Working conditions.

Work

Work.

  1. What is documented about nursing workloads, shortages and wellbeing, and what support exists? provenance
  2. Which entry fits health workforce policy? action
Care Nursing care.

Practice.

Practice

Evidence-based practice.

Practice

Practice.

  1. How is nursing care planned and delivered, and how does evidence inform practice? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific care topic? action

Cultural

Culturally grounded nursing.

Cultural

Cultural.

  1. What are culturally grounded approaches such as Maori nursing, described in the terms of those communities? provenance
  2. Is the presentation respectful? boundary
Learn History and teaching.

Education.

History

History of nursing.

History

History.

  1. How did nursing develop as a profession, from religious and military care to Nightingale and modern regulation? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How is nursing taught and assessed? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each specialty be a separate entry?
  • How should regulatory bodies be linked?
  • How should workforce data be linked?
Draft as JSON