nursing
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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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What nursing is.
Profession
Profession and scope.
Profession
Profession.
- What do nurses do, and how does scope of practice differ across roles and countries? provenance
- Is the user asking for personal health advice, which needs a clinician? boundary
Specialties
Specialties.
Specialties
Specialties.
- What are intensive care, community, long-term care, mental health, forensic and other nursing specialties? definition
- Which entry fits a specific specialty? action
Career Becoming a nurse.
Education
Education and licensing.
Education
Education.
- How are nurses educated and licensed here, and how are qualifications recognised across borders? provenance
- Which entry fits nursing education? action
Work
Working conditions.
Work
Work.
- What is documented about nursing workloads, shortages and wellbeing, and what support exists? provenance
- Which entry fits health workforce policy? action
Care Nursing care.
Practice
Evidence-based practice.
Practice
Practice.
- How is nursing care planned and delivered, and how does evidence inform practice? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific care topic? action
Cultural
Culturally grounded nursing.
Cultural
Cultural.
- What are culturally grounded approaches such as Maori nursing, described in the terms of those communities? provenance
- Is the presentation respectful? boundary
Learn History and teaching.
History
History of nursing.
History
History.
- How did nursing develop as a profession, from religious and military care to Nightingale and modern regulation? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How is nursing taught and assessed? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.KNW
- Other names and narrower kinds
- long-term care, Long-term care in Melilla, forensic nursing, Māori nursing, intensive care medicine, preventative nursing, community health nursing, critical care nursing simulation, Wound Care Simulation, home visiting, holistic nursing, maternal-child nursing
What it is Filled
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.
Why it exists Filled
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.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Care-centred
- Regulated
- Many specialties
- Largest health workforce
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present itself as a nurse or give personal clinical advice.
- Access or disclose patient records beyond authorized need.
- Assign nurses tasks outside their legal scope of practice.
- Override a nurse's clinical judgement about a patient.
Only with a human decision
- Staffing decisions that affect patient safety.
- Any clinical decision about a patient.
May
- Explain the scope of nursing and the roles of nurses in general terms.
- Support nurses with scheduling, records and reference material within authorized access.
Moral aspects Filled
- Nurses are central to patient safety; understaffing and burnout cost lives.
- Patients in nursing care are vulnerable and depend on their dignity being protected.
Who is affected
- Patients
- Nurses
- Families and carers
Owners Filled
Steward
The employer of each nurse; nursing councils regulate the profession.
Master systems
- Nursing registration councils
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q11190 - registry parent class
- Q2421951 - registry parent class
related
- medicine - category
- care - category
- hospice - a nursing setting
- educator - nurse educators
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.nursing
- Wikidata: Q121176 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121176)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Care for health and recovery
- Licensed profession
- Medicine as a profession diagnoses and prescribes under a different scope
- Not physical; a profession and its practice.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the profession and specialties
- describe education and licensing
- support career questions
- route personal health questions
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Workforce shortages and burnout
- Agents giving personal medical advice
- Scope of practice confusion across countries
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Nursing licensing and registration laws
- Codes of ethics and practice standards
- Education accreditation standards
Context of use required Filled
- The profession of health care nursing.
- 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
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q121176: nursing - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Nursing - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each specialty be a separate entry?
- How should regulatory bodies be linked?
- How should workforce data be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q121176/spec.json