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a caring, unique profession, that is practiced with an earnest concern for the art of care and the science of health

defined nursing as “the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery” (1860)

e 1st modern nurses to define nursing in 1960 as o “The unique function of the nurse is to assist individual

a humanistic science dedicated to compassionate concern with maintaining and promoting health, and preventing illness, and caring for and rehabilitating the sick and disabled

- a theoretical system of knowledge that prescribes a process of analysis and action related to the care of the ill person

ANA means

- is the study of current human thought and actions as they become the patterns of our lives, a branch of knowledge that deals systematically with the past.

learning, of something without the conscious use of reasoning, immediate understanding

Was practiced since Prehistoric times

healing power by the use of white magic