Concept information
Preferred term
nurses
Definition
- Nursing may be the most familiar health professional group in the world, second only to physicians. Nurses far outnumber all other groups of health workers, with an estimated 12 million nurses working worldwide. [Source: Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World; Nurses]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- agency nurses
- area nurses
- auxiliary nurses
- cadet nurses
- charge nurses
- clinical nurse specialists
- dental nurses
- DHSS nursing officers
- escort nurses
- geriatric nurses
- health surveillance nurses
- infection control nurses
- intensive care nurses
- junior nursing staff
- learning disability nurses
- liaison nurses
- licensed practical nurses
- male nurses
- mental health nurses
- midwives
- named nurses
- night nurses
- nurse administrators
- nurse anesthetists
- nurse clinicians
- nurse consultants
- nurse educators
- nurse managers
- nurse midwives
- nurse practitioners
- nursery nurses
- nurses, male
- nursing assistants
- nursing officers
- occupational health nurses
- overseas nurses
- pediatric nurses
- primary care nurses
- private nurses
- regional nurses
- registered general nurses
- residential nurses
- senior nurses
- specialist nurses
- staff nurses
- state enrolled nurses
- state registered nurses
- theater escort nurses
- theater nurses
- voluntary nurses
- ward sisters
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/nurses
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