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What is Nursing?

The Center for Nursing Advocacy's definition.

The International Council of Nursing's definition.

Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines, (1997), by Suzanne Gordon, for an in-depth look at the work that nurses do.

How does the care of nurses differ from that of nursing technicians? (NYSNA)

What does a nurse really do? One patient's perspective.

See a descriptive article on the work of nurses in the Atlantic Monthly: What Nurses Stand For, by Suzanne Gordon (February 1997).

For defining documents on the nursing profession, see the Codes of Ethics for Nurses.

The Johnson & Johnson website www.discovernursing.com has an extensive, high production value web site (which the Center helped create) full of information about nursing careers.

Nurse Scientists video, (2004), by Johnson & Johnson.

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