| ICF | immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies [syndrome]; indirect centrifugal flotation... |
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| MIC | maternal and infant care; medical intensive care; Medical Interfraternity Conference; microscopy; mi... |
| CCC | care-cure coordination; cathodal closure contraction; chronic calculous cholecystitis; chronic catar... |
| PCA | para-chloramphetamine; parietal cell antibody; passive cutaneous anaphylaxis; patient care assistant... |
| PCC | Pasteur Culture Collection; percutaneous cecostomy; pheochromocytoma; phosphate carrier compound; pl... |
| skilled nursing facilities | Extended care facilities which provide skilled nursing care or rehabilitation services for inpatients on a daily basis. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| societies, nursing | Societies whose membership is limited to nurses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| specialties, nursing | Various branches of nursing practice limited to specialised areas. (12 Dec 1998) |
| neonatal nursing | The nursing specialty that deals with the care of newborn infants during the first four weeks after birth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| students, nursing | Individuals enrolled in a school of nursing or a formal educational program leading to a degree in nursing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nursing | Profession (better known than defined) concerned with the provision of services essential to the maintenance and restoration of health by attending the needs of sick persons. Also, feeding a infant at the breast. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nursing administration research | research concerned with establishing costs of nursing care, examining the relationships between nursing services and quality patient care, and viewing problems of nursing service delivery within the broader context of policy analysis and delivery of health services (12 Dec 1998) |
| nursing assessment | Evaluation of the nature and extent of nursing problems presented by a patient for the purpose of patient care planning. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nursing assignment | The method(s) by which the patient care load is distributed among the nursing personnel available to provide care. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nursing audit | A detailed review and evaluation of selected clinical records by qualified professional personnel for evaluating quality of nursing care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nursing bottle caries | Rampant caries of the primary dentition associated with the habitual use, after age 1, of a baby bottle as an aid for sleeping. Synonym: baby bottle syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nursing diagnosis | Conclusions derived from the nursing assessment that establish a health status profile for the patient and from which nursing interventions may be ordered. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nursing education research | Investigations into the problems of integrating research findings into nursing curricula, developing problem solving skills, finding approaches to clinical teaching, determining the level of practice by graduates from different basic preparations, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nursing evaluation research | Research carried out by nurses that uses interviews, data collection, observation, surveys, etc., to evaluate nursing, health, clinical, and nursing education programs and curricula, and which also demonstrates the value of such evaluation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nursing faculty practice | Clinical practice by members of the nursing faculty in order to maintain a balance in their nursing activities--clinical, education, and research. (12 Dec 1998) |