| CCN | caudal central nucleus; community care network; coronary care nursing; critical care nursing |
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| DN | Deiter's nucleus; dextrose-nitrogen; diabetic neuropathy; dibucaine number; dicrotic notch; dinitroc... |
| DNE | Director of Nursing Education; Doctor of Nursing Education |
| GNC | general nursing care; General Nursing Council; geriatric nurse clinician |
| NA | Avogadro constant or number; nalidixic acid; Narcotics Anonymous; network administrator; neuraminida... |
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| intramural practice | Delivery of health care services by university faculties or full-time hospital staff conducted within the physical confines of their respective medical centres. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| extramural practice | Delivery of health care services by university faculties or full-time hospital staff to persons beyond the physical confines of their respective medical centres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| family practice | A medical specialty concerned with the provision of continuing, comprehensive primary health care for the entire family. (12 Dec 1998) |
| family practice physician | <specialist> A physician expert in the management of a wide scope of health problems in adults and children. Once referred to as a general practitioner or family physician. (27 Sep 1997) |
| knowledge, attitudes, practice | Knowledge, attitudes, and associated behaviours which pertain to health-related events such as procedures, diseases, or family planning. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paediatric nursing | The nursing care of children from birth to adolescence. It includes the clinical and psychological aspects of nursing care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| geriatric nursing | Nursing care of the aged patient given in the home, the hospital, or special institutions such as nursing homes, psychiatric institutions, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal-child nursing | The nursing specialty that deals with the care of women throughout their pregnancy and childbirth and the care of their newborn children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rehabilitation nursing | The diagnosis and treatment of human responses of individuals and groups to actual or potential health problems with the characteristics of altered functional ability and altered life-style. (12 Dec 1998) |
| perioperative nursing | Nursing care of the surgical patient before, during, and after surgery. (12 Dec 1998) |
| military nursing | The practice of nursing in military environments. (12 Dec 1998) |
| models, nursing | Theoretical models simulating behaviour or activities in nursing, including nursing care, management and economics, theory, assessment, research, and education. Some examples of these models include orem self-care model, roy adaptation model, and rogers life process model. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community health nursing | General and comprehensive nursing practice directed to individuals, families, or groups as it relates to and contributes to the health of a population. This is not an official program of a public health department. (12 Dec 1998) |
| postanesthesia nursing | The specialty or practice of nursing in the care of patients in the recovery room following surgery and/or anaesthesia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| primary nursing care | The primary responsibility of one nurse for the planning, evaluation, and care of a patient throughout the course of illness, convalescence, and recovery. (12 Dec 1998) |