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Specialties, Nursing

Medical Definition: Various branches of nursing practice limited to specialized areas.
Guide Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; coord IM with type of nursing or subject
Previously Indexed: Nursing (1966-1970)
Specialties, Nursing Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition 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.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Emergency Nursing - The specialty or practice of nursing in the care of patients admitted to the emergency department.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Family Nursing - The provision of care involving the nursing process, to families and family members in health and illness situations. From Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice. 6th ed.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Geriatric Nursing - Nursing care of the aged patient given in the home, the hospital, or special institutions such as nursing homes, psychiatric institutions, etc.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Holistic Nursing - A philosophy of nursing practice that takes into account total patient care, considering the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of patients, their response to their illnesses, and the effect of illness on patients' abilities to meet self-care needs. (From Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary, 4th ed, p745)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition 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.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Midwifery - The practice of assisting women in childbirth.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Military Nursing - The practice of nursing in military environments.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Obstetrical Nursing - Nursing care given to the pregnant patient before, after, or during childbirth.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Occupational Health Nursing - The practice of nursing in the work environment.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Oncologic Nursing - Nursing care provided cancer patients. It includes aspects of family functioning through education of both patient and family. The specialty of oncologic nursing focuses on cancer as a major health care problem.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Orthopedic Nursing - The specialty or practice of nursing in the care of the orthopedic patient.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Pediatric Nursing - The nursing care of children from birth to adolescence. It includes the clinical and psychological aspects of nursing care.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Perioperative Nursing - Nursing care of the surgical patient before, during, and after surgery.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Psychiatric Nursing - A specialty concerned with the application of psychiatric principles in caring for the mentally ill. It also includes the nursing care provided the mentally ill patient.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Public Health Nursing - The field of nursing focusing on the health of the community through educational and preventive programs, as well as providing treatment and diagnostic services.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition 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. (American Nurses Association & Association of Rehabilitation Nurses. Standards of Rehabilitation Nursing Practice, 1986, p.2)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition School Nursing - Health and nursing care given to primary and secondary school students by a registered nurse.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Transcultural Nursing - A nursing specialty created to answer the need for developing a global perspective in the practice of nursing in a world of interdependent nations and people. The focus of this nursing discipline is on the integration of international and transcultural content into the training. Courses include study in the area of cultural differences, nursing in other countries, and international health issues and organizations, as an example.

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