4.4 Landmark JAMA study finds nurses to be autonomous, skilled, nation reels.

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Registered nurses are autonomous professionals with years of college-level coaching, and their scientific abilities are important to affected person outcomes, in response to researchers writing on this week's Journal of the American Medical Affiliation. The huge examine "Nursing: Who Knew?" was primarily based on in depth analysis by physicians on the Harvard and Johns Hopkins medical faculties.

For the "Who Knew?" undertaking, physicians did subject work in hospital places starting from so-called "nurses' stations" to the extra hardly ever seen "sufferers' rooms." Additionally they performed the primary detailed interviews with the lately found "nursing students" and "nurse practitioners." Among the many key findings had been that nursing was a definite science, that many nurses had graduate levels in nursing, that almost all nurses had no specific want to be or up to now physicians, and that nurses carried out crucial well being duties lengthy considered the only real province of physicians.

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