Exercising a profession as sacrificed as nursing is not an easy task. The fact of taking care of the person in various situations related to their health implies a series of responsibilities and knowledge that every nurse should know, prior to a good training, both academic and practical. It is about linking medicine with the healing of the sick and nursing with the care they receive.
Dispensing quality care is an essential function within the field of nursing. In the hospitals and public health services, the nursing staff is in direct contact with the patient, the family and the community, being able to act even before the problem arises, with the purpose of improving the prospects of health of the citizenship and guaranteeing the care with maximum security.
This is remembered, year after year, on the International Day of Nursing (May 12). And it is that the work of the nurses goes from the prevention of health to the help during the last days of the patient's life (in the terminal phase), going through the day to day of the chronically ill or those that occasionally end up entering in a hospital.
Training and education of patients in such important programs as diabetes, obesity, cardiac rehabilitation, asthma, eating disorders or palliative care, among others, always falls on the nursing team of health centers.
In addition, according to the ratios offered (and considered high quality) by the World Health Organization (WHO), it is on the nurses that the bulk of the work performed in hospitals falls.
I just wanted to give you an idea of the importance and effort that this vocation entails. So the next time you visit a hospital do not forget to thank the nurses for their work.
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