What is health nursing?

Nursing is a comprehensive applied science based on the theory of natural science and social science, which studies the nursing theory, knowledge, skills and its development law of maintaining, promoting and restoring human health.

Nursing science includes natural sciences such as biology, physics, chemistry, anatomy and physiology. By studying anatomy and physiology, nurses can observe and distinguish physiological and pathological changes, and can provide accurate treatment, such as injection and catheterization.

Nursing also includes social sciences and humanities such as psychology, ethics, sociology and aesthetics. By studying psychology and sociology, nurses can provide care that meets people's psychological needs and affect the impact of social environment on people's health.

Nursing is a practical applied science. It combines the theories of natural science and social science to form the theoretical system and technical operation of nursing. The task and purpose of nursing is to promote people's physical and mental health and meet people's physical and mental nursing needs.

Nursing is an independent science, which constitutes the whole medical field together with medicine, pharmacy and nutrition.

As a knowledge group, nursing studies the influence of natural, social, cultural, educational and psychological factors on human health, and how to use nursing principles, nursing techniques and methods to help patients recover and continuously improve people's health level. Generally includes the following aspects.

Hospital nursing

1, basic nursing

To study and apply basic nursing theories and techniques to meet the basic needs of patients' life and psychotherapy. Through clinical nursing work, we can provide dynamic information about the occurrence and development of diseases in time for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, effectively cooperate with and participate in the treatment, examination and rescue of critically ill patients, and make patients in the best psychological state with positive and safe nursing countermeasures.

2. Specialized nursing

Combined with the characteristics of clinical specialties, the theory and technology of specialized nursing were applied, such as strengthening the monitoring of critically ill patients and specialized nursing before and after burns, microsurgery and organ transplantation.

3. Nursing management

Using scientific methods to organize and implement clinical nursing work; Create a beautiful rest environment for patients; Establish a good nurse-patient relationship; Effectively improve the quality of nursing.

(2) Community nursing

Community nursing focuses on preventive health care, including disease prevention and health consultation; Nursing science popularization and vaccination; Mental health guidance; Family planning, prenatal and postnatal care guidance; Occupational disease prevention and family visit nursing, etc.

(3) Nursing education

To study the laws, methods and modes of training nursing talents, continuously improve the quality of nursing education, improve the knowledge structure of nursing staff and meet the needs of nursing development.

(4) Nursing scientific research

The development of nursing science needs the support and promotion of nursing scientific research. The construction of nursing theory, the combination of nursing theory and nursing practice, the improvement of nursing technology and methods, the reform of nursing equipment and tools, and the establishment of nursing management model. Exploring laws, summing up experience and promoting the continuous development of nursing depend on nursing scientific research.

Nursing research has a very broad development prospect, and as a nursing worker, it has a long way to go. We should give full play to our intelligence and make contributions to the establishment of an independent nursing discipline with China characteristics.