The modern academic system of academic degrees evolved and expanded in the medieval university, spreading everywhere across the globe as the institution did:"No other European institution has spread o ...
The word "matron" is derived from the Latin for "mother", via French.The matron was once the most senior nurse in a hospital (in the United Kingdom before ca. 1967). She was responsible for all the nu ...
Health visitors are professional individuals engaged in public health work within the domestic setting, predominantly found in countries with state-funded health systems. They are distinct from distri ...
District nurses assess people to see how to provide nursing care that allows people to remain in their own homes, maintain their independence, or have additional support after discharge from hospital. ...
Accident services were already provided by workmen's compensation plans, railway companies, and municipalities in Europe and the United States by the late mid-nineteenth century, but the first special ...
The World Health Organization attributes the provision of essential primary care as an integral component of an inclusive primary health care strategy. Primary care involves the widest scope of health ...
Established in 2002, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is a statutory body set up by the Parliament of the United Kingdom through the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001. The NMC is the UK regulato ...
Florence Nightingale is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. There was no real hospital training school for nurses until one was established in Kaiserwerth, Germany, in 1846. There, Nightingale ...
Prior to the transfer of nursing education to the university sector, nurses were trained in a course of instruction in hospital nursing schools that awarded a certificate in general nursing. These cou ...
NIOSH abides by a strategic plan for meeting institutional goals and allocating resources. The Institute has three overarching goals:Conduct research to reduce work-related illnesses and injuriesPromo ...
Since MSDs involve soft tissue, there are often no visible signs of injury. Therefore, assessments are based on self-reports by people as to whether or not they are experiencing pain. A popular measur ...
In the early medieval period, several astronomical observatories were built in the Islamic world. The first of these was the 9th-century Baghdad observatory built during the time of the Abbasid caliph ...
Lawyers in private practice generally work in specialized businesses known as law firms, with the exception of English barristers. The vast majority of law firms worldwide are small businesses that ra ...
In practice, legal jurisdictions exercise their right to determine who is recognized as being a lawyer. As a result, the meaning of the term "lawyer" may vary from place to place.In Australia, the wor ...
A legal nurse consultant (LNC) is a registered nurse who uses expertise as a health care provider and specialized training to consult on medical-related legal cases. LNCs assist attorneys in reading m ...
