Definition of Nursing
Florence Nightingale (1895)
Nursing is a process of placing the patient in the best condition to move.
Martha Roger (1970)
Nursing is a knowledge that is intended to reduce the anxiety about the maintenance and enhancement kesehtan, disease prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of sick and disabled people.
Dorothea Orem (1971)
Nursing is the process of action and interaction to help individuals of various age groups in meeting their needs and addressing their health status at a given moment in the cycle of life.
Callista Roy (1976)
Nursing is a discipline-oriented nursing practice based on nursing science, which aims to provide services to clients.
Virginia Henderson (1978)
Nursing is an effort to help individuals either healthy or sick to use the power, the will and the knowledge he has so that the individual is able to carry out activities of everyday life, recover from illness or died peacefully. Role of nurses to help people not to rely on the help of others in the shortest possible time.
Workshop on Nursing (1983)
Nursing is a professional service that is an integral part of health care based on science and the issue of nursing, ministry shaped bio-psycho-social-spiritual holistic presented to individuals, groups and communities both healthy and sick that covers the entire process of human life.
Nursing services provided as a result of physical and mental weakness, lack of knowledge, sertakurangnya willingness to carry out activities of daily living. Activities carried out in an effort to improve health, disease prevention, healing, restoration and maintenance of health with emphasis on primary health care (PHC) in accordance with the authority, responsibility and ethical codes of nursing.
