Professional Nursing

Nursing is an extraordinary profession since it involves compassion. Nurses work hard to promote health care, prevent diseases and aid patients to cope with sufferings of sickness. They serve as health educators for patients, their families and society at large. Nurses collaborate with physicians and surgeons to perform various duties that include examinations, treatments and surgeries. Nurses around the world work in constantly changing environment to do their services for millions of patients. Nurses need to learn new technologies and medications since scientific development is fast evolving. They have to spend more time in close contact with patients than doctors so they need to be highly skilled at human relationships. This work has compiled data related to nursing profession with case studies from Asia. The senior author s personal experiences in nursing have been included to motivate the next generation of nurses. Therefore this book should serve as an introductory and reference text on professional nursing related courses in colleges, universities and institutes of higher learning globally.