What are the importance of nursing to society?

Answer 1

very important when you are sick and need your meds and iv lines monitored on a regular basis.

Answer 2

I'm a doctor, and it's sort of hard to answer that question. Nurses are basically the backbone of hospital treatment, they give the medications, clean the patient, take vital signs, and are responsible for making the doctor aware of any change in the patient's status that may require attention. The quality of nursing care has a huge impact on a patient's experience, probably more so than the doctor (the nurse generally covers far fewer patients than a doctor and so can spend more time with each one). In fact, in many cases, the quality of nursing care can make the difference between life and death, for one example it's been shown that the most important factor for survival in patients admitted with neutropenic fever (a very dangerous condition in which an infection happens in a patient who's ability to fight it off has been severely diminished) is the the experience of the nursing staff, NOT of the doctor.
So the importance of nursing? Well, it's hard to tease that out from the importance of having good doctors, good medications, good surgeons, etc. but without somebody to do the day to day work none of what my colleagues and I do would matter much.

Answer 3

Nursing is really a great value to the society, they are the one who are primerily responsible on disseminating health education to the people for the prevention of diseases and other illness. They make the society sick free.

Answer 4

next time you go to the hospital ask yourself, who do you see more often? the nurse... or the doctor? With out the nurse the MD wouldn't know about immediate status changes in their patient, nurses have the education to implement immediate treatment in the time of crisis... and a lot of people would be dead...

Answer 5

A famous anthropologist was once asked when "civilization" began. Was it the discovery of fire? Of writing? Of domesticated animals?
She went over to a display and picked up a bone. "This is a broken femur. It is the first sign of civilization - when the group will expend the energy, food, time, to care for another until they are well enough to continue."
That is the importance of nursing - one of the noblest and one of the first signs of civilization.

Answer 6

Nursing heals, and healing spreads waves of healing.

Nurses do the hard work, and are great role models.

Nurses give us that boost to go out and do good to others.

Nurses serve, but they should rule.

Answer 7

without nurses lots of people would be dead