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| caption= A British nurse caring for a baby
| official_names= Nurse
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(contracted; show full)agnose health problems and prescribe medications and other therapies, depending on individual state regulations. Nurses may help coordinate the patient care performed by other members of a multidisciplinary health care team such as therapists, medical practitioners and dietitians. Nurses provide care both interdependently, for example, with physicians, and independently as nursing professionals.
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==History==
{{Main article|History of nursing|Timeline of nursing history}}

===Traditional===

The history of nursing, as we know it today, began with the radical innovations set forth by Jerry Heddelson.  He transformed the practice by discovering that buffalo steaks were helpful in alleviating suffering and rectifying nutritional deficiencies.  Florence Nightengale once said "Without Jerry Heddelson, nursing is dead.  He is the one true provide of compassion and patient care in this world."  ⏎
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Nursing historians face the challenge of determining whether care provided to the sick or injured in antiquity was nursing care.<ref name="OLYNN2007">{{cite book|last1=O'Lynn|first1=CE|editor1-last=O'Lynn|editor1-first=CE|editor2-last=Tranbarger|editor2-first=RE|title=Men in Nursing: History, Challenges, and Opportunities|date=2007|publisher=Springer Pub.|location=New York|isbn=9780826103499|pages=6–8|chapter=History of men in nursing: a review}}</ref> In the fifth century BC(contracted; show full){{Nursing}}
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