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{{Infobox Occupation
| name= Nurse
| image= [[File:British woman tending to a baby.jpg|250px]]
| caption= A British nurse caring for a baby
| official_names= Nurse
| Occupation
(contracted; show full)ic tests. Nurses are almost always working on their own or with other nurses. Nurses will assist doctors in the emergency room or in trauma care when help is needed.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Registered Nurse (RN) Career and Job Information|url = http://www.careerprofiles.info/nurse-career.html|website = careerprofiles.info|accessdate = 2015-10-15}}</ref>

===Gender issues===
{{Main article|Men in nursing}}
[[File:Male Nurses- Life at Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex, 1943 D14313.jpg|thumb|right|
200pxupright=0.9|A nurse at Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex, in 1943]]

Despite equal opportunity legislation, nursing has continued to be a female-dominated profession.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC314508/pdf/bmj32800141.pdf |title=BM 2004;328:141–142 (17 January) |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2013-09-04 |pmc=314508 |pmid=14726342 |doi=10.1136/bmj.328.7432.141 |volume=328 |issue=7432 |year=2004 |journal=BMJ |pages=141–2 |vauthors=Grant VJ, Robinson E, Muir P }}</ref> F(contracted; show full)

===United States===

[[File:Poston, Arizona. Registered nurse, Mrs. Edythe Sasser, is assisited by Yoshiko Konatsu, nurse's aid . . . - NARA - 537104.jpg|thumb
nail|Two nurses in Arizona, 1943]]
{{Main article|Nursing in the United States|History of nursing in the United States}}
In the US, scope of practice is determined by the state or territory in which a nurse is licensed. Each state has its own laws, rules, and regulations governing nursing care. Usually the making of such rules and regulations is delegated to a state [[board of nursing]], which performs day-to-day administration of these rules, licenses nurses and nursing assistants, and makes decisions on nursi(contracted; show full){{Medicine}}
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