What is nursing?

Nursing is a comprehensive applied science based on the theory of natural science and social science, which studies the nursing theory, knowledge, skills and its development law of maintaining, promoting and restoring human health.

It is an independent subject in medicine. Nursing science includes natural sciences such as biology, physics, chemistry, anatomy and physiology.

Students in this major mainly study related humanities and social sciences, basic medical knowledge and basic theoretical knowledge of prevention and health care. Accept the training of basic nursing theory, basic knowledge and clinical nursing skills, and have the basic ability to implement holistic nursing and community health service for the clients.

Early Chinese medicine and nursing are inseparable. "Three-part treatment and seven-part care" is a high generalization of the relationship between doctors and nurses in ancient China.

Traditional Chinese medicine regards the human body as a unified organism, and closely links human health with internal psychological state and external living environment. Traditional Chinese medicine provides a rich theoretical and technical basis for the origin of nursing.

As early as Shang Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions recorded more than a dozen diseases and their treatments.

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, medical disciplines were more detailed, which reflected the activities of diagnosis and treatment. Put forward to observe body temperature. Nursing activities such as complexion.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, medicine developed rapidly, and the famous doctor Bian Que summed up the diagnosis method of "looking, smelling, asking and feeling"; Treatment methods of acupuncture, decoction and hot compress.

Huangdi Neijing in Qin and Han Dynasties expounded many physiological and pathological phenomena and principles of treatment and nursing.

Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases in the Eastern Han Dynasty summarized medical measures such as drug enema, sublingual administration, chest compression, artificial respiration and emergency nursing. The famous doctor Hua Tuo advocated the principles and measures of health preservation and disease prevention.

Ancient medical books recorded catheterization and enema.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Sun Simiao put forward the view that "all clothes, towels, combs, pillows and mirrors should not be the same as others".

The importance of oral health care was recorded in the Song Dynasty. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty is an important medical monograph. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was recorded that air was disinfected by steam disinfection, burning of mugwort leaves and spraying realgar wine.