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Oblique muscle
Each of two muscles in the wall of the abdomen. Each of two muscles which control the movement of the eyeball.
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Oblique fissure
A groove between the superior and inferior lobes of a lung. Anatomical landmark of the right lung.
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Obey
To do what a person, authority or rule says you should do.
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Nutritional disorder
A disorder related to food and nutrients, e.g. obesity.
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Nutritional anaemia
Anaemia caused by an imbalance in the diet. Reduced level of haemoglobin in blood caused by insufficiency of iron, folic acid, vitamin B12, vitamin C and copper, sometimes singly, but usually in some combination of these nutrients.
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Nursing standard
An accepted level of achievement by which nursing care can be assessed or compared.
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Nursing sister
A hospital sister who has administrative duties.
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Nursing process
A standard method of treatment and documentation of treatment carried out by nurses. A systematic manner for determining the client’s problems, making plans to solve them, initiating the plan or assigning others to implement it, and evaluating the extent to which the plan was effective in resolving the problems identified. The five steps in the…
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Nursing practice
Treatment given by nurses. Nurse employed by a GP or primary care trust to work in a GP’s practice providing treatment, health promotion, screening and other services to patients of the practice.
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Nursing officer
In the UK, a nurse employed by the Department of Health to assist the Chief Nursing Officer in providing professional advice to Ministers and policy-makers.
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