Health Care Nurses Role Analysis

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Nurses are the single largest component of the health care workforce. The rapidly changing health care environment requires nurses with strong critical thinking and analytical skills as well as the ability to provide professional and compassionate care. These critical thinking and analytical skills are required to acquire and assimilate data in order to make appropriate patient care decisions. Nurses need interdisciplinary competencies supported by backgrounds in the sciences as well as the humanities. In order to ensure patient safety, provide quality care, and deliver patient care efficiently, nurses must be able to gather and synthesize new information and address needs as they emerge. This is critical not only for health care delivery systems