Category: N

A hospital department in which the newborn are cared for.  

Public law 107-205, a federal law enacted in 2002 that creates incentives to enter or remain in the nursing profession. It provides funding to recruit students, retain nurses in current assignments, train nurse educators, and ensure the competency of nurses who care for the elderly.  

A set of principles established after World War II to protect the rights of research participants (subjects).  

The frequent and abnormal use of the “n” sound.  

Coin shaped, said of some mucous sputum.  

The number of patients who must receive a specific therapy (or undergo a specific medical test) so that one of them will benefit. This concept is important in assessing the relative values and costs of interventions for specific illnesses. For example, to prevent one death from breast cancer, the number of patients who need annual…

The number of patients who would need to be exposed to a noxious agent or medical intervention in order that one might be harmed. This concept is important in the assessment of the relative hazard of medical interventions, the relative toxicities of poisons, or the relative value of certain experimental interventions. Generally, the smaller the…

Loss of sensation in the area from the lower lip to the chin, caused by a lesion of the third division of the trigeminal nerve (fifth cranial nerve).  

Condition of not having given birth to a child.  

Any of the clusters of cells in the brain and medulla in which fibers of a nerve or nerve tract terminate.