Health Care

Private Duty Nursing

The practice of nursing by a registered or licensed nurse to care for a specific patient in a health facility or in the home.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

The practice of nursing by a registered or licensed nurse to care for a specific patient in a health facility or in the home.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Nursing, Private Duty
  • Nursing, Private Practice
  • Private Practice Nursing

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

IM; coord with specific nurs specialty (IM)

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History Note

67

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Previous Indexing

  • Nursing (1966)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. N04w.452.758.377w.500w

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Private Duty Nursing. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009744. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009744
  2. Private Duty Nursing. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_duty_nursing
  3. Private Duty Nursing. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7246193