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5 essence, nursing as a profession differs from doctors’ one and requires special knowledge, different from doctors’» She considered that caring for the sick and caring for the healthy are two important areas of a nurse’s work. While caring for a patient, a nurse has to actively influence to the course of the disease, be able to help a person to live with his disease as fully as possible, quickly gain indepen- dence, and restore a sense of harmony with themselves and the world. According to the WHO definition, «the main task of nursing is to help individuals, families or groups of the population to identify and realize their physical, mental and social potential, taking into account the adverse human conditions of life and work». This task is based on the fact that the disease poses a number of questions and problems to the patient, his family, and the team where the patient works or studies. A nurse can be master of manipulative techniques, but if she can’t help the patient psychologically adapt to stress, such as the disease, does not see him as a living suffering person – she will not achieve the goals of care. Thus, nursing is more focused on a person or group of people (family, collective, society) than on the disease. It is aimed at solving the problems and needs of people, their families and society as a whole that have arisen and may arise due to health problems. This makes nursing different from medicine. Medicine is focused on the disease, diagnostics and correction of the pathological process, and the purpose of medicine  is to diagnose, treat and prevent diseases. Nursing is focused more on the person than on their illness, on nursing, on providing comfort and restoring harmony. It studies the patient’s response to the disease. The purpose of nursing  is to teach a person to live with the disease, to ensure an acceptable quality of life in the disease and the maxi- mum possible physical and psychological comfort for the patient in his state. Nursing solves the following tasks : • development and implementation of new technologies in the field of nursing care; • implementation of consulting nursing care; • ensuring a high level of medical information; • conducting sanitary-educational and preventive work; • development and expansion of organizational and managerial reserves for working with personnel; • consolidation of professional and departmental efforts to provide medical services to the population; • conducting work to ensure professional development and professional skills of personnel; • conducting research in the field of nursing; • creating standards for nursing practice. Thus, nursing is a branch of medicine that has acquired the right to an independent significance, being separated into a special science.