While having an associate's degree or diploma is the minimum educational requirement to work as a neonatal nurse, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing recommends the BSN as the minimum degree for nursing practice (www.aacn.nche.edu).
government. 1  the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
a branch or service of the supreme authority of a state or nation, taken as representing the whole: a dam built by the government. the particular group of persons forming the cabinet at any given time: The prime minister has formed a new government. the parliament along with the cabinet: The government has fallen.