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 government is the system by which a state or community is controlled. In the Commonwealth of Nations, the word government is also used more narrowly to refer to the collective group of people that exercises executive authority in a state.