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Every nurse practitioner has in mind a series of thoughts that expresses what she thinks nursing is about. Many nurses have put ideas on paper as definitions of nursing. Others have felt that it was not important to spend time stating what nursing is. Since this book is meant to provide a framework of concepts that are held to be basic to psychodynamic nursing, it is necessary that the author’s view on nursing be included. The purpose of this chapter is to provide discussion that will contribute to an understanding of the concept of nursing, as it applies to ideas presented in later chapters and to their application in providing services to people.
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The Committee on the Function of Nursing, A Program for the Nursing Profession (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1948), ch. V, p. 65, offers a useful definition of the word team.
Percival Symonds, The Dynamics of Human Adjustment (New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1946), p. 44.
Charlotte Green Schwartz, Morris S. Schwartz, and Alfred H. Stanton, “A Study of Need-Fulfillment on a Mental Hospital Ward,” Psychiatry, Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes, Vol. 14, No. 2 (May, 1951), pp. 223–42.
Helen Sargent, “Professional Ethics and Problems of Therapy,” The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Vol. 40, No. 1 (January, 1945), p. 47. Makes a similar assertion with regard to client relationships with psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers.
For a statement of desirable characteristics of healthful living, see: Delbert Obertauffer, Social Health Education (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1949). Quoting from, The Faculty of Ohio State University, Department of University Schools, A Report of the Health Committee (Columbus, Ohio, 1942), p. 2, mimeographed.
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Peplau, H.E. (1988). A Definition of Nursing. In: Interpersonal Relations in Nursing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10109-2_1
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