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Whenever nurses meet, they express concern about the quality and quantity of their professional practice. One always tries to define nursing. Florence Nightingale was the first (and perhaps the last!) nurse to believe that she had done this. Since her time, many definitions of nursing have been proposed, but most lend clarification to what nurses do rather than what nursing is.
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Flaherty, M.J. (1985). Rights and Responsibilities of Nurses as the Basis for Their Contracts with Society, with Patients, and with Colleagues. In: Carmi, A., Schneider, S. (eds) Nursing Law and Ethics. Medicolegal Library, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82468-5_5
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