Folk image
~~> Nurse as caring person
Religious image
~~> Nurse based on religious beliefs
Servant image
~~> Negative connotation of nursing
Nightingale
~~> Mother of nursing, improved hygiene, infection control
Statistics
~~> Proof of nursing's need, extensive wri...
✓ ~~> Concepts assembled because of their relevance to a common
theme
Shows a system that uses the concepts and ideas
More put together
Importance of nursing theory
✓ ~~> Guides research and practice, based on concepts
Challenges of defining nursing
✓ ~~> Lack of documentation and disagreement on definition, nursing
was not studied
Differences between nursing and medicine
✓ ~~> Nursing focuses on caring, holistic care, patient advocacy,
bedside for whole shift
Medicine focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of disease
Traditions in nursing profession
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