Of human bonding
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Advances in Nursing Science
- Vol. 13 (1) , 41-48
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00012272-199009000-00006
Abstract
Nursing's claim on caring as its professional hallmark requires articulation of the ways in which nursing and caring are uniquely integral. Interpreting nursing within a context of human bonding clarifies the contradiction between nursing's legitimate status as a professional service and its chosen identity of caring. Instrumental friendship, derived from the framework of human bonding, is proposed as a metaphor to connect the theory and practice worlds of nursing as caring.Keywords
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