The focus of the discipline of nursing
- 1 September 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Advances in Nursing Science
- Vol. 14 (1) , 1-6
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00012272-199109000-00002
Abstract
The focus of nursing as a discipline has not been clearly defined but is emergent in the centrality of the concepts of caring and health. The authors propose a focus for nursing as a professional discipline in the form of a statement that identifies a domain of inquiry that reflects the social relevance and nature of its service. Several perspectives from which the focus can be studied are described. The authors assert that a unitary-transformative perspective is essential for the full explication of nursing knowledge.Keywords
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