The public image of nursing can be fictional and has nothing to do with what happens in the 'real world' of nursing. Just do a search in the internet on nurse, and you see a lot of the results are sex symbolic related. Nurses are also being perceived as the handmaiden, where they only take orders from doctors. But in reality, nursing itself is a profession. A nurse is to stand with the patient, where science and technology interact with human suffering, and human hope for achieving wellness. A nurse makes difference between life and death, pain and comfort, healing, coping and despair. She educates clients and families about how to maintain health. She is the real bottom line in health care. She is there to provide 'connective tissue or glue that holds everything together'. Nursing at its core, is an intellectual, emotional, moral, ethical and polictical activity.
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