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| Type: | Journal article |
| Title: | Practicing nursing therapeutically through acting as a skilled companion on the illness journey |
| Author: | Pearson, A. Borbasi, S. Walsh, K. |
| Citation: | Advanced practice nursing quarterly, 1997; 3(1):46-52 |
| Issue Date: | 1997 |
| ISSN: | 1080-4293 |
| Abstract: | This article explores nursing's heritage as a healing, therapeutic activity. It examines the central characteristics of nursing as skilled companionship and links them with the foundational core of nursing--a therapeutic relationship based on an understanding of the illness experience. In addition, it discusses the role of literature and performance in developing knowledge to advance nursing as a therapeutic activity. |
| Keywords: | Humans Treatment Outcome Nursing Care Nurse-Patient Relations Nursing Methodology Research Nurses Nurse Practitioners |
| Published version: | http://ro.uow.edu.au/hbspapers/2710/ |
| Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Nursing publications |
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