PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE

PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE



PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE

Nursing has long been considered an appropriate vocation for young women and was promoted as a normal and natural extension of women's domestic role. The classic image of the nurse is a woman performing in a hospital, a clinic, or a community setting. Although caring is considered a fundamentally human quality, care work is typically undertaken by women and girls. Women are believed to be well suited to perform the instrumental, emotional, moral, and relational labor of nursing. Nursing literature has long debated whether nursing is an art, a science, or both. That debate ...