Good nursing care--the relationship between client and nurse

The patient-nurse relationship, its definition and evaluation, are central to the quality of nursing care. Analysis of this relationship requires a stronger epistemological and philosophical emphasis and also more practical research. At least the following dimensions must be included in: 1) the health management strategies of the patients and population; these form the content of the client-nurse relationship; and 2) the dominance factors of the relationships, which form the structure of the relationship.