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Practicing nursing therapeutically through acting as a skilled companion on the illness journey
A Pearson1, S Borbasi, K Walsh
1Department of Clinical Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Advanced Practice Nursing Quarterly
|July 1, 1997
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.