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(1999) Interaction for practice in community nursing, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
You must look first to the title. It speaks to you of a nurse and a patient, and it connects them with a hyphen. This hyphen means that they are one; the word "nurse-patient" is one word not two, and it is joined. The nurse-patient when so joined is one. It was two entities who were separate persons. But they have now been placed together and become different from the two apart. The title speaks to you also of the nature of this joining. The word "relationship" is used, and this word means connection. It alludes to this coming together of the entities "nurse" and "patient", the existence of some connection between them. But what is the nature of this connection?
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14757-1_4
Full citation:
Slevin, O. (1999)., The nurse-patient relationship: caring in a health context, in A. Long (ed.), Interaction for practice in community nursing, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 49-83.
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