Nursing has always suffered from a bit of an inferiority complex.

As science and technology (and eventually bureaucracy) wrapped their tendrils into the developing health system, nursing became more uncomfortable.

It took a look at what it did and couldn’t quite put its finger on what that was.
There was never any doubt in its importance. Everyone seemed to appreciate that.
But when the profession looked at what a nurse did it just didn’t seem to be enough.
Nursing was a profession that just didn’t seem…well…. professional.

So it looked lustfully at how doctors had developed medicine into a science and saw the respect and prestige that it had achieved.
It sure looked greener ‘up’ there.

And so over the past decade nursing has made great inroads into developing a foundational integrity in areas of academia and research. Nursing became a science.

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