(Meta-theoretical Essays on Practice)
by Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad
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This e-text version of the classic text "Humanistic Nursing" is
made available with the kind permission of the authors and copyright
holders, Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad. The book was originally
written to define the Humanistic Nursing Theory which presented a way
for each nurse to become-more as a person and to extend that
becoming-more to the community of nurses in which he or she
practices. The offering of this book in the "free" e-text format
reiterates the continuing contribution of these two nurses long after
their retirement from practice. It is their hope that nurses everywhere
will take their vision for nursing and expand on it and integrate it
into their nursing practice. At the request of the authors this e-text
version is complete with the original 1976 Front Matter.