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Towards a defence of nursing routine and ritual
Author(s) -
BILEY FRANCIS C.,
WRIGHT STEPHEN G.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1997.tb00293.x
Subject(s) - nursing , medline , medicine , psychology , political science , law
Summary• Healing routines and rituals have been an essential part of life since time immemorial. Rather than dismiss modern healing rituals because, in many instances, they appear to have no empirically proven manifest function, an argument is proposed in defence of routine and ritual, suggesting that there is an urgent need to explore their meaning or latent function.