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Cure: The Potential Outcome of Nursing Care
Author(s) -
Loomis Maxine E.,
Wood Delores jean
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1983.tb01345.x
Subject(s) - nursing , nursing interventions classification , specialty , psychological intervention , nursing care , medicine , health care , nursing diagnosis , psychology , family medicine , political science , pathology , medical diagnosis , law
The recent Social Policy Statement of the American Nurses Association (1980) has advanced a definition of nursing as “the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems.” This definition has legitimized efforts of the last decade to develop a system of nursing diagnosis and should provide the impetus for subsequent development of nursing treatment interventions. Barnard (1982) has proposed a model for linking the phenomenon of concern to nursing with the human responses present in the maternal‐child nursing situation. Other specialty models are likely to follow. In this article we present the possibility that in the diagnosis and treatment of human responses, nurses are capable of curing the actual or potential health problem. The most recent definition of nursing has opened up exploration of the interactions among human response systems and actual or potential health problems. Clinicians, researchers, and theoreticians are now in a position to reconceptualize nursing's impact on health and health problems.