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"The Project Gutenberg eBook, Humanistic Nursing, by Josephine Paterson, and Loretta Zderad\n",
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"Title: Humanistic Nursing\n",
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"Authors: Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad\n",
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"Release Date: April 8, 2008 [eBook #25020]\n",
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"Language: English\n",
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"***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUMANISTIC NURSING***\n",
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"Copyright (C) 2007 by Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad.\n",
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"Humanistic Nursing\n",
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"(Meta-theoretical Essays on Practice)\n",
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"by Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad\n",
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"Copyright (C) 2007 by Josephine Paterson and sLoretta Zderad all rights\n",
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"reserved except as follows. This e-text may be freely copied for\n",
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"academic and scholarly work with the copyright notice clearly affixed to\n",
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"all copies. No commercial use may be made of any part of the text\n",
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"without the express permission of the copyright holders.\n",
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"This e-text version of the classic text \"Humanistic Nursing\" is\n",
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"made available with the kind permission of the authors and copyright\n",
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"holders, Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad. The book was originally\n",
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"written to define the Humanistic Nursing Theory which presented a way\n",
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"for each nurse to become-more as a person and to extend that\n",
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"becoming-more to the community of nurses in which he or she\n",
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"practices. The offering of this book in the \"free\" e-text format\n",
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"reiterates the continuing contribution of these two nurses long after\n",
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"their retirement from practice. It is their hope that nurses everywhere\n",
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"will take their vision for nursing and expand on it and integrate it\n",
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"into their nursing practice. At the request of the authors this e-text\n",
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"version is complete with the original 1976 Front Matter.\n",
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"Susan Kleiman\n",
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"For more information or questions about the subject of Humanistic\n",
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"nursing or this e-text you may contact Professor Susan Kleiman, PhD, RN,\n",
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"CS, NPP at: susank@humanistic-nursing.com. Alternatively you may visit\n",
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"the web site: www.humanistic-nursing.com. The Humanistic Nursing\n",
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"Inquiry web site provides context for the major initiatives of\n",
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"humanistic nursing, which celebrate the enduring and immutable ideals of\n",
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"Humanism that give us insight into the fundamental truths of being in\n",
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"the world of nurses, patients, families, colleagues, and students.\n",
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"FOREWORD to the 1976 Edition\n",
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"These essays will evoke different reactions from different\n",
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"readers. \"Well, I know that,\" for example, may be the reaction of a\n",
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"beginner in nursing; \"I wouldn't have said it that way but I knew that\n",
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"is really nursing.\" \"Since they've given us a methodology,\" perhaps from\n",
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"one more experienced in nursing; \"I'll give it a try.\" Others with still\n",
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"more or different kinds of experience may respond, \"It's about time\n",
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"nurses put that into words; it's about time.\"\n",
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