Nursing in Germany: some reflection about its history and actual nursing profession
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https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11691996000300010Keywords:
nursing in Germany, historical constitution, assistance modelAbstract
In this article I outline some roots of the institutionalization of the assistance for illness in Germany and the arise of nursing as a profession. I describe characteristics of the German assistance model and situate nursing as a profession, specially its formation and conceptions of its practice. The opening of university courses and the introduction of concepts like holism enabled patients to take care of themselves opening new perspectives for German nursing and stimulating the creation of new ways for nursing in the world.Downloads
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1996-12-01
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Kleba, M. E. (1996). Nursing in Germany: some reflection about its history and actual nursing profession. Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 4(3), 117-133. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11691996000300010
