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Leonard B. Berman, MD

JAMA. 1981;246(8):872.

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Difficulty arises when young people in nursing, who are in the middle of a self-image revolution, meet older physicians who are unaware, indifferent, or hostile, in varying degrees. One need only scan recruiting ads in nursing journals to see that graduating nurses are being appealed to as glamorous, sophisticated, and intelligent members of the health care team. Beyond the "hype," however, is a serious movement in nursing to provide education credentials up to and beyond a master's degree, and to establish nurses as separate but equal health care professionals.

Young nursing school graduates, having been provided with this view of themselves, enter the hospital world and collide with physicians who see nurses as none of the above. Instead, depending to some extent on their age, physicians may perceive nurses as handmaidens, drudges, or coffee pourers, on whom they may vent annoyance with the laboratory and x-ray; or they may perceive . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
University of California Irvine St Joseph Hospital Orange

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