Images of nursing- how the images of nursing have changed over time. How these images impact on the position of nurses within society. Includes interviews with 5 participants.

In this essay I will explore the common images of nursing and discuss how these images can influence and reflect the status of nursing within society. I conducted a series of interviews with five people under the age of twenty-five to determine some of the images of nursing, their negative and positive attributes and the reasons they exist. Further consideration of some of the broader implications of my research in conjunction with published readings on …

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