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Nurs Stand. 1988 May 21;2(33):36. doi: 10.7748/ns.2.33.36.s73.

First impressions.

Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)

A C McCloskey

PMID: 27416227 DOI: 10.7748/ns.2.33.36.s73

Abstract

I have recently completed five weeks of community experience - two weeks with the health visitor and three with the district nurse. I found it to be a valuable experience in that it taught me that my patient was a person and not 'the cholecystectomy' or 'the leg ulcer'. Before my community experience I did not realise how little I thought about the patient as a home owner with a family, or in some cases, without a family.

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