title: A philosophical inquiry into the feasibility of uniting nursing education and nursing practice under the Florence Nightingale model.
abstract: As nursing prepares to enter the ninth decade of this century, much has been accomplished in its drive toward full professional status. And yet, the profession today is still conceptualized by society as subservient to medicine and lacking in an autonomous service to offer the consumer. Four reasons emerge from nursing's history which are seen as responsible for the profession's lack of autonomy: (1) its perpetual alliance with medicine, (2) its employee status within established institutions, (
journal: Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)