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Many roles are demanded of nurses. Patients cast nurses into roles that seem necessary for meeting a problem as they view it. Nurses define roles in which they wish to function or that are thought to be desirable performances for a nurse. Society has views on how nurses should function and these conceptions vary in communities and economic groupings. Professional literature promotes pictures that influence nursing; textbooks on professional adjustments traditionally suggest patterns of behavior that indicate nursing roles. The purpose of this chapter is to examine some of the roles that emerge as the nursing process is studied in nurse-patient situations. It suggests principles that govern effective performance in the roles indicated.
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Harry Stack Sullivan (M.D.), Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry (Washington, D.C., William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, 1947), pp. 46–48.
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Mary Parker Follett, Dynamic Administration (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1942). Perhaps one of the most significant and helpful texts on principles of group dynamics as they affect organization and leadership in action. Uses the word “task-authority” to show that each situation generates its own tasks carrying their own authority.
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Peplau, H.E. (1988). Roles in Nursing. In: Interpersonal Relations in Nursing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10109-2_3
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