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Nursing is a caring discipline, although the role of the nurse changed dramatically over the centuries
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... Illness or Health business This essay will discuss the role and stereotype of the nurse from a historical view as portrayed by the public up to the present day. It will then outline ways, which could extend the nurses role in working for health. Nursing is and always has been a caring profession, although the role of the nurse changed dramatically over the centuries. Historically, the community saw the nurse as a nourishing and protecting person, who was willing to care for the ill, injured and elderly. A nurse was also simplified as a woman who suckled and took care of children. (Ellis and Hartlay, 2000: 165; Taylor and Field, 1997: 235) For the reason, that only a female can suckle children, it is clear, why the public associated nursing with women. Through the decades, the role of the nurse moved from just motherhood, nourishing and fostering children, towards a role of













