title: Of human bonding: the context of nursing as caring.
abstract: Nursing's claim on caring as its professional hallmark requires articulation of the ways in which nursing and caring are uniquely integral. Interpreting nursing within a context of human bonding clarifies the contradiction between nursing's legitimate status as a professional service and its chosen identity of caring. Instrumental friendship, derived from the framework of human bonding, is proposed as a metaphor to connect the theory and practice worlds of nursing as caring.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rawnsley
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008875:Middle Aged; D009729:Nursing; D012945:Social Values; D028722:Virtues