title: Powering up our professional image.
abstract: Traditionally, women have been society's healers. The practices of healing were closely associated with organized churches. Nursing developed to give women an opportunity to do God's work. Since caring and nurturing were believed to be innate characteristics of women, nursing offered an opportunity to express these attributes in an appropriate and productive way.
authors: S A
authors: SA
authors: McKay
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D014931:Women, Working