title: Knowing the patient: the route to individualized care.
abstract: Provision of individualized care is dependent on knowing the patient as a person. Three factors contributed to individualized care: congruent societal and health care values; commonalities of patient needs in all settings; and primacy of caring through knowing the patient. Role modeling by mature nurses appears to have been of prime importance in the transmission of this way of nursing.
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010414:Pennsylvania / Q000208:ethnology; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D012537:Scandinavian and Nordic Countries; D012606:Scotland