title: Remembering Luke.
abstract: Nursing is a service that is essential to the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health and well-being. Generally, a systematic approach is put in place whereby a client's needs are assessed and care planned, implemented, and evaluated. The story of Luke reflects the contrasting approaches to care that different nurses bring to their work. Thus, despite a prescribed strategy aimed at the restoration of health, a person's individuality makes each nursing case a new experience. Luke's death provides many insights into issues such as self-awareness and personal needs as obviated by someone else's situation. The end of his life also illustrate how we perceive one another both in a given situation and as time passes.
authors.affiliation: Thomas Macauley Ward, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: von Barsewisch
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000451:nursing*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000523:psychology*