FOOTNOTES:
[1] Martin Buber, "Distance and Relation," trans. Ronald Gregor Smith, in The Knowledge of Man, ed. Maurice Friedman (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965), p. 71.
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FOUNDATIONS OF HUMANISTIC NURSING
Nursing is a response to the human situation. It comes into being under certain conditions—one human being needs a kind of help and another gives it. The meaning of nursing as a living human act is in the act itself. To understand it, therefore, it is necessary to consider nursing as an existent, a phenomenon occurring in the real world.