, however, cannot deal only with competency in practice and skill in research, but must also address the development of a nursing culture that will permit the professional nurse to remain effective in an increasingly complex society (Neighbors & Eldred, 1993).
In the 1990s, professional nursing contends with long-standing challenges to the profession's prerogatives from physicians, and with relatively recent challenges involving hospital administrators, and para-professional personnel (Neighbors & Eldred, 1993).
The issue of who should control nursing is rooted in an age old conflict between nurses and phys
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