The trouble with specialised language for nursing
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The trouble with specialised language for nursing

Liam Clarke Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex

Liam Clarke continues the discussion about the need for a specialised nursing language and argues that the ordinary social and moral rules governing everyday speech should suffice.

I DO NOT BELIEVE that an international language (Clark 1999a) can take account of what nursing is in practical terms. To nurse someone is to enter into a relationship that has personal and social dimensions. The variability of nursing, where no two encounters are alike, is hardly fertile ground for what the International Classification Team is trying to do.

Nursing Standard. 14, 2, 41-43. doi: 10.7748/ns1999.09.14.2.41.c2686

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