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Silvia Käppeli

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["Getting through"--a difficult nursing concept].

This analysis of the research literature related to the nursing concept "enduring" was carried out on the background of the demand for evidence based nursing. The aim was to test with an exemplary concept to what extent this request is feasible and meaningful, if related to a concept describing patients' subjective experience. The state of the art of research literature on enduring contains a variety of problematic aspects: conceptual, theoretical, linguistic as well as problems originating in nursing's moral tradition. These have important implications for the application of the concept in nursing practice.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗

[Covenant or contract? A reflection on two paradigms of the nursing relationship].

This article contains a critical reflexion about two paradigms upon which nurse-patient relationships can be based: the traditional covenant, rooting in religion and ethics and the business-orientated contract. The motive for this reflexion lies in the present economic, scientific and societal context of nursing practice, which threatens traditional nursing values. It leads to an inflation of the covenant paradigm in favour of the contract paradigm, which implies greater efficiency. Following the description of the two paradigms the way they determine nursing relationships is being compared. On the basis of this confrontation the contract as basis of the nursing relationship is discarded. Finally, questions concerning the future positioning of nursing and of nursing science in terms of the foundation and of the profile of the nurse-patient relationship are asked.

Clinical Nursing Research↗