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The nurse's primary aim is to help the patient to live as fully as possible: to assist him to get well, or get belter, or live within his limitations. And, says Sister Madeleine, the nurse can do this best through hoping and inspiring hope—not for any specific thing nor for the recovery of any particular body function, but simply “to be‘’ again.
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